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Parnas tells Maddow again (citing Sondland) that "everybody was in the loop," but also points out: "Everybody didn't *agree* with the loop."

Example is, Jay Sekulow. Parnas says he knew all about it, but didn't want to be involved, "wanted to stay away from it."
Parnas says after the impeachment inquiry started, Dowd, Sekulow, Rudy, and Toensing "came up with a situation that said that because I worked for Rudy and because I worked for Victoria and because Rudy worked for the president, we had three-way privilege."
Parnas says Trump tried to fire Yovanovitch several times but it kept not being carried out. Trump told Pompeo to fire her. Trump told Rudy to talk to Pompeo, but "they got into it." Trump told Bolton to fire her. Trump even told his assistant Madeline Westerhout to fire her.
A good point from Maddow — the smear campaign against Yovanovitch wasn't to convince Trump. It was to tarnish her so others in the administration would finally carry out Trump's repeated orders to fire her.
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"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted" — Chief Justice John Roberts, to Rand Paul question with alleged whistleblower's name
Quite something that the "libertarian" is spending his time trying to out the whistleblower rather than responding to some remarkable arguments for unrestrained presidential power from Trump's team
McConnell opened proceedings today with something of a preemptive semi-apology for the Rand question we now know was coming up next.

"We've been respectful of the chief justice's unique position in reading our questions," wanted to assure him that consideration would continue
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Questioning period has begun. First question is from Sen. Collins, Murkowski, and Romney.

They ask Trump's team what they should do if Trump had more than one motive. Suggest he could have been motivated by political interest and pursuit of corruption.
Deputy WH Counsel Philbin answers.

"Once you get in a mixed motive situation... it can't possibly be an [impeachable] offense. It would be absurd to have the Senate trying to consider, would it be 52% legitimate interest and 48% personal interest?... can't divide it that way"
We could well have seen the justification for Collins, Murkowski, and Romney's acquittal votes set up right there.

Gist would be: it's complicated. Trump had various motives at play. So can't remove him for it.
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One possible outcome:
-Collins and swing Rs back proposal to let each side pick one witness
-Conservative Republicans oppose because they want no witnesses
-Democrats oppose because they don't want Hunter Biden called
-So it goes to a vote and fails
This would get McConnell what he wants (no witnesses) and give Collins and company want they want (the ability to say both sides were unreasonable).

And yet, it would be risky for McConnell to let this go for a vote... because what if Democrats back it rather than kill it?
This is what McConnell has meant with "mutually assured destruction." The assumption on the R side has been that Democrats would never agree to any proposal that could result in Hunter as a witness because that could be such a disaster for Joe's campaign.
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Read your blog entries on my former "friend" and former employer, @JaySekulow.

The money grubbing should disturb.

The equating of prosperity with God's blessing should disturb.

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Here's one example.

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