Someone who obviously knows how I operate sent me a tweet last night and said, can this

please not be what you talk about tomorrow?

And he's referring to, of course, fart date.

The fart heard around the world, the fart that changed the course of history.

That is, Representative Eric Swalwell farting on live TV last night.

This person who sent me this obviously knows me well, but at the same time knows me not

at all because there is no way that I could open the show the day after such an event,

talking about anything but this story.

We could literally have landed on Mars in the meantime and discovered a sentient race

of unicorns who possess the cure to diabetes and herpes.

And I still would be talking about this first.

Why?

Well, because it's clearly the most important political story of our time, I dare you to

come up with a more important story.

Can you?

But it's a story like any political story that is not without controversy.

So first, let's go right to the tape.

You've already seen the footage, but we're going to go and we're going to look at it again.

We're going to use our eyes and our ears and even our noses.

And we're going to try to take a closer look.

Here is Eric Swalwell with Chris Matthews talking about, well, I don't know what he was

talking about, it doesn't matter.

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