Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison

Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast. I wanted to talk a little bit about my

reflections after the public impeachment hearings that occurred and I know a lot of people

are going to have different takeaways on the evidence and

the witness testimony. I'm looking more at this from the 30,000 foot level, the

30,000 foot view, the big picture. I tend to see things a little bit differently than what I hear

reported on the news and this case is no different.

To me, each of the Democrats witnesses that testified over the two-week period

seemed to be well-intentioned and hard-working, and they seem to genuinely believe

they know what's best. But I think a picture emerged of U.S. diplomats

who also seem to believe that they, rather than the U.S. President, have the ultimate authority

to determine our foreign policy.

And if the President doesn't go along well, in their view, he clearly must be wrong, or even worse, he's a traitor.

He's to be obstructed or taken down. In an odd turnabout, I think they actually made

the case for President Trump's mantra that we need to drain the swamp. First we can look at the

language that witnesses used as they vented about Trump's

tutelage in ways that veered far from the relevance of the impeachment

allegations. They talked about hurt feelings, bruised egos, and strong differences of opinion.

And sometimes the testimony sounded a little bit like a human resources conference or a psychotherapy

session.

For example, the diplomats testified they were shocked and devastated to learn that

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