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(41,930 posts)Hes laying it right at 45 being a Russian stooge.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Sounds strong, confident and certain.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,652 posts)Third generation diplomat? Damn!
This is powerful!
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)crickets
(25,951 posts)for Ukraine's problems with Russia. Love how he is comparing their situation to the US Revolution.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)He is just doing the money quote right now! Does not believe in using Ukraine to investigate a political opponent.
He is now talking about Burisma...
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)flamingdem
(39,308 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)invincible argument for why interference by Trump and Giuliani was such a serious and un-American crime. It goes against everything we believe in and have historically supported, especially in light of our own origins.
He is laying it out.
llmart
(15,532 posts)Hope he's sweating bullets.
dalton99a
(81,391 posts)bdamomma
(63,791 posts)to putin.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)padah513
(2,494 posts)crickets
(25,951 posts)regarding questions that touch on classified information.
Who is surprised?
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)cstanleytech
(26,224 posts)I do not mean just in federal either I mean State as well by having the DOJ turn over any evidence of state laws that were broken that way pardon for Trump will not protect all of them.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)hibbing
(10,094 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Id pay to watch this.
crickets
(25,951 posts)and to object. His texts re same may have played a big part in saving the country. This man is good people.
I love how his current statement is so passionate, really making the point of how Ukrainian lives have hung in the balance. Trump's games have gotten people killed, and he is making that plain.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)are going to make it very hard for repubs to attack them without looking like pathetic Russian tools.
nolabear
(41,930 posts)Its a history tutorial.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)protests and the deadly consequences. Ukraine wanted to be an EU member.
It's all being tied together and both witnesses are emphasizing how much is at stake.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)Invoked Ghouliani.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)by Putin... He's talking about all the Ukrainian soldiers and (protesting) civilians who've given their lives seeking independence and fighting off Russia's invasion. Powerful stuff.
dalton99a
(81,391 posts)H2O Man
(73,506 posts)This is the America we can and should be.
bdamomma
(63,791 posts)now if anyone wants to continue with new threads. Thanks
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)maryellen99
(3,785 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)Leghorn21
(13,522 posts)AMBASSADOR TAYLOR
Botany
(70,442 posts)Very impressive and detail rich too.
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)Botany
(70,442 posts)GOP on the committee will only tarnish themselves if they try to go after him.
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)impotent. The attempted stalls from the republicans were transparent, desperate, and useless. The republicans are proving there is no defense of the pResident or his actors.
Botany
(70,442 posts)I wonder how deeply involved Nunes is in the Russian stuff?
Schiff is so much more skilled as a lawyer and in parliamentary procedures then Nunes
and the other GOP shits.
Taylor is now bringing in Pence.
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Laid out the Russian attacks.
now bridging to not wanting to return because of politicalization. That policy was changing. That Giuliani was interfering.
Zelensky pushed reforms. Anticorruption court. Constitution changed to remove immunity
Saw two parallel policy channels. The formal channel which has bipartisan support
Unaccountable irregular channel, volker, sondland, perry, guiliani, senator Johnson.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Now we know why he did that disastrous, bizarre interview with Chuck Todd.
sobenji
(316 posts)But he wont.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)realized "the irregular channel was running contrary to long-standing US policy".
crickets
(25,951 posts)taking notes or transcribing the call once President Z. joined it.
Interesting. They knew before the call took place that they were doing something very wrong.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)hibbing
(10,094 posts)budkin
(6,698 posts)This is a true bombshell.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)but is controlling it!
crickets
(25,951 posts)This man is a patriot. He is deeply wounded and revolted by what has been going on.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)and were trashing the whole operation.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Will be slapped down hard when they start asking bs questions. Taylor is pissed as we all should be
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)"WTF is going on here???!!!!!" one.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... is to read with your eyes and head down and show nothing visually.
a kennedy
(29,606 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... Stevenson was textbook during the UN and set the standard for presenting a shock case before humans.
nolabear
(41,930 posts)I hope hes this grave and cool all the way through.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)I don't think he'll divert from his apparently personality!
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)the meeting when "the deal" was discussed.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)aid to them caus he wanted dirt of Biden. Lock him up
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)is that the funds would have expired without some kind of congressional action (that Schiff mentioned apparently happened) because they took funding hold action right up to almost the end of the FY (which was September 30).
bdamomma
(63,791 posts)for a very long time.
onecaliberal
(32,775 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)This testimony is incredible. Naming all the players, includes vp pence!
onecaliberal
(32,775 posts)Botany
(70,442 posts)Is Hadji the whistle blower?
He was clearly in on the scheme.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)hibbing
(10,094 posts)This is brutal, Bolton, Pence, the whole lot of these sleazy traitors!
Peace
Botany
(70,442 posts)... TV machine. And didn't he go to Russia on July 4 2018?
tenaciousdem
(104 posts)I think Bandit is the whistle blower
Botany
(70,442 posts)Just saying.
nolabear
(41,930 posts)The whistleblower is now irrelevant.
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)They know what theyre doing.
MerryBlooms
(11,756 posts)bdamomma
(63,791 posts)was the person calling 911, then the police and ambulance. In simple terms.
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)has more than a bit of explaining to do.
One the one hand, acting in the capacity of a US Senator
And on the other hand, a Trump/Guiliani soldier.
hibbing
(10,094 posts)Taylor is absolutely amazing at laying this offense out. Had to be a public statement by Zelensky, which was already revealed earlier.
Peace
llmart
(15,532 posts)"I'm fucked" while watching these opening statements?
klook
(12,151 posts)So there you have it meeting adjourned!
Or so every Republican will try to say all day...
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)Drumpf is punching someone but tells witnesses "I'm not punching them you know".
crickets
(25,951 posts)Trump was extorting the hell out of Ukraine, and President Z. in particular. I need a shower.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)Taylor describes Zelenskiy as doing good things for Ukraine as its president. Trump pinned Zelenskiy into a horrid situation.
hibbing
(10,094 posts)Holy crap, sorry to be spamming this thread, but WOW!
Peace
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Saying its not quid pro quo is empty words. Trump knows those are bad words so he denies that. But extortion and bribery doesnt require a confession
You can tell someone Im not murdering you and still be committing murder.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Wonder how scums Nunes and Jones are going to attack him. Should be great comedy!
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)These fact are inescapable. I love that Taylor is well able to stitch together salient facts, interactions, unfolding events in a coherent story-form and give it deserved color with his own level-headed disgust, frustration, incredulity, and anger at these anti-democratic shenanigans.
What a recitation!
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yaesu
(8,020 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... will no doubt start their pole dancing now
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)EDIT - their contracted lawyer is NOW on asking questions!
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)An aid overheard a cell phone conversation with trump? How is that secure?
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... we thought we had.
nolabear
(41,930 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)Speak to the people, man.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)Thank you everyone!
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)crickets
(25,951 posts)hope we didn't cross each other
BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)crickets
(25,951 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,382 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)death, with the world order.
Bayard
(22,004 posts)Just got here. Power went off this morning, and just came back. I'm assuming something froze in 17 degree temps. My first thought was--I'll miss the hearing!
Will have to look for Kent's and Schiff's opening statements. Sounds like they were quite good. Watching questioning now.
jayschool2013
(2,311 posts)"Nothing burger!!"
"So they disagreed with our president and now they want to impeach!?!?!?"
"Is it just me or does #AmbassadorTaylor have a "tell" when he lies. Which, in my opinion, is a lot."
#secondhandnews
#impeachmentsham
They're beyond reason.