Good evening. Good evening. How are you guys doing? Thanks for being here. Wow. What a wonderful, warm crowd. It's great energy. I don't know about you guys. We've been a little busy. I've been working.

So it's really nice to be with a bunch of citizens who are interested in having this conversation. I appreciate you all being here.

And I'm going to tell you very briefly what we're going to do. And then I'm going to bring out a member of Democratic leadership from the Congress who's also been busy. So we really think we have a lot to get to. But just to give you some expectations, we're going to bring out Congressman Jeffries, who of course is a New York Congressman. Not yet. He's going to hear the applause. One more minute, Congressman. He really is back there. But we're going to bring him out and have a conversation about what we've learned this week and where we're going.

Then we're going to bring out some really talented prosecutors that you'll probably recognize

both from their public service as well as some of their expertise on air and really go through

what is the case on multiple grounds for the potential impeachment of President Trump based

on newly discovered evidence.

Now, you can you could clap or boo at various points, obviously, but eventually you'll get tired.

But it's not just that side, because if any of you have seen any of the work that we try to do in our

journalism at the beat or on MSNBC and NBC News, you can't understand

stories or cases without understanding all sides.

And so then we're going to be able to hear from someone who's also very talented and experienced,

who has been a formal Republican witness even in the recent Judiciary Committee hearings

on the Mueller report and get that perspective. And I think that's really interesting and important. And then we will get a final closing argument from the man known affectionately around MSNBC as Robert Redford.

And some of you know what that means, and if that's what I'm talking about.

And for those of you who don't know what that means, you will be able to find out.

The only other thing I'm going to mention is we're going to take questions through the hashtag impeachment debate.

You could literally start firing them off now.

This is an on-the-record public event.

You're obviously welcome to share your thoughts, post, pictures, et cetera. And you can use the hashtag you see right there, impeachment debate, both to share anything, but also to do questions. We literally have our team monitoring that, and that's how we'll take questions both from inside the hall, as well as, this is an inclusive MSNBC podcast event, as well as from people around the nation,

who all are going to be able to listen and hear the answers.

So, because I have other things to say, but I'll get to them later without further ado,

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