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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is on the agenda for tomorrow? I mean the good stuff that I have been waiting for for three
years.
ffr
(23,448 posts)demosincebirth
(12,833 posts)ffr
(23,448 posts)The rats have already begun either jumping ship or getting ready to abandon their post, strap on a life vest and board one of the life boats.
demosincebirth
(12,833 posts)lapfog_1
(31,980 posts)and gets him into a sanitarium for "treatment"... the 25th is invoked... and we have President Pence for a few months until the House impeaches HIM as part of the conspiracy... Nancy Pelosi becomes the 47th President for the remainder of the term.
demosincebirth
(12,833 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)The House will hear testimony from Moscow Mitch on whether or not his carnal knowledge of a hog resulted in TrumPutin and the mess we have to clean up:
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dewsgirl
(14,965 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)To borrow from LBJ, I just want to hear him deny it.
Qutzupalotl
(15,855 posts)She usually publishes a calendar, but this is a few days old:
Link to tweet
But Tuesday, the fun begins. We get the first of several daily depositions, which I believe are public and will be televised:
Leaders of top House committees subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Friday for documents related to their investigation into President Trump and his asking Ukraine to investigate a possible 2020 political opponent.
They also alerted Pompeo in a separate letter that they have scheduled depositions beginning next week with five State Department officials, beginning Tuesday with former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Masha Yovanovitch, whom Trump disparaged during his phone conversation with the Ukrainian president in July.
The letters were signed by Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), Oversight Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) and Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.).
The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, the chairmen wrote.
Documents requested from Pompeo include a list of any State Department officials involved in the controversial July 25 call between Trump and the Ukrainian president as well as any correspondence since Trumps inauguration about investigations that refer to Hunter Biden, Burisma Holdings the natural gas company the former vice presidents son worked for, among others.
In addition to Yovanovitch, the chairmen have scheduled hearings with:
● Kurt Volker, U.S. special representative to Ukraine who met with Rudolph W. Giuliani and agreed to connect him with Andrey Yermak, a top aide to Zelensky.
● George Kent, a career Foreign Service officer, is deputy assistant secretary of state in the European and Eurasian Bureau, overseeing policy toward Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. He served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev from 2015 to 2018.
● T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, State Department counselor who was named in the whistleblower complaint as the State official who listened in on the Trump-Zelensky call.
● Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, who Giuliani said he briefed on his conversations with Ukrainians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-whistleblower-impeachment/2019/09/27/55b99276-e0a8-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html
demosincebirth
(12,833 posts)In quite a while.
Qutzupalotl
(15,855 posts)
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