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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Elon Musk got caught lying and Donald Trump made the lie bigger

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

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

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s lies go unchecked in the first Cabinet meeting. Also, Democrats grill Trump’s solicitor general nominee. Plus, Chief Justice John Roberts blocks a ruling ordering the Trump administration to pay USAID contracts by midnight on Thursday. And Musk lies about USAID funding cuts in the Cabinet room. Robert Reich, Sen. Adam Schiff, Andrew Weissmann, and Jeremy Konyndyk join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with the great Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening,

0:03.0

Rachel. And thank you for summarizing that breaking news from Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court.

0:08.7

Andrew Weissman, who was joining us on another subject, is going to switch to this subject so he can take apart every word of that order by the Chief Justice,

0:19.1

which in effect gets the Trump administration, as you reported,

0:23.8

off the hook at midnight tonight under a previous obligation from a lower court judge,

0:29.7

ordering them to deliver $2 billion in spending that they had been holding back. So we'll get

0:37.2

Andrew's reading of exactly what this means.

0:39.3

And with that 12 noon deadline on Friday, we're going to be watching this tomorrow.

0:44.4

Yeah, exactly.

0:45.3

I know.

0:46.0

They've bought a little bit of time here, but this is still, this is, I mean, we'll see how,

0:52.1

we'll see how they handle this and how much of the merits they get to.

0:54.9

But the worrying thing here was here's a judge having to rule over and over and over again.

1:00.3

I'm telling you to do a thing.

1:01.4

You have to do it.

1:02.3

You still haven't done it?

1:03.2

No, you have to do it.

1:04.4

You still haven't done it.

1:06.5

You have to do it.

1:07.5

A judge having to push this hard makes everybody worry for all the,

1:11.5

all the worst reasons. Yeah. And here we are, you know, about more than the month into the

1:15.6

Trump presidency. And he's back in the Supreme Court. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Thank you, Rachel.

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