going along or killing a break or not and i went with the kill break because i wanted to keep the conversation going, and then i came to you early and thought i screwed it up, but you're there. >> thank you. much appreciated. that was excellent. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour on this friday night. there are a bunch of moving parts right now, and we're going to take it one piece at a time, one step at a time with the full and full hearted expectation that more news will break over the course of this hour. you know it will, right? i mean, that has generally been our experience on friday nights over the course of the trump administration. but today and tonight already it has just been relentless. so let's just jump in. we've got a whole show prepared. i'm sure it's all about to go out the window. obviously today was the second public hearing of the impeachment proceedings against president trump. we're going to talk about that in detail tonight. in terms of the latest news, though, i do need to mention as