Lawrence: On Trump's last day in office he could pardon every single member of Trump's deadly force

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Minnesota officials reject the narrative that the deadly ICE shooting was justified. Also, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie ask a federal judge to step in on the Epstein files release. And the House passes a bill restoring Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years. Laurence Tribe, Kirk Burkhalter, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Rep. Brendan Boyle join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The investigation is over.
0:03.0	The federal investigation is over because the man in charge of the federal investigation says
0:09.0	she ran him over.
0:11.0	In an exclusive interview with the New York Times yesterday, Donald Trump said she ran him
0:16.0	over.
0:17.0	She didn't try to run him over.
0:19.0	She ran him over. That is a lie. But that is the conclusion of the
0:25.1	man in charge of the federal investigation of a federal ICE agent shooting and killing an
0:30.3	unarmed 37-year-old mother who was committing no crime. To prove his point, Donald Trump summoned a
0:36.8	staff member with a laptop to show a video of the shooting.
0:39.9	It's one of the videos that we've all seen.
0:41.6	And of course, it shows that she did not run him over.
0:47.0	Donald Trump's FBI has decided to break with standard practice in this case and conduct
0:52.2	an investigation without including state
0:54.7	and local law enforcement in their federal investigation. That means there will be no real
1:00.0	federal investigation. Donald Trump's Attorney General and Donald Trump's FBI director know
1:04.4	that they and everyone working for them must do everything they can to support Donald Trump's
1:09.5	lie. She ran him over.
1:12.2	The way to do that is to not interview witnesses
1:15.1	and not reveal any of the investigative material that they collect in their investigation.
1:21.2	They will not interview the ICE agent who pulled the trigger
1:24.7	because they don't want him saying anything that could cause problems
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