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Andrew Desiderio

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2 years

Oof, Bernie on Manchin: “I also find it amusing that Sen. Manchin indicates his worry about the deficit after voting just this week for a military budget of $778 billion, four times greater than Build Back Better over ten years and $25 billion more than the president requested.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just introduced a bill that would “reduce Dr. Fauci’s salary to $0 until a new NIAID administrator is confirmed by the Senate.” The NIAID director’s appointment is not subject to Senate confirmation.

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4 years

Extraordinary comments just now from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) who tells us Mattis’ words were “true, honest, necessary and overdue.” Says she’s struggling with the question of whether to support Trump in 2020.

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3 years

Sen. Lankford (R-Okla.) was incredibly shaken up after that last video of Officer Hodges being crushed. I and other reporters in the chamber observed Lankford appearing to get teary-eyed. Sen. Daines (R-Mont.) was comforting him and was holding his arm.

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2 years

Oooof — McConnell with a not-so-subtle dig at Hawley, who is voting no on Finland/Sweden joining NATO. “If any senator is looking for a defensible excuse to vote no, I wish them good luck. This is a slam dunk for national security that deserves unanimous bipartisan support.”

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4 years

NEW: Ron Johnson says he’ll likely release an interim report within next 1-2 months on his cmte’s Biden probe. He insists it has nothing to do w/ the election, but “if I were a Democrat primary voter I’d want these questions satisfactorily answered before I cast my final vote.”

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3 years

CASSIDY’s statement is very brief: “Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty.”

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Mitt Romney on Trump’s tweet: “It was a shocking thing to say. And I won’t dignify it with any further comments.”

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6 years

Don Lemon's first sentence on his show tonight: "The president of the United States is a racist."

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4 years

NEW: Chief Justice Roberts told senators that he will not read aloud the alleged Ukraine whistleblower’s name or otherwise publicly relay questions that might out him/her—a move that has effectively blocked @RandPaul from asking a question today.

John Roberts blocks mentions of alleged whistleblower's name

Rand Paul has composed questions with the alleged whistleblower's name.

www.politico.com

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2 years

Holy shit. The Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent. If this clears the House, no more changing the clocks twice a year.

Senate Cloakroom

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2 years

Passed by Unanimous Consent, S.623: Sunshine Protection Act, as amended (to make Daylight Saving Time permanent) @SenRubioPress / @SenWhitehouse / others

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10 months

Senate votes 65-28 to approve Kaine/Rubio amendment that would prevent a president from pulling U.S. out of NATO without congressional review.

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11 months

Republican leadership was counting on full attendance today to force VP Harris to come break the tie on Jared Bernstein. But Sen. Tuberville missed the cloture vote just now, so Republicans are furious. Tuberville is headed to Bedminster for Trump’s event tonight…

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2 years

My Jan. 6 experience was very different from that of most other Hill reporters. I was in Georgia covering the Senate runoffs. On Jan. 4, Trump held a rally in NW Georgia for Loeffler & Perdue. This was the WiFi password for press. I will never forget it. (The WiFi didn’t work)

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NEWS—Senate Foreign Relations Chair Menendez is about to call for an immediate freeze of U.S. cooperation w/ Saudi Arabia. Menendez has veto power over foreign weapons sales. “I will not green light any cooperation w/Riyadh until the Kingdom reassesses its position” on Ukraine.

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4 years

Confirmed: State Dept IG Steve Linick was also looking into Trump’s emergency declaration to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. “We don’t have the full picture yet, but it’s troubling that Secretary Pompeo wanted Mr. Linick pushed out before this work could be completed,” Rep Engel says

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5 years

New: Per source in the room, Bill Taylor’s opening statement was 15 pages long and prompted “a lot of sighs and gasps.”

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3 years

Wow — Pelosi announces the House will vote next week to impose FINES on lawmakers who refuse to go thru the new metal detectors installed outside the House chamber. $5,000 for the first offense. $10,000 for the second offense. Deducted from the lawmaker’s salary.

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Andrew Desiderio

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4 years

This is remarkable — a federal judge has ordered DOJ to confer with the WH about its official position on declassification of Russia docs in response to Trump’s tweets. BuzzFeed is seeking access to the *entire* Mueller report based on Trump’s declassification order via tweet.

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6 months

BREAKING — The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote as soon as next week to issue subpoenas as part of its Supreme Court ethics investigation, Chair Durbin announces. Subpoena targets: —Harlan Crow —Leonard Leo —Robin Arkley II Significant escalation of Dem-led probe. More TK.

