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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats demand the Pentagon release the boat strike video. Also, Donald Trump proposes a health care plan that the ACA already delivers. Plus, a federal judge rules the grand jury documents in Ghislaine Maxwell's New York case be unsealed. And a primary school teacher in Malawi shares his firsthand experience of the K.I.N.D. Fund helping students. Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Madeleine Dean, and Rep. Ro Khanna join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:02.1	Hey, Lawrence.
0:03.1	Hey, Jen.
0:04.0	It seems like every Tuesday's election night now.
0:06.1	We have big news from Miami tonight.
0:09.0	Democratic win there for the mayor.
0:12.0	That's the first time in 30 years, I believe.
0:16.2	The control room will correct me if I'm wrong about that.
0:18.9	28 years, first time in 28 years that we get a Democratic mayor elected in Miami, running
0:24.6	against a Trump-endorsed candidate.
0:27.6	Huge news.
0:29.0	And if it doesn't, if you watch these local elections, which you watch closely, now watch
0:32.7	closely, it does tell you so much about there being an appetite for change, for something different
0:38.0	from Trump.
0:38.7	And these candidates are all different.
0:40.9	It's exciting and hopefully energizing for people.
0:44.0	And there's an election tonight for a state legislative seat in Georgia, which looks like a very
0:50.6	dramatic turnaround for Democrats there.
0:52.9	It was a easy win for Republicans a year ago.
0:56.8	So we'll get better numbers on that later. But it looks like another one of these good election,
1:02.7	in fact, way beyond good election nights for Democrats tonight.
1:07.1	It's all exciting to watch. And, you know, I think fortunately the election music hopefully won't give people the trauma it did a year ago at this time.
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