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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Trump's ‘heartlessness’ was outdone by Sen. Lee’s ‘perverse’ tweets

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

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

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Sen. Mike Lee deletes some posts about the Minnesota lawmaker shootings. Also, The Washington Post reports Sen. Tim Scott’s 60-second video attacking the Congressional Budget Office contains nine errors. And the fight over Donald Trump’s National Guard deployment in California continues in an appeals court. Norm Orstein and Lisa Rubin join Lawrence O’Donnell.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hi Lawrence.

0:04.5

Hey Jen, thank you very much for reading that. That's actually the first I've heard it.

0:08.6

I didn't come across it today in my study of the coverage. Pet a dog and everything else

0:16.7

on that list is just so important and important for days even that don't include these political

0:25.6

assassinations and other horrors. The average typical day we're going through now is a pet,

0:33.1

a dog day. No question about it. Incredibly inspiring and graceful.

0:39.1

I mean, what tragedy they've just dealt with and they're still mourning through.

0:42.9

Yes.

0:43.4

Yes.

0:43.8

Just remarkable.

0:45.3

And that's the kind of strength and dignity that people like Mike Lee simply do not

0:50.4

comprehend and have no human connection with whatsoever.

0:54.3

Missing a chip.

0:55.3

Yeah, missing a chip.

0:56.3

Yeah, absolutely.

0:59.1

Thanks, Jen.

1:00.2

Thanks, Lawrence.

1:00.7

Thank you.

1:02.1

Well, because most of the American news media cannot deal with the possibility that everyone

1:06.3

on the Trump White House is lying to them most of the time or even all of the time.

1:12.8

They reported as fact that Donald Trump left Canada in the middle of the night last night

1:18.3

and flew all night from Alberta back to Washington, D.C., quote, to deal with the rapidly

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