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4 years

Rosenstein continues to take shots at McCabe, saying he was “not fully candid with me” and “certainly wasn’t forthcoming.”

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4 years

Schiff asks Fiona Hill: “Why are the Russians pushing the narrative that it was Ukraine?” Hill says Russia wants to “delegitimize” the U.S. presidency. “This is exactly what the Russian government was hoping for ... pit one party against the other.”

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5 years

Hmmm… The White House just sent its talking points on Ukraine to House Democrats. Here are some screenshots, per source.

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4 years

BREAKING: Federal judge orders former WH Counsel Don McGahn to testify, shattering the WH’s claims of “absolute immunity.” The long-awaited ruling from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson hands Democrats a big win and pierces the White House’s long-standing blockade on witness testimony.

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3 years

Wow, Ron Johnson picked a fight with Mitt Romney on the Senate floor just now after this witness vote, per pooler @jason_donner “Ron Johnson turned to Mitt Romney and was upset with him, even pointing at him once. Johnson was visibly upset....”

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2 years

Wow. Sen. Cotton is going after Sen. Hawley, though not by name, for voting to allow North Macedonia into NATO in 2019 but now opposing Finland/Sweden. “It would be strange indeed,” Cotton says. “I would love the hear the defense of such a curious vote.”

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5 years

NEWS: Source tells me that after House Republicans tried flooding the SCIF with non-committee members, “many brought their cell phones too into the classified area.” “Stand off in progress,” source adds.

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4 years

Asked Graham about this tweet just now. He reiterated that he’s not going to call in Obama. “I don’t think now’s the time for me to do that. I don’t know if that’s even possible.” He added: “I understand President Trump’s frustration, but be careful what you wish for.”

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama. He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC , just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!

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11 months

Appears there is a Gang of 8 briefing underway in the Capitol. Schumer and McConnell have both headed into the Senate SCIF, as have Intel Committee heads from both chambers.

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3 years

PELOSI threatens impeachment if no action on the 25th Amendment — “If the vice president and cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment.”

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7 years

Gorka on Russian meddling: "You have to move on because people are dying in Syria." @jaketapper : "Russia is killing some of those people."

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3 years

There it is — House impeachment managers deliver article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate, formally triggering a trial.

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3 years

When video played showing cops as human barricade so senators could escape, Sens. Warner and Bennet pointed at the screen, seeming to identify themselves. Sens. Durbin and Gillibrand looked away when Officer Hodges was being crushed.

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4 years

“In case you didn’t see the tweet...”

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4 years

Scoop: The White House asked a Republican senator to block a bill that punishes China over its encroachments in Hong Kong. That senator, Kevin Cramer, obliged, blocking unanimous passage of the bill last week — even though he’s a co-sponsor of it.

GOP senator blocked China sanctions bill he supports, at request of White House

North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer is holding up bipartisan legislation as administration pushes for changes.

www.politico.com

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5 years

VINDMAN: —Has first-hand knowledge —Was on July 25 call —Twice reported concerns to NSC lawyer —Believed Trump undermined U.S. nat'l security —Is an immigrant from the Soviet Union —Served in Iraq & was wounded by roadside bomb —Received a Purple Heart

NSC official testifies Trump undermined national security with Ukraine pressure

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who oversees Ukraine policy at the White House, is appearing before impeachment investigators Tuesday.

www.politico.com

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5 years

NEWS: Former Pompeo adviser Michael McKinley, who resigned last week, will testify in closed session on Wednesday before House impeachment investigators, according to an official working on the inquiry.

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3 years

Big — Biden is about to officially recognize the Armenian genocide.

Biden Preparing to Declare That Atrocities Against Armenia Were Genocide (Published 2021)

The designation for the World War I-era killings would further fray U.S. relations with Turkey, but it is a risk the president appears willing to take to further human rights, officials said.

www.nytimes.com

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9 months

WOW. Alabama’s delegation was worried this would happen due to Sen. Tuberville’s blockade — or other factors, like the state’s restrictive abortion law.

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PRESENTED BY BY PUNCHBOWL NEWS STAFF THE TOP Happy Friday morning. We have a bunch of news to catch you up on. Debt limit: The Biden administration is

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9 months

WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, overturning Trump decision to move it to Alabama, officials tell AP.

