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Senators appear interested in moving the House FISA deal this week ahead of the March 15 deadline.

Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) says it’ll “depend on how many procedural roadblocks some of our members might want to throw up.”

Clear nod to Rand Paul & Mike Lee.

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Thune says Barr has NOT yet met w/ senators on this, but... “I think it’s important we not let those authorities lapse. That would have obviously been last resort and worst-case scenario, but we’ve been hoping all along they would get a deal. And evidently they have.”

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With FISA provisions expiring on March 15, Mike Lee says of the House deal:

“Based on earlier drafts of it, I don’t like it at all. But I haven’t seen this one yet.”

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Mike Lee asks for unanimous consent for a 45-day FISA extension. Sen. Burr objects.

FISA will lapse on Sunday.
“I’ll let us go dark,” Burr says, noting that with the Senate coming back next week they can get the House-passed FISA bill passed.
Lee asks again for unanimous consent for a 45-day FISA extension.

Burr objects again.
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NEWS: Ron Johnson says today’s subpoena vote on Biden/Burisma docs is postponed to allow for additional briefings.
Committee source says they still plan to issue the subpoena, even without a committee vote.

“In the meantime, we believe a subpoena to Blue Star is a bipartisan path forward.”
TO CLARIFY: Johnson appears to be altering the subpoena. Initially he wanted to go for Telizhenko directly, but now the subpoena will target the firm, Blue Star, directly, according to a committee source.
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NEWS: Acting DNI Ric Grenell was pulled from a list of officials briefing the Senate on election security today at 4pm, per source. He was replaced with acting NCSC director William Evanina.
Here are the briefers, per source:

DNI: Evanina
OSD: Rapuano
FBI: Wray
DOJ: Demers
CISA: Krebs
NSA/CYBERCOM: Nakasone
DHS: Wolf
h/t @MarquardtA who was first to report Grenell no longer expected as a briefer
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Good morning from D.C.
The impeachment trial reconvenes at 1PM ET.
Here are the broadstrokes of what we can expect:
When trial resumes, WH defense and impchmt mgrs get 2 hours each to make presentations Then, a vote on witnesses expected in early evening, 5-6PM ET.
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Senate Majority Whip John Thune laid out potential procedure for Friday night -- assuming the witness vote goes down. This is still fluid, subject to change and there is still a fair amount of uncertainty, according to Thune.

But process he laid out potentially looks like this:
He said that after four hours of debate, then there will be a vote on whether to call witnesses and seek documents.

Assuming that key vote fails, then he thinks that each side may want to huddle and discuss their next steps.
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“I don’t think that anything that he’s going to say changes the fact..I think people kind of know what the fact pattern is.”
Pressed on Bolton reportedly being able to provide a first-hand account of Trump linking military aid to investigations: “I think there’s already on the record from the House managers that sort of evidence. He could reinforce it. He could put different context to it.”
Thune: “If you start calling him, then the Democrats are going to want to call Mulvaney and want to call Pompeo .. and our guys are going to want to start calling witnesses on the other side to illuminate their case.”
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🌊🗳️Overview of the Democratic positions after the 2018 Blue Wave Elections. Heading into the 2018 Election, the Senate had a Republican majority. There were 51 Republicans plus the Vice President, 47 Democrats and 2 Independents that caucus with the Democrats so basically 51-49.
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