Lawrence: Trump sounded like ‘spoiled child’ in trying to negotiate out of war he claims he’s won

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump claims the Iran war has been “won,” while also claiming the U.S. is “negotiating.” Also, Trump refuses to make ICE reforms to end the DHS shutdown. Plus, Minnesota sues the Trump Justice Department over evidence in the protester killings. And the deposition video of a Jeffrey Epstein accountant and lawyer is released. Sen. Gary Peters, Mary Moriarty, and Rep. Ro Khanna join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:03.3	Hey Lawrence.
0:04.6	Hey, Jen, how does it feel to be one of the many people who are braver than Pete Hexef,
0:11.3	willing to actually face, face reporters questions?
0:17.4	What does that feel like?
0:19.2	The bar is low there, Lawrence, but it does feel like if you're so proud of this war,
0:27.7	why you're knocking all the press corps out to the annex in the parking lot of the Department of Defense, right?
0:35.2	And you're so proud of your war that you can only take easy
0:40.3	questions from friendly reporters, propagandists like yourself. That's his official position,
0:46.2	I guess. Yes. And I know I thought it was kind of crazy today that he talked about how
0:52.3	bombs, he's part of the negotiation by bombing the same
0:55.8	day that they reportedly sent who knows it could be one page we don't know a 15 point plan over to
1:01.6	the iranians he kind of is he's got like one speed and one trick well uh he doesn't the one thing he can't do the one thing he cannot do is what Jen Saki used to do for a living.
1:14.5	He has now proved that.
1:15.7	He's afraid to do that.
1:16.9	He'd never try to do that.
1:18.2	And it makes you one of many, many people actually are way braver than Pete Hanksett.
1:26.5	Well, thank you for that, Lawrence.
1:28.8	Thanks, Jen.
1:30.1	Thanks, Lawrence.
1:30.7	Have a good show.
1:31.2	Thank you.
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