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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: RFK Jr. is slammed for his remark on "re-parenting" Black kids. Plus, Trump attacks as Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico surges in Texas. And new reporting is in on Trump's pardon of Ex-Honduran President. Michael Steele, James Talarico, and Ken Dilanian join Lawrence O'Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:02.8	Hey, Lawrence.
0:03.9	Hey, Jan.
0:04.7	We have James Tolariko joining us, the Texas Democratic Senate candidate.
0:10.8	And wow, Donald Trump is really afraid that he is going to win that Texas Senate race
0:17.1	because Donald Trump is attacking him in a way that is strong even for Donald Trump,
0:23.8	which is to say crazy, outright crazy.
0:26.4	James Tel RICO will be responding to Donald Trump in this hour here on this program.
0:31.7	I can't wait.
0:33.1	Well, when you have a candidate who just raised a whopping $27 million in the first quarter the most of
0:38.7	anyone ever running for the Senate this early in the Senate cycle, who also can speak
0:43.9	authentically about their faith and how it guides why they want to run for office, that is
0:49.2	scary for the Republicans. They should be scared, probably. Donald Trump has taken notice. We're going to,
0:55.3	we're going to hear from James Tolerico on it tonight.
0:57.9	Looking forward to. Thanks, Jen. Thanks, John.
1:03.5	I think I have failed. I am not feeling good about this tonight because I think I have failed at properly distributing my attention and your attention across the madness and the poison that emerges every day, day after day, week after week, month after month,
1:29.6	from Donald Trump's freaks and goons working for him?
1:39.5	Because today, I learned something about Robert Kennedy that's worse than anything I'd already
1:46.5	known about Robert Kennedy Jr. And I could have done this two years ago if I had been
1:52.7	paying enough attention and distributing my attention adequately across this range of madness,
1:58.8	but we learned it today in a congressional hearing. And so we will be
2:03.6	covering that here tonight, and it leaves me feeling that if I spend every minute on this program for the rest of the years that I am doing this program, attacking
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