we ll see you tomorrow. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. i hold in my hands the democrats secret plan to seize power from kevin mccarthy in the house of representatives. it has been hiding in the house of representatives since it was filed on january 30th, and today we discovered how this secret plan is supposed to work, and the secret agent, the secret legislative agent who introduced this plan, is gonna be my first guest tonight. america is going to find out who it was who planted this in the house of representatives, this being the device that can save the country from default for the first time in history. and alex, here s the great thing. i barely understand how this works. and you know from capitol hill yeah, here is the level that s at. when i read it, i understand it while the words are passing through my mind. i couldn t possibly then transfer that knowledge to another human being. but we re gonna do a version of
we ll see you tomorrow. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. i ve got, for me, a very exciting segment coming up. i pulled my hands, the democrats secret plan to cease power from kevin mccarthy in the house of representatives. it says hr 626, so it doesn t look like a sacred document. it has been hiding in the house of representatives since it was filed on january 30th. yeah. and today, we discovered how this secret plan is supposed to work. and the secret agent, the secret legislative agent who introduced this plan is gonna be my first guest tonight. oh, that s great. we re gonna find out who it was, who planted this in the house of representatives, this being the device that can save the country from the fault for the first time in history. and, alex, here s the great thing. i barely understand how this works [laughter] and you know from capitol hill. yeah, here is the level that s at. when i r
still need five republicans to sign it, too. leading off our discussion tonight is the legislative secret agent of the house of representatives, democratic congressman mark desaulnier of california. he s a member of the house ethics committee and the house transportation and infrastructure committee. and a former member of the rules committee. why you? why at the beginning of this really amazing strategy steam did the leadership soothes you to file this hr 626 which could just save the country? well, thank you for having me on. it was really a discussion between myself and mr. mcgovern and our rules staff, democratic rule staff, after launching the selection of speaker mccarthy, 15 votes as you remember, and it became obvious to me and others and that this might be
the inevitable result of their caucus. so, i just thought it was pertinent, unfortunately i had a rule staff, as a former member. to be able to work with me to give us some options. and it wasn t just for the fault. we were thinking that it might be for other things that might come up. the republicans, when they came in charge, change the rules a little bit. so, you can only introduce bills that were single sourced for a committee. this bill covers enough, so that would have changed once we moved it at the rules committee, into a single source. but it covered enough, strategically, so that we can use it for a number of potential issues, of course, which is the most important. you, know i developed a bit of a reputation on this program as being something of an authority on congressional rules. but if people are paying attention, it s really only senate rules where i used to work in the senate. and when i sat down with a discharge petition rule at the