Rep. Mark Meadows corrected CBS News reporter Nancy Cordes, who stated in an interview with him that she had read “all the transcripts” of the impeachment hearings.
“I beg to differ because they haven’t all been released,” the North Carolina Republican told Cordes on Wednesday after she made the claim she had read every deposition transcript from the private impeachment hearings. Meadows had asked her “how many hours” she had been “sitting in” on depositions before her answer.
Meadows went after Cordes after she claimed that for his support of the president to be true, every single witness would have to be “lying or mistaken.” “That’s not correct,” he said. “Your characterization is so inherently wrong and biased.”
The hallway interview came the same day House Democrats held the first public impeachment hearing. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and George Kent, a senior State Department official, both testified Wednesday at the impeachment hearing.
The House has moved the impeachment process from private to public hearings as they continue to determine if Trump tried to use the presidency for political gain. The first public impeachment hearing took place from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
