What Went Down On Day 1 Of The Impeachment Hearings

I still wonder about the framing around bribery. I haven’t seen hard data on the question of how Americans perceive bribery (I’m assuming most are against) but I’d guess that people associate it with bags of cash in the freezer, not extortion in a foreign aid context.

It would be grimly ironic, Perry, if after the Mueller report was infamously so inconclusive about whether Trump obstructed justice, he ends up being impeached for it in a way that didn’t even fall under Mueller’s investigation.

And there with the mention of Gordon Sondland’s updated testimony, Schiff refers to a second key line of inquiry for Democrats: Did the president direct military aid be held up AND/OR did he know if members of his team, aka government staff, were relaying a message of coercion to Ukraine?