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Dr. Fiona Hill opening statement: “I respect the work that this Congress does in carrying out its constitutional responsibilities, including in this inquiry, and I am here to help you to the best of my ability....
2/ “... If the President, or anyone else, impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interests, that is more than worthy of your attention....
3/“... But we must not let domestic politics stop us from defending ourselves against the foreign powers who truly wish us harm.”
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A source familiar with the White House legal team says they are not convinced that the House of Representatives will ultimately vote to impeach the president (in addition to believing that it shouldn’t, and that impeachment is not in the interest of the American people).
ALSO: source says they would like to Participate in the House Judiciary Committee process, and they would like the president to be represented and be able to call witnesses — but they have serious doubts they will be able to;
AND: the source says they believe there are significant reasons why the Senate should dismiss out of hand any impeachment articles — both on the process and the merits.
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MULVANEY: He’s like, “Look, this is a corrupt place. I don’t want to send them a bunch of money and...have them use it to line their own pockets”...Did he also mention to me in pass the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely... whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
“...No question about that. But that’s it. And that’s why we held up the money. Now, there was a report —

Q So the demand for an investigation into the Democrats was part of the reason that he ordered to withhold funding to Ukraine?
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MULVANEY: The look back to what happened in 2016 —

Q The investigation into Democrats.

MULVANEY: — certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. And that is absolutely appropriate. ...

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Dr. Fiona Hill has released her opening statement, @mkraju reports.

“Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country...
“2/ “... and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.”
3/“... as I told this Committee last month, I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine—not Russia—attacked us in 2016...
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Ahmed Baba
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The biggest story out of Dr. Fiona Hill's testimony is that the entire Republican Party was publicly being called out as not even unwitting perpetrators of Russia’s active measures, but knowing accomplices.
🚨Trump talked to Putin about the Ukraine conspiracy theory. Buried in that NYT piece:

“That muddy brew worked its way into American information ecosystems… until parts of it reached Mr. Trump, who has also spoken with Mr. Putin about allegations of Ukrainian interference.”
So… big picture:

Russia has been pushing a yearslong disinformation campaign to frame Ukraine for interfering in the 2016 election.

Putin spoke to Trump about it directly.

Trump mobilized HIS ENTIRE PARTY to push this narrative.

They're aiding Russian interference. Again.
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Right now Donald Trump is hiding under his bed, wishing he'd never gone anywhere near politics, and wondering what the hell happened to his life.
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Fiona Hill is the kind of detail oriented badass who makes sure the tires have the precisely correct air pressure before she drives the bus over you.
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Fiona Hill opening statement. Wow.
More from Fiona Hill's blistering opening statement: "I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine—not Russia—attacked us in 2016."
More Fiona Hill: "President Putin and the Russian security services operate like a Super PAC. They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives."
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Here we go #prorogation

Can’t make out the sound though. Streaming problems. #SupremeCourt
Ok sound back on. Lady Hale now setting out the facts relating to the prorogation itself
Unanimous judgment of all 11 justices.

Court holds this IS Justiciable.

Repeat. It IS justiciable. Unanimously.
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🏆Congress🏆

🏆Power of Oversight🏆

Upon carrying out its Constitutional obligations of oversight, it is up to Congress—not Bill Barr and not Robert Mueller—to determine if Trump is fit to be president and whether or not any of his behavior rises to the level of impeachment.
🏆Congress🏆

Mueller:

“The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our Constitutional system of checks and balances and the principles that no person is above the law.”
🏆Congress🏆

Sounds like an impeachment referral.

The Mueller report paints a very damning portrait of Trump.

It paints a picture of someone who knew RU was interfering, invited that interference, & then did everything in his power to stop the inv’n into that interference.
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