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6 years

Nathan Mathis is here outside the Moore event. He tells me his daughter committed suicide and says Roy Moore called her a pervert because she was gay. “My sign says it all,” he said.

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3 years

While those graphic videos were playing, some senators looked away. Other stood up and leaned forward to get a closer look. Earlier, Lankford looked down and shook his head after seeing the video of Ashli Babbitt shot outside the House chamber.

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4 years

NEW: Michael Atkinson just sent this statement to reporters on his removal as inspector general for the intelligence community. He says Trump fired him for “having faithfully discharged my legal obligations.”

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2 years

Goes without saying, there is zero appetite for a no-fly zone among U.S./NATO countries. What they *are* willing to do is send more weapons, drones, etc., which Zelenskyy focused on during the call, per sources. Person on call says Zelenskyy wasn’t “angry” but clearly exhausted

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2 years

NEW: During a call with senators & House members this morning, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy made an emotional plea for a no-fly zone, saying it’s the only option given that Putin is not willing to come to the table for peace talks. Over 300 attendees on the call, per sources

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4 years

“Perhaps we're getting to the point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold internally, and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up,” Murkowski tells us.

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4 years

Pelosi on ABC does not rule out the possibility of impeaching Trump in order to force the Senate to take up a trial, thereby delaying a SCOTUS nomination. “We have our options. We have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now,” she said.

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5 years

BREAKING: Appeals Court has REJECTED Trump’s appeal of the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena for his financial records. Big win for House Democrats.

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1 year

McConnell, unprompted, addresses the Tucker Carlson segment on Jan. 6, saying he wants to “associate myself entirely” with the Capitol Police chief’s letter which criticized the presentation on Fox News last night

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4 years

Sen. Romney unloads over coronavirus testing failures: “It’s very frustrating to me that people go to get a test and have to wait 4-5 days to get the results. That really removes in some respects the whole value of testing.”

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5 years

Nadler to Lewandowski: “Your behavior in this hearing room has been unacceptable.” He says contempt of Congress is on the table.

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5 years

Laura Cooper’s deposition is currently on hold while Republicans remain inside the SCIF apparently trying to negotiate a settlement with Schiff. Source tells me the SCIF is now being swept because of the cell phone violations.

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5 years

NEWS: Cummings tells WH counsel Pat Cipollone the Oversight Committee received documents showing Trump attorneys Sheri Dillon & Stefan Passantino lied to gov’t ethics officials about Michael Cohen’s hush-money payments

Cummings: 2 Trump attorneys may have lied about Cohen payments

Elijah Cummings named Sheri Dillon and Stefan Passantino as the two attorneys who allegedly may have made false statements.

www.politico.com

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BIDEN: “the United States Senate has done the hard work it takes to reach a bipartisan agreement. Now, House Republicans have to decide. Do they want to solve the problem? Or do they want to keep playing politics with the border?”

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Holy moly — Sen. Joni Ernst on Sen. Tuberville: “We have done the best we can to honor the request of a fellow senator that these nominations be brought to the floor & voted on individually. I really respect men of their word. I do not respect men who do not honor their word.”

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5 years

BREAKING: House Judiciary Committee approves resolution spelling out the parameters for its impeachment investigation into President Trump. All Democrats voted aye; all Republicans voted no.

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4 years

Schiff: “The NSA, in particular, is withholding what are potentially relevant documents to our oversight responsibilities on Ukraine, but also withholding documents potentially relevant that the senators might want to see during the trial.”

Schiff says NSA, CIA withholding Ukraine info due to White House pressure

“The intelligence community is beginning to withhold documents from Congress on the issue of Ukraine,” he said.

www.politico.com

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9 months

Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT : “Tuberville is not going to back down. He thinks he’s become a celebrity folk hero for the fringe right…He’s having the time of his life. So if you want the military to function, you’re going to have to find a creative way to get around this guy.”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene just referred to Rep. @davidcicilline , an Italian-American, as “Rep. Mussolini.” Never thought I’d see a lawmaker resort to bigoted attacks against so many ethnic groups as I’ve seen from Greene.

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3 years

This is big — Biden has repeatedly denied this, but McKenzie says it under oath.

Lara Seligman

@laraseligman

3 years

BREAKING: Gen. McKenzie acknowledges reporting that he initially recommended to @POTUS that he maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. His advise was that withdrawal would lead inevitably to collapse of Afghan forces and ultimately the Afghan government

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5 years

Source says the White House just sent a follow-up to “recall” the email to House Democrats containing talking points...

