What Went Down During Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony

I realize that media and politics Twitter spent the last 36 hours arguing about the importance of “theater” in these hearings, and I think I come down on the side that these hearings are designed partly to generate public response. In that light, I’m glad that Perry brought up gender. I’ll be curious how this plays out in the discussions of witness credibility. Many sympathetic discussions of Taylor’s credibility were highly gendered, describing him as a “father figure,” for example. And I wonder about depictions of the brief exchange between Schiff and Stefanik earlier, too, when he wouldn’t recognize her.

“The policy process is visibly unraveling.” Yikes! “The State Department is being hollowed out from within.”

I wasn gonna say, Perry. She’s being a little less diplomatic now. She is being quite forceful about how wrong she thinks things have gone with regards to American foreign policy