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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Trump humiliated again on the world stage by British PM Starmer after France's Macron

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Five former defense secretaries protest the firing of generals. Also, Donald Trump is forced to confront reality on camera. Plus, Elon Musk urges Republicans to impeach the judges blocking Trump. And Jonathan Capehart writes about a “powerful Black history moment.” Sen. Ruben Gallego, Andrew Feinberg, Rep. Daniel Goldman, and Jonathan Capehart join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.

0:03.8

Good evening, Rachel. You know, I have had my disappointments, I guess I'll put it from time to time, about the White House press corps and how they handle certain things and things they don't do.

0:18.3

Today was kind of great because we have a winner. We have a winner tonight

0:23.9

for best question asked by a member of the White House Press Corps. And the winner's going to

0:30.0

join us during this program. Yeah, we're going to give him the award. And through the screen,

0:36.3

because he's in Washington. And it's a joy to do that because,

0:40.9

you know, I'm a, I'm a critic, the White House Press Corps. When they get it right, I want to be

0:46.4

right there with them, supporting them every step of the way. You know, I don't know if you're

0:51.5

a Lyle Lovett fan, Lawrence, but there's this great

0:54.7

old Lyle Lovett song where part of the kind of refrain is, I like you because you like me

1:00.8

and you don't like much.

1:02.7

I feel like you giving an award to anybody, particularly somebody in the press, you giving an award

1:09.4

to anybody for anything is like a really big deal because you don't

1:12.7

like much in that regard.

1:14.4

So it's all the more special.

1:16.5

You're saying I'm kind of a grouchy kind of guy.

1:21.4

I would say you're discerning in all the right ways.

1:25.3

Okay.

1:25.6

Let's leave it at that.

1:27.4

Yeah, there we go. Thanks, Rachel. Thanks,

1:29.5

thanks, Lawrence. Thank you. Well, Donald Trump was humiliated once again today in the Oval Office,

1:35.7

sitting in exactly the same chair, where he was humiliated in exactly the same way. this same week on Monday.

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