We cannot delay. We must not wait. Amid a cascade of revelations and headlines and impeachment inquiry begins.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. In the impeachment process, there are rhetorical traps to look out for.

Like, don't let others set the terms of the inquiry.

We're seeing the president make this all about quid pro quo and not the problem of applying pressure on a foreign government to collect dirt on a domestic opponent.

And why whistleblowers in the intelligence community have virtually no rights, even when the stuff

they're blowing the whistle on isn't classified.

We call whistleblowing the sound of professional suicide.

This is scorched earth conflict of the highest stakes.

It's all coming up after this from this.

From W.N.Y.C. in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Wouldn't it be weird if a telephone shakedown of the Ukrainian president by the American president or the cover-up of same was the thing that, you know, did it?

Where to start with this one?

Maybe March, when the country was awaiting Joe Biden's inevitable entry into the presidential election ring. That's when the anti-Biden blitzkrieg began.

Here's Hannity in Krieg.

Joe Biden is continuing to be dogged by claims of international corruption stemming from his son

Hunter's dealings in Ukraine while Biden was vice president. And clearly it has struck a nerve

as sleepy, creepy Uncle Joe fired back at former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

According to the whistleblower complaint that found its way from the intelligence community to Congress

and set the impeachment investigation in motion this week, there's much more than a presidential phone call to look into.

There's an array of alleged evidence of an unprecedented abuse of presidential power for personal gain.

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