Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.

Our goal is to promote objective reality.

As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.

Have power and words have consequences.

Our guest is a former state and federal prosecutor with extensive experience leading and managing

criminal trials and appeals.

As a state prosecutor in New Jersey and a federal prosecutor in the Southern District

of New York, Ellie Honeig directed major criminal cases against street gangs, drug trafficking

organizations, illegal firearms traffickers, corrupt public officials, child predators,

and white collar criminals.

Ellie also serves as a Rutgers University scholar, is a CNN legal analyst and is featured

on Cross Exam.

Ellie Honeig, welcome back to Words Matter.

Thank you for having me, really glad to be back with you.

So last week, the House Intelligence Committee wrapped two weeks of public impeachment hearings.

We heard from 12 witnesses in more than 40 hours of televised testimony.

Today, we're going to talk about what happened, what it means, and what happens next.

First, Ellie will break down some of the individual witnesses and their testimony in a minute,

but let's get to the 30,000-foot view to jump off.

What was the case presented over the last two weeks and from your experience as a former

federal prosecutor, how effective was it?

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