good evening, we've now heard from beginning to end the case for removing president trump from office, democratic house impeachment managers tonight wrapping up their three-day long opening presentation. they laid out the facts and logic behind their two articles of impeachment in a way that wherever you may stand on the president with both easy to follow and maybe did i feel to dismiss out of hand. talk more in the hour ahead about the impact their words may be having and on whom, look

ahead as well to tomorrow when the defense begins its case. also tonight what could be new evidence that could speak to the president's conduct, a recording of what appears to be his voice on it demanding the firing of the u.s. ambassador at the center of all of this, reportedly made at a dinner with the man lev parnas who the president has repeatedly said he doesn't know. reminder to senators perhaps the political risk of rushing this through only to see now facts in the case come to light. first, though, then's sara murray takes a look back at what we heard today. >> the president abused the powers entrusted in him by the american people in a scheme to suppress evidence, escape accountability, and orchestrate a massive cover up. >> reporter: democrats condemned president trump's efforts to block witnesses. >> president trump forced those officials to choose between submitting to the demands of their boss or break the law.

>> reporter: and the trump administration's refusal to hand over any documents to impeachment investigators. >> no documents, zero. >> reporter: impeachment managers set the stakes arguing the president abused his power when he attempted to withhold a white house meeting and security aide unless ukraine pursued investigations into joe biden in 2016 and claiming everything that came after that was an attempt to cover his tracks and obstruct congress. they warned senators that trump's behavior was part of a pattern, once again using his own words against him. >> then i have an article ii where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. >> reporter: and they cautioned of the consequences if congress failed to intervene. >> do you think if we do nothing it's going to stop now? >> reporter: senators who are supposed to listen quietly to the lengthy proceedsin ings hav taken to passing notes, one senator snuck in a cell phone but at points they fell silent

like when lead impeachment manager adam schiff revealed you trump shrugged the u.s. intelligence assessment that russia meddled in the 2016 election. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others and said they think it's russia. i have president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> this is just the most incredible propaganda coup. he won't read his own national security staff talking points but he will read the kremlin ones. >> reporter: instead schiff argued trump has bought into the debunked theory that ukraine, not russia, meddled in the last election. setting the stage for the latest scandal to engulf the white house. >> the buy-in to that propaganda meant that ukraine wasn't going to get money to fight the russians. i mean, that's one hell of a

russian intelligence coup. >> reporter: a hush fell over the room once again as the late senator john mccain's voice filled the chamber. >> putin also sees, here's this beautiful and large and magnificent country called ukraine. >> senator mccain advised that this is a chess match r reminiscent of the cold war and we need to realize that and act accordingly. he was, of course, absolutely right. >> reporter: saturday the president's defenders get their shot on the senate floor. democrats tried to anticipate their response. >> now you'll also hear the defense -- the president said there was no quid pro quo. this is a well-known principle of criminal law that if the defendant says he didn't do it he couldn't have done it. that doesn't hold up in any court in the land. it shouldn't hold up here. >> reporter: and they urged senators to set party allegiance aside as they judge the president's conduct. >> let's imagine it wasn't joe biden. let's imagine it was any one of

us. let's imagine the most powerful person in the world was asking a foreign nation to conduct a sham investigation into one of us. it shouldn't matter that it was joe biden because i'll tell you something, the next time it just may be you. >> reporter: sara murray, cnn, washington. quite a night and three historic days so far. here to talk about it, elliott williams, kirsten powers and scott jennings. you were a staffer, what are you hearing from republicans in the senate, what you imagine -- do you think any minds were changed on the republican side? >> of the peoples who could be persuadables, they're thinking about the politics and of the people i'm watching, like my former boss ted cruz, i mean, brace yourself, the republicans are going to mount a very strong counterattack. they are going to have a perfect call defense. they're going to go out and say -- >> nothing short of a perfect call is okay for them.

