of big news, joe, on capitol hill. what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing we ve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four channels then, and i wanted to see the flintstones and mr. ed, but my parents were sitting front, watching watergate. like everybody. and it was so compelling. and you see those clips, and it s history and you don t think you re ever going to see anything like that again. like a movie. but actually, willie, we did see something and we keep seeing, every one of these january 6th hearings. you re looking at history, you understand it, because, again, it drives home the point that maybe we ve
to seize voting machines. gep, talk about criminal intent. it just seems to be laying out there. yeah, i mean, the whole thing had this kind of absurdist feeling to it. and it would have been sort of more darkly humorous if it wasn t exceptionally serious, right? like, imagine you re the attache in rome and you get a phone call from the acting dod secretary saying, hey, can you run down this rumor of italian satellites changing votes from biden to trump. he must have been completely confused at what the heck was going on at that moment and it was absurd. was to charlie s point, this was is not absurd. this was deadly serious. and it wasn t a stress test. it was dozens of stress tests. some of them were totally benign and ridiculous, like the attache in rome, but a lot of them were extremely serious. and it s remarkable that we