was a loud noise that most observers said was Eric Swalwell emitting, shall we say. Now I've listened to it and my first reaction was that's not real. That's not really that. It was exactly like it and it looked exactly like it but my first thought was man it's not real.

Now the official explanation is that Chris Matthews back in the studio dragged his Hardball mug across the desk and it made a sound like that. It was poorly timed with Eric Swalwell's comments and so it just looked like it or sounded like it. But I think that's another case of hashtag gaslighting. I guess yeah I said that. Gaslighting. I also noted that Eric Swalwell has more experience with gas than Hunter Biden. Yeah I said that. Somebody else said that this is a case of jumping the shark. I thought that was clever. I didn't say that one. And then I also tweeted that you know your interview on Hardball went badly when scientists have to revise their climate models afterwards. Yeah I said that. I said that.

So it's not the biggest story of the day but it's the funniest. So let me say again I don't think that was