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This seemed like an important moment: Schiff rebutted it moments later saying the WH can call any witness it wants to fill in that blank.
Here's where Dems think the White House lawyers messed up:

Philbin said he couldn't answer Collins/Murkowski's question about whether Trump had raised Biden/Burisma before Biden was a candidate. It wasn't in the House record, he said. (1/2)
BUT... Minutes earlier, his co-counsel introduced this 1/27/2020 Daily Beast article into the record that was not part of the House's evidence.

Michael Purpura cited it as evidence Ukrain didn't know about aid freeze before Aug. 29 POLITICO article.

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Kyle Cheney
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BOLTON aide says overnight that another NSC letter about his book has been leaked and that the process “has been thoroughly breached” in an effort to suppress his book.

Unclear what letter this refers to, but sounds like we’ll all find out soon.
VINDMAN attorney blasts Trump tweets this AM as “defamatory.”
The word “defamatory” doesn’t appear in the statement but in the subject line of the email:

“Statement from Vindman Attorney on President Trump's Defamatory Tweets”
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Kyle Cheney
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NEWS: SONDLAND has been recalled from his post in the EU. He's the second star impeachment witness ousted today.

Full statement:
UPDATE: Sondland and Vindman out of their posts amid White House's vow of a Trump-fueled 'payback' campaign. politico.com/news/2020/02/0…
UPDATE: The ousters of Sondland and Vindman are raising fears that Trump has begun the revenge campaign against impeachment witnesses and lawmakers that he and his White House promised. GOP senators silent so far. politico.com/news/2020/02/0…
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NEW: Vindman's twin brother — who was not an impeachment witness — also appears to have been removed from the White House, where he was a top NSC lawyer.

Story w/ @NatashaBertrand @caitlinoprysko

politico.com/news/2020/02/0…
@NatashaBertrand @caitlinoprysko Only two GOP lawmakers have weighed in on Vindman as far as I can tell, both Trump allies. Paul Gosar said "Good riddance" and Scott DesJarlais said, uh, this:

Just in, from the Army (h/t @bryandbender): “We can confirm that both Lt. Cols. Vindman have been reassigned to the Department of the Army, out of respect for their privacy, we will not be providing any further information at this time.”
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Wonkette
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Schiff says there are 10 REASONS how we know Trump only did this for corrupt reasons, and not for our national interest. Let's recap!

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1. Trump didn't care anything besides the ANNOUNCEMENT of the investigations. He needed that, preferably on CNN, which is exactly what Zelenskyy ended up planning, before Trump got caught.

Oh look, it is one of Lev Parnas's receipts, where he wrote ANNOUNCE on the hotel notepad:
2. literally all of Trump's people who were impeachment witnesses said Trump didn't give a fuck about "corruption." He also doesn't give a fuck about Ukraine's war with Russia, except when he's taking Russia's side.

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🍑Here we go! CJ Roberts gaveled in. Swore in sole Senator who was not present on Thursday.

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McConnell announced that trial briefs are at each Senator's desk.

Roberts identifies the documents including the December 18 articles of impeachment, that will be printed in the congressional record.

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Roberts notes that House managers are present in the chambers, and recognized Senate Maj. Leader McConnell who is now speaking.

McConnell's resolution being read. This is the proposal he dropped last night that is NOT the same rules that governed Clinton impeachment

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White House review turns up emails showing extensive effort to justify Trump’s decision to block Ukraine military aid - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/politics/white…
In the early August email exchanges, Mulvaney asked acting OMB director Russell Vought for an update on the legal rationale for withholding the aid & how much longer it could be delayed.

Trump made the decision in July w/o an assessment of the reasoning or legal justification
Emails show Vought + OMB staffers arguing that withholding aid was legal, while officials at the NSC & State Department protested.

OMB lawyers said that it was legal to withhold the aid, as long as they deemed it a “temporary” hold, according to people familiar with the review.
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Sondland Thread: "First, Secretary Perry, Ambassador Volker and I worked with Mr. Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine matters at the express direction of the President of the United States. We did not want to work with Mr. Giuliani. Simply put, we were playing the hand we were dealt."
The suggestion that we were engaged in some sort of “irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false,” says Sondland, who said that top officials at the State Department and National Security Council were deeply engaged in the policy.
💥 "Mr. Giuliani’s requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Z ... Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the President of the United States, and we knew that these investigations were important to the President." Absent: security aid.
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1. Pronounced "CHAR-AH-MELL-AH". Did Adam #Schiff-Head of House Intel forget to take his pills last night? What is going on in this #clown car of an #impeachment? #QAnon & #ThePlan
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Can I get a good law firm job despite horrendous grades?

This is a very frequently asked question. And the answer is yes.

Your grades are relevant at best when you are applying for your first job.

#lawfirm #lawyers #grades #lawsikho
If you are being asked the same in your 2nd and 3rd job, then you must be doing something terribly wrong. If it is relevant even after that, you must be living on another planet, not this one.
And of course, such questions would be asked by either a law student or a greenhorn lawyer with very little understanding of how the profession works.

I do not remember my grades. Neither do most other successful lawyers you will meet.
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