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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Trump pushes the SAVE Act to restrict voting rights. Plus, experts worry that Trump's war could wreck the global economy. And the upcoming "No Kings" protests could see the largest crowds in U.S history. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Brendan Boyle, and Ezra Levin join Lawrence O'Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.7	Hey, Jen. Ezra Levin just might have the biggest protest in American history on his hands on Saturday.
0:12.4	He's going to join us at the end of this hour talking about his planning for the No King's demonstration.
0:18.5	I'm hearing from people, Jen, who never go to these things,
0:21.8	who are saying, I'm going to go to this. This could be the big one, really could. It's so
0:27.2	interesting. And I remember the last one, and this will be bigger. It's expected to be where
0:31.0	there's grandmas and grandpas and kids and strollers. And it is really people participating in
0:37.2	something with their community. It will be interesting to see on Saturday. And it is really people participating in something with their community.
0:38.7	It will be interesting to see on Saturday. And we're starting off tonight with the Democratic
0:43.3	leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, eager to hear from him. Yeah, looking
0:48.0	forward to watching that interview. Thanks, Jen. Thanks, Lawrence. Thank you. It is a room full of history. It is a room where
0:58.7	history has been made repeatedly. It is the room where President Franklin, Dillan O'Rosevelt,
1:06.8	gathered his cabinet at the end of the worst day of his life, December 7th, 1941,
1:13.8	when the Japanese military attacked the United States of America at Pearl Harbor.
1:18.3	That night, in the cabinet room, the president said he was going to Congress the next day
1:25.3	at noontime to ask for a declaration of war.
1:31.0	The first time you enter the cabinet room for a governing meeting, you look around and you can feel what has come before you.
1:39.2	My first time in the cabinet room was in the first year of Bill Clinton's presidency when I was working in the Senate. And we were there to discuss the President's budget bill with the President,
1:49.0	the Vice President, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Senate Majority Leader, chairman of the
1:54.0	Senate Finance Committee, an assorted administration, and Senate staffers like me sitting
1:59.0	against the wall in awe.
2:03.1	Donald Trump, surrounded by incompetence and quizlings,
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