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116th question from @SenatorCollins et al. to both: are there circumstances in which president could investigate political rival not already under investigation?

@RepAdamSchiff: "Hard for me to contemplate circumstances were that would be appropriate."

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@SenatorCollins @RepAdamSchiff Here's @RepAdamSchiff arguing in the @washingtonpost last year that the Obama administration's investigation (later found to have lied to FISA court) of then-candidate Trump was necessary: washingtonpost.com/opinions/adam-…

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@SenatorCollins @RepAdamSchiff @washingtonpost Philbin: Trump asked about a situation in which @JoeBiden fired a prosecutor. Regardless, yes! -- a situation could arise. It would be in our national interest to have info about bad overseas conduct by candidate, even non-criminal.

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92nd question, from Indiana senators to both sides: why is the ICIG transcript from House being kept secret?

@RepAdamSchiff: no real answer. Said could have included bribery, but that "abuse of power" is "HIGHEST" crime. [Absurd: where in Constitution?]

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@RepAdamSchiff This is literally nuts.

@RepAdamSchiff is trying to argue that "abuse of power" is not only included in "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," but that it is a HIGHER crime than "Treason." Or "Bribery."

The Constitution did not mention "abuse of power."

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@RepAdamSchiff Sekulow: House managers have repeatedly said "overwhelming" evidence etc.

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Democrats on the House Rules committee are about to defeat a Republican amendment to allow the President's counsel to participate in ALL relevant impeachment inquiry hearings, not just Judiciary at the end bit.ly/322Zd5k via @BreitbartNews
@BreitbartNews Their response to Republican objections is to claim that the House majority has power to do whatever they want, therefore complaints about fairness and due process rights really don't matter, so suck it up, America
@BreitbartNews Democrats are also trying to claim due process does not apply in the House, which they liken to a "grand jury" (there is some basis for that). The Republicans point out, correctly, that a) impeachment is not ordinary crime; b) if it's like a grand jury, why are Democrats leaking?
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Correcting @CNN: Trump was asked about Charlottesville in a press conference in August 2017 after riots broke out between left-wing and right-wing groups over a weekend of protests and counter-protests around the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Neo-Nazis and white supremacists joined the group protesting against the statue’s removal; “Antifa” radicals joined the group protesting against the statue and against the far-right extremists.
The resulting violence, including the murder of one left-wing protester by a neo-Nazi, was almost predictable, after local officials declined to provide adequate police protection.
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🍑 Here we go. Day 3 of the Trump Impeachment Hearings. Chair @RepAdamSchiff gaveled in at 9:08 am.

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@RepAdamSchiff Chair Schiff begins with the same procedural comments and now starts his opening statement in the Impeachment Inquiry of Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States.

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@RepAdamSchiff Schiff centers his remarks on the two investigations that Trump wanted announced by Ukraine in exchange for the aid.

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Political Journalism is Dead | The American Conservative theamericanconservative.com/articles/polit… via @amconmag
@amconmag Max Boot in The Washington Post wrote what we have all known for some time: real journalism, Jefferson’s informed citizenry and all that, is dead. The job has shifted to aspirational writing, using manipulated droplets of facts and just plain made-up stuff to drive events.
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Holy crap.... What the hell could he have promised that set off alarm bells like it did?

For the paywall blocked people. Since this is such a massive story.

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"Multiple acts"
"Series of actions"

"It involves in part a commitment that Mr. Trump made in a communication with another world leader"

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Well, there you go. Ukraine. Ghouliani. Biden. Zelensky. Blackmail.

Two weeks before the whistleblower complaint, Trump called Ukranian President, Zelensky, a call which is already under investigation by the House

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.@RepAdamSchiff accuses top intel official of illegally withholding 'urgent' whistleblower complaint

even after the intel community's inspector general characterized the complaint as credible and of "urgent concern." politico.com/story/2019/09/…
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