🧵Jan. 6 comm to Jim Jordan: “We understand that you had at least one & possibly multiple communications with Pres. Trump on Jan. 6th. We would like to discuss each such communication with you in detail. & we also wish to inquire about any communications you had
“on January 5th or 6th with those in the Willard War Room, the Trump legal team, White House personnel or others involved in organizing or planning the actions and strategies for January 6th.” january6th.house.gov/sites/democrat…
“…you may also have info about meetings with WH officials & the then-President in Nov. & Dec. 2020, & early-Jan. 2021, about strategies for overturning the results of the 2020 election. We would also like to ask you about any discussions involving the possibility of
“presidential pardons for individuals involved in any aspect of January 6th or the planning for January 6th.”
pardons like the ones Bannon, Flynn and others got?
“When you were asked during a Rules Comm. hearing on Oct. 20, 2021, whether you’d be willing to share with the Select Comm. the info you have re: Jan. 6th & the events leading up..you responded, ‘I’ve said all along, ‘I have nothing to hide.’ I’ve been straightforward all along.’
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🧵Haaretz military reporter Amos Harel speaking to Israel Policy podcast’s Neri Zilber on ex israeli generals’ ‘surrender or starve plan’ for north Gaza having kind of been absorbed into IDF thinking, even as top brass denies it: 1/
Harel: “My fear is…the ‘generals’ plan’ … there's talk of starving the population, of pushing the population by force to the south, all kinds of crazy ideas…. this has somehow infiltrated the IDF line of thinking. 2/
“& although I've heard even today..serving generals denying any kind of plan going on, the soldiers who are actually in the field that are talking to us, some of them are very worried about this outcome.
🧵VP Kamala Harris, on call with Jewish voters: “I am clear eyed: Iran is a destabilizing and dangerous force. When Donald Trump was president, he let Iran off the hook. 1/
Harris: “After Iran and its proxies attacked US bases and American troops, Trump did nothing; and he pulled out of the nuclear deal, without any plan, leading to an unconstrained Iranian nuclear program.
“On the other hand, our administration struck Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria when they attacked American troops, and we are the first administration to ever directly defend Israel. On April 13, I joined President Biden and our national security team for more than five hours as we and a coalition of nations that we brought together responded to Iran's unprecedented attack.
🧵New from me: US wary as Israel plans retaliation against Iran
US Israel relations at ‘rock bottom’ as Israel PM Netanyahu blocks Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from traveling to Washington for consultations on Iran.
When US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer, NSC Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk and a half dozen other top Biden advisors arrived at the Israeli embassy Monday for a memorial event to mark the one year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks, the optics were of close American Israeli solidarity. But there were signs too of the tremendous strain that the relationship between the highest levels of the two governments are under at the current moment, strain that seemed at times personal.
Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog referred to “disagreements” between the US & Israeli governments, saying he told Sullivan when they arose that Israel considered itself to be facing an “existential” threat. open.substack.com/pub/diplomatic…
🧵US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan became emotional speaking at an Israel embassy memorial event on the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks. He said he was humbled by the resilience and determination of the families of the American hostages held by Hamas. And he spoke of, for the government of Israel, “the challenge going forward” of “turning tactical wins” into enduring strategic gains.
Also attending from US gov: deputy national security advisor Jon Finer, Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk, Asst. Sec. State NEA Barbara Leaf, DoD’s Dan Shapiro, the chairs of the Senate and House foreign relations committees, Steny Hoyer….
Blinken advisor Ned Price.
Israel ambassador Michael Herzog said lsrael before and after Oct. 7 were “two different countries.” The govt of Israel believes they face “an existential challenge.” He said when he and Jake Sullivan have had disagreements, and they have had disagreements, he tells him “it is because, for us, this is an existential war.”
Good Walz answer: Those that were closest to Donald Trump understand how dangerous he is when the world is this dangerous. His chief of staff John Kelly said that he was the most flawed human being he'd ever met; and both of his secretaries of defense and his national security advisers said he should be nowhere near the white house.
Good Walz follow up: When Donald Trump was in office, it was Donald Trump who—we had a coalition of nations that had boxed Iran's nuclear program in the inability to advance it. Donald Trump pulled that program and put nothing else in its place. So Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than they were before, because of Donald Trump's fickle leadership.
Walz: And when Iran shot down an American aircraft in international airspace, Donald Trump tweeted, because that's the standard diplomacy of Donald Trump. And when Iranian missiles did fall near US troops and they received traumatic brain injuries, Donald Trump wrote it off as headaches.
🧵NSC’s John Kirby: As has been reported recently, dozens of Russian military personnel have been trained in Iran to use the Fath-360 close range ballistic missile system. Russia has received these shipments of Iranian Fath-360 close range ballistic missiles, and will probably employ them within weeks against Ukraine, which will of course, lead to the deaths of even more Ukrainian civilians, particularly because of the way they use ballistic missiles against civilian infrastructure.
Kirby: Moscow possesses an array of its own ballistic missiles, but the supply of these Iranian missiles, which have a maximum range of about 75 miles, could allow Russia to use more of its arsenal for targets beyond the front line, while employing Iranian warheads for closer range targets.
Kirby: This is obviously deeply concerning, and it certainly speaks to the manner in which this partnership threatens European security and how it illustrates Iran's destabilizing influence now…well beyond the Middle East.