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

Hey, Lawrence.

Hey, Jen.

You know, that is exactly why I watch your show is because I'm going to learn things from you about things I already knew.

I already knew about those colors at the White House, but I didn't know that story.

I didn't know the backstory.

And now we do. Thank you for that.

Thank you. Well, I listen to your monologue on the way home because I always learn things from you.

And now all you need to do for me is write a new season of the West Wing. And I'll tell you more stories.

If we can agree to that. All right. We'll get right to that.

Thanks, Jen. Sounds good. Have a great night,

Lawrence. Thank you. Thanks. Well, Pete Hegseth was reported to have had such a severe drinking problem while working as a weekend morning host at Fox, that he promised Republican senators

that he would not drink if they voted to confirm him as Secretary of Defense.

And so we're just going to have to assume that Pete Hegseth was stone, cold, sober today, when he said something that sounds like it belongs

in the great Comedy Central TV series, Drunk History.

President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history.

It's the kind of thing that wouldn't be surprising for him to say if he still had his job

at Fox and was drunk at a hotel bar. In 2017, a police report about Pete Hegeseth being drunk in a hotel bar said that Pete Heegseth, being drunk in a hotel bar, said that Pete Hegseth told

the police, quote, that he was buzzed, but not intoxicated during an encounter with a Republican

woman who, after spending time in Pete Hegseth's hotel room, filed a complaint with Monterey

police claiming that she was raped.

No criminal charges were filed after the police investigation.

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