Thread by @owillis

.@RepAdamSchiff details Trump's efforts to "shakedown" the president of Ukraine and laments it as a "betrayal of his oath of office."

.@RepAdamSchiff says he can't understand why DNI Joseph Maguire again and again deferred to Trump and his cronies in obstructing the whistleblower complaint

GOP Rep @DevinNunes whines that Democrats are conducting "information warfare" (conspiracy theorist Alex Jones calls it "infowar") against Trump by responding to an attack on America's elections and complains that the mainstream media is part of the conspiracy as well.

GOP Rep @DevinNunes accuses Democrats on the intelligence committee of trying to "obtain nude pictures of Trump."

DNI Joseph Maguire admits to @RepAdamSchiff that the inspector general found the whistleblower's allegations against Trump to be "credible."

.@RepAdamSchiff gets DNI Joseph Maguire to concede he took the whistleblower complaint about Trump to the White House, though the law says it should be given to Congress.

.@RepAdamSchiff points out to DNI Joseph Maguire just how absurd it was to give the White House first crack at a whistleblower complaint *about Trump* while the same White House has claimed every communication remotely in Trump's orbit is executive privilege.

.@RepAdamSchiff now points out, in addition to giving Trump a heads-up while he was in the complaint, DNI Joseph Maguire also gave the complaint to AG Bill Barr despite Barr's role in the whole process of pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden.

DNI Joseph Maguire: "I think the whistleblower did the right thing, followed the law every step of the way."

.@DevinNunes tries to say Trump's phone calls are leaking out because of the deep state in the intelligence agencies, but DNI Joseph Maguire points out a lot of people *in the White House* heard the call and its likely they leaked it. Nunes' face kind of falls.

DNI Joseph Maguire tells @RepSpeier he knew the whistleblower allegations about Trump's actions were serious enough that he would have to come to Congress to testify about it.

.@ericswalwell raises the issue with Joseph Maguire that if Trump is moving his conversations with other leaders - like Putin - the way he is alleged to have done w Ukraine, that would be a national security issue. Maguire says none of his business, but Swalwell says come on.

.@JoaquinCastrotx gets DNI Joseph Maguire to agree that the details released in Trump's memo aligns with the issues raised by the whistleblower in their complaint (GOP has tried to say the info is not firsthand and thus not reliable).

DNI Joseph Maguire tells @JoaquinCastrotx that a scenario of a president getting a foreign power to smear his rival is hypothetical, but Castro points out that that's what is in the phone call between Trump and Ukraine, noting the president "is not above the law."

.@RepDennyHeck vehemently points out that Trump *did not* report efforts to solicit foreign interference in the election to the FBI as he should have.

In response to questions from @RepSeanMaloney DNI Joseph Maguire repeatedly refuses to confirm or deny whether he spoke about the whistleblower allegations with Trump

DNI Joseph Maguire repeatedly won't say that a credible allegation of Trump soliciting foreign election interference should be investigated.

DNI Joseph Maguire rolls his eyes at Rep Adam Schiff after Schiff points out how weird it is that the director of national intelligence doesn't think a credible allegation of soliciting foreign election interference should be investigated.