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
watching this yesterday, it was alternative history of the saturday night massacre, those clips you just played just now where you have this, you know, who would have thought, back at the time when we were watching this in realtime, you could see from the outside something weird was going on in the justice department. there was reporting contemporaneous that trump was trying to make another change. there had been one change of leadership that you could see was totally political, and nobody knew what was going on behind closed doors. what we didn t know was the scene that played out, the extraordinary, attempt by all of these lawyers, many of whom people were skeptical of at the time, who thought they were trump stooges to begin with, as it turned out, whatever you think about their past performance or other things they did in the course of the trump administration. at the moment of truth, they decided that the rule of law and constitution, and reputations and legal standing were more i