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Lt Col Vindman: "It is improper for the President of the United States to demand a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen and political opponent."
Vindman tells cmte:

"I want to state that the vile character attacks on these distinguished and honorable public servants is reprehensible... we are better than personal attacks."

Prepared statement read:
"callow and cowardly attacks"
Vindman: "Dad, I'm sitting here today, in the US Capitol talking to our elected professionals -- is proof that you made the right decision forty years ago to leave the Soviet Union... Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth."
Lt Col Vindman says the word 'Burisma' was omitted from the rough transcript released by the White House
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Tim Mak
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Depite originally saying no casualties, now U.S. officials say nearly one dozen American troops were wounded in Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack on Iraq’s al-Asad air base. 

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.@DefenseBaron piece raises interesting medical questions. Army uses MACE: Military Acute Concussion Evalution. Anyone w/in 50m of blast/exposed to multiple blasts would have been checked asap after missile strikes. They should have known pretty quickly there were casualties/TBIs
The Army in years past has been accused of not taking traumatic brain injuries seriously in the first years post 9/11.

Now Army medics are taught to evaluate for TBI whenever there are blasts up to 50m away. Has become a real priority in tactical medicine.
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Tulsi Gabbard still has not voted
Gabbard votes present
Gabbard, in a statement:

"I also could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting President must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country"
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Sondland will say:

"Giuliani’s requests were a quid pro quo... Giuliani demanded that Ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election/DNC server and Burisma. Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the President of the United States."
Sondland: "We did not want to work with Mr. Giuliani... We all understood that if we refused to work with Mr. Giuliani, we would lose an important opportunity to cement relations between the United States and Ukraine. So we followed the President’s orders."
Sondland said his recollection and preparation has been stymied by State Dept refusing to give him phone records, files and emails.

"Should have been made available" to the committee, he said. "In the absence of these materials, my memory has not been perfect."
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Andrew Prokop
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What Jennifer Williams brings to the hearings:
-Establishes that Trump told Pence he wouldn't go to Zelensky's inauguration on 5/13
-On the Trump/Zelensky 7/25 call
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As far as I'm aware, no one has explained why Trump told Pence not to go to Zelensky's inauguration on 5/13. But the decision came from Trump himself.

The timing places it days after Rudy talked investigations to NYT and then cancelled his own trip to Ukraine due to backlash
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Williams on Trump-Zelensky call: "I found the July 25th phone call unusual because, in contrast to other presidential calls I had observed, it involved discussion of what appeared to be a domestic political matter."
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Instead of dealing with previous testimony from diplomats about Trump and bribery and Ukraine, @DevinNunes starts the impeachment hearing by complaining about the media being "puppets" of the Democratic Party (they aren't).
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Today's first public impeachment hearing features testimony from two White House officials who were listening in on the July 25 call: Lt. Col. Alex Vindman and Pence adviser Jennifer Williams. Watch it live here, and follow along for our live analysis: c-span.org/video/?466376-…
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@RepAdamSchiff Both Vindman and Williams listened to the July 25 call in real time. Both described details that were left out of the official summary released by the White House.
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Day 3 of the Trump Impeachment hearings get underway at 9 am - President Trump will have a Cabinet meeting later this morning ajc.com/blog/jamie-dup…
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