I live 50+ miles south of Phoenix and followed this one pretty close.
That story broke on Tuesday as a little human interest/political story on the evening news (ABC15). Not a single mention on the other four news stations until it went national on Thursday, then every one of them did a one or two sentence story of the meeting. Probably just to be able to say, “We did so cover the story”.
Regardless of the subject of the meeting, it was not supposed to be public knowledge and now they are in full cover mode. Fun times, if there was any or even one investigative reporters left.
My thought is this could be as big as Watergate, if only they were Republicans
If they were Republicans this would be far bigger than Watergate.