several urged comcast to look into ronan farrow's charges that the network caved to pressure in killing his harvey weinstein expose. they worried about the message it would sent to sexual assault survivors -- [inaudible] to conduct an independent investigation into the toxic culture that enabled abusers and silenced survivors. but they showed up for the debate anyway. now, as someone who's been critical of both networks for their handling of the weinstein and epstein outrages, i still have to ask, should politicians be mucking around in the editorial decisions -- even wrong decisions -- made by news organizations? that could be a slippery slope toward government interference with media companies. ahead on "mediabuzz," rachel maddow asks about impeachable. but first, journalist john solomon has drawn both praise and criticism at the impeachment hearings. he will be here next. ♪ ♪ chevy silverado hd.