The optics are how the media frames it for later on, and how the talk show hosts spin it.
If you don’t watch it, how can you be affected?
For the last time, I DON’T CARE!
On your point, this is all how it is being framed. Levin says that his opinion a complicit media is going with the Schiff plan to frame it as follows:
“...treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors...” will be framed to alter bribery from accepting a bribe from foreign powers to get the public to accept that some sort of “quid pro quo” (not a crime) falls into the category of a bribe.
Then a false case is made there we have an article of impeachment that can be voted Yes.