What Went Down On Day 1 Of The Impeachment Hearings

So Julia, the idea is just to revive impeachment as a politically viable check on the executive branch?

Can I offer a rogue theory while we’re in recess? Maybe the best possible outcome for Democrats is the ability to reconcile the pressure to impeach with the long shadow of the Clinton impeachment, which suggests impeachment will backfire and wind up hurting the party that controls the House. They’re not likely to get the Senate to vote for removal under almost any conditions. So maybe the goal at this point is to move forward with the process and minimize the political damage that would result if the whole thing looked like it was just partisan (e.g. the 1998 Clinton narrative).

We’re 15 minutes into our five-minute break. Reminds me of a line from “The West Wing” when a committee chair says, “We’ll take a five-minute break. Please, let’s keep it to 10 minutes.”