>> no, they're going to go for it. i think this is going to get ugly. it's going to get personal about the bidens, very quickly. they're going to go to that floor and they're going to say, listen, we spent all this time talking about things that we know happened. we know trump asked for the investigations. we know he paused the aid. that was legitimate. he was justified in asking for the investigation of hunter biden because a powerful ukrainian company was trying to buy off the son of a former vice president. that's the argument flatly and i heard no democrat defend that arrangement. hunter biden doesn't even defend that arrangement. he said to abc news yeah, i probably had that job because of my last name. that's a huge opening they're going to push the gas and pedal hard on the week before the iowa caucus. that will do tremendous damage, they hope, to joe biden. that will benefit bernie sanders, who ultimately is who trump wants to face. >> elliott, you know the capitol hill pretty well. >> yeah, but it's interesting, i

think big picture, you know, looking at how schiff laid out the case today, i think the moral -- what he was saying is that the moral wrong really was the abuse of power. this is something that a president ought not to do. but the subtext of what schiff -- adam schiff was saying today was that far more dangerous to us as a union is the obstruction of justice because of the fact that the one thing the framers wrote in, to put a check on the president of the united states, was congress. either through the ability to subpoena witnesses, or call witnesses, or have hearings. if it comes to it, impeachment. without that, and schiff said this quite explicitly, without that, you know, you march toward tyranny to some extent. look, you know, people freak out a little bit when you start talking about tyranny and kings and stuff like that. but if there is a president with no check from congress that's where you get. and, look, we tried monarchy once in the united states. it didn't end particular ply well. we shouldn't go back there. it is very important that there be some check on a president's

power and i would think conservatives would agree with me on this. >> carl, what do you make of adam schiff's closing? >> i thought that the whole narrative, and particularly the closing, was the most shameful account, perhaps, in american presidential history, so eloquently presented, that i cannot see how any open minded person could not be swayed as to the constitutional criminality of the president of the united states donald trump in the extreme. and that the craven inability of the senators in the republican party to do really, as schiff said, make a moral choice about right and wrong. it might sound trite up here but this is a pivotal moment in our history and it's going to go the wrong way, probably, not to vote for acquittal, but the idea that we cannot have a real trial of a president of the united states who has done grievous damage to

the country, the constitution and the subtext of everything we heard in this narrative today about our president being a lap dog and serving the interests of russia throughout, and of vladimir putin. irrefutable. >> kirsten, did the democrats make their case the last three days? >> i think that they made an airtight case. and listening to what amanda is saying, i think that's right, we've already seen the republicans kind of lay out the kind of arguments that they're going to make, arguments that we've been hearing a lot. but i just -- what i don't understand is how anybody can listen to that and agree with it. it's just -- what it would mean is that if there's a democratic president in the future and scott, if you could just answer this question. if there's a democratic president in the future, and they ask a foreign government to investigate a political rival in the republican party and they use foreign -- some sort of official foreign policy, whether

it's a white house meeting or aid or whatever it is, are you okay with that? >> i'm not -- >> and will republicans be okay with that. >> republicans will argue, to amanda's point -- >> they'll deal with that if that happens. >> what amanda said, there were -- there could have been multiple motives for this, which is in the uncommon for presidents to have multiple motives. >> i'm giving you a very specific thing. this is important is what's going to happen is republicans do what we all think they're going to do that is a scenario we're now facing, it is republicans saying that that kind of behavior is acceptable. i'm asking you if another president does that, are you okay with that? >> i -- i'm not going to answer a hypothetical in the future. i don't know what the situation would be. i think republicans are going to do what amanda said, which is argue there was a legitimate reason for the president to bring this up and that democrats have overplayed by arguing that this is somehow trying to rig the election. by the way, i heard repeatedly all throughout last night and this morning that schiff sang

last night that the 2016 election was essentially stolen and if we don't prevent trump from being on the ballot then the 2020 election is already illegitimate. that rankled the conference. they don't see it that way, kirsten. they don't believe that democratic claims that this is somehow election rigging, foreign -- they don't believe that verbiage. they don't believe the severity of what you're saying. >> take the election out of it. it did happen. there's no dispute that he was using a white house meeting and he was using foreign aid to try to get them to do an investigation into a political rival. that's just not in dispute. so how is that okay and how is that something that we are now saying in the future is going to be acceptable behavior? >> further than that, kirsten, it would be foolish for a future president not to. it would be irrational for a future president not to now that the bar has been set so low for presidential conduct that now we've opened the door to exactly

