Lawrence: Trump tries Epstein-style cover-up of second boat strike video

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The GOP House Armed Service Cmte. Chair announces he's ending the probe into a Sept. 2nd boat strike. Also, Democrats probe the ties between Trump officials and immigration contractors. Plus, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell blames elevated inflation on tariffs. And a federal judge orders Donald Trump to end the National Guard’s control in California. Rep. Adam Smith, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Jacob Soboroff join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence.
0:04.3	Hey, Jen. I'm so glad in your discussion with Rachel tonight that you brought up her book,
0:09.2	blowout about the oil industry of a few years ago, which I absolutely loved cover to cover.
0:16.4	Every page learned something about the oil industry. It's an amazing piece of work and so important
0:23.1	for thinking about what's going on with Donald Trump and this oil tanker tonight. Just perfect
0:28.5	timing on that. No question about it. As I said to her, we're going to be greedy. We're going to
0:33.6	keep you to talk longer because you've actually thought a lot about the oil industry and it's so relevant today.
0:39.9	I'm so glad you did.
0:41.1	I'm so glad you did.
0:42.1	Thanks, Jen.
0:43.1	Thanks, Lawrence.
0:43.9	Thank you.
0:45.8	Well, Donald Trump confessed last night.
0:49.8	Donald Trump confessed that he was lying.
0:54.6	Donald Trump turned himself in as a pathological liar last night.
1:02.0	During his first term in the White House, Donald Trump was quoted by unnamed sources
1:05.7	who were constantly leaking what Donald Trump was saying in private.
1:09.5	And one of the quotes attributed to him
1:12.2	was Donald Trump referring to African countries where he has never been using the worst, dirtiest
1:19.9	term he could think of for those countries. It's the kind of language I've heard from hardcore
1:25.6	racists my whole life.
1:33.5	I knew he was lying in 2018 when he denied using those words.
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