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JUST IN: Judge Howell says DOJ improperly redacted a recent filing to prohibit the House from learning the identities of two witnesses who *didn't* testify to the grand jury.

She also adds this curious bit questioning why Mueller didn't seek to subpoena these unnamed witnesses.
Howell also notes that DOJ's claim -- that revealing the identities of people who didn't testify to the grand jury would help the House identify who did -- omits the fact that DOJ willingly revealed that they considered but did not subpoena Trump.
JUST IN: DOJ confirms that Don MCGAHN and Donald Trump Jr. did not testify before the Mueller grand jury. It’s part of a newly unredacted line in a recent filing ordered up by Judge Howell in DC federal court:
Howell made clear she was perplexed about why Mueller didn’t put Don Jr. before the grand jury.
One lawmaker had a theory: Joe Neguse asked Mueller if Don Jr. pleaded the 5th. Mueller wouldn’t say, though his report acknowledged some witnesses did: c-span.org/video/?c480980…
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Kyle Cheney
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JUST IN: Pointing to yesterday’s ruling declaring their impeachment inquiry valid, House investigation leaders demand that KUPPERMAN (Bolton’s deputy) honor their subpoena.
Kupperman was already seeking a court order telling him what to do, but that was before Judge Howell’s ruling came down forcefully in favor of the House.
ALSO JUST IN: Two new State Department witnesses have been scheduled for depositions on Wednesday: Catherine Croft and Christopher Anderson
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Kyle Cheney
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HMM: In a late-night filing, DOJ reveals that it has spoken to the Judiciary committee at least 5 times since Oct. 8 about scheduling an interview with McGahn.

The committee, though, says it's at an impasse on negotiations.
More on DOJ's contention that there's no impasse over McGahn testimony:
NEW: DOJ claims negotiations with the House over McGahn testimony are ongoing. But a source familiar with the talks says the White House is making offers it knows are unacceptable to the House.

politico.com/news/2019/10/2…
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Kyle Cheney
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BREAKING (!): Judge rules the House is entitled to Mueller grand jury material. Huge win for Judiciary Committee / Dems.
Howell rules that DOJ must provide the House the grand jury material redacted form Mueller's report by Oct. 30.
DOUBLE !!: Howell determines that the House is in the middle of "an official impeachment inquiry."
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Wendy Siegelman
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Judge rules that the DOJ must provide the House grand jury material redacted form Mueller report by October 30th
The public version of Mueller report Vol I contains 240+ redactions on basis of grand jury secrecy - redactions occur in report sections that include discussion of Trump Tower Meeting, candidate Trump’s discussion about releases of hacked docs & Manafort’s contacts with Kilimnik
Link to Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell's 75 page - MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING THE APPLICATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…
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Zoe Tillman
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Just in: DC federal judge found DOJ wrongly redacted the names of witnesses who did *not* testify before the Mueller grand jury in a doc filed in court. So that info must be made public — judge notes two people "figured in key events" in Mueller's report ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…
It just occured to me that referring to people who did *not* testify before the Mueller grand jury as "witnesses" might be confusing/imprecise, apologies for that. These people were potential grand jury witnesses, we don't know anything else about them yet
Here's the redacted version of the DOJ declaration at issue: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6491…

The judge ordered DOJ to file a version with parts of paragraph 4 unsealed, which identify two people who didn't go before the grand jury but "figured in key events in the Mueller report"
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Darren Samuelsohn
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Good morning from US District Court in DC. At 10 am, House Judiciary Committee & DOJ lawyers will appear for a hearing in the Democrats’ lawsuit to get Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials as part of their impeachment inquiry. I’ll live tweet some of the proceedings.
There are no HJC members here but top Democratic aides for the panel are in the courtroom to observe the proeedings, including staff director Perry Apelbaum, Norm Eisen & Barry Berke.
Here are links to a couple of recent @politico stories if you want some background on what's been said to date on this case: politico.com/story/2019/09/… & politico.com/story/2019/09/…& politico.com/story/2019/07/…
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May 1992 – Michael Jackson meets his later accuser Jordan Chandler and his family at a car rental agency owned by the boy’s stepfather David Schwartz, after the singer’s car breaks down on Wilshire Boulvard, Los Angeles. Schwartz offers Jackson a deal:
he would rent him a car for free if Jackson promises to call Jordan who was a big fan of the star. Jackson accepts the deal and calls Jordan a couple of days later. He and the boy’s family become friends.
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News Analysis 🔎 | Following AG William Barr’s refusal to recuse himself from the #SpecialCounsel probe, a series of revealing and interconnected events rapidly unfolded. (Thread 👇) theepochtimes.com/a-common-threa…
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On March 7, Barr had a notable meeting with Attorney John Huber of #Utah, who had been appointed as vice chair of the AG’s Advisory Committee by former AG @JeffSessions to investigate “all the allegations that the House Judiciary Committee members sent to us.”
Sessions wrote:
“Mr. Huber is conducting his work… in cooperation with the Inspector General. The additional matters raised… fall within the scope of his existing mandate, and I am confident that Mr. Huber’s review will include a full, complete, and objective evaluation…”
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Barr made it perfectly clear in his testimony today that he is obdurate and will remain obdurate about handing over the grand jury materials that House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler has requested. 1/62
Nadler has authorization from the committee to subpoena Barr for the materials, but he is waiting to see the redacted version of the MUELLER REPORT that Barr is preparing before he actually sends the subpoena. But clearly, Nadler is expecting the worst. 2/62
Since Barr made his intentions perfectly clear today, it seems to me that what is needed now is some strategizing that isn’t purely legal. 3/62
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