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democrats made their closing arguments tonight, defenders of the president begin their case storms morning, more history about to be made in a building that has seen so much already, earlier tonight impeachment

scholar michaelgerhart, adam schiff was trying point by point, blow by blow to give republicans no place to hide, p before air time i spoke with one of the jurors. senator, the democrats wrapped their case today. are you satisfied with how it was presented and do you think any republican minds were changed? >> what's interesting, anderson, is a lot of republicans haven't seen this argument made before. a lot of them didn't watch the house testimony. a lot of them haven't seen sondland and taylor presented in public. and so while some of it might have seemed repetitive i think it was important for republican senators to sit through the entire timeline, the entire story of this corruption scheme. i don't know that that changes their mind but it makes the job on the president's lawyers awful tough. and i think representative schiff understood that because he ended tonight, i think very

effectively, by concentrating on all of the distractions that were going to be launched by the president's lawyers. i think he's effectively come to the conclusion that the trump lawyers aren't going to try to contest the facts. they aren't going to try to contest the corruption. they're going to just try to distract with how mean the house managers were to the president or how bad the bidens are or how unfair the process was. i thought that was an effective way for him to end. >> earlier today you said when it comes to calling witnesses you were much more optimistic last week than you are now. what is it that changed your mind? do you think there is any chance witnesses will be called? >> i think there's absolutely a chance. i've talked to senate republicans who are still i think very willing to look at witnesses. but i also know this week, having been on the floor, that senator mcconnell, and the president's people, were pressing republicans pretty hard to get in line. and you started to hear these arguments that we just don't have enough time. if you want witnesses it's going

to take too long. well, one witness is john bolton who has told us he wants to testify. he's not going to take the senate to court. and he has a really important story to tell because as we've learned over the course of the last three days he's one of the people that was in the room multiple times with trump when trump likely gave the order for this scheme to be carried out. so i think there's still a chance. i just know that the republicans in the white house will work in this really hard this week. >> the president's attorneys obviously began their case tomorrow and as you said adam schiff was sort of trying to preempt that by going over some of the arguments they're likely to make. how much do you expect them to focus on the bidens in particular versus, you know, a step by step recounting of the president's actions and their interpretation of it. >> oh, i don't expect them to do any step by step recounting of the president's actions. they're not going to do a point by point rebuttal of the timeline because they can't. the timeline is the timeline. the corruption scheme happened. they are absolutely, i think,

going to spend an enormous amount of time trying to prelitigate the 2020 general election, joe biden may or may not be the candidate for the democrats but this whole thing has been about trying to destroy who trump sees as one of the strongest candidates and if he didn't get it done behind the scenes with ukraine he and his people are going to try and get it done on the floor of the senate the next three days. that's why they're not interested in spending too much time tomorrow, on saturday they want as many eyes as possible on their reelection arguments that they are going to be making starting in large part on monday. >> just lastly republican senator ron johnson claimed it's damaged the u.s.-ukraine, adding the sooner this ends, the better for america. i'm not sure exactly what that's based on and how the impeachment inquiry could damage relations more than the president trying to extort ukraine. >> you know, ron johnson and i

obviously have been part of this trial. we traveled to ukraine as this corruption was unfolding. and, you know, president zelensky told us to our face that he wanted to stay out of american elections, that he knew that getting dragged into u.s. politics was going to hurt him and hurt ukraine. so president zelensky told us to our face that it was the attempts by the trump people to drag him into american politics that was doing the damage to him and his country and that is, of course, the truth. our responsibility is to get to the bottom of this corruption. and though yes when this trial is over it will be a little bit easier for people like ron johnson and i to get back together, working on pro-u.s. ukraine policy. our responsibility now to the u.s. taxpayers is to find the truth and that truth cannot be found in whole without getting witnesses and documents. >> senator murphy, i appreciate your time. thanks. a live report from the white house as the legal team prepares

