playing by the moment by moment, i wouldn t say win the day, but the twitter minute or hour on facebook and getting their messaging out. the republican message yesterday about everything that these witnesses were saying was just hearsay. they didn t have any direct conversations. that is a message that has a shelf life of 30 seconds or so. next week we re going to be hearing from witnesses who had direct conversations with the president. so it seems to me they re playing for just the moment to moment trying to control the narrative. you re right. schiff is trying to lay out a case and build a foundation which may be a tougher task to do in this news environment, though clearly the democrats were helped by that big bombshell revelation that you were talking about all morning about that sondland/trump phone call the day after the zelensky phone call. schiff is laying out a case, but isn t it also a foregone conclusion. don t the democrats in the house know how they re voting at this po