Castor elicits from Sondland the quote of the day:

[kpete]

Sondland: I don’t see how you can call it an irregular channel when you are talking to the president of the united states, the secretary of state, the white house chief of staff, the energy secretary.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. I smell smoke!

[kpete]

4. Nicole Wallace:

"There was no irregular policy channel. There was *the channel*–– it was run by Trump, Pence, and Pompeo. And that channel directed an extortion of the government of Ukraine in exchange for dirt on Biden. Full stop."

[Pachamama]

6. whoa....

[calimary]

19. She earlier threw it to reporter Garrett Haake in the Capitol

describing where he was as m “in the blast radius.”

Brian Williams called it “blowtorch testimony.” Guess we’re WAY beyond some “smoking gun.”

[lagomorph777]

20. Smoking crater. The entire misadministration was in on the drug deal.

Trump got well and truly Trumped today.

[SonofDonald]

2. Just started watching

Sure sounds like he's not taking the fifth

The trumptanic has hit the iceberg

Glub glub glub

[Mr. Evil]

17. "Glub glub glub"

That made me laugh! I also imagine those are the sounds President NaziMcVomit makes when he eats.

[Progressive Jones]

28. Right On, Fellow Metal Head !!! nt

[Grasswire2]

29. ICK!!

Thinking about how Trump smells and sounds is making me feel queasy myself.

[dawg day]

3. They do keep leaving out the bag man/enforcer/messenger Rudy

There's a regular channel, and Rudy's running on the top of the train with his meager hair blowing in the wind.

[MineralMan]

5. Giuliani will appear later, as the fall guy for the whole thing.

Nobody gives a damn what happens to Rudy, so he'll be sacrificed on the altar of subterfuge and distraction before long.

"We were deceived by Giuliani," it will be said. "We trusted him, but he betrayed us. Off with his head." His sacrifice will be planned to serve to purify the others and absolve them. That's probably the plan, anyhow.

Trump will lead the way, "I always had the greatest respect for 'America's Mayor.' How was I to know he would betray me?"

I think that will be the strategy, anyhow. I don't think it will work, though.

[Caliman73]

8. I agree it will not work

Unless Giuliani knows that there is a pardon for him, but even then, his ego is such that he won't want to be implicated as a dirtbag even though he is one.

Giuliani knows where all the bodies are buried and if he thinks that he is being thrown under the bus, he will save his own butt.

[MineralMan]

9. Yes, Giuliani will not be a loyal guy. He'll flip if they do that and put them

all away. Assuming he survives, anyhow. He's old, you know. Things happen to old people, sometimes.

[mjvpi]

12. We'll see the terms of his "insurance" policy

[lagomorph777]

21. Too late. They're ALL fall guys now. The whole misadministration is fucked.

[MineralMan]

23. Well, that SHOULD be the case.

However, I don't necessarily count on it. Things change quickly and there's momentum. I just don't know.

[Mme. Defarge]

7. That Twitter suggestion that Castor might be the Whistleblower

may actually be true!

[world wide wally]

10. No matter how bad things may look for you today, just be thankful you are not Rudy.

[Hekate]

11. KnR

[Perseus]

13. In Castor's defense, he had very little to work with

I feel that Sondland's opening statement was more than enough, no wonder Nunes told Schiff they wanted the recess, they had to change a lot of what they had prepared, Sondland made the case against trump on that statement.

Dan Goldberg and Schiff have been brilliant.

[Cosmocat]

14. Nunes is dumb as a box of rocks

tuned in briefly while he was questioning Sondland, and he literally had nothing ...

[Traildogbob]

16. Do not insult a box of Rocks

His opening, “Welcome for a day of smearing” after the shameful shit yesterday against a military hero, made this veteran vomit. Give us a hour or so with him, cows will be the least of his hell to come. Chick Fillet should denounce his lying ass. Not very Jesusy.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Could be that what they had to change was their underwear.

I'll bet Chairman Schiff can smell the fear.

KY........

[lagomorph777]

22. "they had to change a lot of ..."

...adult diapers.

[Marie Marie]

25. At one point, I swear Castor had run out of useful or effective questions and seemed to

struggling to continue. He looked like: "Eh, um, er, I don't know, I got nothing." Goldberg, OTOH, was calm, organized and nailed his points.

[Mr.Bill]

18. It's all over now

except for jacketoff Jordan screaming. The only thing they can do now is call Sondland a "known liar". And I bet that's exactly what they are going to do.

[Pepsidog]

24. He should have stayed in the hotel business. That's one hell of an admission.

[oasis]

26. The Trump mob. nt

[RockRaven]

27. To borrow a phrase from Rick Perry... "OOPS!"

I cannot decide if Sondland is merely a moron or merely trying to save his own ass, or both (I suspect both, I am not ruling out merely moron, but I suspect merely ass-saving is insufficient as an explanation).