What Went Down During Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony

I know that the press got some heat for talking about how Wednesday’s hearing played on TV, but the reality is that how the hearings come across will affect whether public opinion moves, and in which way. So performance actually does matter. With that in mind, it’s worth thinking about these hearings as something of a production. Why are the witnesses ordered the way they are? Is there a coherent story being told? How much is color versus specifically about impeachment?

Then again, Rick, those attacks against Mueller didn’t exactly hurt Trump. If anything, they may have helped him.

It seems to me that Trump did about the worst thing he could have done for himself by tweeting an attack on Yovanovitch in the middle of the hearing. Reminds me of all the advice he got to not attack Mueller… only to attack Mueller, over and over and over and over.