tonight. my pleasure. joining me now, former law professor joyce fans and former ambassador daniel freed who served as assistant secretary of state for european andure ans e affairs from 2005 to 2009. ambassador freed, let me start with you. from your perch and from knowing many of the players involved, just your reaction to what has been laid over over the last few days, particularly in bill taylor s testimony. bill taylor is an old friend, and i found his testimony compelling and devastating. he lays out the circumstances under which the president of the united states abandoned his public duties for the sake of his private interests. that s appalling and i ve never seen anything like that. let me follow up on that. i think there s an argument that they have tried to trot out which basically says, ah, come on, everyone does this. everyone s corrupt and quid pro quo quid pro quo is part of