Here's Tony dancing around being tested for COVID at the White House before he went to the FBI.
Then Tony B claims there were 6--sometimes 7!!!--FBI agents in the room (there were not 7 FBI agents in the room)--and all of them got his testimony wrong.
Then Tony thinks better of accusing 7 FBI agents (or even just two) of lying.
Now Tony is REALLY thinking better of accusing 7, or maybe just 2, FBI agents of lying.
It is, in fact, just a wild coinkydink Stefan Passantino is guy whom Cassidy Hutchinson said encouraged her to be less than candid, bc Passantino APPEARS to have gotten Jamie Comer to agree he won't be questioned abt meeting in ski mask with Mark Meadows Hutchinson revealed.
Then Dems ask whether Tony knows what WSJ concluded abt his claims of Joe Biden involvement in SinoHawk.
Now Tony wants to accuse WSJ of lying which, to be sure, is safer than accusing 2 real and 5 fake FBI agents of lying.
Note, I think the very good Dem staffers are as sick of Goldman as they are of Bobulinski at this point.
Tony says Mark Meadows didn't hand him anything.
Add Cassidy Hutchinson to the list of liars: 2+5 FBI agents and the WSJ.
Super duper important: Tony said the top WFO guy told him there were FBI agents in Baltimore he wanted to talk to.
He had been told abt the investigation, which was not yet public.
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Note that, contrary to common myths about the investigation into Trump, this subpoena PRECEDED Cassidy Hutchison's public testimony (and even Greg Jacob's, by a day).
The precedents were all set before Jack Smith was appointed.
Here's an interesting, almost entirely argument that bears on the immunity case. Trump was invoking Executive Privilege but (as Howell laid out) he was having such convos w/people outside of Exec, like Rudy.
Howell ordered second batch of witnesses to testify on November 19. Trump asked for a stay on December 7. In the interim, witnesses testified. That almost certainly means they are 2 Pats & likely Eric Herschmann (which is consistent w/public timeline).
Liz Cheney, Maria Shriver, and Kamala Harris sitting on a stage talking about bipartisanship.
One dynamic of this I've been tracking is this: Harris SHOULD NOT be talking nitty gritty abt Jan6 bc of the prosecution. Well, Cheney is the expert. And she speaks it well.
As she did, guy in back was nodding over and over.
Cheney: In this election, we need to elect the responsible adult.
We learned last week (from the NYT, among others!) that Trump is bypassing transition laws, meaning he--and his sons, the Saudi business partners and transition team members--could just get payments from the Saudis all the way until inauguration.
This is a legit question. First, gap arises from delays that were inevitable w/president and first attempt to prosecute one. That took 21 months at least.
Also, it's POSSIBLE Smith is avoiding indicting anyone else until he's sure Trump can't pardon them.
There are VERY subtle suggestions in the immunity filing that several people started cooperating after being exposed in state cases. But Mueller investigation is testament to why you can't cooperate your way up to Trump.
Or let me sum up delay better: 1) Trump conspired through lawyers. Each lawyer's phone/email took 9 months of privilege review. 2) Trump hid behind exec privilege: That took 10 months. 3) Immunity Q had to be decided. That has taken a year, so far.