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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Trump arrives for meeting with China's President Xi Jinping

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump’s war in Iran looms over the U.S.-China summit. Also, economists predicted the failures of Trump’s economy. And The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration is eyeing 250 pardons for July 4th. Laura Barrón-López, Rep. Madeleine Dean, Bobby Ghosh, Justin Wolfers, and Melissa Murray join Ali Velshi.

Transcript

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0:00.0

That's the last word with Ali Velshi in for Lawrence starts right now.

0:04.3

Hey, Ali.

0:05.1

So we're watching these pictures out of Beijing, right? And I'm trying to keep track of who's there. Tim Cook's there. Elon Musk is there. Besant is there. Marco Rubio's there. And Marco Rubio is one of the people in the cabinet who, you know, a lot of people think is an adult in the room. and every time he's involved in stuff that Donald Trump does unusual stuff, he always feels a little uncomfortable, right?

0:24.5

Like the Zelensky stuff in the White House. Yeah. That picture you showed on Air Force One where he was dressed up in a track suit. The sweatsuit, like Nicholas Maduro. Same one that Nicholas Maduro was in the day he was captured. Yep, yep. He also didn't look like he was enjoying that.

0:37.9

Like, he just, he's not, he doesn't feel like he's in on the joke. It didn't look like it was the right size, I'm going to be honest. But that's true with the shoes. Maybe they were a gift. It looked uncomfortable. Yeah. He has changed, just in case you didn't see those pictures out of Beijing, he has changed into a suit and is now dressed a little bit like the, like the Secretary of State might dress.

0:57.9

You are looking at Xi Jinping.

0:59.3

So, Jen, you have a great evening. Nice to see you. Thank you. And we'll see it tomorrow. Sounds good. See you tomorrow. All right. and what you're looking at right now,

1:07.2

live pictures from Beijing right now

1:08.9

where it is 10 in the morning

1:09.8

and you are seeing Xi Jinping.

1:12.0

There's a big American delegation there that has arrived ahead of

1:15.7

President Trump, including Scott Besson, Marco Rubio, and a whole bunch of them. We are just

1:21.0

moments away from the first meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping since Donald Trump's

1:26.1

last meeting with him, which was in 2017.

1:28.7

I want to get a sense of what's going on right now. It's the morning in China. Momentarily, we will

1:34.5

see that. And we might be seeing that's the advance on the motorcade right now. That's it right now.

1:39.1

So Donald Trump getting ready to pull up. Let's go to Laura Baron Lopez. She's in Beijing right now.

1:44.9

Laura, we're going to clip this picture up. What's going on there?

1:50.6

Hi, good morning, Allie, here from Beijing. So right now, the president is expected to arrive

1:55.2

momentarily at the Great Hall of People, not far from here, in Beijing. That's where China has legislative events. It's where

2:04.9

their legislature meets. And already in place is the U.S. delegation. That includes Secretary of State

2:11.5

Marker Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, as well as the

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