Lawrence: Trump knows Homan can't survive if video of him with undercover FBI agents becomes public

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats demand the Justice Department release the files in the Tom Homan FBI probe after the MSNBC report. Also, Donald Trump now claims to “understand” the Ukraine-Russia situation but has yet to offer any change in policy. And the Wall Street Journal asks a federal judge to dismiss Trump’s $10 billion Epstein lawsuit. Rep. Eric Swalwell, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Timothy Snyder, and Barbara McQuade 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.
0:04.7	Hey, Jen.
0:05.6	Thanks for reminding us about exactly what the status is of the discharge petition and how this election could push it forward.
0:13.6	Absolutely.
0:14.4	It's a big one in that regard, and we'll soon know.
0:18.0	Next couple hours, probably, hopefully.
0:20.2	Yeah, it looks like it's going to happen.
0:23.0	And Jen, thank you very much for joining this program last night.
0:26.5	Thank you for having me.
0:27.9	Good book to be talking about.
0:30.0	Okay.
0:30.5	Thanks, Jen.
0:33.9	Well, today, for every one of the 57 minutes that Donald Trump spoke to the General Assembly
0:42.1	of the United Nations, desperately pretending to be the smartest person in the room, by insulting
0:48.1	the entire world and insulting the intelligence of most Americans.
0:55.0	Donald Trump was condemning himself to history with his own statements that historians will be using against him for the rest of time.
1:07.0	I'm telling you that if you don't get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail.
1:16.8	Future historians will have an easy time convicting Donald Trump of out of control, ignorance, and incompetence simply by quoting Donald Trump saying things like that.
1:30.6	And today, every representative of every country listening to Donald Trump knew that Donald
1:39.6	Trump is covering up and preventing the release of the Epstein files that he promised to release,
1:45.9	and his attorney general promised to release, and they have now refused to release,
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