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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump gives a rambling 70-minute speech at the World Economic Forum. Also, the Trump Justice Department subpoenas Minnesota Democrats after the ICE killing. And the House Oversight Committee plans to depose Ghislaine Maxwell on February 9. Rep. Brendan Boyle, Mary Moriarty, and Rep. Ro Khanna join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:04.2	Jen, I got my groceries today, now that you imagine it.
0:07.0	Good.
0:07.3	When I saw that weather report, it's pretty serious stuff all over the country.
0:11.9	And it really could be deadly in some places.
0:15.6	And so Ted Cruz is, of course, you can watch the Weather Channel or you can watch Ted Cruz's travel.
0:21.5	Either way. If you hear him on a plane to a warm place, you kind of know, get your groceries.
0:26.2	Right. That's about it. Thanks, Jen. Thanks, Lawrence. Thank you.
0:32.3	Well, Donald Trump did not just humiliate himself today on a world stage. He humiliated the United States of America.
0:41.0	And while he was at it, he humiliated much of the American news media and almost all of the
0:46.1	Washington news media who took Donald Trump's childish and empty threats about Greenland seriously.
0:54.4	Viewers of this program have known from the start that the Greenland thing was a Trump joke,
0:59.2	a Trump diversion.
1:01.1	It was never worthy of real news coverage.
1:04.6	And today, the American news media finally figured out when Donald Trump surrendered in the war that he was never going to fight.
1:14.8	I never cared how many American reporters were sent to Greenland over the last few months
1:19.1	to get the Greenland perspective on Donald Trump's madness.
1:21.8	I never cared how many TV correspondents were there.
1:24.8	I didn't care how many foreign policy experts wanted to warn us on
1:28.2	television and elsewhere that a Trump invasion of Greenland would be the end of NATO. Because I knew,
1:33.6	and everyone should have known, that Donald Trump was lying about the whole thing. The rule-out
1:40.6	question is one of the laziest White House correspondent's favorite questions.
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