Hey everybody. It's your co-host, Chair DeA Sexton, reporting live from Iowa. It is cold and rainy. And we're going to talk a little bit about the Iowa caucuses and some of the reporting I did today.

But Nick, we got to talk about the fascist elephant in the room.

This is a dark day of our republic.

It really is.

And I don't want to, I keep saying, oh, it's just sort of bombastic and hyperbole, but it's not.

It really, and I was thinking about this, like, with, even with my kids, like, they're

going to kind of grow up in this situation.

And then, you know, four or five years from now, then you start to have a lot of people

who have just don't really know any different necessarily.

And then the next thing you know, you have a dictatorship or you have some sort of monarchy where there's unlimited power for the president.

Yeah. So we're recording Friday night, January 31st.

The Senate Republicans voted 51 to 49 basically to close out the impeachment trial without any witnesses on the same day.

And by the way, just John Bolton couldn't go to hell.

I'm just going to throw that out there.

Like the leaking out of his book and, you know, priming his book for pre-orders.

Today on like this big day of where the trial was coming together, and he leaked out that

Trump was telling him back in May about Ukraine and, you know, shaking down Zelensky.

And not only told Bolton, but the, and basically the entirety of his administration.

And the Republicans voted, with the exception of two, voted along party lines to shut down the trial while, I believe,

the last number I saw was 73% of the American people want witnesses and documents,

a complete power play.

And I feel bad on a few levels.

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