Even the language debate going on here is about more than he said she said and speaks to something really really deep something we're still talking about from 2016,

which is is this country ready to elect a female president.

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Hello, welcome everyone to our Friday episode. So many things are happening. I don't even know where to start.

We thought we'd do a nice, relaxed episode address the democratic debate, which we're going to do.

However, impeachment went to puttering to lift off real quick. So we are going to catch up on the developments with regards to left

parnas, documents related to left parnas and rooted Giuliani, the GAO report, all of that in the top of the show.

And then we will cover the democratic debate before sending you off into your weekends.

So let's just start with a good bet was wrong because I remember just on Tuesday saying, I don't know that there's much that could come out that would significantly aid our understanding here.

And then along comes left parnas. Now I still feel very uneasy about this story. I have looked at the documents that left parnas who you will remember is an associate of Rudy Giuliani's.

His primary business, I think, was trying to develop liquefied natural gas companies.

Real estate, he dabbled in real estate. I don't really like using the word business man.

I don't think that describes what he does, but we'll go with that.

I mean, to be honest, did you ever watch the old Batman episodes from like the 60s and 70s where all of the criminals would be like slanted on the screen a little bit?

They would just helpfully turn the camera. I sort of picture left parnas in a room where the camera is turned at an angle.

Especially after reading that his company named fraud guarantee was so named in order to improve search results where people were looking up his last name with the word fraud.

That did don't was amazing.

I don't know how to feel about any of this except to say that every new person willing to testify so far and every document transmitted so far from the House

Permanence Select Committee on Intelligence is consistent with the overall story as we understand it.

Left parnas after the release of these documents went on Rachel Maddow show.

We are recording on Thursday. There's supposed to be a part two of that interview tonight on Rachel Maddow show.

And I was really struck by this interview not because I believe left parnas to be a particularly abstaining citizen.

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