Thread by @AndrewFeinberg

Good morning! I'm back in 1100 Longworth, covering the final impeachment hearing this week for the @Independent / @IndyUSA, along with @chrisriotta in New York.

Follow along here

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta Needless to say, very little in @DevinNunes opening statement is factual.

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes The irony of @DevinNunes calling anyone a conspiracy theorist at this point is simply delicious.

He's now calling out Fiona Hill for debunking his conspiracy theories in her opening statement. Hill is not one to suffer fools, so it will be interesting to see if she responds.

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes 🚨🚨
Holmes: “My clear impression was that the security assistance hold was likely intended by [Trump] as either an expression of dissatisfaction that the Ukrainians had not yet agreed to the Burisma/Biden investigation or as an effort to increase the pressure on them to do so.”

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes Holmes' opening statement is a fantastic summary of events to date, and he's just the appetizer.

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes Hill smacks down @DevinNunes' conspiracy theories: "This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves."

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes "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," Hill says.

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes Hill speaking directly to @DevinNunes in this passage: "In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests."

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes It looks like Gordon Sondland may have committed perjury yesterday. Holmes says Sondland/Trump discussed “the Biden investigation” in July, but Sondland said yesterday that he didn’t understand that “Burisma” meant the Bidens until September. #ImpeachmentHearings

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes Hill: The idea that Ukraine interfered in election “is a view that President Putin and Russian security services...have promoted...that has gotten some traction in the United States.”

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes Hill: As @AmbJohnBolton was trying to move discussion away [from a meeting], Sondland said "we have an agreement" connecting investigations to meeting."

"I saw Bolton stiffen...it was unmistakable body language."

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes @AmbJohnBolton .@DevinNunes just stepped in it. Big time.

@Independent @IndyUSA @chrisriotta @DevinNunes @AmbJohnBolton Oh my god. If @Jim_Jordan doesn't know the phrase "hoist by his own petard," he does now.