Public hearings begin, and we review the supposedly bombshell testimony of the Democratic witnesses.

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expressvPN.com slash Ben. Okay, we've got a ton to get to today i'll tell you a little bit later

on in the show about how things went at boston university last night it was pretty interesting and i think

a lot of fun but of course we begin with the news of the day which is all the fallout from yesterday's

bombshell testimony so much bombshell okay so here is the way that the new york times is

covering this thing their headline says behind a witness. Democrats take their impeachment case to the public. Ooh, ah, a star witness. They say their goal is to transform what might seem like an abstract debate over foreign policy into high crimes and misdemeanors in the public mind, as Republicans argue there is no case for impeachment. Peter Baker is the writer. He says, William Taylor was the witness that Democrats had hoped Robert Mueller would be but was not.

The image, at least, of a wise, fatherly figure with Kevlar credibility, expressing restrained but

unmistakable disapproval of what he found when he turned over the rock.

Objective media coverage right here. So much journalisming. House Democrats led off their highly anticipated impeachment hearings on Wednesday with a figure projecting probity, a combat veteran turned career diplomat who narrated with a deep baritone voice reminiscent of Walter Cronkites.

What he saw is the corruption of American foreign policy to advance President Trump's personal political interests.

It was not clear that minds were changed.

Shouldn't you lead with that, right?

Isn't that the question is whether any minds were changed or whether the testimony itself

changed anything or offered anything that was bombshell anew as opposed to he appeared

to be a gray fox, this William Taylor fellow, patriotic, solid man. This was a hero of the republic. And because we've heard the hero of the republic routine before from the media and didn't change anything. A James Comey, hero of the republic. Andrew McCabe, hero of the republic. Vindman, hero of the republic. And now it's William Taylor, hero of the republic. Now, listen, you look at his public service, the guy is, in fact, a hero of the Republic for his public service. But that does not mean that he testified as to anything impeachable yesterday. And yet the media are making this out to be really about the optics. And that, in the end, really is sort of, it betrays the agenda. The agenda here is that this is all about the optics and

not about anything new. Nothing new has actually happened here. That's the dirty little secret,

because we're going to go through the testimony yesterday and nothing new, no new ground was broken.

Instead, it was all the same ground that we've heard before sort of trod over repeatedly.

And so in terms of substance, I don't think the American people are going to hear anything new that changes their mind. But in terms of optics, the Democrats are hoping that if they bring out a bunch of gravely voiced, very somber speakers who have long histories in American foreign policy, then this will somehow turn the American public against Trump. Well, if people cared about that, Trump wouldn't be president.

And let's face this thing, okay, Donald Trump was not elected because people had a ton of respect for America's institutions.

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