Lawrence: Donald Trump doesn't want us to talk about Jeffrey Epstein's emails. So we will.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: New emails reveal the extent of the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell partnership. Also, a federal appeals court rules against Donald Trump in his effort to oust Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook ahead of its meeting this week. Plus, the CBO finds unemployment and inflation will be worse this year than projected. And a Los Angeles honor student talks to MSNBC after being deported to Guatemala with her mother. Jason Leopold, Andrew Weissmann, Sen. Jacky Rosen, and Jacob Soboroff join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, as I just said, this hour will not be what Donald Trump wants it to be.
0:05.1	It will not be a discussion of Donald Trump's pathological lie that liberals are to blame for the murder of Charlie Cook.
0:14.5	Donald Trump knows that's a lie and he is pushing that lie in the hope that programs like this will be filled with anguished complaint
0:24.1	about this Trump mass libel of half of America. Donald Trump is the only president of the
0:33.0	United States who has ever blamed a murder on millions of voters who did not vote for him.
0:41.2	Donald Trump knows that the 22-year-old Utah man, accused of the murder, grew up in a family
0:48.8	of registered Republican parents who Donald Trump has now praised repeatedly. Today, Donald Trump said that the
0:56.8	accused murderer's parents did everything right. Parents who can think, of course, that they've
1:06.1	done everything right are not parents I've met. Parents whose kids end up facing murder charges surely can wonder
1:16.8	from time to time what they might have gotten wrong. And so Donald Trump insults the intelligence
1:23.2	of the entire country, including his own supporters, when he launches this mass libel of half the country.
1:32.9	The 20-year-old man in Pennsylvania who shot at Donald Trump was a registered Republican,
1:40.3	and the 22-year-old Utah man accused of murdering Charlie Cook has never voted.
1:47.1	The single most murderous American political assassin was a registered Republican.
1:54.9	And he is the only American political assassin who murdered more than one person.
2:02.1	Timothy McVeigh was a veteran of the United States Army who, at 26 years old, in an instant,
2:09.8	murdered 168 people in the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1995.
2:17.0	Registered Republican Timothy McVeigh, attacked the federal
2:20.7	building specifically to assassinate federal workers for his twisted right-wing political reasons.
2:30.4	Registered Republican Timothy McVeigh came to hate the government in whose army he served.
2:38.6	Timothy McVeigh murdered 19 children in the daycare center of that federal building in an instant
2:45.6	by blowing up that building with a truck bomb.
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