***IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARING NOV 15 THREAD 6***

[crickets]

More video stream links: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212688024#post9
NYT Live Updates: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/impeachment-hearings.html
Global News Canada Live Blog: https://globalnews.ca/news/6170717/live-blog-trump-impeachment-ukraine/

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Peter Welch (D-VT) up - reading the July 25th call transcript

[Duppers]

2. Video Rep. Denny Heck

Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) Tweeted:
“I’m very angry about how…the most powerful person on the face of the Earth would remove you from office after your stellar service and somehow feel compelled to characterize you as ‘bad news,’” Rep. Denny Heck says to former Ambassador Yovanovitch. https://t.co/lMlFl1dniI https://t.co/jYqhRiTkWa

Link to tweet

?s=20

[crickets]

4. +1

[Duppers]

5. Here are the two stars of this hearing...

So far. Thanks for posting that in the previous thread, Crickets; I so agree.

I was applauding listening to this live.

[spanone]

10. He was fantastic.

[Mersky]

3. Crickets, thank you!

[crickets]

6. You're welcome. I hadn't planned to be here all day

but I can't turn away! Thanks to bdamomma too!

[Mersky]

8. Yup, am hanging in here, too.

Gonna make these days work one way or another.
Noted about bdmomma, I appreciate y'alls thread wrangling.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Sean Maloney (D-NY) up

Said that her being the "first" through the wall, that the first often "gets bloodied" doing that breach.

[crickets]

13. That was difficult to watch

going back through the acid attack, the smear campaign, and her firing. It underscored how Pompeo and the State Department failed her.

[emmaverybo]

14. For whom? No. I have not wondered.

[Wednesdays]

19. Why are you wondering?

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. Could have been. Probably not an official one, though.

It wouldn't surprise me if Hunter was keeping his father informed on the dealings of Burisma during this period.

[OAITW r.2.0]

49. I think if Hunter was a CIA NOC, we'd have found out about it by now. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Val Demmings (D-FL) up

[Mersky]

12. Val Demmings bringing up the air of sexism within the smear campaign

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Yup

the way she did the quote - "The wo-man".... spoken the way he meant as if she was just an object.

[Duppers]

18. "The woman" - Traitor 45

Could one of the reasons he said "the woman" is that there was no way he'd be able of pronounce her name?

His sexism is always on parade too.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) up

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. He's good.

Doesn't look good for Giuliani.

[BumRushDaShow]

42. Yup

He has Tammy Duckworth's old House seat (after she moved to the Senate).

[crickets]

41. His concluding questions regarding the hallmarks of authoritarisms were damning.

Is it a feature of authoritarianism:

- to allow corrupt interests to hijack foreign policy?
- to have the rulers there claim absolute rights?
- for those rulers to smear their opponents?

His point, of course, is that Trump has done all of these things. Ouch.

[Mersky]

16. Keeping politics out of foreign policy because security is a common concern

Regardless of party. Refreshing, good point made to Demmings.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Raja just brought today WSJ article about Ghouliani wanting to benefit from Ukraine liquified gas

and under investigation for that by SDNY!!!!

[crickets]

27. "Maybe we should talk to Rudy, huh?"

[BumRushDaShow]

40. ...

Link to tweet

TEXT
The Wall Street Journal
✔
@WSJ

Breaking: Prosecutors are investigating if Rudy Giuliani stood to profit from a Ukraine natural-gas business pushed by two associates, say people familiar with the matter https://on.wsj.com/2Of3U7s
Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects
WSJ News Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Rudy Giuliani stood to personally profit from a Ukrainian natural-gas business pushed by two associates who also aided his efforts there to...
wsj.com
1,310
12:09 PM - Nov 15, 2019

[BumRushDaShow]

22. NUMNUTS NUNES - CONCLUDING REMARKS

[BumRushDaShow]

23. SCHIFF CONCLUDING REMARKS

[catbyte]

24. When a MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is a whine.

[asiliveandbreathe]

25. Thank you crickets...job well done..

[Bayard]

26. Glad this is about to be over for the Ambassador

She's starting to sound pretty tired.

[Duppers]

39. They put her through the ringer.

At times her eyes turned so red that I felt for her having to endure those Republicans' insults.

[Mersky]

28. **Snarffle** DU is great: catbyte and Bumrush...

Y’all have been cracking me up.

[stevil]

29. My word

What the hell did Nunes just say during closing. Made no sense. Schiff Is public enemy right now for the GOP and I'm proud he represents CA., nice closer dude.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Schiff - President "praises the corrupt" and "condemns the just"

[BumRushDaShow]

32. SCHIFF ADJOURNS AND CUTS THE GOP OFF and audience CLAPS!!

[nolabear]

33. That mic cut was epic!

[helpisontheway]

44. Loved it! Mic drop!! 😂😂😂nt

[Arkansas Granny]

34. I don't think I've ever seen that happen before.

[stevil]

36. Sweet ending

[monmouth4]

37. That was awesome, who kept calling Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman until cut off. I loved it. n/t

[crickets]

47. Wow, the cheers! Not just applause but people cheering!

That was wild.

[Tarc]

35. "Mister Chairman! You have insulted mah honah, good suh!"

Whoever that Scarlett O'Hara-essque GOP rep was at the end, what a perfect coda to their desperate, hysterical, and scattershot defense of a corrupt president.

[emmaverybo]

43. +1000

[crickets]

48. It was Jordan.

Cutting him off was fantastic! That's when the cheering started.

[Midnightwalk]

45. Thanks for the threads

Yovanovitch was incredibly impressive which shouldn’t be surprising given her career. But still impressive as hell.

Schiff is treating the republican attempts to derail the hearings with the contempt they deserve. I didn’t hear one serious question from a republican in 2 days.

[Duppers]

51. K & R