happened before Biden announced.

And now bringing up Ghouliani...

Is it possible that new evidence will continue to come to light after the Senate renders a verdict?

love watching her interrogate!

interrogate the Trump lawyers!

about NSC review of the content of the Bolton manuscript. And "someone" could just go over to the WH and tell them they "did not want that out there".

Nothing preventing the Senate from doing their own investigation on the Bidens either.

"Was it a coincidence that of all the gin joints in the world, Hunter Biden JUST HAPPENED TO WALK INTO THIS ONE, and that he was ALSO the SON of his OPPONENT?"

BRILLIANT.

would be politically problematic.

(it seems that even Roberts was like WTF and is shaking his head while not doing it public)

cruz is stuck on stupid

Grassley - “This person appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and proctected. We should always work to respect whistleblowers’ requests for confidentiality.”


Romney - “(W)histleblowers should be entitled to confidentiality and privacy, because they play a vital function in our democracy.”

Burr - “We protect whistleblowers. We protect witnesses in our committee.”

(There’s a fourth that is cut off by a chyron - I will find it and update.)

coach the whistleblower to write the report.

His staff are getting online threats.

They tell Whistleblowers to get a lawyer and send to the IG.

"Don't ask a question in Court if you don't know the answer".

Should that case of "missing witnesses" be applied in this case?

witnesses and documents. And then demanding the House goes to court and then in court claims they can't litigate in court.

ugh. using "CC on mute" so I can listen to House, mute and read on WH

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(meaning he got blindsided by that! )

Back to the "invalid subpoenas".

I love the effort the House has done, love the way Nancy played a weak hand, but hate the way Trump and McConnell destroyed the Constitution.

I'll be happy when McConnell is too old to control his bodily functions.

he stated that there was political influence in the decision to withhold aid to Ukraine.

Correcting the nonsense about the full House is required to vote to send subpoenas. AND ironically, Mulvaney was subpoenaed AFTER the resolution was passed.

And then the House Committee rec'd a 2-page bullshit letter from Cippycup asserting that Mulvaney is completely immune and cited absolutely no law to justify.

impeachment. Seems both approve different standards depending on party.

Should it be "preponderance of evidence", "clear and convincing", or "without a reasonable doubt"?

...stating that the President believes the impeachment inquiry to be illegitimate and wasn't going to participate? That meant no documents. That meant no witnesses. That meant no legal defense. Trump never invoked executive privilege because he never sent witnesses. At all. THAT would have been the time to invoke said privilege.

But no...Trump instead claimed "absolute immunity," a completely STUPID claim, because it doesn't exist. And btw, "executive privilege" and "absolute immunity" are NOT the same thing.

I was typing that as Mr. Jeffries was talking. Guess I should have waited...

Guilliani’s name comes up an awful lot in the House Managers’ case. Yet there’s not nearly the clamoring for his “under oath” testimony as Bolton’s. Why?

but it is up to the Senators to look at the facts and uphold their oath for truth.

it can be made available. Drumpf made a public statement that they had some but not all of the material. And can it be obtained if not able to obtain it from elsewhere?

It often happens where the Pres. will claim privilege of a small subset of info and then produce as much as they can that has been requested.

But this has not happened - there was a blanket defiance.

There are also other documents that cannot even be considered part of the purview of Executive Privilege.

Biden! Burisma! zombies! squirrels!

I didn't hear clearly

Jesus Everlasting Christ. They can’t even set them up and knock them down.

Backwards and forwards. Leafing through pages.

That's how it is.

And Lofgren is among the top tier. She's fearless AND with deep institutional memory about impeachment.

Philbin couldn’t answer.

Billy: that lawyer didn’t ask about Jimmy busted into the bait shack

But the real problem was that there was a refusal from the Executive Branch to provide the the info related to the Whistleblower complaint.

knowing that they were not indictable crimes. What happened in the last 22 years that changed the meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors.

And thus since "maladministration" was not impeachable then "abuse of power should be rejected. WTF?

Every impeachment in history has included abuse of power.

can't fine or put someone in prison like a crime because it is a whole different animal.

of a quid pro quo.

“Except Mr Dershowirz”
Oh snap!

Reading a later statement by Mulvaney denying he said quid pro quo.

He’s only an ACTING Chief of Staff. He flubbed his lines.

Just got home to watch.

This is crazy territory.

We heard what he said very clearly.