Lawrence: Trump admin. staffer reportedly in an 'I love Hitler' chat hasn't been fired by Trump yet

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Trump administration dodges questions about the Tom Homan FBI probe. Also, Maine Governor Janet Mills launches a Senate bid against Susan Collins. Plus, early voting is underway in the Virginia governor’s race. And a new book, “1929,” details Wall Street’s greatest crash. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Gov. Janet Mills, Abigail Spanberger, and Andrew Ross Sorkin 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.
0:03.8	Hey, Jen.
0:04.6	This is our last evening together this week.
0:07.2	I'll be on my way to Africa starting tomorrow and be there next week.
0:12.8	But you just had the last Democratic Speaker of the House on your program.
0:20.2	I'm going to have the next Democratic Speaker of the House on your program. I'm going to have the next Democratic Speaker
0:23.0	of the House during this hour. Hakeem Jeffries will be joining us. I saw that. And she's ready
0:29.9	to hand it off. She very confidently predicted that he is going to be the Speaker of the House.
0:34.6	That's what she said. He seems ready for exactly that.
0:39.0	Well, great. I'm looking forward to watching all of it. We're also doing a handoff on the
0:43.0	main Senate race because I just had one of the leading candidates and you have another one of
0:47.5	the leading candidates who just got in the race today too. So I'm looking forward to watching
0:51.4	that too. Susan Collins has a lot to worry about tonight.
0:55.6	No question about it.
0:56.2	Thanks, Jen.
0:57.4	Thanks, Lawrence.
1:06.8	Imagine you work for Donald Trump in his administration, and you get caught by Politico in what you thought was a private online group chat with people saying things like,
1:15.1	I love Hitler, and saying it's a mistake to, quote, expect the Jew to be honest, end quote,
1:26.2	along with multiple racist phrases, as well as talking about
1:32.4	wanting to see people, quote, going to the gas chamber, and quote, which provokes the reply,
1:40.6	quote, I'm ready to watch people burn now.
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