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BREAKING: Rep. Adam Schiff is calling for VP Pence's office to declassify part of aide Jennifer Williams' testimony about a call Pence had with the Ukrainian president.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/house-gop-won-t-offer-defense-witnesses-impeachment-update
The House Intelligence chairman asked Vice President Mike Pence to declassify a supplemental statement provided to the committee on Nov. 26 by Jennifer Williams, the vice presidents special adviser for Europe and Russia.
Williams supplemental statement contains additional information about Pences Sept. 18 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said in a letter. Williams testified at a public hearing on Nov. 19.
Schiff wrote that after reviewing Williams statement, the committee strongly believes that there is no legitimate basis to assert that Williams information about the Sept. 18 call is classified.
Because Pences and Trumps calls with Zelenskiy covered similar topics, and the president determined that releasing the records of his calls with Zelenskiy wouldnt harm national security, declassifying Williams statement also wouldnt pose a threat to national security, Schiff wrote.
He asked Pence to respond no later than Dec. 11.
leftieNanner
(15,100 posts)Is a smarmy little twerp, and he needs to be taken down TOO!
Thanks for the heads-up Malaise!
malaise
(268,998 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)but not the type to help him out.
magicarpet
(14,150 posts)spanone
(135,832 posts)that's how these criminals roll
marble falls
(57,083 posts)badseedboy
(174 posts)in my thoughts: President Pelosi.
ffr
(22,670 posts)Bring on president Pelosi!
Thx malaise!
crickets
(25,980 posts)Yes! Take 'em both down.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)wnylib
(21,465 posts)Ignore, deny, delay.
mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)of his assistant's testimony, that I wouldn't be surprised if the classified status of the information wasn't an attempt to hide damning information.
Huh. What a surprise.
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)Hope she runs in 2020, too.
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)n/t
IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)she puts on a brave face.
Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, was reportedly livid about that infamous Access Hollywood tape that surfaced a month before the 2016 presidential election.
Reporter Tom LoBianco, who covered Pence for The Associated Press and Indianapolis Star, reveals in his new book Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House that Karen Pence was very unhappy with the recording.
Karen ... was livid at Trumps prurient comments in the Access Hollywood tape, The New York Times wrote in a Friday morning article covering LoBiancos book. But her husband concluded it was too late to drop off the ticket.
On election night, LoBianco reports in his book, Karen Pence refused to kiss her husband.
You got what you wanted, Mike, she told him. Leave me alone, The New York Times reported.
czarjak
(11,277 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)Fuck her too
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I suspect Mrs. Pence views herself as a highly moral person who always tries to do the right thing. Is being Mrs. Vice President good enough for her to compromise her deeply held religious beliefs? Does that question occur to her, and if so, how does she answer it?
malaise
(268,998 posts)Muriel
(16 posts)Back in early 2017 during one of the first Trump send ups on SNL, Baldwin's Trump tossed out what has become one of my favorite lines of all time. Trump hugs Pence and says, "I love you Mike. You're the reason why I'll never be impeached."
I mention this because I think with Pence now tainted and the very real threat of Trump's and Pence's impeachment looming, the Republicans will not run Pence on the ticket in 2020. With Trump's "insurance policy" under threat, they will run someone who isn't involved in any of the current controversy and basically protect their conservative judge confirming mill. Republicans will never allow a President Pelosi if they have anything to say about it, even if that means having Pence resign ahead of the election - or if the Senate Republicans begin to break rank during the upcoming trial.
Speaker Pelosi knows she is far more powerful as Speaker than as President and probably won't run (similar thinking that kept Teddy Kennedy as Senator). But the goal here, while it is a very nice fantasy, should be to render that whole Pelosi Presidency idea moot. We must turn out in unprecedented numbers again and unseat these swine.
Vote like our lives depend on it - because they do.