you can t have these major players this close to an election. brianna, do you even know if there will be a q and a following the patient, or. we don t know whether that this will not be, that he would come in and that s pretty much what we should expect. is this something that he would have wanted to do? i don t think jack lew was thinking about it. jack lew is a very smart guy. i ve known him for many years. he was a budget director during the clinton administration when president obama took over. he went and got a really major job working as secretary of state with hillary clinton in the state department, then he moved over to budget where he s done a very strong job. he s got good relations with everybody on the hill, and. you have to have a strong political background as well as a substantive policy background. jack lew spent a couple years working on capitol hill, so he knows capitol hill. he knows the executive branch. he s told him how grateful. then we ll rather