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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
(128,844 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)tavernier
(12,377 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)Mersky
(4,980 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)Those who took notes (2 staffers) and him who did not...
onecaliberal
(32,826 posts)Mersky
(4,980 posts)...disavow....
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)regarding "investigations".
crickets
(25,962 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)He is being very careful when stumbling over his words.
crickets
(25,962 posts)Wonder why...
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)crickets
(25,962 posts)The check was never on Trump's desk. It was in Congress' purse, written and ready to go.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)helpisontheway
(5,007 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
(26,259 posts)leftieNanner
(15,082 posts)By the GOP!
Siwsan
(26,259 posts)Just another case of a reality ass bite.
helpisontheway
(5,007 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)madaboutharry
(40,208 posts)He is so fucking stupid.
elleng
(130,865 posts)you DID help write the rules.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,920 posts)Those pesky facts
Mersky
(4,980 posts)Morrison responded, tracking...
And claims that was about tracking needing a meeting.
Right. Okay.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)and apparently MooMoo skipped over that part.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)allowed the cow to jump over the moon!
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)spanone
(135,823 posts)Mersky
(4,980 posts)Uh, no, you cant recycle menacing mustache boltons language like that. Too derivative.
crickets
(25,962 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
(4,980 posts)When in doubt, project, project, project.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Because Nunes is desperately trying to project it onto the Dems.
Mersky
(4,980 posts)Could be. Very well could be so.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)hedda_foil
(16,372 posts)I'm expecting Faux to pick it up and run with it.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)onecaliberal
(32,826 posts)elleng
(130,865 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)spanone
(135,823 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
(32,826 posts)madaboutharry
(40,208 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
(25,962 posts)Schiff gets Morrison, too - "It's not hypothetical. Read the transcript!" Ha.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)madaboutharry
(40,208 posts)"Oh shit, I want to go home so badly!"
crickets
(25,962 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
(128,844 posts)They are collapsing before our eyes.
Bluepinky
(2,268 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 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
(128,844 posts)Bluepinky
(2,268 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)hedda_foil
(16,372 posts)Unfortunately, if the Clinton impeachment is an example, it would have to go to a member of House Judiciary.
dchill
(38,471 posts)So...
mucifer
(23,530 posts)I guess because he isn't bowing to the king
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)In addition to looking up and choking on his words.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)"doesn't believe" 45 said the word "corruption."
crickets
(25,962 posts)whether the prez said 'corruption' or not. He really didn't want to answer that.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)re: Bolton talking about a "drug deal".
ancianita
(36,023 posts)and Ukraine looking so nervous. It's the suspect behavior of a coward.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)madaboutharry
(40,208 posts)He is twisting himself into a pretzel trying to tow the republican line while not lying too much.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 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
(32,826 posts)catbyte
(34,373 posts)Attempting to fall on his sword to protect his "superiors."
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)He is just rambling on.... I guess about the whistleblower.
He sounded like this -
Bluepinky
(2,268 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Mersky
(4,980 posts)And skip the fishing
polichick
(37,152 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)The horror
onecaliberal
(32,826 posts)elleng
(130,865 posts)crickets
(25,962 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
(128,844 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)and requiring that for any meeting/money.
crickets
(25,962 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 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
(128,844 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
(90,335 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 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
(32,826 posts)Ukrainians being investigated.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)dchill
(38,471 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
(107,920 posts)Mersky
(4,980 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)last of their show for the day!
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 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
(32,826 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)onecaliberal
(32,826 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)onecaliberal
(32,826 posts)He was NOT in the government. Not appointed. Nothing.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)crickets
(25,962 posts)as though he actually belongs anywhere in the loop. Volker can't seem to stay on message.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)gademocrat7
(10,654 posts)budkin
(6,699 posts)They can't have it both ways.