It's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

Hey, Lawrence.

Hey, Jen.

It's so great to see this series of guests you have here in your first week.

I have to be taking notes now during the night p.m. hour, which I'm kind of accustomed to.

And so it's actually quite helpful to me to see the way you're framing things.

Jen, we have in this hour, Congressman Mark Pocan, who is a small business owner.

And in today's hearing in the House with the Treasury Secretary, he asked the simplest

question that has ever been asked by anyone in Congress of a Treasury Secretary.

And Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary could not answer that question. Every Treasury Secretary from

Alexander Hamilton forward knew the answer to that question immediately, but not today.

And so he has more than earned his position as our lead-off guest in this show tonight.

What a good guess.

I think one of the only people who has watched more hearings and consumed them than me might be you, Lawrence.

And so I'm very much looking forward to

hearing your conversation and seeing what he has to say. Here's how big a fan of congressional

hearings I am. I was present at an uncountable number of them in the Senate Finance Committee

and in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee before that, where I was

staff director of each one of those committees. I love them. I can't get enough of them to this day

in the House or Senate. And that's how easy an audience I can be. Well, I share this nerdy love,

as you know. And what's important, and everybody who watches you and loves you as much as I do knows this, is that there are moments that happen in these hearings that are so telling about what's happening in Washington, what the government is doing, what administration officials are up to the task and the job, and which ones are not. And who sometimes are the rising stars,

which it sounds like one of your first guest is one of them. Yeah, this is one of those hearings.

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