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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza. It's Thursday, September 28th.

Here's what's striving the day. House Republicans formally kick off their Biden impeachment inquiry at 10 a.m.

In the Oversight Committee's Rayburn hearing room, if you're expecting breathless new revelations, don't bet on it.

The GOP's witnesses, a forensic accountant, a former DOJ tax official, and a constitutional

law professor do not have firsthand knowledge of the Biden family's financial dealings

at issue in the panel's investigation, but rather appear poised to interpret

the facts that Chair James Comer has already released. Over in the Senate, indicted Senator Bob Menendez

saw even more colleagues call for his resignation yesterday, pushing the total to over 30. But he

managed to hold off Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and several others

appeared to be giving him a chance to explain himself in person, which he intends to do

during a closed-door caucus lunch this afternoon. Watch to see if anyone comes off the fence

after that. And of course, last night, while Donald Trump spoke in Michigan, seven of his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination debated at the Reagan Library in Seamy Valley, California.

And here with me now to break down the debate is Adam Wren, National Politics Correspondent, who's actually out in California at the debate site.

Adam, it looks like you're in an undisclosed location.

You're outside the debate site? Yeah, I am outside of the debate media file tent,

looking out over the moonlit Simi Valley, just a couple of yards from Ronald Reagan's grave site,

actually, here talking to you just minutes after the debate.

So if Ronald Reagan were resurrected and watched that debate on stage, what do you think

he would have said, Adam?

You know, one of the surprising things that I noticed tonight is just how little he was

name-checked.

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