Previously in impeachment.

When I think about the metaphor of what changes this week, it's like one of those Renaissance

paintings where they paint over and paint over, you know, layers and layers of paint.

And it's amazing how the story doesn't change. The story is unbelievably consistent.

You have witness after witness, just layering over what we originally heard.

But even his new testimony implicated the president, his supporters in Congress, stuck with him.

I think this week was actually a little bit of a setback for Democrats who hope that they can, you know, convince Republicans to come over and, quote, unquote, do the right thing just because we had a vote this week where they got zero Republican support, the vote to open the impeachment inquiry.

Those in favor, please say aye.

Those opposed, say no.

No.

Opinion of the chair, the eyes have it.

And some White House insiders signaled they'd be keeping their mouths shut, at least for now.

Unless those people can be forced to sit and answer questions,

it becomes, well, that was an interesting little Ukraine scandal.

We enjoyed that in September.

We've moved on.

We've moved on. Dahlia Lithwick, Jim Newell, welcome back to impeachment again.

It's kind of like Groundhog Day.

But I have to say, like, here's what I thought when I thought

about this week. When I thought about this week, I was just like the easy work is done. It feels a

little bit to me like the Democrats when they started this investigation. It was like, it was like a

gusher. Like people just came out of the woodwork and had lots to say

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