if the public impeachment hearings have dominated the news most of the week. tonight fox news media analyst and a host of media buzz looks at how the mainstream press is covering it. the coverage of the impeachment hearings has seemingly split into parallel universes. anti-trump. anti-trump commentators saying that testimony of career diplomats is devastating to the president and pro-trump analysts calling it secondhand and irrelevant. i think bill taylor is an incredible witness. he s very matter-of-fact, straightforward. these guys testifying, i couldn t tell if they were doing a job interview, talking about their great grandfather and his wife. or they were homeless guys. speak republicans did not say one word about this devastating testimony about donald trump caring more about investigating joe biden that he cares about ukraine. what actually unfolded was a complete and utter disaster for adam schiff. there was praise across the board today for the ousted ambassador to
course, which with much of the week. host of fox s media buzz howard kurtz looks at how the press is covering historic sessions. speak of the coverage has seemingly split into parallel universes. anti-trump commentators saying the testimony of career diplomats is devastating to the president and pro-trump analysts calling it secondhand and irrelevant. he s a very matter-of-fact guy, straight forward. these two guys testifying, couldn t tell if they were doing a job interview talking about their great-grandfather and wife, or where the homeless guys. republicans did not say one word about this devastating new testimony about donald trump caring more about investigating joe biden then he cares about ukraine. actually unfolded was a complete and utter disaster for adam schiff. there was praise across the board today for the ousted ambassador to ukraine, and
to waive this opinion and have the president be indicted. for those democrats calling for impeachment proceedings how would this indictment, how would that potentially complicate ongoing or future impeachment proceeding? in short not at all. only because from a level perspective indictment and impeachment are two parallel universes. they are not jeopardy events. in other words they are not like two successive federal indictments where jeopardy would attach and then the second prosecution would be barred. in this case impeachment, indict can both happen. from a political perspective, however, the gambit is this. if you indict me now, then you might satisfy all those congress folks who think that an impeachment is necessary because arguably the criminal standard, the burden of proof is so much higher that i find exonerated in criminal court i must be exonerated in the court of public opinion and congress but
the people of minnesota, assuming he s telling the truth, and it is a disservice to other people who may be falsely accused not to go through the process and show you can be vindicated; right? but that suggests that political momentum, he basically was forced out by his colleagues. yeah, to some extent he was. i mean, for sure. you know, bill is trying to describe a situation here in which you take these accusations seriously, deal with them, a person is allowed to withdraw, go back into private life. consider the spectacle that s taking place, sort of parallel universes between politics and the real world, the outside world. harvey weinstein was accused of very serious accusations of sexual abuse he might be indicted. yes. there have been other men who have been accused, resigned and been fired. the world is trying to come to grips with this and deal with it. meanwhile in the world of politics, it simply becomes a political weapon. look our guys have resigned. you have got don
so offense to her, she was 69 on election day. it s not a bad thing, but it doesn t happen very often that people go back. during the obama years, look at the house. the republican have a house majority post-word war ii high. they have 31 republican gonchors and so the democrats don t have a as big a bench as they used to because republicans have had so much success, yet the democrats have won the white house twice with huge electoral college wins so the country has almost two parallel universes, so you have republicans thinking the country is with us. you have democrats saying the country is with us.