it takes a few words. >> get out of my face. if you're going to ask me a question, step back and let me answer. >> senator -- >> i wish -- i wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel. that would be pretty good. >> i'll tell ya, all these years later i still don't know what the hell that was about. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was the first and only time an msnbc host was challenged to a duel by a politician. that's never happened to you, right? >> not yet. >> let's head over to steve kornacki to break down the numbers on 20 years of "hardball." steve? >> thanks, joe and mica. >> 20 years of "hardball." on msnbc. of course the true die-hard fans remember the chris matthews television phenomenon goes back further than that. there was this one. there was "politics with chris matthews." and then politics with chris matthews on cnbc then "hardball" on cnbc and now "hardball with