The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.

Hey, Lawrence.

Hey, Jen.

I need your judgment about whether I might be being too picky about something that I noticed today.

And that is the first FBI director in history to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee without being able to tie his necktie

correctly. Now, J. Edgar Hoover would fire this guy. Jay Edgar Hoover, the first and longest director

of the FBI, was very particular about the way FBI agents had to dress in every way. And one of the things that

you Edgar Hoover didn't have to say to any of them is you button the top button of your shirt

and you put your necktie all the way up to the top of the collar.

Cash Patel doesn't know how to do that, didn't do that today.

And I'm old school enough to have been bumped by that because here's my justification.

FBI director is supposed to be someone with a real sensitivity to detail, a real attention to detail in everything all the time. And how does he miss

what his tie looks like? And how does he miss that it's the only

necktie in the room that looks like that? How does he miss that? Jen, have I gone too far?

No. Okay. Remember, just to let him give him a little ease, he was wearing versions of muscle

teas on a podcast a year ago, Lawrence.

So he's got a big, a big, you know, a team training time to tie the tie.

Could you imagine either of the presidents you worked for being in a public venue in a suit and tie,

either President Obama or President Biden, having that tie ever be

anywhere other than perfectly placed and the top button buttoned on the shirt?

No, remember the tan suit scandal. They also would have lost their minds over the FBI director

previewing his appearance on Fox News. So there's a lot of things to feel

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