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starting at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow president trump's defense team is officially on the clock for up to 24 hours and three days of arguments. there's certainly a lot of questions about it, and a lot of anticipation building toward what we'll see and hear. kaitlan collins joins us from the white house. i know the president's weighing in with advice for his legal team. >> he was asked what does he want to say to them ahead of tomorrow and their first opening statements on the floor and he said to fox news tonight in an interview, quoting him now, what my people have to do is just be

honest, just tell the truth, he said, about this forthcoming presentation. now, of course, that's not all the president wants them to do. we've also heard anderson from multiple people who say the president wants hem them to defend his call as a perfect call. it will be interesting to see if that's a tactic they pursue or if they just go after the house's investigation of the president because we know that there are several republican senators who when that call transcript first came out did not say it was a perfect call. >> you know, it's funny because if you ask pretty much any senator that question, either the senators pretend they haven't heard you or they answer the question they wish you asked. nobody will answer that question about whether or not it was a perfect call. the idea that his attorneys are going to have to stand up there and actually make a full throated defense that it's a perfect call. >> right. >> that's going to be fascinating to see if they actually do use that term. >> yeah, and it's not just that. the other thing that will be interesting, and this came to my mind when you were watching the house democrats, is they played that clip of the president's own

fbi director christopher wray saying that that theory that -- he said it was debunked, not true and if you read through the legal briefs that the president's team filed that is one of the sections in the index, that it was appropriate for the president to ask about possible interference by ukraine in 2016. so if they try to defend that when the democrats just played this clip of the president's own fbi director saying it's not true, it will also be really interesting to see how they're going to straddle that. >> yeah, kaitlan collins, appreciate it, thanks. back with our political and legal team. scott, amanda painted a stark picture of what she thinks the republican attorneys are going to do tomorrow, or at least begin to do tomorrow. do you think that's pretty accurate? >> yeah, i do. i think a lot of biden talk. i think that's what the white house is telegraphing here that they want to get into that and they'll say the democrats opened the door. we're going to they are a lot of that and a lot of pushback on frankly some of the talk that schiff got into regarding the

2016 election. and then sort of projecting on the 2020 election. i've heard a lot of folks chattering about this, you know schiff, they don't view him as a credible voice because he spent all this time before the mueller report claiming he had direct evidence of collusion and then the mueller report sort of deflated that and now they're listening to him give speeching saying if we don't take trump off the ballot, not just removal from office. that the 2020 election is already illegitimate. they don't like that. you're going to hear them talk about how the democrats apparently don't have confidence in their own field of candidates and maybe don't have confidence in the american people to conduct an election. >> here's one thing. republicans are going to stand up and argue that the investigation was legit. here's where i think they're a little bit weak, and democrats should push them on that. number one, are we really supposed to believe that president trump was so concerned about nepotism and corruption? are you kidding me? that he singled out this one company, and it just happened to

be the son of his potential rival. number two, he's going to have to prove that these actions were in the national interests, not just his narrow political interest. i think that's really tough to do when you're outsourcing party or foreign policy to rudy giuliani and the fraud brothers. but we'll see how they do with that. >> do you -- elliott, you're an attorney, do you actually believe they will try to go point by point through this thing? >> oh, no, it's funny. they've meandered -- meandered is a judgment. but they've changed their -- the arguments they've used. first it was let's talk about witnesses later or now. and then it was democrats have said nothing new and they're just repeating themselves. and today we started hearing this argument that, well, the democrats, adam schiff used strong language and that offended us. part of the issue is they don't have to have a legal argument here because it seems clear the republican caucus is going to be together. now it's all about politics. i don't know if everybody saw

"the washington post" around 7:00 tonight put out a story saying look they're going to go after joe biden, that's what tomorrow is going to be about. any thought this is going to be a sound legal argument on the merits is just not true. >> the idea, though, of the president telling his lawyers to tell the truth, i just want to stop on that for a moment. donald trump -- >> it's genius. >> telling people to tell the truth. we have never had a president who lies anything like this man. and i think one of the things that we need to think about, what schiff was doing, he had more than the audience in the senate floor. he also was thinking about the election. and this narrative about what this president has done and also the notion that the truth is going to yap at the heels of these senators through this campaign and perhaps long after but an awful lot is going to come out. i think we know that. about the president. about some of his conversations. with other world leaders,

