Lawrence: Trump says he's too busy to explain his Iran war. A Democrat did it in five minutes.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats and some Republicans push back against Donald Trump’s ballroom and $1.776 fund. And the U.S. Senate campaign in Georgia advances to a run-off for Republicans looking to face Democrat incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff. Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Sen. Jon Ossoff join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. It starts right now. Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.3	Hey, Jen. We are going to present a little piece of perfection tonight. Something perfect
0:12.2	happened in Washington this week. It's five minutes of perfection. We're going to show it uncut.
0:24.4	It rarely happens in such a flawless way,
0:31.5	but it's on video. We've got it. We're going to show it. And normally we pick out little bits,
0:36.4	sound bites, as we call them, you know, a line here, a line there. But something happened in Congress yesterday that is sheer perfection,
0:40.1	and we're just going to let it roll tonight. Are you giving us a hint, or we just have to,
0:44.2	we have to wait and just see. No, no. No. No. No. Just have to stay by your TV for perfection.
0:52.5	I'm going to have to run downstairs.
0:55.0	See what the five minutes are.
0:56.3	Okay, I'll do it.
0:57.5	Thanks, Jen.
0:58.8	Thanks, Lawrence.
0:59.7	Thank you.
1:01.5	Well, Donald Trump suffered a crushing defeat today on the thing he obviously cares about most in this world now.
1:09.5	No, not Greenland.
1:10.6	Donald Trump doesn't care about Greenland anymore.
1:13.2	And no, not annexing Canada and making it the 51st state. Donald Trump doesn't care about that
1:18.3	anymore either. Donald Trump's one thing at a time, attention span, should be on his war that he
1:25.7	started in Iran, but it's not, as he proved once again today.
1:33.1	Donald Trump, as everyone in the world now knows, including the governing regime in Iran that he is at war with,
1:40.4	now cares about the ballroom he dreams of building more than anything else in the world.
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