Lawrence: Hegseth's story on boat strike hinges on a new ‘fog of war’ lie

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats are fired up after a close race in the Tennessee Special Election. And Democrats call for an investigation into Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth's strike orders. Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rep. Robert Garcia, and Sen. Adam Schiff join Lawrence O'Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last story with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:04.0	Hey Lawrence.
0:05.0	Jen, you know, on a special election night like this, this is the kind of night when you have a special house election like this,
0:12.0	that I'd really like to talk to someone who really knows the inside of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee
0:20.0	where these kinds of campaigns are masterminded.
0:23.0	Do you know anyone?
0:23.6	You know anyone I could talk to like right now this second?
0:26.5	I know a few people, Lawrence.
0:28.7	What should we talk about?
0:30.2	How about you?
0:31.6	You used to work there back in the day.
0:34.6	This was your job.
0:36.4	Getting these people elected in special elections and in
0:39.1	general elections in November. So I'm asking you when a district that was just last year,
0:48.5	the Republican won, the Republican who then retired from the House, won by 22 points.
0:56.0	A Democrat comes in and closes it to about 10 or so. We don't know yet, but somewhere in that range. What does that
1:02.7	tell you that's going to happen a year from now in November, given that there's more than 20
1:07.7	House seats that Republicans won by 10 points or less?
1:13.4	I mean, it tells you you can expand the map.
1:16.2	And I was talking with Ken Martin about this earlier.
1:18.5	They can look at a larger number of districts to potentially compete in.
1:22.6	It also tells you that the Republicans are going to spend,
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