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All four White House officials scheduled for House inquiry depositions Monday won't testify
By Pamela Brown, Rene Marsh and Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 6:29 AM ET, Mon November 4, 2019
Washington (CNN)All four White House officials who are scheduled to give depositions on Monday during the House's impeachment inquiry won't show up, as a source with knowledge of the situation tells CNN that National Security Council lawyers John Eisenberg and Michael Ellis will not testify.
The two officials will join Robert Blair, assistant to the President and senior adviser to the acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, and Brian McCormack, associate director for natural resources, energy & science at the Office of Management and Budget, in not testifying on Monday, CNN reported earlier. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who was scheduled to appear Wednesday, will not participate in a closed door deposition, an Energy Department spokesperson said Friday.
An administration official says Eisenberg isn't showing up due to executive privilege while Blair, Ellis and McCormack aren't going to appear because they won't be able to have an administration lawyer present.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/03/politics/officials-testify-impeachment-house-inquiry/index.html?utm_source=CNN+Five+Things&utm_campaign=b7db3f9338-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_01_01_34&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-b7db3f9338-104928233
Vinca
(50,269 posts)Bettie
(16,100 posts)who refuse to testify.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)The word is from the Latin for "under penalty." It literally means show up or suffer a penalty.
Time to figure out a way for there to be serious consequences for those who answer their subpoena with a finger.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)Why do you think they aren't they enforcing the subpoenas with serious consequences?
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)We are in a place we really havent been in before. This kind of stuff happens in Authoritarian Regimes. Nixon and his gang were one thing, Drumpf and his loyalists are another quite worse thing.
For one thing Nixon as creepy and dark and twisted as he was actually was smart enough and some level of competent. Orange Creep is dumb as a rock, a serial liar, inherited a small fortune and managed to go bankrupt. And he is evil to the core.
crickets
(25,969 posts)I am looking forward to that day.