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SPEAKING OF JOE BIDEN:
As @RepSylviaGarcia mounts lengthy defense of Joe Biden, going through the Burisma allegations, GOP is listening but either
1. stonefaced or
2. dismissively laughing, literally waving it away. (Cotton, Ernst in this group.)
@RepSylviaGarcia As Dems played video defending VP Biden, Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC turned his back to the video screen, didn't watch.

(He was listening, passed a note seeming to react to Barasso, but seemed to be dismissively not watching.)
@RepSylviaGarcia @LindseyGrahamSC To answer some responses, the laughter was very quiet, not audible from my position.

They were visibly laughing. Of the back-of-classroom-quick-whisper and-laughing-as-teacher-in-front-says-something-ridiculous type.
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Lisa Desjardins
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OK FOLKS. From what I saw in the chamber.

Here is how Republicans reacted, generally, to some of the most notable parts of @RepAdamSchiff.

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@RepAdamSchiff 1. "Whether you like the president or not does not matter"

Effect: Strong. It was clear the entire room was listening, not moving.
@RepAdamSchiff 2. (Re "no quid pro quo") "That is part of the well-known principle that if a defendant said he didn't do it, he couldn't have done it."

Effect: Democrats loved it, laughed. On GOP side, Graham and Sasse smiled and laughed too.
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Lisa Desjardins
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Now starting a rundown of the meeting from anothe prominent Dem office.
Senior Dem aide 1/:
POTUS started the mtg w a lengthy bombastic monologue. He bragged about his "nasty" letter to Erdogan.

Said "someone wanted this meeting so I agreed to it." This mtg was called by the White House.
Senior Dem aide 2/:

At one point, Trump suggested that there were communists in Syria and said Democrats would like that.

Some quotes from Trump:

"PKK is tougher than ISIS."
“The Kurds are no angels."

[Reminder that this is Dems’ recounting of POTUS quotes. -LD]
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Lisa Desjardins
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From a Dem aide: Schumer started to read (a) quote from Gen. Mattis.

oBut POTUS cut Schumer off, said that Gen Mattis was: “the world’s most overrated general. You know why? He wasn’t tough enough. I captured ISIS. Mattis said it wld take 2 yrs. I captured them in 1 month
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Dem aide 2/: POTUS Said fewer than 100 ISIS prisoners escaped. He said twice they were “The least dangerous” ones.

o Sec Esper confirmed the number (less than a 100) but didn’t acknowledge the president’s decision that they were the “least dangerous”.
Dem aide 3/: Schumer .... pressed Sec Def to answer if he agreed w the president’s description (that the escaped ISIS fighters were the least dangerous) ... Sec Def Esper: “I don’t know that.”

Gen Milley said “ISIS is defeated not destroyed’. He added “they could reconstitute.”
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Mitch McConnell's poker face finally broke. After 2 hours of talking and 15 mins after senators expected a break, Schiff seems to wrap up then says "now let me turn to the second article of impeachment."

McConnell threw his hands down and made a clear "are you kidding me?" face.
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So, I ran across a retweet of the below tweet and it immediately raised flags. Puffing up a witness has a reason, so decided to go look for the documentation behind it, since it had a direct quote. Didn't take long - few minutes and NPR coughed it up (will link at the end)./1
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Victoria Brownworth #EqualityActNow
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Calling Pennsylvania "#Biden's home state" as an excuse for why his base of operations isn't Delaware, where he was senator for THREE DECADES, ignores that he's trying to deflect from what Delaware stands for and what he did there when #Warren is going to hammer him on it.
#Biden never lived in #Philadelphia, ever.
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Biden moved to Delaware from Scranton, PA when he was TEN.
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#Burisma Holdings did not disclose the scope of their plans for influencing US gvmt..docs show #Biden’s hiring coincided w launch of new effort to lobby members of Congress abt role of the co in Ukraine & country’s quest for energy independetime.com/2964493/ukrain…uC0u
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Victoria Brownworth
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Going through the 438 reps was far more time consuming, but I have a list for you and it will--or should--stun you.
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How often do reps vote with Trump projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump…
Among the top 10 most progressive, not a single rep is white.
1.@RepBonnie Watson Coleman
2.@RepBarbaraLee
3. @repjohnlewis
4.@RepYvetteClarke
5.@NydiaVelazquez
6.@keithellison
7.@RepGutierrez
8.@RepJayapal
9.@RepGrijalvaCS
10.@MaxineWaters

Stunning.
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