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Unredacted Ukraine emails show Elaine McCusker serves our country and the rule of law with honor.

White House just pulled the plug on her nomination.

"McCusker featured prominently in emails, published by The New York Times and Just Security."

politico.com/news/2020/03/0…
Two reasons White House might be taking this action:

1. Another retaliation against/purging official who followed the law on Ukraine.

2. As @connorobrienNH report notes, "confirmation hearing would have given" Senators "a rare opening" to question official on Ukraine aid.
@connorobrienNH Watch this space.

Does McCusker stay on in her current position as Senate-confirmed Deputy Under Secretary of Defense?
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I wish

I wish would Fauci say that

But @andersoncooper's Q explicitly bracketed federal role: "whether there should be a federally mandated directive for that or not I guess that's more of a political question, just scientifically doesn't everybody have to be on the same page"
2. Fauci's reply:

"As you said, the tension between federally mandated versus states rights to do what they want IS SOMETHING I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO. But if you look at what is going on in this country, I do not understand why we are not doing that. We really should be."
3. I wish Fauci would have called for a federally mandated stay at home order, because without it ... while the White House is dithering ... many more lives will be lost.

The @IHME_UW model Birx and Fauci laud assumes all 50 states adopt aggressive measures to flatten the curve.
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Great piece of reporting (@KannoYoungs @AnaSwanson)

Shows “hundreds of thousands of times” Trump admin invoked #DefenseProductionAct for body armor for border agents, drones etc.

But Trump has balked at doing it for nurses, doctors on covid frontlines!
nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/…
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FEMA, HHS discussed DPA in training, but Hall often had to press his superiors to prepare for its use in the event a pandemic.
3. Also Larry Hall “said such caution had allowed understanding of the law’s powers to atrophy.”

Hall “retired in August [2019] as the director of the Defense Production Act program division at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”
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After Putin claimed coronavirus under control, Moscow and now all of Russia impose aggressive lock downs

Justice Dept, SEC probes Senators who sold stocks after covid briefings

@JacksonDiehl pens harsh critique of Pompeo

@just_security's Early Edition:
justsecurity.org/69453/the-earl…
2. "Heads of all Russia’s regions should adopt similar restrictions as those announced in the capital and surrounding areas, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a televised meeting with deputy premiers."

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bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Adam Schiff, Eliot Engel, Carolyn Maloney, Acting Chair

Released transcripts of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
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