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Back in here for impeachment hearing day 6.

The only way I know for sure that time has passed is the daily change of the GOP’s “days since Adam Schiff learned the identity of the whistleblower” poster.
In the members' gallery on this last morning of the congressional workweek, just 4 of the House's impeachment diehards:

Rs @RepLeeZeldin, @RepMarkMeadows, and @RepScottPerry

Dem @RepDeanPhillips
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Nunes, after hitting his usual notes, formally requests a "minority day" of hearings when GOP can schedule their own witnesses

Schiff has allowed some of their requested witnesses (Hale, Volker, Morrison) but not others (Hunter Biden)
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Holmes will testify: "beginning in March 2019, the situation at the Embassy and in Ukraine changed dramatically”

US priorities “became overshadowed by a political agenda being promoted by... Giuliani and a cadre of officials operating with a direct channel to the White House”
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips More from Holmes: "The barrage of allegations directed at Amb. Yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything I have seen in my professional career"
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips a single laugh rises from the audience when Holmes says that "comedian Jay Leno, among others" were at the July 4 Brussels dinner w/ Zelensky
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips According to Holmes: After the 7/26 call ended, "Sondland remarked that the President was in a bad mood, as Ambassador Sondland stated was often the case early in the morning."
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Holmes also further confirming Sondland is a working-lunch wine guy.

this is the last tweet Sondland sent from his official account, lunch with a Greek official on 11/14
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips And Holmes helps drive home a major Dem point: says hold wasn't lifted because Trump was satisfied with Zelensky but after...

"significant press coverage" and

"bipartisan congressional expressions of concern about the withholding of security assistance"
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Questioning from GOP side has Hill on one of her sharpest answers of the day.

She says Sondland was involved in a "domestic political errand" while she & others were doing the legit foreign policy work.

"He was carrying out what he thought he was being instructed to carry out"
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Hill herself now debunking the idea she had concerns with Alex Vindman's judgement: explains she didn't feel he had a political sense for W.H. work.

"That does not mean in any way I was questioning his overall judgment. Nor was I questioning his substantive expertise."
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Schiff just let Hill roll with this last answer—she was 3 minutes over the time limit by the time she finished.

"Sorry," she said. "That was a long answer."
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips After that exchange between Jordan and Holmes, Nunes has ducked out of the hearing room as Rep. Himes begins his questioning.
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips "The Ukraine portion of that conversation was extremely brief," Holmes says.

@RepMarkMeadows lets out a chuckle from the audience.
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Rep. Turner, considered probably the GOP side's most effective questioner, did not ask Fiona Hill a question.
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Turner did pose a rhetorical one to his Dem colleagues: "Do you want to be the laughingstock of history?"
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips Rs have apparently run out of questions for Hill and Holmes.

“I have no questions for you that have not been asked,” says Rep. Chris Stewart, moving onto talking about "impeach-a-palooza."
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips hey! @RepSwalwell just put @woodruffbets big Parnas/Nunes scoop from yesterday into the congressional record

thedailybeast.com/lev-parnas-hel…
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips @RepSwalwell @woodruffbets Rep. Conaway, who represents west Texas and formerly served as an executive at an oil and gas company owned by George W. Bush, quizzes Hill about geopolitical implications of fracking policy.
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips @RepSwalwell @woodruffbets And that's it for GOP questioning, after Rep. Jordan speech for just over 4 minutes w/o question to Holmes or Hill. Nunes left the room again shortly after.

4 questioners on the Dem side left to go, and then today's hearing is done.
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips @RepSwalwell @woodruffbets "I thought that was some epic man-splaining you were forced to endure," @RepSeanMaloney tells Hill
@RepLeeZeldin @RepMarkMeadows @RepScottPerry @RepDeanPhillips @RepSwalwell @woodruffbets @RepSeanMaloney Schiff, weaving together the last 8 days of hearing in a lengthy closer, invokes Watergate/Nixon repeatedly.

"This is the I’m-not-a-crook defense," he said of Trump's denial. "You say it, and I guess that’s the end of it.”
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