we have elaina plott, rash sha rangappa, wajahat ali. not that early on the east coast, but history never sleeps. so let s leave some of this denser what ifs, what ifs, what ifs for a moment. in terms of first journalistically, history is being written right now. what is it saying thus far? i think what it s saying thus far is that, as you said, chris, not only was there not a single republican to break against the president, there wasn t a single republican to even concede that donald trump had acted inappropriately in his calls with president zelensky. i find that quite astounding in terms of measuring the level of partisanship, tribalization in this country right now. what that says about the 2020 election, i don t think we know yet. it is of course the first impeachment to take place during well, i guess andrew johnson was also his first term, correct? not even a term, right?
let s bring in rash sha rangappa. first question, meeting with the defendant council in a hotel, multiple times, saying that meeting with him multiple times, at least once that we need of in a hotel. saying that they kept starting and restarting the process, they were in control of it. it was very frustrating for us. the idea of him having prosecuted other cases with this subject matter and having very different outcomes, what does that all mean to you? so, chris, first let s start with this we re talking about 2008, this isn t 1910 before women had the right to vote or something. and the facts of this case involve more than 30 victims all of whom were minors at the time that the criminal activity occurred, involved trafficking