Lawrence: Trump wants us to talk about Jimmy Kimmel. So we'll talk about Trump & Jeffrey Epstein.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The House Oversight Committee interrogates FBI Director Kash Patel on Jeffrey Epstein. Also, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says it’s “impossible” to say if Ghislaine Maxwell is credible. Plus, Treasury Secy. Scott Bessent reportedly made the very same mortgage loan pledges the Trump admin. has accused Fed Gov. Lisa Cook of making. And RFK Jr.’s competency as the HHS secretary is called into question. Rep. Eric Swalwell, Andrew Weissmann, and Sen. Ed Markey join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, there will be no jokes about Donald Trump's comically incompetent FBI director tonight on ABC
0:08.0	because that corporate media giant decided to bend to the will of Donald Trump.
0:14.5	And Donald Trump's FCC commissioner urged ABC to at least suspend Jimmy Kimmel because of something Jimmy Kimmel said about the
0:22.5	reaction to the killing of Charlie Kirk.
0:27.4	At 804 p.m., Donald Trump tweeted, great news for America. The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel's
0:32.8	show is canceled. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.
0:38.6	Kimmel had zero talent and worse ratings than even Colbert. If that's possible, that leaves
0:43.7	Jimmy and Seth two total losers on fake news NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it. NBC
0:51.6	three exclamation points from the most childish and peculiar, to put it mildly,
1:01.4	present in history. That's what he had to say tonight. That's what he thought was important
1:05.6	for the world to hear from him tonight. Richard Nixon never tried this.
1:14.5	Richard Nixon, the most corrupt American president prior to Donald Trump,
1:17.9	never tried to get Johnny Carson fired from the Tonight Show for telling jokes about
1:24.0	Richard Nixon.
1:25.5	No president ever tried that.
1:27.4	No president has ever threatened corporate
1:30.2	America more than the current Republican president. And Republicans have always had the support
1:36.6	of corporate America in their presidential campaigns because corporate America has wrongly
1:43.1	perceived Republican presidencies to somehow be better for
1:47.8	their businesses, even though the economy historically has done better during Democratic
1:52.9	presidencies. Corporate America has always been biased in favor of Republican candidates for
1:59.2	president. The only thing that Democratic candidates for
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