This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast.

So the Select Committee has just wrapped the first night of its hearings.

Now you can make the argument that there was nothing explosive revealed tonight

or you can make the argument that they were laying the foundations for things they need to prove tonight.

I am looking forward very much to our first guest of the evening.

We are blessed to have this gentleman join us every Thursday night.

Corey Brett Schneider is of course a political We are blessed to have this gentleman join us every Thursday night.

Corey Brechnider is of course a political science professor at Brown University.

You may have read his analyses on politics in Politico, the New York Times and Time.

Get his book, The Oath in the Office, a guide to the Constitution

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Professor Corey Brechner, welcome back.

Thanks, Sean. A pleasure to talk to you on such a historic night.

Really a pleasure, thank you, and I've been looking forward to it.

I'm dying to get your initial thoughts of the hearings we just saw.

I think that for many, the most interesting clips that we saw were

not so much the live testimony but our first view ever of the videotape

depositions. They interviewed hundreds of personnel, including many high-ranking

administration officials who voluntarily came in. And it's pretty fair to say they used

the testimony of William Barr, his attorney general, they used public speeches

by his vice president, and they used the deposition of his own daughter against him

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