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Schiff interrupts Castor to tell Taylor and Kent that they don't have to answer questions centering on “facts not in evidence.” In the members’ section, Louie Gohmert says: “You have the nerve to say that?”
The question was whether Taylor/Kent “can appreciate that some elements of the Ukrainian establishment” were “out to get” Donald Trump.
As they previewed in the days leading up to today’s hearing, Republicans are using their time to breathe life into Trump’s skepticism of Ukraine and his belief that the country’s government was biased against him.
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Sondland says the White House has confirmed to him the record of his July 26 call with Trump. Trump denied that the call ever happened.
Sondland: “The July 26 call did not strike me as significant at the time. Actually, I would have been more surprised if President Trump had not mentioned investigations, particularly given what we were hearing from Mr. Giuliani about the president’s concerns.”
But, Sondland adds: “I have no recollection of discussing Vice President Biden or his son on that call or after the call ended.”
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BREAKING: Gordon Sondland will tell lawmakers there was a quid pro quo for a White House meeting &, he later came to learn, the military aid, too, according to his opening statement we obtained.

“Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret.”

FULL OPENER:

politico.com/f/?id=0000016e…
Sondland will also connect this directly to Trump, per his opening statement: “We all understood that these pre-requisites for the White House call and White House meeting reflected President Trump’s desires and requirements.”

STORY:

politico.com/news/2019/11/2…
Sondland also says he told Vice President Pence he was growing concerned that delay in military aid was tied to “the issue of investigations.”

politico.com/news/2019/11/2…
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Sen. Johnson just responded to the Nunes-Jordan letter seeking info related to his Ukraine meetings. The (lengthy) letter: ronjohnson.senate.gov/public/_cache/…
Johnson calls out Vindman and suggests he’s among a group of bureaucrats who “have never accepted President Trump as legitimate...”

“It is entirely possible that Vindman fits this profile.”
Interesting passage from Johnson on his interactions with Trump about Ukraine. Johnson backs up Volker’s testimony about Trump being deeply skeptical of Ukraine.
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Brandi Buchman
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Rep Ratcliffe back up.
"So no pressure, no demands, no conditions, nothing corrupt. Nothing. Nothing on the call. That's what we heard Zelensky say."

Note - We still havent seen the full transcript of the call.
Ratclifffe: Now we're hearing if he didn't lie, he couldn't possibly risk military aid, he'd do anything to secure it. The hole in that argument: what did Zelensky actually do to get the aid? He did nothing. He didn't open any investigations, didn't call AG Barr.
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Speier: Zelensky still hasn't had that meeting. Yet Lev Parnas had a meeting in WH after participating in campaign events.
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.@RepAdamSchiff closes his opening statement quoting Benjamin Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention, when asked what sort of country the US would be.

"A Republic, if you can keep it."

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A reminder from my @NewsHour colleague @cjnorwoodwrites...
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Adam Schiff immediately asserts virtually unlimited time for himself and makes it about demonizing Russia, the actual purpose of this process for Schiff. #ImpeachmentHearnings
Adam Schiff immediately frames Biden as Trump alternative.
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So, I ran across a retweet of the below tweet and it immediately raised flags. Puffing up a witness has a reason, so decided to go look for the documentation behind it, since it had a direct quote. Didn't take long - few minutes and NPR coughed it up (will link at the end)./1
About puffing someone up - the reason is to try to give the person credibility, their views more weight than they should be given, and to set them above someone they are in disagreement with. In this case, also to elicit support due to his medal./2
In the case of the tweet, it is immediately followed by the statement "speaking out against the command-in-chief." (you're suppose to gasp here I think)

Then "the reason" is given - people kept telling him he needed to speak up (be sure to ignore other possible reasons)./3
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If #HUSH or #INTIMIDATION tactics being deployed didnt strike a chord.
If #EVIDENCE, PROOF, or 30k Bonds didnt #WOW YOU.
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1/ #CNP Members and Organizations
"The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a body that mixes large numbers of ostensibly mainstream conservatives with far-right and extremist ideologues, mostly from the far fringes of the religious right...
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* Designated as hate group
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