and dean obeidallah, msnbc columnist and host of the dean obeidallah show on sirius xm. it's great to have all of you with us. jill, i'll start with you, you're no stranger to historic legal proceedings, obviously. annex you said it was good news that a trial date has been set in the hush money trial. explain the significance for us here, of that. >> the significance, of course, is that it is, let me say, an election fraud case. instead of saying it is a hush money case, i prefer to say that it is an election fraud case, because it is. it was intended to deceive the voters. what's significant is it is a serious felony, multiple felonies, 34 counts of felony, and it is a different way of holding the former president accountable. you've named multiple civil cases, he has, thanks to new york, two defamation judgments, a sexual assault judgment, and a fraud case, both in his new york university, his foundation, and now, for his corporation, and a criminal conviction for his corporation, all in new york. this is going to be the next new york finding against him, and then we c