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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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August 5, 2025, 10pm; Tonight on The Last Word: The House Oversight Committee issues subpoenas for Epstein documents. And Donald Trump defends firing a labor official after a weak jobs report. Rep. Ro Khanna, Andrew Weissmann, and Paul Krugman join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:03.2	Hey, Lawrence.
0:03.7	Welcome back from vacation.
0:04.9	Hey, Jen.
0:05.2	Thank you.
0:06.0	So I know there's a lot of people out there who have trouble listening to Donald Trump's
0:11.3	lies and ramblings and madness.
0:15.9	Imagine being a Nobel Prize winning economist listening to Donald Trump talk about economics.
0:24.9	Paul Krugman's going to join us later in this hour because he suffers that every day as a Nobel
0:31.4	prize winning economist who has to listen to Donald Trump.
0:35.1	I mean, he must be banging calculators and economics textbooks against his head.
0:39.9	I don't even know what he does to keep himself going through it all.
0:42.7	Yeah, we can only imagine.
0:44.4	And it's one of those things where, you know, if you think it's tough for you or anyone
0:49.1	out there to listen to Donald Trump, imagine what it's like for a Nobel Prize winning economist.
0:55.4	And he will join us and clarify a few points that Donald Trump got wrong today.
1:00.6	Well, I look forward to listening to that.
1:02.6	I'm sure he's got a long list.
1:04.2	He does indeed.
1:05.1	Thanks, Jen.
1:06.1	Thanks, Lawrence.
1:08.0	Well, the current owner of the Washington Post is one of the billionaires who now lives an abject fear of Donald Trump.
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