Trump wants DOJ to investigate others tied to Epstein

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump retreats on food tariffs amid anger across the country over high prices. Also, Vice President JD Vance’s claims on AI, robots, and wage growth raise questions. Plus, the House now plans to spike a Senate GOP payout provision. And Democrats eye a possible U.S. House pickup in Tennessee. Rep. Eric Swalwell, Justin Wolfers, Rep. Joe Neguse, and Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0	Well, we've reached the end of Donald Trump's no good, very bad week.
0:03.9	The latest in a string of bad weeks since his second term began.
0:06.9	But this week, the government reopened after a 43-day shutdown,
0:10.8	breaking the record of the previous longest-ever shutdown,
0:13.7	which was in Trump's first term,
0:15.2	only to be eclipsed by the release of thousands of emails
0:18.5	that the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein either sent or
0:22.0	received. According to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump's name appeared
0:26.9	in more than half the email files, 1,670 emails, including one that said Trump, quote,
0:35.7	knew about the girls, end quote.
0:40.1	On Air Force One tonight, Donald Trump said this.
0:46.0	What did Jeffrey Epstein mean in his emails when he said you knew about the girls?
0:47.9	I know nothing about that.
0:49.8	They would have announced that a long time ago.
0:55.5	Today, Donald Trump also ignored reporters' questions about his former friend, Jeffrey Epstein.
1:00.5	Mr. President, can we ask you about the FD files?
1:04.6	President, how are you going to get prices down?
1:11.8	The President has never spent hours with one of Jeffrey F.m his victim. But this morning, Mr. President, Donald Trump, Donald Trump finally spoke out on social media.
1:25.8	But this morning, after two days of silence over the Epstein emails, Donald Trump finally spoke out on social media only to rely on his favorite deflection tactic, what aboutism?
1:35.7	As in, what about everyone else in Epstein's emails?
1:38.6	At 9.33 a.m., Donald Trump posted, quote, Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrats' problem, not the
1:44.3	Republicans' problem.
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