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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Velshi: Trump ‘shattering’ status of U.S. as a global superpower

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The Wall Street Journal reports Donald Trump privately acknowledged his tariffs could spark a recession. Also, a federal judge demands updates on the efforts made to return a deported Maryland man. Plus, Democrats seek to keep the momentum against the Trump agenda with the House and Senate in recess. And Trump sends a special envoy to meet with Vladimir Putin in Russia. Robert Reich, Laurence Tribe, Rep. Joe Neguse, Leah Greenberg, and Amb. Michael McFaul join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with the great Ali Belche. Good evening.

0:02.8

It was a year. This week has been something else. But that thing that Marco Rubio said about being able to expel legal residency in the United States based on expected beliefs and statements.

0:16.9

You know, I have this band book club every Saturday, and we deal with these dystopian novels,

0:21.4

like The Handmaid's Tale or 1984.

0:24.5

It's dystopian stuff, right?

0:26.2

We're going to make determinations.

0:28.6

They're telling you if you are legally in the United States, you are here legally.

0:33.2

It's not that they're saying this is going to be the way they like prioritize which people

0:37.9

who are here illegally they're going to go after.

0:39.5

If you're here legally in the United States, if we think you're about to think a bad

0:45.5

thought, that is the reasonable justification on which the United States government will

0:50.7

arrest you and throw you out of this country.

0:52.7

I mean, they use the words.

0:54.6

They talked about expected beliefs and statements.

0:57.9

Things you have not yet thought, things you have not yet said, but we think you might.

1:03.8

That's the reason.

1:04.5

So what's the logical conclusion that you watch what you say, you watch what you think,

1:09.9

you don't get influenced in a debate or a discussion or an argument, you don't read books that are contrary to what you say, you watch what you think, you don't get influenced in a debate or a discussion

1:12.1

or an argument, you don't read books that are contrary to what you, I mean, play this out.

1:17.0

It's from an educational perspective, from a societal perspective, from a politics perspective,

1:22.1

it's awfully dangerous stuff.

1:24.5

Yeah. I mean, I don't know how to control what I haven't yet thought, let alone what I haven't yet said. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how to control what I haven't yet thought, let alone what I haven't

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