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NEW: Parnas and Ukraine aid bombshells jolt impeachment trial

w/ @kyledcheney @burgessev

politico.com/news/2020/01/1…
@kyledcheney @burgessev House managers were relatively subdued on the Parnas revelations, cautioning that he shouldn’t be presumed to be trustworthy.

“I don’t know how it changes the case because we certainly start with someone who has had his issues,” @RepValDemings said.

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@kyledcheney @burgessev @RepValDemings Senate Republicans are dismissing the new developments out of hand.

“They were in such a hurry that they didn’t get all this information? What the heck, OK?” said Sen. Joni Ernst.

Sen. Graham on Parnas: “I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.”
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House impeachment managers at the mics now to harangue McConnell over the rules resolution for the trial.

“This resembles nothing like the Clinton proceeding,” @RepAdamSchiff says.
@RepAdamSchiff Schiff: “If Senator McConnell makes this the first impeachment trial in history without witnesses or documents, it will not prove the president innocent; it will merely prove the Senate guilty of working with the president to obstruct the truth from coming out.”
@RepAdamSchiff Nadler: “To be debating whether you can have the evidence admitted, to be debating whether you should allow witnesses, is to be debating whether you should have a cover-up — by definition.”
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NEWS: McConnell’s impeachment procedures resolution, obtained by @politico, allows:

—24 hours (but no more than 2 trial days) per side for opening arguments
—16 hours for senators’ questioning
—4-hour debate, then a vote, on whether to consider witnesses or new info
@politico *If* witnesses are called, they must first be deposed — “and the Senate shall decide after deposition which witnesses shall testify.”
@politico Story from @burgessev & @marianne_levine >> politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
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Happening soon: House Intel will release new Lev Parnas documents, per Democratic aides. The House’s first brief for the trial is due tomorrow afternoon.
BREAKING: The new documents have been formally transmitted to House Judiciary.

We’re poring through them now.

judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
The new tranche includes the videos & transcripts of Parnas’ interviews with @maddow and @andersoncooper, plus some new photos of Parnas, Rudy, Fruman, Trump, & more:

judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
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NEW: The White House previewed its response to the articles of impeachment -- it's an attack on Democrats' process and a claim that the articles were "constitutionally invalid" from the start.

w/ @dsamuelsohn @anitakumar01 politico.com/news/2020/01/1…
@dsamuelsohn @anitakumar01 HOUSE TRIAL BRIEF: In its own filing, the House says Trump must be removed from office for his conduct or else national security and the constitutional order will be in jeopardy. politico.com/news/2020/01/1…
@dsamuelsohn @anitakumar01 IN ITS BRIEF the House relies on several pieces of new evidence that have come in since the impeachment vote: A document provided by Lev Parnas, the GAO report on Ukraine aid and the emails obtained in recent weeks by @just_security.

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NEW: DOJ is arguing the House impeachment vote undercuts the their demand for McGahn testimony.

It's unclear why the vote would preclude further impeachment investigation, as Dems say they're doing.

House brief to come later today. Story w @joshgerstein

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@joshgerstein JUST IN: Judiciary Committee argues that McGahn testimony is still urgent because it could factor into recommending "additional articles of impeachment."
@joshgerstein Underscoring this point, House lawyers say if McGahn's testimony yields more evidence of obstruction it could lead to "new articles of impeachment."
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NEW: Democrats’ decision to sideline Mueller in their articles of impeachment was threefold: anxious moderates, opposition from Schiff/Pelosi and a concern that ongoing litigation could damage the effort.

w/ @BresPolitico @heatherscope

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Moderates set the tone in a Dec. 2 call with Pelosi, who then called an emergency leadership meeting two days later where Nadler laid out case to impeach on obstruction of justice. Hoyer/Clyburn backed him up but Schiff opposed. politico.com/news/2019/12/1…
Meanwhile, some House lawyers worried multiple Mueller-related lawsuits would complicate the impeachment trial in the Senate. Ukraine scandal had no such legal entanglements. politico.com/news/2019/12/1…
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Sondland said he contacted Giuliani anyway at Trump’s direction, and that Rudy drew a direct link between scheduling a White House visit for Ukraine’s newly elected president and demands that Ukraine prioritize an investigation involving former Biden, and one re: 2016 election
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