Rachel: Opening impeachment inquiry could help give House access to info currently

[Amaryllis]

being withheld: Testimony, docs, etc. Whether or not they decide to proceed with impeachment may be a strategy to help get all the info being withheld currently.
Adam Schiff on now.

[StarfishSaver]

1. Rachel is awesome and usually dead on. But she's wrong on this

An impeachment inquiry wouldn't doesn't provide access to any additional testimony or documents or offer any additional special "tools" that aren't otherwise available or that would be more likely to force Trump to cooperate.

[Amaryllis]

2. ADam Schiff is up next and he is gonna talk about it so that should provide some good info.

[StarfishSaver]

4. I'm looking forward to what he has to say on this

[Trumpocalypse]

3. Very true

A Congressional subpoena is a Congressional subpoena regardless of the inquiry.

[StarfishSaver]

5. True

I keep trying to get people who claim otherwise to tell me exactly what impeachment proceedings would provide access to that could not otherwise be obtained through the oversight process, but never got an answer.

[manor321]

6. Read the @armandodkos twitter feed

Judges will be more likely to hand over info, including breaking executive privilege, if there is an impeachment inquiry.

[StarfishSaver]

7. No one knows WHAT judges "will be more likely to do"

There is no legal or procedural requirement that a judge "hand over" I fo because it's being requested in connection with an impeachment hearing

And there's no such thing as "breaking executive privilege." It either exists or it doesn't. The nature of the proceeding in which it's being sought is irrelevant. If it's invalid to invoke it in a Congressional impeachment inquiry, it is also invalid to shield against a Congressional oversight hearing.

I don't need to read a Daily Kos contributor (although I did check them out - they don't support their faulty argument). I know the law and Congressional process well.

[EffieBlack]

8. Rachel rarely gets shut down by a guest

Her research and analysis are usually impeccable. But someone on her team let her down tonight. The trial balloon she floated was immediately shot down by Schiff.

[GusBob]

9. Has anything she has ever said on her TV show

Ever mattered or ever made a difference?