Schiff : Flood's presence at the outset of meetings today was completely inappropriate and improper

[sunonmars]

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[OnDoutside]

1. See here

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[triron]

2. Good that Schiff was there!

Nunes would have invited him in no problemo.

[Mr.Bill]

7. I'm confused.

Did Flood and Kelley attend the full meeting?

[bigtree]

15. no, neither attended the actual briefing, according to dept. spokesmen.

...Flood gave a speech about the need for 'openness', instead, before it started.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210653396

[Mr.Bill]

19. Thank you.

Just a few minutes ago Chris Matthews gave the details on this. He said they just made opening remarks and left before any classified information was revealed.

I do still think they didn't belong there, though.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

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Manu Raju
‏Verified account @mkraju

@tedbarrettcnn spots Flood entering the Senate for the Gang of Eight meeting. The WH attorney dealing with Russia probe attended both briefings today for at least part of the time, despite the WH saying this week no WH official would attend

There were two from the WH: Flood and Kelly.

[FSogol]

3. K&R n/t

[4139]

4. "Look, there's a chicken!" Trump is distracting from what's happening...

... planned distraction.

Why? I haven’t go a clue, but he did it for distraction

[sunonmars]

6. it was meant to be intimidation....

[True Blue American]

8. You are so right.

Even worse,Emmett had a reputation as a great Attorney. They said he tried to sneak in.

[janx]

17. Who said that?

context?

[True Blue American]

22. I first heard it on Ari Melber

Emmett was not supposed to be there.

It was intimidation.

Trumps co writer talked about how Trump uses anger to bully, back people down. But is afraid of Mueller, but thinks he can beat him. The co Author said he can not intimidate Mueller. But is arrogant enough to think he can.

Trump thought he could bully Kim,too. Guess that Medallion is wasted,huh?

[Cha]

5. What can anyone the

hell do about it?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

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Jake Tapper
Ranking Dem on House Intel @AdamSchiffCA: “Emmet Flood’s presence and statement at the outset of both meetings today was completely inappropriate.... his involvement — in any capacity — was entirely improper, and I made this clear to him.
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Jake Tapper
‏Verified account @jaketapper

2/2 “...His presence only underscores what Rudy Giuliani said: the President’s legal team expects to use information gleaned improperly from the Justice Department or the President’s allies in Congress to their legal advantage.”

Mark Warner
‏Verified account @MarkWarner

For the record, the President’s Chief of Staff and his attorney in an ongoing criminal investigation into the President’s campaign have no business showing up to a classified intelligence briefing.

[Skidmore]

10. Was Flood asked to leave?

I've not heard how this turned out.

[True Blue American]

23. No, he and Kelly left before the meeting.

But Emmett was not supposed to be there.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. This was a "Yeah? So what are you gonna do about it?" meeting

IOW, a display of power, majority rule

[Blue_true]

13. No wonder they didn't want democrats at the meeting.

If Trump is so innocent, then why is he acting so guilty?

[Hortensis]

14. Flood's going to end up another disgraced figure

whose name has to be removed from the letterhead if he doesn't watch out. What's with these people? Is it something in the air? Something in the pocket? Both Comey and McCabe committed predictable career suicide, as are many lesser known people and elected reps. Why?

[pangaia]

21. THE MOB....

[CanonRay]

16. Every mob guy who is under investigation

is going to believe he has a right to know all the informants and all the info the government has on them. Their lawyers will make that argument, and it's going to be hard to refute.

[BSdetect]

18. Its classic Catch 22: "They can do anything we can't stop them doing".

[pangaia]

20. Not to defend, heaven forbid,

but Schiff did say they were not there for the classified part of the briefings..

Oh, whooptie doo, right....