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NEW: House Dems hammered senators with everything they had: an all-day deluge of dense info, peppered with screenshots of deposition transcripts, emails, text messages and 50 video clips — 3 times more than House GOP used in 1999 for Clinton.

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
Schiff & co. reconstructed a case against Trump so dense — at times, head-scratchingly complex — that it was hard for senators new to the material to keep up.

Story w/ @kyledcheney

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
@kyledcheney The deluge carries significant risks as the House managers tried to hammer home somewhat contradictory messages: their case is “overwhelming,” but at the same time it’s incomplete without calling new witnesses & subpoenaing documents.

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
@kyledcheney Indeed, Dems sought to counter the claim that they hadn’t done their homework — by laying out in exhaustive detail what they uncovered. It highlighted the tension between the assertions of an "overwhelming" case, and their pleas for new witnesses & docs.

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
@kyledcheney As @kyledcheney points out, House Dems’ reliance on videos — of public testimony, Trump's comments, and Mulvaney's infamous presser — was quite significant.

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…

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BREAKING: House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel says Bolton told him on a Sept. 23 call that “the committee look into the recall of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch” and “strongly implied that something improper had occurred around her removal as our top diplomat in Kyiv.” Image
The timing of this is obviously quite curious — but if true, it shows that Bolton made at least some effort to inform Congress about the Ukraine issues.
Story >> politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
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Andrew Desiderio
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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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Andrew Desiderio
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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.”
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Kyle Cheney
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NEW: Dems unloaded a massive Ukraine arsenal on the Senate today — a voluminous, complicated case featuring transcripts, texts, emails and about 50 video clips (3x more than the entire Clinton trial).

w/ @AndrewDesiderio

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
@AndrewDesiderio The firehose of evidence was meant, in part, to counter GOP claims that the House rushed its case and didn't do its "homework."

But it also underscored the tension between their 'overwhelming' case and their urgent plea for new witnesses+docs.

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
@AndrewDesiderio Impossible to overstate the Dems' heavy reliance on video clips to drive home their point. They replayed some of the most devastating ones in primetime — a move that shows they're gearing arguments for the public as much as they are the senators.

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
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Greg Sargent
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NEW:

House Dems are set to demand that the State Department account for Yovanovitch's safety during her stalking, in light of explosive Lev Parnas documents, aide tells me.

Pompeo's stonewalling suddenly looks much worse.

That and more in my new piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
More NEWS:

@RepEliotEngel, chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee, tells us Yovanovitch texts are "profoundly alarming."

"This unprecedented threat to our diplomats must be investigated and if warranted prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@RepEliotEngel Crucial point here, from @RepEliotEngel:

Texts between Parnas and Hyde "occurred at the same time that the two men were also discussing Trump’s efforts, through Giuliani, to smear the ambassador’s reputation.”

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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T. Greg "Not David Hasselhoff" Doucette
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Sooo I got mailed some new apparel

Let no one doubt @wolmanj is a man of his word 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
This raises an important question: when the Second Court of Appeals affirms Judge Chupp's ruling where Vic Mignogna and Ty Beard got BTFO'd 0-17, does that count as an additional 17 losses or just one? 🤔

Oh man I hadn't even considered that: do we treat that as a multiplier?

e.g. 17 causes of action, claiming 2 errors apiece, for 34 losses???

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I have reached a whole new level of #PISSEDOFF.

I didnt think such a #dark and #scary state, or level, could be reached. It may top 12-14-17's causation. It's. That. Bad. So, I've prepared a statement...

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Dear @FBI,
I must implore you ask your colleauges in @FBITampa to help research this new level of #PISSEDOFFNESS. As locals, they may offer a special indepth knowledge of this new level I have reached. This is not fair & law enforcement must #investigate. No one deserves this.
This is my #apogee of #Pissedoffness.
If #motherfuckers & #tears werent a noticable level.
If #HUSH or #INTIMIDATION tactics being deployed didnt strike a chord.
If #EVIDENCE, PROOF, or 30k Bonds didnt #WOW YOU.
If posting mom with no shred of investigatable value wasnt enough...
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Nunes: Declassifying the 20 Redacted Pages Will Reveal @PeteStrzok's 'Insurance Policy' - And We Will Be Shocked pjmedia.com/video/nunes-de… #Video via @pjmedia_com
"It'll be the 20 pages of the last FISA that was approved on Carter Page, which will have basically everything ... of what we think the American people need to understand that this is actually the insurance policy that was talked about in the Strzok/Page texts"
"A lot of people think that the insurance policy was getting a FISA warrant on Carter Page. We actually believe it was more explicit than that," Nunes continued.
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Aaron Rupar
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boy is this gonna be a shitshow
.@RepJerryNadler blasts House Republicans for holding an emergency hearing on Clinton's #emails while being completely disinterested about the family separation crisis Trump created, the president's conflicts of interest, or really conducting oversight of any sort
NADLER: "POTUS & some of his closest advisors are under investigation for having participated in a criminal conspiracy w/a foreign power against the US. That is an emergency. The president practically confessed to on television he obstructed justice. That is an emergency."
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