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IrelandMusk's "die by the sword" warning closes a week of Bahrain evacuations on The Last Word
MS NOW's hour-long highlights reel follows reporting on an attacked Navy base, a 25th Amendment argument and Steve Witkoff's praise for Vladimir Putin.
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Story of Why this story? One of MS NOW's most watched videos since yesterday, with 471,656 views.
Elon Musk THREATENS Democrats in Congress | The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell Weekly Highlights
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- 0:00O'Donnell reviews Trump's poll numbers and his rally remarks praising male candidates' physiques.
- 3:12O'Donnell argues for invoking the 25th Amendment, citing what he calls cognitive decline and erratic behavior.
- 11:09Reporting on an attack on NSA Bahrain, with Congressional Research Service damage estimates shown at 14:04.
- 16:46Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling says personnel and families should have been withdrawn much earlier.
- 24:00Steve Witkoff calls Putin a "humanitarian," and Brian Kilmeade criticizes the remark at 30:01.
- 34:48The title's subject: possible congressional investigations of Musk and his threats toward critics and lawmakers.
The title promises Elon Musk threatening Democrats in Congress. Lawrence O'Donnell gets there, but only after more than half an hour of a week that also included military families fleeing a Navy base in the Persian Gulf.
The upload collects the best segments of a week of The Last Word into nearly an hour, and it drew close to half a million views since yesterday. That makes it the second most watched new video on MS NOW's channel.
The heaviest material concerns Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the base that hosts the US Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters. O'Donnell discusses reporting on an attack there and the absence of live press coverage. He displays Congressional Research Service documents that estimate the damage, saying, "That's how bad the damage is; they may never rebuild it." He reads military spouses' accounts of their evacuation. Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling argues that the families "should have been withdrawn long before it's called a non-combatant evacuation operation."
The reel opens with Trump's rally remarks praising male candidates' bodies, from Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia. O'Donnell uses them to argue for invoking the 25th Amendment, citing what he calls cognitive decline and erratic behavior. Sen. Jon Ossoff appears in clips answering the president from the campaign trail.
A later segment turns to Steve Witkoff, the special envoy who has served as an informal channel to Vladimir Putin. In a clip, Witkoff tells the Russian leader, "You are a humanitarian also, sir." Fox News Radio's Brian Kilmeade objects to the remark in a separate clip.
The Musk segment arrives around the 35-minute mark. O'Donnell examines Politico's reporting that Democratic committee chairs could investigate the Tesla and SpaceX chief if the party wins control, then turns to Musk's online threats toward critics and lawmakers. Musk's own words in the segment are "Live by the sword, die by the sword."
The week ends in Ohio. Former Sen. Sherrod Brown calls Vivek Ramaswamy's attack ad "despicable" and says it should be pulled.
A Democratic politician who has represented Georgia in the US Senate since 2021.
More on Wikipedia ›An American real estate investor serving since 2025 as US special envoy to the Middle East and for peace missions. He has also acted as an unofficial envoy to Vladimir Putin.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democrat who represented Ohio in the US Senate from 2007 to 2025. He previously served in the US House of Representatives and as Ohio secretary of state.
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A weekly compilation rather than a single segment, it is the second most watched of MS NOW's newest uploads since yesterday.
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In which year was the 25th Amendment, which sets out how a president can be declared unable to serve, ratified?
The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967, a few years after the assassination of President Kennedy exposed gaps in the rules on presidential succession and disability.