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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Donald Trump now has ‘constitutional dementia’ about Harvard & deporting American citizens

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: A judge blasts the Trump Justice Department for its refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Also, Donald Trump escalates his fight with Harvard University. Plus, Trump blames Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the war yet again and calls Vladimir Putin’s deadly Palm Sunday attack “a mistake.” And The Washington Post reports a government memo lays out the Trump administration’s proposal to slash State Department and USAID budgets. Andrew Weissmann, Laurence Tribe, and Nicholas Kristof join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

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

0:02.6

Good evening, Lawrence.

0:03.9

Good evening, Rachel.

0:04.6

And I know, like me, you've been waiting for at least 24 hours, more than that,

0:11.9

to hear what Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe has to say about Donald Trump's burst of lawlessness,

0:18.9

including directed toward Harvard University. And your patience is rewarded

0:24.2

tonight. He will be joining us on this program. Just going to open the microphone and let him go.

0:31.0

You know, Lawrence, I was just, we just covered a story at the end there about some other

0:34.4

universities, whether or not they're drafting off of Harvard's bravery

0:38.8

here, but some other universities that are taking a better together than alone approach here.

0:44.2

And they are banding together in the Big Ten.

0:46.8

UMass Amherst is trying to get land grant colleges to band together.

0:49.6

So they can eventually provide mutual defense for one another, support one another,

0:54.6

and standing up for Trump when Trump inevitably comes for those organizations, for those

0:59.0

universities as well.

1:01.4

There's all different ways to fight this.

1:03.1

Harvard is certainly cutting awake here.

1:05.7

Yeah, and I don't think of it as bravery for Harvard.

1:10.4

They're big enough, strong enough, old enough, the oldest university in America to do it.

1:14.6

But the smaller schools could be completely wiped out.

1:18.9

And it does take bravery.

1:21.1

And it does take a team.

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