two visits to the oval office, period. the day articles of impeachment were unveiled against president trump today and his previous visit, may 2017, the day after trump fired the fbi director. and in that last oval -- if you want to understand how these two sort of -- these two tent poles function here in the trump presidency i mean think about what he learned about that last oval office meeting. remember there was like this cascade of revelations about what happened that day in the oval office the last time the russian foreign minister was there in the oval. first there was the surprise news of that meeting itself. this is one of it many interactions president trump has had with the russian government since he's been president that we the american people had to learn about from the russian government. our own white house, our own government didn't say anything but russian state media and the russian government announced it was going to happen. this was also a meeting where the white house took overt steps to block all u.s. reporters and photographers from covering that