perhaps. we're going to learn a lot. and the fact that these republican senators seem to be oblivious, both to history and the moral dimension of what they're doing and not allowing a trial to go forward, after a presentation that was very convincing, i think, i think people -- you tell me, scott. i was told there are a lot of uncomfortable people in the room listening to that presentation. is that a fair -- >> i heard republican senators thought schiff yesterday made a compelling presentation and tonight he got a little off the rails and one person told me jumped the shark. i think some of it was compelling. to elliott's point -- they didn't like it that he came on the senate floor and essentially made things up about what the white house is supposedly telling republican senators. i know you think this is crap but people don't like it when you come to their office and impugn their character, they don't like it. >> think about what this president has said, his language about most of the people on the other side of the aisle there and they are talking about a cbs

report about pike on a stick. this is insane. >> why are they getting so offended about this -- whether he said it or he didn't say it, that their heads would be on a pike. that's what offends them? after everything that they have heard for the last three days? >> exactly. >> that's what offends them? there's something wrong with this. susan collins also sending a note to john roberts complaining about jerry nadler, you know, she was so shocked, and shocked by what happened, and it's like that's what shocks you, susan collins? >> margaret chase smith, you think of her idol. >> why are you shocked and outraged by what you're being told the president did? >> also, i mean, we have a lot of republicans coming out and saying well, it's repetitive what we've been hearing, they're just repeating the same thing over and over again. the president repeats the same thing over and over and over again and people say he's a

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lawyer rudy giuliani and who were involved in the effort to oust former u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. lev parnas and igor fruman were charged in october with violating campaign finance laws. president trump said at the time, quote, i don't know those gentlemen, however a reporteding of a dinner at a hotel in washington suggests otherwise. two clips released tonight were recorded in april 2018 and begin with a man we know as lev parnas. >> the biggest problem, though, i think we need to start is we've got to get rid of the ambassador. she's still left over from the clinton administration. >> the ambassador [ bleep ]. >> walk around telling everybody wait he's going to get impeached, just wait. >> really? >> it's incredible. >> in the second clip we hear that same voice of a man who sounds like the president apparently responding. >> get rid of her. get her out the door. i don't care. get her out the door. take her out.

okay? do it. >> cnn's not confirmed the authenticity of the tape, the attorney released it to abc, but i don't think that's actually the case. we're not clear on who released it to abc. if confirmed it would support what lev parnas said on this program last week about that very same dinner at the trump hotel in washington and about the president's desire to fire the ambassador. >> to my knowledge the president fired her at least four times, maybe even five times, once in my presence. >> explain that. you said that he fired her in front of you. >> correct. >> what happened? >> that was the first interaction about her, we had -- it was a dinner at the -- a private dinner for a super pac in washington, d.c. at the trump hotel. and in the conversation the subject of ukraine was brought up, and i told the president that our opinion, that she is bad mouthing him and that she said that he's going to get impeached, something like that. i don't know if that's word for

word. >> you said that at the table? >> correct. >> where the president was? >> correct. and his reaction was he looked at me, like got very angry and basically turned around to john -- and said fire her, get rid of her. >> back with us our political and legal team. carl, it's interesting because the president said, look, i pose for a lot of pictures with a lot of people. that's an accurate, true statement. lev parnas is not just some other person who donated some money and got to be in a receiving line, he was glued at the hip to rudy giuliani. >> he's the instrument of this plot. >> he was in -- >> rudy giuliani was not in ukraine, he was. >> he's the instrument of the scheme. but let's just step back and take a deep breath. we have gone in less than 40 years from mr. gorbachev tear down this wall from a republican president to take her out. it is astonishing. it's not a criminal -- it's not an impeachable offense, i guess, to talk like a thug, but it

certainly figures in this whole presentation. it all starts to fit together. the president of the united states, this group of goons running around, ukraine, doing putin's bidding and meanwhile back here the president is saying -- talking like a thug, take her out. i mean, isn't that breathtaking? maybe i'm wrong. >> if what he says is true he would go to a meeting in ukraine, he would -- the guy who later is now head of the ukrainian intelligence service, he would hold up his phone, rudy giuliani would be on the phone on speakerphone saying this guy, listen to him, because he represents me and the president, and listen to what he says because what he says is true. >> right. >> and then lev parnas would deliver the ultimatum. you've got to do this, announce an investigation, or else, you know, no aid. >> that's what this impeachment is about. it is all a fabric, and the fabric fits together. and that fabric is going to be,

