MADDOW-Needlepoint this: "You can't promote anti-corruption without pissing off corrupt people"

[kpete]

REP. CARSON: Now, some in the Ukraine probably disliked her efforts to help Ukraine root out corruption, is that correct?

KENT: As I mentioned in my testimony, you can't promote principled anti-corruption action without pissing-off corrupt people.

Rep. Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana, asked him whether some of those people helped Giuliani smear the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

“Correct,” Kent said.

Taylor also was asked about corruption and answered that it existed in every country, "including ours."


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Top-Moments-Trump-Impeachment-Hearing-564884052.html

[mopinko]

1. i have said before that her graphics team is in a league of it's own, but that one-

those people deserve a big raise and a fucking emmy nom.
i'm not kidding.

i was just thinking about tweeting to give them a raise. they are just so good, and when you think about how much time they have to do it. damn.

[babylonsister]

2. Perfect. Love it! nt

[crickets]

3. Kent and Welch win for well placed zingers of the day.

Also of note in that article:

One of Taylor’s staff members overheard E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland talking to Trump on a cell phone on July 26, the day after Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president [snip]

Taylor did not identify the aide, but NBC News says it was David Holmes, a State Department official just added to the calendar to testify in closed session Friday. Holmes is the counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

Boom. Each hearing will provide more breadcrumbs to the next information bomblet, and the next...