As yesterday’s impeachment hearings concluded late Tuesday evening, MSNBC All In host Chris Hayes was ready to fret over the state of democracy, with his left-wing guests, New York Times’ frenzied opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg and two Democratic operatives who worked for the Clinton and Obama administrations.

After playing some clips from the hearing, former Associate White House Counsel for President Obama, Ian Bassin, was aghast that Republicans would question the credibility of the Democrat witness, Alexander Vindman. He fretted, “At what point do you come out and say that's not okay, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman is patriot and we should defend him?”

That prompted Hayes to gush over a “moving” clip of Vindman telling his father during his testimony that he’d “be fine for telling the truth.” The MSNBC host raved over that statement, to his equally affected guest, Goldberg, about how important the “stakes” were: