day, that has a particular sting and particular effect for president and his staunchest defenders. the other thing that is at work here, i think this is the most interesting thing about this impeachment even when you compare it to other impeachments of the last century, right, even when you compare it to the watergate impeachment effort and the bill clinton impeachment effort, the thing i find fascinating here that i really think is -- it sort of stands alone, is that this impeachment crisis as the house moves to vote on articles of impeachment against the president this week, it is not a dead letter. it's not over. the impeachment scandal, what we know about it, continues to evolve and continues to break open bit by bit. for example, you remember michael cohen, right? it was this time last year that michael cohen was sentenced to prison for among other things making illegal payments totalling over a quarter million dollars to benefit the trump campaign for president by effectively paying two women to make them stop asserting they had had affairs with then-candidate donald trump. just about a year ago in the