In case you missed it, here's where Chris Matthews missed the point tonight.

[Miles Archer]

If you watch Matthews regularly, you know that sometimes he just sprays...a lot comes out, usually while interrupting one of his guests.

A few minutes ago he asked why Nancy Pelosi doesn't simply make a case for the fact that impeachment won't make it through the Senate.

I have seen video of her making this statement on several occasions.

And no, she doesn't call a press conference on the subject of impeachment and then spend 30 minutes discussing how impeachment won't make it through the Senate.

It's a "given." It's a "given" for Speaker Pelosi, it's a "given" for those of us on DU, it's a "given" for anyone who is paying attention.

Tonight, Matthews showed that he's not paying attention. He has a "damn the torpedoes" approach and closed the discussion by saying that if impeachment hearings don't begin by September, Trump will be in full campaign mode and it's over.

There is a difference between impeachment and an impeachment investigation. Speaker Pelosi knows that impeachment won't clear its way through a Mitch McConnell Senate. She has acknowledged this. Matthews needs to slow down pay attention, and learn the difference.

[hlthe2b]

1. Matthews is either "losing it" or does not do any "homework" to keep informed...

Probably because he is too busy interrupting anyone who would educate him. The amount of background information and news that we all know here, but he is clueless about, is shockingly diverse.

But, in the same show, he likewise acted as though he was learning for the FIRST TIME that Meghan Merkel was an AMERICAN citizen. Geebus.

[Miles Archer]

5. In the same show, he played a clip of his town hall with Buttigieg

It was a question about gun control.

At the end of the clip, Matthews mused "I wonder what the IRA is gonna think about that?"

I kid you not.

[hlthe2b]

6. He's had episodes of this in past years which I attributed to his often poorly controlled diabetes..

I think something else is going on now.

[Kurt V.]

2. I've never seen this person in my 57 yrs on the earth. so his opinion is worthless to billions of pp

[Hoyt]

3. September is getting a little late, unless you want the inquiry

or full blown Impeachment to end just a few months before the election with no conviction, and that’s assuming the votes are there for Impeachment.

I don’t think Pelosi wants to have to twist arms to get enough Democrats to fall in line, assuming that is even possible.

[sop]

4. Matthews put out the idea Impeachment can't wait, it has to begin right now,

because we're getting too close to the beginning of the 2020 presidential election. Chris pretended some tradition exists preventing an impeachment during an election year. I think that's BS. Why shouldn't Democrats conduct Impeachment Proceedings during Trump's final year of his term, during an election?

McConnell and the GOP didn't hesitate to permanently stall Merrick Garland's confirmation to the Supreme Court during Obama's final year in office. They claimed some unknown Senate tradition prevented such confirmations during the fourth year of a president's term. Now Mitch says (with a smirk) he would confirm a justice during the last year of Trump's term, ignoring his own Senate tradition.

If Republicans can do whatever they want during the final year of a president's term, why not hold Impeachment Hearings?