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6 Jan, 21 tweets, 7 min read
Call for impeachment from R.I. congressman
Ayanna Pressley joins in calling for impeachment
.@IlhanMN too
.@CoriBush is introducing a resolution to expel Republican members of Congress "who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election"

.@sethmoulton adds his name to pro-impeachment.
Throw in @RepMarkTakano for impeachment. 6 Dem members so far from @IlhanMN to @sethmoulton

Inbox: @Carolyn4GA7 calls for impeachment too. That's 7. Image
Wexton plus @RepCohen (per @Bencjacobs ) makes 8.
.@RepKClark, who's in Dem House leadership, calls for Trump's "removal"

“Donald Trump is a traitor to our country and our Constitution. He must be removed from office and prevented from further endangering our country and our people.”
Another Dem in support of impeachment.
Pocan is another.
We're at 11 ( if you include Clark, 12, but she didn't use the i-word).
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first Senator I've seen call for impeachment. Ed Markey.
AOC makes 20.

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3 Jan
Liz Cheney sent a memo to GOP Reps. this morning addressing the GOP challenges to biden’s victory.

“This is directly at odds with the Constitution’s clear text and our core beliefs as Republicans.”

“The recent proposal for a new “Commission” is even more problematic”
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The memo is 21 pages long and goes through each challenge in AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI.
Re: “the commission”
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1 Jan
On New Years Eve, Biden team dumps a bunch of financial disclosures for nominees including SoS Tony Blinken and DNI Avril Haines
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NEWS in tn's TP w/ @theodoricmeyer

Our look at the secret Biden power broker who's been quietly shaping the transition from the beginning: Mark Gitenstein.

he's been especially involved in DoJ and been pushing for Jones, an official tells @tylerpager

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His relationship w/ Biden goes back over 40 years as chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary committee (he was an architect of derailing Bork)
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Biden going old-school and meeting with newspaper columnists including @GeraldFSeib
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To the doubters, he says: "I’m going to be able to get stuff done in the environment none of you are going to believe,” he said, citing in particular changing views within the business community. “I could not have gotten it done six years ago.”
.@ktumulty was also part of the group.
She reports that Biden noted that he has taken some criticism for stocking his administration with many familiar figures
“One reason you need old hands is the old hands know where the old bodies might be buried.”

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NEWS in tn's TP

Forget the last relief package, the early battle lines are being drawn for the Biden stimulus

Trump-Hill sniping delays "The Plum Book." It still hasn't published.

The Biden team's reading list (which includes Michael Lewis' 5th Risk)

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11 Nov 20
NEW in tonight's TrAnSiTION playBOOK:
In 2016, Ron Klain chose Hillary over Joe and admitted: “I am definitely dead to them—but I’m glad to be on Team HRC.”
Now, he's been resurrected and the frontrunner to be Biden's Chief of Staff.
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