president to face articles of impeachment and on this day -- trying aid russia by ab solving them of wrong doing in the 201 election, he's meeting with russia, specifically sergey lavrov. the last time he met with him was at the white house in 2017. you might remember this. the ta after he fired james comey and he told lavrov by firing comey, he quote relieved the great pressure he was under from the russia veinvestigation. joining me now, shannon and michael. the former deputy assistant secretary of state. shann shannon, we were, me and a few others were try iing to figure t how to strib this split screen. the impeachment crisis and trump meeting lavrov in the oval office. is it surreal? is it maddening? gaslig gaslighting. we setteden led on fitting.