heartening. maybe and we ll look back on that in a year or two and go, yeah, that was the last time that they didn t simply proceed illegally to invalidate a free and fair election. but you know, my motto in these in this trump era and the pandemic era tends to be, could be worse. yeah. i mean, i guess the only button here i would offer here a bar shouldn t be so low that a stop the steal imagined fraud in arizona that we, like, eked by, we all say, wow, democracy survived another day. but to be continued. i take your point. matt dowd, melissa murray, kurt anderson, you all made my brain hurt. thank you so much for starting us off. when we come back, now that that fake audit in arizona has confirmed what we all knew, that joe biden won, republicans in other swing states are moving forward with fraudits of their own and democrats are now pushing back. plus, house democrats vote to protect abortion rights in america in the face of strict new measures in red states all across th