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.
