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NEWS: Ex-Pompeo adviser Michael McKinley told House impeachment investigators he resigned abruptly last week in part because of Trump’s attacks on Yovanovitch in his call with Zelensky, & the State Dept’s silence, per two ppl familiar w/ his testimony politico.com/news/2019/10/1…
Pompeo said something very different last week when asked about McKinley’s resignation: “he told me for lots of good and sufficient reasons for him and his family–wanted to go on and begin the next phase of his life”

politico.com/news/2019/10/1…
McKinley said he resigned in part because Trump blasted Yovanovitch during his July 25 phone call with Zelensky, per ppl familiar. McKinley also said the State Dept wasn’t doing enough to shield officials like Yovanovitch from politically motivated attacks
politico.com/news/2019/10/1…
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BREAKING: House Judiciary Committee wins access to Mueller’s grand jury files, per an order from U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell.

Major victory for House Dems, even as the focus of the impeachment inquiry has shifted to Ukraine.
HOWELL: “[The House Judiciary Committee] has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry, that this need for disclosure is greater than the need for continued secrecy”
“Complete information about the evidence the Special Counsel gathered, from whom, and in what setting is indispensable to [the committee],” Howell writes, citing the recent revelation that neither McGahn nor Don Jr. were asked to testify before the grand jury.
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The House sergeant-at-arms just waked back into the SCIF. Still unclear if Laura Cooper’s deposition has actually started.
There is movement, per @MZanona. And it appears that the security sweep, prompted by GOP lawmakers bringing phones into the secure area, is almost finished.

@MZanona Laura Cooper’s deposition is underway, five hours after it was scheduled to start. A lawmaker says she didn’t have an opening statement and began answering questions right away.
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McCarthy just now appeared to excuse GOP members bringing cell phones into the secure area of the SCIF, telling me:

“These are individuals who have never been in Intel Committee before or anywhere else. So it’s nothing serious from that matter.”

Direct quote.
Other Republicans are using this justification too, telling me that they worked to collect everyone’s phones after realizing that some members had walked in with their devices.

Still, the entire facility had to be swept due to the security breach.
Wow — an official working on the impeachment inquiry says some Republicans “refused to completely remove” their phones from the facility “after being advised by the Sergeant at Arms and security personnel that there were members still in possession of electronic devices.”
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