you didn t feel the same crackl of electricity that we did in 1998 because a lot of things were happening back then. a speaker he resigned right there on the floor, a surprise. we were bombing iraq. there was a sense that maybe president clinton would be pressured by his own party at that point perhaps to even resign. you didn t see that today. the suspense wasn t there. but the import is. this doesn t happen all the time, and it is important in sn terms of the future not just of this presidency but of our country and our system. there are a lot of questions as to what this will lead to. assuming he does go to trial in the senate, assuming he s h acquitted as it seems likely to be. then it goes to the voters in november of next year, and they ll be the ultimate appeals court. they ll decide whether this was a legitimate impeachment today or not, whether the president ia fit to be in office or not. and we ll see it in a way we ve never seen with any other impeachment because of course b