steve kettmann, anthony scaramucc and cynthia tucker.ously are coming to you via zoom today. i find it interesting to think that back in 19 oh three when this club started from the use of microphones was not even in our technological role. today we are presenting the commonwealth over zoom and hopefully a temporary condition but certainly an effective way to keep the programming going. this programming is so valuable to forming our public discourse. and you can only occur if we get the philanthropic support of all of the listeners out there. so you will see a prompt during the program for how to donate to the club and texting the word donate to a phone number and we would really encourage you to do so. we'll have time for questions and since we are operating over zoom, the chat window is a way to submit them. they will be free distributed to me and i will try to get as any questions and as i can. we obviously are bringing give this program somewhat interesting time with the impeachment literally going on as we speak. but we are going to