Lawrence: Trump heightens insanity of war-mongering as Epstein island images released

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: House Oversight Democrats release new Epstein material. Also, Donald Trump dismisses affordability concerns as a “con job.” Plus, Democrats call for an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s strike orders. And a K.I.N.D. scholarship student is “fighting for her freedom.” Rep. Ro Khanna, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Rep. Adam Smith join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:03.5	Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.7	Hey, thanks, Jen.
0:06.0	This, the intersection of the Epstein files and the Hegsteth story are something that leaves you wondering,
0:14.6	is Donald Trump grateful for the Hegsteth story to distract attention from the Epstein files.
0:21.5	I bet. I also bet Cash Patel is very grateful right now. Lots of gratitude within the administration,
0:27.9	I suspect. Yeah, Robert Kennedy, all the worst clowns of the administration, the attention's on
0:33.3	someone else this week. Exactly. Yeah. Thanks, Jen.
0:38.4	Thanks, Lawrence.
0:45.1	Well, Donald Trump will continue to talk about waging a Vladimir Putin-style invasion of Venezuela every day that Donald Trump's old friend, the sex trafficker and rapist,
0:50.6	Jeffrey Epstein, continues to make life difficult for Donald Trump. And the dead
0:57.0	Jeffrey Epstein shows no sign of loosening his grip on Donald Trump. And so today,
1:04.8	when haunting photographs of an Epstein crime scene were made public and Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co-conspirator in sex
1:12.6	trafficking, Galane Maxwell, another old friend of Donald Trump's, told a judge, through her lawyer,
1:18.3	that she intends to file a long-shot appeal with that judge. Even after the United States Supreme
1:24.9	Court denied her appeal, Donald Trump talked once again about waging a war against a country that has never posed a threat to the security of the United States in any way and never will.
1:37.8	Here is Donald Trump saying things today that would have gotten any other president removed from office through the 25th Amendment because of failing mental health.
1:50.0	I think you're going to find that there's a very receptive ear to doing exactly what they're doing, taking out those boats.
1:57.3	And very soon we're going to start doing it on land, too, because we know every
2:01.2	route, we know every house, we know where they manufacture this crap, we know where they put it all
2:06.6	together. And I think you're going to see it very soon on land also.
2:12.3	He knows nothing. And that's not going to happen. There will be no invasion of Venezuela. But Donald Trump
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