Lawrence: British Parliament Member calls Trump ‘a dangerous and corrupt gangster’ over Iran war

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump fails to end his “war of choice” in Iran. Also, the Cook Political Report shifts three key Senate races toward Democrats. Plus, The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump promises mass staff pardons before leaving office. And a new book details USAID dismantling under Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Sen. Mark Warner, fmr. Gov. Roy Cooper, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Nicholas Enrich join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:03.2	Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.3	Hey, Jen.
0:04.7	Billy Eichner is great.
0:05.6	You're going to have a great time together.
0:08.0	That's going to be...
0:08.5	Looking forward to it.
0:10.3	So we have two senators joining us tonight, Mark Warner and Sheldon White House, and someone
0:14.6	who it looks like is going to be a senator next year.
0:18.3	Roy Cooper, who's running in North Carolina.
0:23.5	New assessments today,
0:31.5	moving Senate races toward the Democrats in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Georgia, looking really good for the Democrats on Senate races. It's really exciting. I mean, you and I talk about
0:37.0	politics a lot. You've got to watch
0:38.7	and see what happens. But the movement is quite clear right now. Everybody thought the Senate was out of
0:43.0	reach. Maybe not. Maybe not. It's looking pretty good. And also, Jen, I'm going to hold this up.
0:48.4	I want people to know about this book, Into the Woodchipper. This is day one of publication of this book, and this is from an insider
0:57.3	at USAID, a former official there, revealing everything about the children who Elon Musk sent
1:05.2	over there to destroy the life-saving work of USAID, and now hundreds of thousands of people have died because
1:13.6	of that. But he describes those people who showed up sent there by Elon Musk as buffoons. And
1:19.7	there are scenes described in this book about them and their ignorance that are sadly exactly
1:26.7	what you expected from the outside.
1:29.1	I can't, I got to read that book. I was looking closer so I could see the title, but I will get
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