Lawrence: Trump is lost in his own fear about the Epstein emails. His silence proves it.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: New Jeffrey Epstein emails spark a push to release the Epstein files. Also, Rep. Jamie Raskin calls on Todd Blanche to testify over Ghislaine Maxwell reports. And Epstein emails claim Donald Trump “knew about the girls.” Andrew Weissmann, Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Julie K. Brown join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.1	Hey, Jen. I'm going to be doing exactly the same show on MS now. And we have breaking news at this very minute.
0:11.3	Actually, a minute ago. Donald Trump just tweeted for the first time since 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
0:19.6	He has broken his Epstein silence, and the tweet is
0:23.7	promoting a book by a friend of his, followed immediately by another tweet, promoting another book.
0:30.2	In other words, Donald Trump is maintaining his very strict silence.
0:35.1	It wasn't released the Epstein files now.
0:37.8	Surprise, surprise.
0:56.3	It was not. No. Well, there you go. And Jen, we have the, I watched Fox so that you don't have to. And of course, you couldn't because you were doing your show. I looked a little during the commercials. But yes, tell me what you saw. I just saw the J.D. Vance interview, and I will show the audience everything that J.D. Vance said about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and their 15-year friendship,
1:02.9	as Donald Trump described it. We'll show you everything he said about it. Can't wait to watch.
1:08.5	And we'll also get into what J.D. Vance said about me.
1:11.8	So we have...
1:12.7	Oh, about you.
1:13.9	He has decided to engage with me.
1:17.2	And so we'll have to address that.
1:20.4	The badge of honor.
1:21.6	Can't wait to see you address it.
1:23.4	Thanks, Jen.
1:24.4	Bye, Lawrence.
1:25.0	Thank you.
1:26.1	Well, the vice president of the United States has now responded to what I said about him at this hour on this program last night.
1:32.3	The breaking news of this hour is that J.D. Vance took to Twitter this evening to respond to an 18-minute video of my comments last night on this program that were posted on Twitter by a viewer, that posting
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