Matthew Eglaceus hosted the Weeds podcast last week.

The White House strategy was stone-walling this impeachment inquiry, calling it a kangaroo

court, etc.

How did that work out for the White House this week?

It did not work out well.

Large pieces of stone started falling out of the wall.

And I think the main reason is that a lot of the witnesses of interest here are career

civil servants, their foreign service officers who don't have any particular loyalty to Donald

Trump.

And then some of them are political appointees, but who disagreed with Rudy Giuliani and

Trump on the underlying policy issue here and would like to tell their story.

And then the more people who speak, the greater incentive everybody else has to come out and

at least tell their side of the story, put a positive spin on it, maybe point the finger

at somebody else.

So what you're really seeing is a kind of classic unraveling of a cover-up type scenario

where more and more people are trying to say something.

What they're saying does not 100% agree in part because everyone's trying to make themselves

look better in this, but we are getting more and more information and I think more will

come.

Okay, let's talk about the talkers with whom should we begin?

I think this should start with Marie Ivanovich.

And she actually spoke last Friday.

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