clinton impeachment. trisha did allison get that right? well, you know i m going to have rachel from yesterday give the answer to rachel from today. creepy. okay. turmoil in 98 after losing the midterms the middle of the impeachment, recognizing a political disaster the public has decided they need a play space. so the answer was, in fact a, the impeachment against president clinton and allison was right. well done. one in the bag. all right. gotta get two right to win at least the first prize. question two. this is going to be a visual one. this week we had not one but two candidates two additional candidates formally declare they re running for the republican nomination on 2016. on tuesday, it was my friend rick santorum. yesterday it was my friend george pataki. which of these people were george pataki?
and hopefully herman cain won t be an art project any more soon. i would give it back. we re going to need a disembodied voice to judge your answers. usually that is steve brennen from maddow blog but steve has a cold. so we re going to have one of our producers in the control room do it. your judge this evening is the all powerful and om initialent trisha mckinney. say hello, trisha. hello, allison. hey, trisha. there we go. ready for your first question? yeah i m ready. last night s show, we reported on the surprise federal indictment of the long time speaker of the house denny hastert. denny hastert first became house speaker during which scandal, a, the impeachment effort against president bill clint job, b, the iran contra affair c, watergate or d, abscam? i am going to go with a, the
b. turkmenistan. trisha, do you have the answer for us? i think we need to see that statue again. let s watch. turkmenistan got a new statue. the new one is 69 feet tall. it shows the country s current dictator carrying a dove and riding a horse. it s covered in 24 karat gold leaf and it s perched on top of a giant cliff of white marble. it s very subtle. so as much as we were hoping she would go for terrible-self-esteem-istan, it was actually choice b. she got it. allison, you swept. you extent. you re getting the leaky creaky cocktail shaker. do you want the herman cain banner or do you want the puzzle that we don t know what it s a puzzle of? oh, i totally want the banner. you get the banner. if he turns back into an art