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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums***IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARING NOV 19 THREAD (AFTERNOON SESSION) 8***
Thread #2 (afternoon) here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212705274
ROUND 2 - Kurt Volker and Timothy Morrison
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ROUND 1 threads -
#1 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212702820
#2 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212703086
#3 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212703544
#4 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212703876
#5 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212704180
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)tavernier
(12,388 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)Mersky
(4,981 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)Those who took notes (2 staffers) and him who did not...
onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)Mersky
(4,981 posts)...disavow....
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)regarding "investigations".
crickets
(25,976 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)He is being very careful when stumbling over his words.
crickets
(25,976 posts)Wonder why...
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)crickets
(25,976 posts)The check was never on Trump's desk. It was in Congress' purse, written and ready to go.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)Vindman. Now people are home and they see these witnesses that are more favorable to Trump. Im not watching but it seems like the comments regarding Vindman were more positive this morning.
Siwsan
(26,262 posts)leftieNanner
(15,091 posts)By the GOP!
Siwsan
(26,262 posts)Just another case of a reality ass bite.
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)madaboutharry
(40,210 posts)He is so fucking stupid.
elleng
(130,895 posts)you DID help write the rules.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)Those pesky facts
Mersky
(4,981 posts)Morrison responded, tracking...
And claims that was about tracking needing a meeting.
Right. Okay.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)and apparently MooMoo skipped over that part.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)allowed the cow to jump over the moon!
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)Mersky
(4,981 posts)Uh, no, you cant recycle menacing mustache boltons language like that. Too derivative.
crickets
(25,976 posts)I also thought he was childish of Nunes to call them "magic minutes" and try to pass time to someone else, when he knows very well that it's against the rules.
eta - bwahaha ! Schiff quotes Bolton to Volker to get the record straight on who called what a "drug deal."
Mersky
(4,981 posts)When in doubt, project, project, project.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Because Nunes is desperately trying to project it onto the Dems.
Mersky
(4,981 posts)Could be. Very well could be so.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)I'm expecting Faux to pick it up and run with it.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)elleng
(130,895 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)BuffaloJackalope
(818 posts)there was no linkage between the aid & the phony Biden investigation - even after pretty much every witness says there was.
They think that just saying the quid pro quo isn't a quid pro quo, then there was no quid pro quo.
onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)madaboutharry
(40,210 posts)Volker is all over the place trying to cover his ass.
Now that he was a terrible witness for the republicans, the republicans want to make him the democrats witness.
crickets
(25,976 posts)Schiff gets Morrison, too - "It's not hypothetical. Read the transcript!" Ha.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)madaboutharry
(40,210 posts)"Oh shit, I want to go home so badly!"
crickets
(25,976 posts)These two are not comporting themselves well. The longer the questioning goes on, the less either one of them is able to keep it together.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)They are collapsing before our eyes.
Bluepinky
(2,268 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)Answer from both - No.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)trying to cover his ass for his actions before and to stay outta trouble now
Roland99
(53,342 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)Bluepinky
(2,268 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)Unfortunately, if the Clinton impeachment is an example, it would have to go to a member of House Judiciary.
dchill
(38,489 posts)So...
mucifer
(23,542 posts)I guess because he isn't bowing to the king
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)In addition to looking up and choking on his words.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)ancianita
(36,055 posts)"doesn't believe" 45 said the word "corruption."
crickets
(25,976 posts)whether the prez said 'corruption' or not. He really didn't want to answer that.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)re: Bolton talking about a "drug deal".
ancianita
(36,055 posts)and Ukraine looking so nervous. It's the suspect behavior of a coward.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)madaboutharry
(40,210 posts)He is twisting himself into a pretzel trying to tow the republican line while not lying too much.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)and a Bolton devotee/groupee...
So this is really confusing the hell out of them.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Wow. What do they have on Morrison and Volker?
onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)catbyte
(34,383 posts)Attempting to fall on his sword to protect his "superiors."
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)He is just rambling on.... I guess about the whistleblower.
He sounded like this -
Bluepinky
(2,268 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Mersky
(4,981 posts)And skip the fishing
polichick
(37,152 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)The horror
onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)elleng
(130,895 posts)crickets
(25,976 posts)should be a "level playing field" for both parties, that Schiff knows who WB is [lie] and that anonymity does not preclude testimony. Insulting both Pelosi and Schiff, whine, whine, whine. Schiff calmly has whistleblower statute added to the record and moves on.
eta - I thought the whistleblower offered to testify in writing anyway, wtf.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)and requiring that for any meeting/money.
crickets
(25,976 posts)uponit7771
(90,336 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)uponit7771
(90,336 posts)... a valid reason to investigate Burisma but not the Bidens?!
They've lost me ... it sounds like Jordan is now off into conspiracy theory shit
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)Trying to split hairs that it is fine for Ukrainians to investigate Burisma for corruption "by other Ukrainians" but he skips over the part about investigating Biden that Drumpf demanded.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)I picked a great time to see if the mail was finally here. Completely missed Gym.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)and their superiors
Vindman is perfectly non partisan
Williams was in VP Pences office.
Both of them testified to the inappropriateness and wrongness of the call and the request
But these two saw nothing wrong???
onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)Ukrainians being investigated.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)dchill
(38,489 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Ok. Yeah. In August when they were seated
When was aid released??
The release of aid was NOT contingent upon them addressing corruption. It was contingent upon trumps ask for a Biden investigation
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)Mersky
(4,981 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)last of their show for the day!
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)Carson pulling up the texts.
Bluepinky
(2,268 posts)Jim Jordan uses the buzz words the MAGAs love, the hard earned taxpayer dollars, funny they dont care that Trump doesnt pay his taxes.
Im not disparaging Jim Carrey, he could play a really creepy Jim Jordan, complete with screaming, arm lunges and head rolls.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)He was NOT in the government. Not appointed. Nothing.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)crickets
(25,976 posts)as though he actually belongs anywhere in the loop. Volker can't seem to stay on message.
BumRushDaShow
(128,960 posts)gademocrat7
(10,657 posts)budkin
(6,703 posts)They can't have it both ways.