The host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC examined how the impeachment hearings were being covered across the country on Friday.
"Expert: Ukraine meddling lie" was the front-page headline in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
The Tampa Bay Times ran with, "Hill: Discord serves Putin."
In Maine, the Portland Press Herald headline was, "Witness: 'Fictions' about Ukraine help Russia."
"Election-tampering theory called a fiction," was the headline in the San Antonio Express-News.
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Maddow highlighted the Russia angle, a storyline that was developed further on Friday with a bombshell New York Times report.
Maddow noted that a journalist from one of The Times' competitors called the story "eye-popping."
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