Now it is time for the last word with the great Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.

Good evening, Rachel. It was 24 hours ago that we were talking about Chris Van Hollen's mission to El Salvador.

And I was thinking actually at the time yesterday, which I've thought every once in a while over the last decades, where would Martin Luther King be today?

And when I saw Senator Van Hollen in El Salvador yesterday, I thought that's where he would be at least one day this week, as well as other places not just there, but around the world where Donald Trump

is doing so much harm and here in the United States. But that was a Martin Luther King-like

mission going to El Salvador the way Senator Van Hollen did and achieving what he has achieved.

Last night at this hour, Rachel, I didn't,

I didn't look into my, you know, guessing section of the brain and think, what's he going to be

able to do tomorrow? I just lived, you know, very present tense with it and not knowing.

But, and it's so stunning to see this development tonight with him actually making contact.

And I think in the process proving just how easy it is for an American government official to get

access to this particular prisoner and how easy it would be to accompany that prisoner on a flight back to the United

States.

Yes, that's exactly right.

And I feel like as with all of these things and as with so much so much that's going on

right now, you don't know in advance what's going to work and you do a lot of stuff that doesn't work. But the only

thing you are guaranteed, the only thing you can definitely know for sure in advance is that if you

don't try, it won't work. And Senator Van Hollen down there yesterday, I interviewed him last

night. Down there today, we saw him at the prison gates trying to get in and being turned

away. But he's there, and he's trying, and he's doing everything he can. And that's how

stuff gets done. That's how the world changes. And when he files his complete report on this,

I'm sure he'll do tomorrow publicly, we're going to know, and the lawyers in the case are going to know,

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