LIVE THREAD: Impeachment Inquiry DAY 4

[Bigun]

I need a break my hand is cramping

I need a break because my brain is turning to mush listening to this Sgt. Schultz (I know nothing) witness.

[XenaLee]

It's all about sound-bites, that's all the sheeple hear.  Facts don't matter.

It's the atypical and usual DemocRat Smear Campaign.   Nothing new, really.

[mystery-ak]

Quin Hillyer liked
Washington Examiner
@dcexaminer
"We now know that the president, in fact, committed the crime of bribery... So, this obviously has been one of those bombshell days."

-- Ken Starr

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Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
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21m
Case closed ⇨ Ambassador Sondland just testified under oath that he NEVER heard the president say there were conditions on aid to Ukraine.

Democrats' smear campaign is falling apart.

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Debra J. Saunders Retweeted
Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
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2m
Clarification: Starr was quoting Schiff in the first part of what he said below, but added that he would assume new articles of impeachment would now be drawn up, describing today’s testimony as “bombshell.”

Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
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Ken Starr, lead prosecutor in Clinton impeachment hearings: “There is now proof that the President (Trump) committed the crime of bribery...This has been one of those bombshell days.”

[Bigun]

Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
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21m
Case closed ⇨ Ambassador Sondland just testified under oath that he NEVER heard the president say there were conditions on aid to Ukraine.

Democrats' smear campaign is falling apart.

Ken Starr must be hallucinating!

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Joel B. Pollak
@joelpollak
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5m
Sondland: "Trump never told me directly that the aid was conditioned” on investigations; “I never heard from President Trump that aid was conditioned on an announcement”; “I don’t recall President Trump ever talking to me about any security assistance, ever.”

[dfwgator]

Ken Starr must be hallucinating!

Ken Starr should be in jail for what happened at Baylor on his watch.

[don-o]

Quin Hillyer liked
Washington Examiner
@dcexaminer
"We now know that the president, in fact, committed the crime of bribery... So, this obviously has been one of those bombshell days."

-- Ken Starr

Hasn't this already been debunked as Starr quoting Schiff?

[mystery-ak]

Jonathan Allen
@jonallendc
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1m
Sondland, under questioning from Schiff, notes that Mulvaney has said (before cleanup) that the aid was conditioned.

[mystery-ak]

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
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1m
SCHIFF pushes back on Nunes: "No one thinks they're talking about a literal drug deal here. Or a drug cocktail. The import, I think, of [Amb. Bolton's] comments is quite clear, that he believed that this bargain, this quid pro quo ... was not something he wanted to be a part of."

[Bigun]

Joel B. Pollak
@joelpollak
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5m
Sondland: "Trump never told me directly that the aid was conditioned” on investigations; “I never heard from President Trump that aid was conditioned on an announcement”; “I don’t recall President Trump ever talking to me about any security assistance, ever.”

This needs to be repeated over and over again!

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Kurt Eichenwald
@kurteichenwald
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1m
In the history of the world, no one got less for a million dollars than Sondland. Hell, they could use the money he gave Trump to build Sondland's own prison cell if he is convicted of perjury for his previous testimony. (But those who fix their testimony rarely are.)

[mystery-ak]

Mark Meadows
@RepMarkMeadows
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4m
Critical from Steve Castor, noting Sondland has no notes, no records, and barely any recollection. The "trifecta of unreliability."

In fact, the things he DOES remember clearly are exonerating for POTUS (POTUS never ordered political investigations, said he wanted nothing, etc)

[Bigun]

Ken Starr should be in jail for what happened at Baylor on his watch.

  Absolutely!

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Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
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6m
"THIS IS THE FINAL WORD FROM THE PRES OF THE U.S."

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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
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8m
SCHIFF: You've testified Mulvaney was aware of this quid pro quo, of this condition, the Ukrainians had to meet ...
SONDLAND: Yeah, a lot of people were aware of it.
SCHIFF: Including Mr. Mulvaney?
SONDLAND: Correct.
SCHIFF: And including the Sec'y of State?
SONDLAND: Correct.

[mystery-ak]

His 15mins...he sure is enjoying this

[Bigun]

Linked article with video....

KYIV. Nov 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian members of parliament have demanded the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, investigate suspicions of the legalization of $7.4 billion by the "family" of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych through the American investment fund Franklin Templeton Investments, which they said has ties to the U.S. Democratic Party.

At a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Wednesday, MP Andriy Derkach announced that deputies have received new materials from investigative journalists about international corruption and the participation of Ukrainian officials in it.

"Last week, November 14, the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), unnoticed by the media, announced a new suspicion to the notorious owner of Burisma, ex-Ecology Minister Zlochevsky. According to the suspicion, the Yanukovych family is suspected, in particular, with legalizing (laundering) of criminally obtained income through Franklin Templeton Investments, an investment fund carrying out purchases of external government loan bonds totaling $7.4 billion," Derkach said.

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Rudy Giuliani
@RudyGiuliani
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1m
I came into this at Volker’s request. Sondland is speculating based on VERY little contact. I never met him and had very few calls with him, mostly with Volker.

Volker testified I answered their questions and described them as my opinions, NOT demands. I.E., no quid pro quo!

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Kurt Eichenwald
@kurteichenwald
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2m
That no special counsel has been appointed in a case now implicating Trump, Perry, Pompeo, Mulvaney & many others is  most solid proof yet of the corruption of AG Bill Barr and @TheJusticeDept
. No one can push to appoint one because Barr has made it clear he won't abide by law.

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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
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20s
GOLDMAN: You certainly understood ... It was the president's direction and instruction that a W.H. meeting with President Zelensky would not occur until President Zelensky announced publicly the investigations that the president wanted. Is that right?
SONDLAND: That's correct.

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Josh Holmes
@HolmesJosh
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1m
Sondland just popped the Dem balloon 3 hours in.

[mystery-ak]

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
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1m
There are 2 governments operating in Washington, 1 operating above ground and voter-approved -- The Trump Administration -- and 1 operating underground and against voters -- The Interagency