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Sen. Warren exits Senate SCIF after what appears to be a briefing on Russian bounties — “There was no one there who had any information about what information was given to the president or when it was given to him.” She added: “That was NOT a briefing.”

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BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta rules in favor of House Democrats in their subpoena to Mazars for Trump’s financial records. More TK

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NEWS — Group of Senate Republicans will go to the floor TONIGHT to seek unanimous consent on military promotions blocked by Tuberville. Will be led by Sen. Dan Sullivan, I’m told Tuberville will object First major act of defiance from Republicans toward Tuberville’s blockade

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👀 After Don Jr. testimony to Senate Judiciary Cmte, Sen. Chris Coons' office sends out statute on giving false statements to Congress

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5 years

!! Corker: “We have two talk-radio show hosts who basically influenced the president, and we’re in a shutdown mode. It’s just—that’s tyranny, isn’t it?”

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4 years

BREAKING: House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel says Bolton told him on a Sept. 23 call that “the committee look into the recall of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch” and “strongly implied that something improper had occurred around her removal as our top diplomat in Kyiv.”

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🤔 Ben Sasse just now from the Senate floor said he urged Trump to nominate someone different—a woman whom he doesn’t name—instead of Kavanaugh.

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Wow. Question from Romney: “On what specific date did Trump first order the hold on aid to Ukraine, and did he give a reason at that time?” Philbin: “I don’t think that there is evidence in the record of a specific date...”

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5 years

House lawyers say they have reason to believe that Mueller’s grand jury information shows Trump lied under oath.

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3 years

NEW — TUBERVILLE tells reporters he stands by his account of his call with Trump about Pence having just been evacuated.

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3 years

Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen calls Tuberville’s account “hearsay” and blames the House for not investigating.

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6 years

Democrats just successfully tanked a Circuit Court nominee. Extremely rare move from McConnell.

Burgess Everett

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6 years

McConnell WITHDRAWS Bounds nomination (I can hear Democrats literally cheering in Durbin's office)

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4 years

BREAKING: McConnell locks in Sen. Cory Gardner “I have and will continue to support judicial nominees who will protect our Constitution, not legislate from the bench, and uphold the law. Should a qualified nominee who meets this criteria be put forward, I will vote to confirm.”

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Absolutely insane story. A Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter was murdered, and police today searched the home of a top county official who was the subject of the reporter’s recent stories. His car, which matches a description of the one tied to the murder, was just towed away —

Rio Yamat

@rio_yamat

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About 6 hours after @LVMPD began searching the home of @ClarkCountyNV official Rob Telles in connection w/ reporter Jeff German’s slaying, a red GMC matching the description of a vehicle police say was tied to the killing has been towed away.

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SCOOP — NRSC poll presented to GOP senators at lunch today has Ruben Gallego cruising in a 3-person contest w/ Kari Lake & Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Gallego 41 Lake 37 Sinema 17 Daines said poll shows Sinema is splitting the R vote, not D vote w/ @bresreports

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4 years

JUST IN: House Judiciary files motion opposing a stay in the McGahn case, saying “the delay from such a stay would impair the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry.”

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5 years

MORE >> Another source says the sighs & gasps were in reaction to Taylor describing “how pervasive the efforts were to tie an investigation of Burisma and 2016 election ‘interference’ to a White House meeting and aid being released.”

Top U.S. envoy ties Trump directly to Ukraine quid pro quo

William Taylor’s testimony provides some of the most damaging evidence yet in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

www.politico.com

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5:35 a.m. — it’s over. Budget resolution passed Senate 51-50, @VP Harris breaks tie.

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Sen. Rubio says setting up a no-fly zone in Ukraine would lead to World War III. “People have to understand what that means. That means a willingness to shoot down Russian planes. And that would mean World War III.”

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SCHIFF after reading whistleblower complaint: “I found the allegations deeply disturbing. I also found them very credible. I can understand why the IG found them credible ...The complaint was very well written and certainly provides information for the committee to follow up...”

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WHOA. Costello is the lawyer who emailed Michael Cohen saying, “Sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places.” He’s now representing Giuliani.

Rudy W. Giuliani

@RudyGiuliani

5 years

I am represented and assisted by Robert Costello and the Pierce Bainbridge firm in particular , Eric Creizman and Melissa Madrigal.

