This is the Tom Hartman program.

Boy, what a week this is going to be.

There's scheduled impeachment hearings on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Having gone through this last week

uh... you know with the two different days that kind of blew up our show and

you know we just

basically played the hearings for you

i'm gonna try and and you know is some of this will be dependent on exactly who's

testifying and what the testimony is about all that kind of stuff and

certainly will play straight through the testimony when they're being questioned by the lawyers

you know for the two sides because that seems to be really the most revealing

stuff but I'm inclined increasingly aggressively inclined to offer my

commentaries and thoughts and riffs and even take your calls while the republicans you want to go the five minute

back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth

when the republicans are speaking because it's become unless they change their

strategy and if their strategy becomes

insanely entertaining, oh that might be interesting. But up until now the Republican

strategy has been to either try to create moments where they can whine and claim, you know, grievance,

this massive victimhood.

The lead of that has been Elise Staphoniconic she to try to jump in and say something

and then Adam Schiff would say you're out of order and she say oh are you trying to

shut me down again you know and I did she knew I mean this was just pure performance she was trying to

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