The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.

Hey, Lawrence.

Hey, Jen.

I want to prepare you for something next week.

And that is that I am going to be on vacation next week.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

And so you won't be saying hi to me, but you will have some very able people here who will be getting this hour through the week.

And I'm telling you, Jen, nothing, nothing can get me back here next week.

Absolutely nothing.

I don't care if somebody hand delivers me the Epstein birthday book.

I'm nothing.

Nothing's going to get me back here.

Well, I'm going to spread a rumor that you're writing the next reboot of the West Wing.

Don't do that. Don't do that. I'm going to do a segment each day on some ideas for episodes.

And we'll see if we can lure you back. They take that very seriously. Don't do that. Don't do that.

Try to control myself. Thanks, Jen. I'll see you a week after next.

Have a good vacation. Thank you. Thank you. Well, tonight, the birthday book is coming out.

One page at a time. That is the breaking news of the night. 24 hours after we broke the news

on this program last night that a book of birthday letters to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday

is in the possession of the Epstein estate in Florida. Other news organizations have

credit our reporting and been following up on it and adding significantly to

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