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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The House vote on the Senate’s funding bill is expected on Wednesday. Also, NBC News reports Ghislaine Maxwell’s emails say she is “happier” in minimum security prison. Plus, Trump floats the idea of $2,000 tariff rebate checks. And Trump could be forced to refund his tariffs. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Jason Furman, and Lori Mullins join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:02.0	Hey, Lawrence.
0:02.6	Hey, Jen.
0:03.6	In your earlier segment tonight, you talked about how it's going on the redistricting plans around the country.
0:12.7	This was started by Republicans, started by Donald Trump, to try to pick up more house seats in Texas.
0:19.7	And it really looks tonight with the news from Utah and elsewhere that it may end up being,
0:26.2	thanks to Gavin Newsman, California and other moves, that the Democrats end up picking up more seats
0:33.5	through redistricting than the Republicans.
0:36.3	And the Democrats didn't start this.
0:38.0	They weren't going to do any of this until Donald Trump got it started.
0:42.7	It's really unbelievable.
0:44.7	And a big part of it, Lawrence, is people are fighting back.
0:48.2	I mean, Missouri, they've had a kind of a grassroots movement fighting back.
0:52.0	In Virginia, they have their own movement there. It's in Utah,
0:57.0	of course. I mean, Big Red Utah, it's really unbelievable. They may live to regret it. We'll see.
1:03.5	But it's a really interesting turn in the story. Yeah, we're going to keep following that one.
1:08.1	It's really, and Gavin Newsom really has emerged as the leader on this in a very powerful way.
1:14.4	No question about it.
1:15.7	I think it put a lot of pressure on other governors of blue states to take action if they can.
1:22.0	And we've seen that over the last week.
1:23.5	We'll be following it.
1:24.5	Thanks, Jen.
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