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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The New York Times reports JPMorgan enabled the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. Also, Donald Trump claims he never signed the Epstein birthday letter. Plus, the Supreme Court lifts the limits on roving immigration patrols in the Los Angeles area. And the U.S. could refund $1 trillion to American companies if the Supreme Court rules against Trump tariffs. David Enrich, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Jason Furman join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:03.3	Hey, Lawrence.
0:03.9	Hey, Jen.
0:04.5	So Donald Trump went out to a restaurant in Washington, D.C. tonight, as if that's a big deal for presidents.
0:11.5	President Obama used to do it with some regularity and was completely normal part of the schedule when you were working there, wasn't it?
0:21.3	Yeah.
0:21.9	Also, he went to a fancyish restaurant, not a crime, but one to one that was very close to the
0:27.8	White House.
0:28.3	So it wasn't like he was venturing out into the city of D.C. to be clear.
0:32.0	It was like you could throw a rock from the White House to where he went.
0:35.4	And still, he picked the restaurant where people
0:38.5	started yelling at him that he is the Hitler of our time, literally what they were yelling at
0:43.8	him, inside the restaurant, people who were in the restaurant, apparently at tables in there. So,
0:50.0	you know, Donald Trump does have a different experience when he goes out to Washington restaurants.
0:56.7	Yeah, well, he'd be hard, I mean, there's a lot of Rossington restaurants where that might be what people say.
1:02.6	So I don't know.
1:03.9	It's not exactly a city that's embraced his presence here.
1:07.7	So that may be a challenge for him in his dining out in the city.
1:11.0	Well, we're going to cover a little bit more of what he had to say going into that restaurant
1:14.8	tonight. All right. Look forward to it. Thanks, Jen. Bye, Lawrence.
1:19.5	Well, it took more than 24 hours, but the breaking and totally unsurprising news of the night
1:26.4	is that Donald Trump on his way into that restaurant
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