killed break because i wanted to keep the conversation going but then i came to you early. >> it's a tightrope every night, baby. well done, my friends. thanks, guys. thanks to you at home for joining us here on this fine friday night. i will tell you there are a bunch of moving parts in the news right now and we're just 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 that as soon as the public hearing wrapped up today with