thank you, sir. all right. well, this is going to be hard. before we go to break, we do want to mark the passing of one of our favorite guests. you may have heard this week that media critic eric bowler was a passionate voice against right-wing extremism and hypocrisy in the media. through media matters, salon, and his newspaper press run, he challenged those trying to poison our public discourse. eric died this week after being hit by a train while cycling. we want to send our deepest condolences to his wife tracy breslin and their two children, jane and ben. we loved having eric on. hillary clinton was among the luminaries paying tribute tweeting that she would miss eric s critical work to counter counteracts misinformation and media bias. so will we all. dia bias so will we all