Lawrence: No Republicans show up as victims of Trump-encouraged ICE shootings testify
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence. |
| 0:04.7 | Hey, Jen. We're going to show more of that hearing that Senator Blumenthal convened today that you discussed with him. |
| 0:11.5 | And the stories told there by the survivors of ICE violence shootings that ICE has done prove that this really now could happen to any of us. If you think |
| 0:25.6 | you're living in a way that means ICE agents will never take a shot at your car, that is no longer |
| 0:32.7 | true. That is now possible. And that was proved in that hearing today. And we're going to bring that testimony. |
| 0:39.5 | It was American citizens, and it keeps sitting with me, Lawrence, that they couldn't even get access to medical care after they were in a position where they needed it. |
| 0:49.5 | Just one detail. |
| 0:50.4 | But I'll be looking forward to watching. |
| 0:51.8 | It was a really powerful hearing today. |
| 0:54.3 | Thanks, Jen. Thank you. Thanks, Lawrence. |
| 0:57.8 | At one of the darkest hours in Irish history after the failed Easter uprising in Dublin |
| 1:04.4 | against British rule, the Irish poet William Butler Yates wrote a poem about about that moment in history titled Easter 1916. |
| 1:13.6 | It has this passage that I've never forgotten and came to mind today in our dark times. |
| 1:23.6 | Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. |
| 1:28.3 | O when may it suffice, that is heaven's part. |
| 1:33.3 | Our part to murmur name upon name as a mother names her child |
| 1:38.3 | when sleep at last has come on limbs that had run wild. |
| 1:43.3 | Our part to murmur name upon name. last has come on limbs that had run wild. |
| 1:45.0 | Our part to murmur name upon name. |
| 1:48.7 | He meant the names of the Irish heroes who fell in death in that failed uprising against British |
| 1:56.1 | rule in 1916. |
| 1:57.6 | And today, today was a day to murmur name upon name. |
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