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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Trump's 'biggest tax increase in history' makes Republicans admit 'tariffs are taxes'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Four GOP senators vote against Donald Trump’s Canada tariffs. Also, Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate speech gave Democrats a voice of resistance against the Trump administration. Plus, Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow enters the U.S. Senate race. And the Trump-Musk cuts to USAID intensifies the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, MI State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, and Declan Walsh join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with the rate, Lawrence O'Dell.

0:02.9

Rachel, you're forgiven.

0:04.4

I speak for the entire audience when I say that.

0:07.4

By the way, Dr. Kessler's discussion with you was just haunting.

0:12.9

And the idea that Donald Trump has now fired the person who probably saved his life is, I guess, the kind of flawlessly fitting a big footnote to where we are in Trump governance tonight.

0:28.4

I also think that Dr. Kustler is, he knows these things. I mean, he has been there and he understands how these things work.

0:35.7

And I think he may really be right that Trump does not know that.

0:39.0

Yeah.

0:39.2

That Trump doesn't know that the man who made it possible for him to get those monoclonal antibodies

0:43.4

that kept him alive when he might have otherwise died.

0:47.1

I'm not sure that Trump knows that.

0:49.1

We've had some noise about how the White House has tried to like duplicate the communication structure that should

0:55.6

exist under Secretary Kennedy at the health system at the at HHS. And that may be because

1:02.4

I don't know if Kennedy knows what he's doing, but it seems like the White House has no idea

1:06.5

what Kennedy is doing. And it may be that the White House does not understand the scale of what Kennedy

1:12.0

has just done here. I think Dr. Kessler's suggestion that somebody needs to tell Trump what has

1:16.5

just happened is actually a very modest and very sober thing to do. Yeah, I thought it made perfect

1:23.6

sense the way he was saying it to you on your program. We have Mallory McMorrow

1:28.9

joining us here tonight. She is the new Senate candidate in Michigan, United States Senate

1:36.1

candidate, hugely important Senate election next year in Michigan. This will be her first

1:41.9

night on the program as a Senate candidate.

1:48.1

That's great. When I saw that announcement today, I thought, okay, now we're talking,

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