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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Caroline Kennedy invokes her father Pres. Kennedy to condemn RFK Jr.’s nomination to HHS

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Caroline Kennedy urges senators to reject RFK Jr.’s nomination. And a federal judge blocks Donald Trump’s plan to pause federal aid spending. Norm Ornstein, EJ Dionne, Rep. Brendan Boyle, and Rep. Jim Himes join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good Evening Lawrence.

0:03.7

Rachel, you're on Blue Sky? I am. I am too. I have Lawrence O'Donnell, Blue Sky, whatever it is. I don't know. MSNBC.com. That thing. I don't have. I didn't get one of those little things to stick on the screen. So, you know. If you follow, if people follow me, if they use the, you know, hit the back button on your remote, go back, take the picture.

0:22.8

If you follow me, look at the people who I'm following.

0:24.9

I'm following Lawrence.

0:26.1

Yeah.

0:26.3

You can then follow Lawrence on Blue Sky.

0:28.2

Rachel, this is when we need team coverage more than ever.

0:32.1

There are things you covered in your hour that I'm not going to be able to get to in this hour. And I knew you were doing it.

0:38.8

So I now just consider it that part of the division of labor that Rachel's got that. Rachel's got

0:45.2

that. I'm going to take this. I'm going to go deep into where you just left off on the Robert

0:52.5

Kennedy Jr. nomination.

0:55.7

Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. His cousin Caroline's statement today, Rachel. I'm going to show it in full. I'm going to show the

1:00.2

video of it in full because it is not just the most important thing said publicly by a Trump nominee.

1:09.4

It is historic. This is the daughter of President Kennedy

1:15.4

painfully and not eagerly, but dutifully invoking her father, President John F. Kennedy,

1:24.4

invoking her uncle, Robert Kennedy, invoking her uncle, Ted Kennedy,

1:28.7

and saying that they would be disgusted by Robert Kennedy Jr.'s nomination.

1:35.4

And not a word of that was easy for her to say. Not one word of it was easy for her to say.

1:41.5

You know, it's also just the, I mean, she's also providing information

1:45.9

about him that I think maybe it's because it's from her, it will sink in. But even if all people

1:51.1

know is, oh, he's the anti-vaccine guy, you know, like maybe that makes you think about polio.

1:56.9

Maybe that things makes you think about, you know, COVID or measles or one of those things.

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