Lawrence: How can Democrats negotiate with Trump, the 'world's most powerful man-baby'?

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries says the GOP needs to cancel healthcare cuts. Also, prosecutors reportedly opposed charging James Comey in a memo to a Trump U.S. attorney, citing no probable cause. Plus, MSNBC reports the FBI recorded Trump border czar Tom Homan taking $50,000 from undercover agents last year. And an ad slams GOP Senate candidate Michael Whatley over FEMA’s Hurricane Helene recovery in North Carolina. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Ken Dilanian, and fmr. Gov. Roy Cooper join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:03.1	Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.2	Hey, Jen.
0:05.3	That is, I guess, the least of Donald Trump's abuses of power, violating that perfectly good permit that they had until Sunday.
0:16.7	The park police cannot even bother to come up with the excuse.
0:21.1	They can't look at that permit and even invent a reason that that permit was somehow violated.
0:27.9	In the rank order, to your point, Lawrence, given we may be looking at an indictment
0:33.3	of one of his top political enemies in the next day or so. Yeah, it's low ranking, but still
0:38.4	important for people to know about. We have a Democratic leader of the House of Representatives,
0:43.7	Hakeem Jeffries, as our first guest tonight. So we have to get right to it, Jen. Go to it. Have a good
0:49.6	show. Thank you, Jen. Thank you. Well, the breaking news of the night reported by MSNBC's Kandelanian,
0:55.7	who will join our coverage this hour, is that federal prosecutors have written a memo
1:00.4	arguing against trying to charge former FBI director James Comey with crimes. Donald Trump
1:08.4	has publicly demanded that James Comey be charged with lying to Congress, which is
1:13.4	only possible in the next six days before the statute of limitations would run out and make it
1:21.3	impossible to charge James Comey on that. This week, Donald Trump forced out the U.S. attorney who he personally installed in the
1:31.4	Eastern District of Virginia after that U.S. attorney refused to try to bring charges against
1:37.4	James Comey. Donald Trump replaced that U.S. attorney with a woman who has never tried a case
1:44.0	of any kind in federal court and has never
1:47.4	been a prosecutor but did serve as one of the lowest ranking members of Donald Trump's
1:52.6	criminal defense team. Donald Trump's attempt to illegitimately use federal power, including
1:57.9	federal prosecutorial power, literally knows no bounds in either direction.
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