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Senator @RonJohnsonWI reacts to the @ABC report of an audio recording of Trump saying of Ambassador Yovanovitch: “Take her out.”

“I’m from Wisconsin. I’m not a New Yorker,” he told me.

After I told him I didn’t know what the meant, he added: “Just totally different styles.”
“The American people elected President Trump, and they knew who President Trump was and they knew his style,” Johnson continued.

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Listen to Senator Johnson downplaying President Trump's "Take her out" remark regarding Ambassador Yovanovitch as a New York thing.

"I'm not a New Yorker."

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Lev Parnas’ attorney Joseph Bondy is seeking a federal judge’s permission to attend the Senate trial tomorrow.
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In this conversation, Senator Johnson noted, accurately, that the letter didn't explicitly name Shokin.

It stated: "We similarly urge you to press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's office and judiciary," at a time that Shokin held that office for +1 year.
The full text of the letter is here: portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press…
"I don't even know Shokin was at the time," Johnson told me during our conversation.

The letter Johnson signed called for "urgent reforms" to the office that Shokin had then held for more than a year.
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White House lawyers, including Patrick Philbin and Jay Sekulow, are all in on Alan Dershowitz's argument that the articles as written are not enough to remove Trump.

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WATCH the video that appears to capture Pres Trump saying of Amb Yovanovitch, "Get her out tomorrow. Take her out."

It is clear that Trump was led into his stance because a few seconds before ordering her firing, he literally asks which ambassador?

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