i would imagine, what this election is going to be about. and maybe the fabric will hold or maybe it will rip. but it's all of a piece. >> just on a base level we have to back non that our president, the president of the united states was secretly recorded by someone that the southern district of new york -- everyone should go google the department of justice press release that was put out on these guys, when they were arrested last october, they were working for, allegedly, a ukrainian official who wanted the ambassador gone. who are they being paid by exactly? i don't think the public knows. and then they paid their money into the rnc, into donald trump's super pac, got a meeting and said you've got to get rid of her. and trump got rid of her and we have no idea who these guys were working for. >> the watergate burglars have nothing on these guys. >> that trump claimed to not know this person. this person is giving him this information that he trusts

enough to then say -- >> he was also rudy's date to the george h.w. bush funeral, which is also just, again, one of those weird -- that's who rudy wrought. >> but i don't think, you know, i think we get too comfortable, maybe, with the fact that the president lies all the time that we're going to go right past the fact that he just lied about this, he said he didn't know this person, or the alternative is, if he wasn't lying, he just takes advice from random people at dinner parties and decides to fire people, those are the two options. >> and he was the president's agent in ukraine. >> i find it plausible that the president has dinner with a lot of donors, that he maybe recognizes, maybe he thinks he took a picture, doesn't know them well. what i find amazing about this, and we've talked about this many times, this guy comes in through rudy. the president loves rudy giuliani, obviously he wrote a check. we don't know where this tape came from, i guess. but the idea that your personal lawyer brought someone to a dinner who may have said, sure,

mr. president, please, please talk a little louder into the phone here about sensitive -- even if you did want to have that conversation with that guy the idea that your own lawyer brought that guy who tape recorded you, i just -- i would be -- >> taking out -- >> i would be outraged. what client of a lawyer wouldn't be like wtf? >> you also wonder how many other people have just recorded the president in mar-a-lago, just walking around? why wouldn't you? why not? >> here's the thing. we don't -- we don't know who released the tapes. he does have a huge incentive to get information out there. >> coming up next, will senator susan collins be one of the four votes democrats need to get the trial witnesses they want. we'll talk to her fellow senator angus king, and what constituents are saying on the subject when we continue. when you invest your cash.

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he was very strong. now, anderson, i've been around enough trials to know you never make a decision until you hear both sides, so i got to qualify i'm a juror or a judge or whatever they're calling us, but i want to hear what the white house has to say tomorrow. but the important thing to understand, i think, that i was glad to hear adam schiff emphasize is i think and i thought for some time that article 2, the obstruction of congress is more important and stronger than article 1 because, number one, the facts are not in dispute. there's no argument about who said what to whom about ukraine. the president just categorically stiffed the whole process. secondly, it creates -- if this is allowed to go, if the president is acquitted and nothing happens on this, it basically renders the impeachment clause a nulty. there's nothing left of it because if the defendant, if the accused can control the the evidence that comes in, then you

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evidence? that's crazy. that doesn't make any sense. >> that is hanging in the balance and that relies upon four republican senators. are they four republican senators whose minds have been -- >> no. it relies on 20 republican senators. if they vote to -- if the president is acquitted on both of these counts, then the impeachment clause is gone. i mean, then you basically established the precedent that the president -- any future president can get away with not cooperating in any way, shape, or form, not allowing the executive branch employees to testify or not allowing evidence. that's at stake in the ultimate decision. the question about the trial and whether we're going to get witnesses, that only will take four. but i'm really worried about the 100-year precedent of a president that's essentially an

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. our impeachment trial coverage continues. i want to turn things to chris cuomo. chris? all right. thank you very much, anderson. i'm chris cuomo. this is a special midnight coverage edition of the trump impeachment trial. well, we have seen the house managers make their case. they are the prosecution in this process. so now about ten hours from now the trump defense team will have its turn. will they go as long? probably not. they can but they may not. their goal is to convince senators of the opposite of what you heard from the managers. the managers said there's so much here, they're going to say there is nothing here. now, the first challenge for them is