The journalists on CBS This Morning, Monday, offered a surprising look at how Watergate differed with the current impeachment push. Major Garrett and analyst Jonathan Turley warned that Democrats could “lose” the impeachment battle with such “limited” evidence.

As he played footage of Walter Cronkite in 1974, Garrett contrasted, “President Trump's attorneys have had very little access to evidence or the witnesses. It has been conducted, this investigation, largely in secret.” Turley piled on the Democrats: “The greatest difference is that there has been very little evidentiary work that has been done. You know, the Democrats are going from zero to 60 in about 100 feet.”

Something you don’t see too often in network coverage of the impeachment push. Turley marveled that the Democrats were actually going through with this:

It appears they're going to go forward largely on this phone call and the Ukrainian controversy. If they do that, it will be the narrowest impeachment in history, and they'll have one of the most limited evidentiary records in history.

It seems as though Turley influenced Garrett who opined:

Speed matters. If you move too quickly and the public cannot catch up with the facts you're presenting, you lose. At least you lose in terms of public opinion being moved by the evidence you present the public. Also, Democrats have a high standard to meet here. Impeachment is not “I dislike the President.”

If saying that Democrats could “lose” impeachment wasn’t warning enough, Garrett reiterated to Democrats: “The evidence has to be presented. The public has to see it and evaluate it before you can move. Democrats at this pace seem to be moving that process much more rapidly than at least previous impeachments have.”

The use of Cronkite on CBS This Morning is becoming common place. On October 11, John Dickerson “You know, during Nixon you had three networks.... But you had a sort of common set of facts. Now everybody can go to their corners. On November 4, Dickerson again cited the old days of only three networks. He worried that now people are “going to their preferred media outlets seeking affirmation rather than information.”

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