What on earth was the point of the first day of House Judiciary Committee hearings on impeachment?The House Intelligence Committee hearings in November told a coherent story. Public-spirited career personnel and a Purple Heart army officer were aligned on one side; venal and untruthful political operatives aligned on the other. Each witness was called for a reason.A televised hearing in a high-stakes political contest is not a classroom seminar. It is not convened for the benefit of the already well-informed. It is a show: a show that succeeds or fails according to whether it catalyzes the second-most attentive and third-most …read more
Source:: The Atlantic
