Lawrence on Jan. 6: GOP manages humiliation previously unimaginable supporting Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats hold a hearing to mark five years since the January 6 insurrection. Also, Pete Hegseth censures Sen. Mark Kelly over his “illegal orders” video. And Jacob Soboroff’s new book, “Firestorm,” reflects on the Los Angeles fires one year later. Andrew Weissmann, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Jacob Soboroff join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell, though, starts right now.
0:03.6	Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.7	Hey, Jen.
0:05.4	We have Andrew Weissman joining us tonight on the January 6th anniversary, but also Senator Mark Kelly, who received his letter of censure, is going to respond to Pete Hegsef and that letter tonight on this program.
0:23.5	We have to get right to it.
0:25.1	Go to it.
0:25.7	I look forward to hearing that interview.
0:27.7	Thanks, Jen.
0:30.0	Thank you.
0:32.0	Well, being a Trump supporter requires a never-beforeseen in politics superhuman ability to manage personal, public, deep
0:44.7	humiliation. Being a Trump supporter means Donald Trump will humiliate you. He will
0:52.7	humiliate you with your families, who you told last year that the reason
0:57.4	you were supporting Donald Trump is that he's not one of those regime change Republicans.
1:01.6	He's not one of those Republican presidents like both of the president's Bush who invades foreign
1:07.5	country to change their leadership. every Trump supporter who said that
1:11.5	about Donald Trump, told their kids that about Donald Trump last year, has now been humiliated
1:18.0	by Donald Trump once again.
1:21.7	Every Republican member of Congress was in favor of freer trade around the world, meaning lower tariffs around the world,
1:30.0	until Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president for the first time.
1:33.9	And then they just went silent when Donald Trump turned the Republican Party from the anti-tariff
1:40.6	party to the tariff party, the sales tax party, because that is what a tariff is,
1:46.8	a sales tax paid by Americans into the United States Treasury, just like income taxes.
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