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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: There will be a massive rebellion against Trump when the House votes on Epstein files

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The House is expected to vote on releasing the Epstein files Tuesday. Also, Kash Patel’s girlfriend is reportedly receiving FBI security detail. And Democrats shift their focus to affordability amid rising inflation and Trump tariffs. Rep. Robert Garcia, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Ken Dilanian, and Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Well, as Air Force One was landing last night after another taxpayer-funded weekend trip to Florida,

0:06.6

Donald Trump tweeted the most dramatic and important reversal of his political career,

0:12.1

even more important than his admission in September of 2016,

0:19.1

that he had been lying about President Obama's birth certificate since 2011.

0:25.1

Donald Trump began his reversal last night in writing with a lie, saying, quote,

0:32.8

as I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the fake news media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files.

0:42.1

He never said that on Friday night.

0:45.6

That was a lie.

0:47.6

And so in the biggest reversal of Donald Trump's political career, he had to pretend that he had already reversed himself. And that wasn't a reversal at 9.15

0:59.2

p.m. last night. When Donald Trump tweeted out those words, House Republicans should vote to

1:06.6

release the Epstein files. What did it take? What did it take to force him, and you know he

1:14.5

was forced, to force him to tweet those words. Fifty-one years ago, three Republicans went to the

1:22.0

White House to talk to Republican President Richard Nixon to tell him the worst news of his political career.

1:29.8

The most famous Republican senator at the time, along with the Republican Senate Minority Leader

1:35.4

and the Republican House Minority Leader, sat in the Oval Office with the President,

1:40.5

and they told him he was going to lose the biggest vote of his political career

1:47.0

in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, and it was going to be a massive vote,

1:52.1

more than two-thirds in both bodies. Those Republican congressional leaders told their Republican

1:59.7

president that he was going to be impeached

2:01.8

by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives with a massive Republican vote.

2:09.2

And he was going to be convicted in the United States Senate, controlled by Democrats, but with a massive Republican vote.

2:20.1

And here is what they told reporters gathered in the White House driveway. The first speaker you're about to hear is Senator

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