Thread by @ClaraJeffery

Mcquire assents that the complaint alleges "serious wrongdoing by the president" and that the IG found that complaint to be credible.

2/ "It was urgent and it was important." Here's the whistleblower's complaint, it is a doozy: motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

3/ Some background on Mcguire, who's know as a straight-shooter, which is the last thing that Trump wants: motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

4/ "I have to work with what I've got." -- McGuire on whether he was concerned with consulting with Barr and Trump's OLC.

5/ Nunes is such a dumbshit. Smearing Mcguire's team and the IC in general maybe not the best idea rn.

6/ Nunes is going to back Mcguire into saying who inside WH is likely to be leaking.

"I wouldn't say the White House, but individuals inside the White House..."

7/ Maguire says his conversations with Trump fall under executive privilege and he won't divulge them.

8/ Here's how the whistleblower begins his complaint:

9/ Another key passage:

9/ Ok, Dems on committee, I think you've made your point that the DNI should/shall have sent this to your committee sooner...

10/ This is also really bad!

11/13: What other calls did they place in the secret vault to protect the president?

14/ Whistleblower says that the order to suspend aid to Ukraine came directly from Trump and that there was no policy rationale provided:

15/ WHY ARE WE SPENDING SO MUCH TIME ON PROCESS

16/ Finally @RepSpeier is getting to the actual complaint.

@RepSpeier 17/ Smart question from @RepSpeier: essentially if you knew that the whistleblower alleged that the WH was "locking down" the call for political/coverup reasons, why did you first go to the WH to seek guidance for how to handle complaint.

@RepSpeier 18/ seriously is there not a back-up clock?

@RepSpeier 19/ @RepMikeQuigley going to the issue of Rudy Giuliani freelancing for the State Department.

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley 20/ "To your knowledge does [Giuliani] have security clearance?"

Maquire: "I don't know."

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley 21/ @RepSwalwell asks, a little hamfistedly, what other calls might be in the secret system. "Putin? MBS"

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell 22/ @RepSwalwell gets Maquire to admit that election security is his "fundemental priority"

and @RepAdamSchiff follows up asking about allegation that Trump sought help in election from Zelensky.

Maguire: "No one is above the law"

👀

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff 23/ @HurdOnTheHill, GOP rep and former CIA officer, pushes Maguire to say the disclosure law is "good and well-written" ie: he should have come to Congress sooner.

Watch for him to possibly vote for impeachment. He's decided not to run for Congress again.

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill 24/ Meanwhile more on the secret system and other things the WH could be hiding: motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill 25/ Thank you to @JoaquinCastrotx for growing a beard to cut down on confusion in these troubling times

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx 26/ Ratcliffe is the guy who was in the running for DNI until it came out he totally exaggerated his resume so this should be especially good theater

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx 27/ And now we know why he needed to exaggerate his resume

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx 28/ Maguire says he came in on 8/16. The complaint is dated 8/12. Really begs a lot of questions best put to Sue Gordon, including why she was pushed out.

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx 29/ !!! So Maguire says he doesn't believe that Coats or Gordon knew about the complaint or the IG had it. So where...did it sit for four days?

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx 28/ @CongressmanRaja is always a good questioner

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx @CongressmanRaja 31/ Unctuous Nunes is the worst Nunes

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx @CongressmanRaja 32/ @RepAdamSchiff is cool as a cucumber...always?

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx @CongressmanRaja 31. @RepAdamSchiff really drilling into this the executive branch can or can't say that it can't be investigated for the President's crimes logical loop.

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx @CongressmanRaja 32/ This is such a good example of how the Dems should have given all their time to Schiff. Would have saved us all two hours.

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx @CongressmanRaja 33/ Schiff about to post a tip line.

@RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @RepSwalwell @RepAdamSchiff @HurdOnTheHill @JoaquinCastrotx @CongressmanRaja 33/ Extremely powerful closing statement from Schiff. How egregious it is that a country trying to free itself from corruption (Ukraine) would be encouraged to engage in corruption by the White House.