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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Rep. Khanna on Trump’s handling of Epstein files: ‘You can’t just ignore the law’

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The Epstein files play a key role in Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s falling out with Donald Trump. Also, the Supreme Court blocks the National Guard deployment to Chicago. Plus, the overall U.S. unemployment ticked up to 4.6%. And The Washington Post reports hundreds of North Carolina residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Hurricane Helene, but none have been approved. Rep. Ro Khanna, Mayor Brandon Johnson, Barbara McQuade, Jared Bernstein, and fmr. Gov. Roy Cooper join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

No more. On Christmas Day, as many of us were spending time with loved ones, Donald Trump used his day to rant on social media, so much that he wrote more than 100 posts that included many of his greatest hits, attacking his so-called enemies, lying about election results, and try to say anything to take away from his Epstein problem.

0:18.8

Donald Trump capped off his rant the next day, raging on social

0:21.9

media that DOJ should say no more of the Epstein files and concentrate on other things like his

0:28.6

2020 election fantasia. But the Epstein files will never be no more, and even some of Donald

0:34.5

Trump's closest allies know that it'll never be no more.

0:38.1

In an interview in the New York Times magazine, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green,

0:42.3

who's been one of Donald Trump's most loyal of supporters in Congress,

0:45.5

said that the Epstein files are what caused her to break from Donald Trump.

0:50.2

Robert Draper, writing for the New York Times magazine, reports, quote,

0:53.9

most significant she defied the president and compliant House Republican leaders,

0:58.4

as she argued that all investigative material pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein should be released.

1:04.1

The Epstein files represents everything wrong with the administration, Green told me in December,

1:09.0

rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting

1:11.6

away with it, and the women are the victims, end quote.

1:15.2

Congresswoman Green is resigning from her seat next Monday, January 5th.

1:19.0

She believes Donald Trump turned on her after she became an advocate for the release of the

1:23.3

Epstein files, along with our next guest, Congressman Rokana.

1:27.1

The White House gave this response

1:28.7

to the New York Times Magazine over Congresswoman Green's interview, quote,

1:32.4

Congresswoman Green is quitting on her constituents in the middle of her term and abandoning

1:37.0

the consequential fight we're in. We don't have time for her petty bitterness, end quote.

1:42.8

Green told the New York Times magazine that she spoke to some

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