Former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill argued that her party “got bogged down” during the hearing for acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire on Thursday.
Maguire testified in front of the House Intelligence Committee in regards to the whistleblower complaint that was filed last month alleging President Trump improperly applied pressure to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in order to get him to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
McCaskill, who became an analyst for MSNBC after she lost her reelection bid last November, appeared on the network during their post-Maguire testimony coverage.
“Yeah, I thought that there was way too much focus on process in this hearing and not enough on substance. I understand that there are constraints about what this witness was going to testify to. But I do think they got bogged down in, you know, why didn’t he give it to Congress. Well, Congress has it now,” she began. “I don’t think the public watching this got the full impact of what’s in that report.”
McCaskill continued, “I think the most of the important thing that the witness said, and I wish they would have asked him to repeat it because repetition is a good friend of informing the public, when the witness said, ‘I think the whistleblower did the right thing,’ that was a really important quote by the acting director of DNI, and I thought — and that the whistleblower and the [Inspector General] acted in good faith and followed the law.”
