What Went Down In Maguire’s Whistleblower Testimony

Important clarification that Schiff just got from Maguire. The DNI had said he hadn’t talked to anyone about Ukraine. That stood out to me given that he wouldn’t say earlier that he hadn’t talked to Trump about the whistleblower.

But Maguire just clarified to say he hasn’t talked to anyone about Ukraine about anything not involving this whistleblower complaint.

The hearing is wrapping up. The congresspeople have asked their questions, and now we’re getting a final word from Nunes and Schiff.

As this hearing begins to wrap up, I’m trying to think about what the takeaways from it will be on local newspapers and on local news broadcasts. I have to think that an exchange in which Maguire says in theory, any president soliciting help from a foreign power to interfere in a U.S. election would be troubling. I also have to think they’ll mention the fact Maguire has called this complaint “unprecedented” numerous times, as a way to explain his failure to turn over the complaint to Congress, as is typical. Aside from that, I think a continuing thread of this story will be how much Maguire deferred to the president and his lawyers in this matter. There’s a lot of surmising that Maguire talked to the president about this complaint, which think could be a factor that really lingers over all of this.