What Went Down In Maguire’s Whistleblower Testimony

By my count, we have four congresspeople left to hear from: Republican Rick Crawford and Democrats Sean Patrick Maloney, Val Demings and Raja Krishnamoorthi.

Like Castro, I thought Heck did a good job of taking process concerns (when/how the complaint should have been reported) and making them seem more broadly significant. His framing seemed to be — if these allegations are true, they’re a huge deal, and Maguire didn’t take them seriously. Maguire pushed back, saying they did refer to the FBI. But overall it was a clearer and more heated back-and-forth than many of the other questions about process.

I think Heck did a good job trying to move the goalposts back from “no quid pro quo, so everything’s above board” to “it’s wrong to ask a foreign power for political help.”