re: #193 steve_davis

I had a problem with his presentation. I thought he was in the early stages of dementia. He spent months writing the goddamned report with staff. He shouldn’t have to flip around and act lost when people quote stuff from it back to him. He should know it pretty much cold.

I was disappointed while watching but having time to listen to clips again, I think he was mostly effective when he needed to be. And it was a two-way street: when the GOP members were yelling at him he got them all flustered with “could you repeat the question?” And Ted Lieu walked him effectively through the necessary elements of obstruction so that, even having supposedly walked back his admission that he would have indicted Trump but for OLC memo, he basically said “hell yes, he obstructed!”