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Wow—Barr just now: “I have been told during the break that a lesser kind of briefing, a security briefing that generally discusses general threats, apparently was given to the campaign in August” Republicans have routinely questioned why Trump wasn’t briefed. We now know he was

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4 years

Wow. Senate Intel report bluntly states that Manafort associate Konstantin Kilimnik is a Russian intelligence officer. That’s further than Mueller went.

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Trey Gowdy is arguing on Fox News right now that the FBI acted properly when it used a confidential informant for the Trump campaign as part of the counter-intel investigation into Russia’s election interference.

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BREAKING: The U.S. House of Representatives.

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NEW: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a briefing call with House lawmakers just now said Americans have been beaten by the Taliban in Kabul, according to multiple people on the call. Austin called it “unacceptable.”

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Group of House Democrats is out with a statement tonight condemning Ilhan Omar’s recent comments, saying they “give cover to terrorist groups.”

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4 years

More ridiculous press restrictions on Capitol Hill today. Reporters are being blocked from accessing the Senate chamber during the impeachment managers’ walk-through this morning. TV cameras aren’t allowed to shoot any video outside the Senate chamber as the managers enter/exit.

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TikTok CEO is asked whether parent company ByteDance has spied on Americans at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party. “I don’t think ‘spying’ is the right way to describe it,” Shou Chew responds. Incredible.

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Tom Cotton announces he will NOT oppose the Electoral College certification: “Nevertheless, the Founders entrusted our elections chiefly to the states—not Congress. They entrusted the election of our president to the people, acting through the Electoral College—not Congress.”

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Sen. Tillis tells us he has had conversations with House members about a discharge petition if Speaker Johnson won’t put the foreign aid bill on the floor

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BREAKING: House Judiciary votes 24 to 17 to authorize Chairman Nadler to issue a subpoena for the Mueller report & its underlying evidence, and for five former WH officials: Bannon, Priebus, Hicks, McGahn, Donaldson.

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4 years

NEW: Grassley-led bipartisan letter to Trump demands an explanation for the firing of IC IG Michael Atkinson. “Congressional intent is clear that an expression of lost confidence, without further explanation, is not sufficient to fulfill the requirements of the statute.”

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Andrew Desiderio

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SCOOP — Senate Dems are prepping a resolution to send to Rules Cmte that would allow most military promotions blocked by Tuberville to be confirmed en bloc, accelerating the process. Exact scope still being ironed out, but Dem leaders have reached out to interested Republicans.

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Andrew Desiderio

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4 years

White House lawyer Patrick Philbin says Trump “had no opportunity in the House to present any defense.” H.Res. 660 explicitly authorized the president and his attorneys to participate in the Judiciary Committee’s hearings; they declined. Bill text:

Text - H.Res.660 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Directing certain committees to continue their...

Text for H.Res.660 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient...

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Andrew Desiderio

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McConnell with some harsh words for those responsible for the delay in new Ukraine aid: “So much of the hesitation and short-sightedness that has delayed this moment is premised on sheer fiction. And I take no pleasure in rebutting misguided fantasies... Make no mistake: delay…

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Andrew Desiderio

@AndrewDesiderio

4 years

Quick point on Sekulow: he says the House should have waited for the courts to render judgments on their challenges to subpoenas etc. — but the Trump admin has argued in federal court for several months now that the courts have no role in resolving these types of disputes.

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Andrew Desiderio

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Just left the Senate chamber, where I witnessed senators’ real-time reactions to that presentation. A few notes. —Sen. Booker put his hands over his eyes when video played of shooting thru House door —Several senators rubbed their eyes during footage of officer being crushed

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Andrew Desiderio

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NEWS—Tuberville told Senate R’s in closed-door lunch: “Listen, everyone. I got y’all into this mess. I’m gonna get you out.” For first time, Tuberville vows to end military promotions standoff *before* Schumer puts Rules resolution on floor—to avoid putting R’s in tough spot.

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Andrew Desiderio

@AndrewDesiderio

4 years

JUST IN: House Foreign Affairs Committee releases Trump admin’s legal and policy framework for the Soleimani strike. The report does not mention an “imminent threat” against Americans, despite Trump and senior officials citing one after the strike.

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Andrew Desiderio

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4 years

Schumer calls on Chief Justice John Roberts to speak out against Trump’s attacks on Amy Berman Jackson, the judge presiding over the Roger Stone case. “Now would be the time for the chief justice to directly and specifically defend the independence of this federal judge.”

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