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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The GOP is distancing from an increasingly unpopular Donald Trump. Also, the Justice Department refuses to release the files in the Tom Homan bribery probe. Plus, six Democrats tell the military not to follow unlawful orders. And USAID workers sue Elon Musk over illegal DOGE firings. Rep. Brendan Boyle, Sen. Adam Schiff, and Nick Kristof join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:03.0	Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.0	Hey, Jen.
0:04.7	I'm going to go over that pardon stuff he did today, too.
0:07.8	He's an odd guy to be drawing any attention to pardons at all.
0:13.2	Yes, no question about it.
0:15.0	Normally, as you know, there wouldn't be that much attention on pardons quite yet in the first year of a presidency, even a second term.
0:23.0	Right, because those previous presidents have always been interested in getting either reelected
0:28.4	or helping their parties advance their electoral prospects.
0:34.8	And so it's the kind of thing you avoid.
0:36.2	But of course, Donald Trump, you know, more pardons than any president has ever thought about.
0:42.0	Yes.
0:42.5	He's a record breaker in that sense.
0:45.2	Yeah.
0:45.7	Thanks, Jen.
0:46.7	Thanks, Lawrence.
0:47.8	Thank you.
0:49.6	Well, as we were just saying, the man who has abused presidential pardon power more than anyone in history
0:58.0	decided to draw attention to that today by joking about pardons.
1:03.6	The president who pardoned everyone who tried to overthrow the presidential election for him
1:09.7	joked about pardons today. The only president in history to pardoned 50s. tried to overthrow the presidential election for him,
1:12.7	joked about pardons today.
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