thank you. we've got a big show tonight. we've got steve schmidt making his triumphant msnbc return and we're going to get caught up in what happened in the ukraine scandal. there's two other stories i've been looking at. the one has been getting a ton of coverage. the other not as much. they're two different stories and they're being reported as different stories. they're in different parts of the newspaper, different articles about them and i think they might be one story. the first story is one we've all been watching jaw agape with horror. and that is what the president of the united states did two weeks ago and he green lit a call with the turkish strongman recep tayyip erdogan, paved the way for ethnic cleansing and horrific human rights abuses against the kurds. risking isis reconstituting itself.