Thread by @Monaheart1229

And the House Chairmen this afternoon are hitting back, loudly & publicly at Pompeo's arrogant attempt at intimidating the State Dept witnesses.
This matters. #TuesdayMotivation
washingtonpost.com/politics/whist…

2-"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told House Democrats on Tuesday that State Department officials scheduled to appear this week for depositions before committees conducting the impeachment inquiry would not show up.

3-"Pompeo’s refusal, relayed in a letter, came amid a spate of tweets from President Trump, including one questioning why he is not “entitled to interview & learn everything about” a whistleblower whose identity is protected by federal statute.

4-"Trump also again insisted that his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “PERFECT,” dismissing concerns at the core of the whistleblower’s complaint that Trump pressed for an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden and his son.

5-"● Attorney General William P. Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies.

6-"2:30 p.m.: House chairmen say Pompeo should ‘immediately cease intimidating’ witnesses: The chairmen of three House committees responded to Pompeo in a statement Tuesday afternoon in which they called on the secretary of state to “immediately cease intimidating”

7-"State Department witnesses “in order to protect himself and the President.”
The statement from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) and Oversight Committee Chairman

8-"Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) came after Pompeo said that State Department officials would not show up for their scheduled depositions this week. “Secretary Pompeo was reportedly on the call when the President pressed Ukraine to smear his political opponent,” the chairmen said.

9-"“If true, Secretary Pompeo is now a fact witness in the House impeachment inquiry. He should immediately cease intimidating Department witnesses in order to protect himself and the President.” They added that “any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from talking

10-"with Congress — including State Department employees — is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry.” “In response, Congress may infer from this obstruction that any withheld documents and testimony would reveal information that

11-"corroborates the whistleblower complaint,” they said..
1:30 PM: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said that Trump should be imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement — but added impeachment “is the imperative.”

12-"Waters, chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee, reacted on Twitter to Trump’s recent comments about unmasking the whistleblower and describing those who provided him with information as spies. “I’m calling on the GOP to stop Trump’s filthy talk of whistleblowers

13-"being spies & using mob language implying they should be killed,” Waters tweeted. “Impeachment is not good enough for Trump. He needs to be imprisoned & placed in solitary confinement. But for now, impeachment is the imperative.” ~WaPo