the philadelphia inquirier laboring it. with this interesting challenge saying basically, only the most cynical partisan could minimize the public evidence against trump. should americans care about these editorial judgments on impeachment eve? we turn to a journalist who knows his way around the debates. author thomas friedman making his debut on "the beat." >> great to be here. i think it comes down to the fact that they're just two core simple issues. one is, if we let a president use congressionally appropriate defense funds from ukraine to intimidate the president of that country to take out his rival in the next election, we are saying it is okay for all future presidents to enlist foreign powers in tipping our election