Hello friends, hello friends and neighbors, and welcome, welcome to this week's roundtable,

where we look back at the big news of the week and try to make some sense of it all.

And boy, what a busy week it's been.

With a big Thursday vote in the House,

the impeachment inquiry is now officially underway, and public hearings will begin soon. Meanwhile,

several top administration officials, including one who was on that fateful call between Donald

Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine,

have testified that there was, in fact, a quid pro quo, all orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani.

In Syria, the head of ISIS was run down by U.S. Delta forces, thanks to intelligence provided to us, by the Kurds, in return for which Donald

Trump threw them under the bus. And Twitter says it will not accept any political ads in 2020,

while Facebook says, we'll run anything you want, outright lies or all. So here to untangle it all with us today,

Pema Levy, political reporter for Mother Jones. Hi, Pema. Hi, how you doing? Good. Dr. Julianne Malvo,

economist and columnist for Black Press USA, joining us for the first roundtable. Welcome. Good to be with you, Bill.

Good to see you.

And Brad Woodhouse, former communications director for the DNC

and now the executive director of Protect Our Care,

making sure that Obamacare is still available for millions of Americans.

Hello, Brad.

Good morning, Bill.

All right.

Good to see you guys.

So for the fourth week in a row, the big story is the impeachment inquiry.

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