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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Mike Pence is a 'no' on gifts to Donald Trump from the dictator of Qatar

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The Trump budget plan puts health care coverage in jeopardy. Plus, Democrats press Attorney General Pam Bondi on Qatari Jet. And Trump attacks companies over tariff-linked price hikes. Rep. Daniel Goldman and Rep. Jamie Raskin join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Well, after the news of President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis this weekend,

0:06.8

today New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Thomas Friedman wrote,

0:12.5

Joe Biden, even at his most inarticulate and even with his voice weakened by age,

0:19.7

has more gut commitment to an understanding of what America

0:25.3

at its best means to the world and who our real friends are and must always be than every

0:33.6

member of the Trump administration combined.

0:39.8

Donald Trump and his cabinet continue to prove the truth of Thomas Friedman's assessment whenever they talk about many things.

0:47.8

Whenever they talk about Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine or tariffs or taking the biggest payoff in history in the form of a Boeing 747 owned by the

1:00.7

dictator of Qatar. Joe Biden has never said one thing as outright, stupid, and factually incorrect

1:09.7

as what Donald Trump says every single day about almost

1:13.9

everything.

1:14.9

Here's one of Donald Trump's most frequent lies from the presidential campaign trail.

1:24.6

If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours.

1:29.2

How would you settle that war in one day?

1:31.9

Because I'll meet with Putin. I'll meet with Zelensky. They both have weaknesses and they both have

1:36.8

strengths. And within 24 hours, that war will be settled. It'll be over. It'll be absolutely over.

1:43.1

This is day 119 of that lie.

1:48.0

Donald Trump adds to that lie every day he fails to end Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

1:54.8

Donald Trump did meet with President Zelensky, but not anywhere close to his first day.

1:59.7

And Donald Trump still hasn't had a meeting with

2:01.7

Vladimir Putin, although Donald Trump claims to have had a good phone conversation with

2:06.1

Vladimir Putin today, the day after Vladimir Putin launched the biggest drone strike of the

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