Lawrence: Humiliated Trump's dictatorship over Republicans is coming apart with the Epstein vote

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The Epstein files release bill now heads to Donald Trump. Also, Trump continues his pattern of cozying up to strongmen. And Epstein survivors demand transparency from Congress. Rep. Ro Khanna and Lisa Rubin join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell, who has a huge guest, many probably huge guests, starts right now.
0:05.4	Hey, Lawrence.
0:06.4	Thanks, Jen.
0:07.2	And I'm apologizing in advance.
0:08.9	I have a bit of a cold tonight, but not too much to not be able to do this work tonight, which is one of the more important nights of the year so far.
0:20.6	We're grateful for that. I think people don't mind that you have a cold, as long as you're up there and feel okay through it. I can really hear it, and I don't know. I'm sure the audience can now hear it now that I've brought it to their attention. But here we go, cold or not. Cold or not. I hear you have a big guest tonight.
0:39.1	You were one of the people I thought of today as I'm ready to hear a nerd out with all the
0:42.6	things you have to say about what a day this has been on the hill.
0:46.2	Right.
0:46.5	Thanks, John.
0:47.2	Thank you.
0:47.7	Thanks, Lawrence.
0:50.1	Well, Donald Trump confessed today.
0:54.4	In one of his emails, Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the girls.
0:59.9	And today, Donald Trump told us that he knew Jeffrey Epstein was, quote, a sick pervert, end quote.
1:08.9	Sitting beside Saudi Arabia's dictator,
1:12.7	desperately trying to divert attention away from the Epstein files vote today,
1:17.6	Donald Trump said for the first time
1:19.6	that he knew about Jeffrey Epstein before Jeffrey Epstein was ever charged with a crime.
1:28.7	As far as the Epstein files is, I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
1:33.5	I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert.
1:38.3	But I guess I turned out to be right.
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