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kpete's Journal"How dare an anti-Trump crowd act like a pro-Trump crowd?"
https://twitter.com/evanier/status/1189210434378878977MSNBC's "The Rachel @maddow Show" is #1 in A25-54 across cable news
RATINGS: @MSNBC's "The Rachel @maddow Show" is #1 in A25-54 across cable news, topping all regularly scheduled shows on FOX News and CNN in October.
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House affirms in court filing that Mueller probe is still crucial part of the ongoing impeachment
NEW: For the first time since the Ukraine scandal blew up, the House affirms in a court filing that the Mueller probe is still a crucial part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
DOJ claims to the contrary, which solely cite a WaPo article, are inaccurate, the House says.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1189214928953065474
Army officer Vindman arrival in military blue-w medals, created striking image as he entered Capitol
Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a military officer at the National Security Council, center, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, to appear before a House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Committee on Oversight and Reform joint interview with the transcript to be part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army officer at the National Security Council who twice raised concerns over the Trump administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden, testified behind closed doors against White House orders Tuesday in the impeachment inquiry.
Alexander Vindman, a lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq and later as a diplomat, told House investigators that he listened to President Donald Trump’s July 25 call with new Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and reported his concerns to the NSC’s lead counsel, according to an advance copy of his testimony.
His arrival in military blue, with medals, created a striking image as he entered the Capitol and made his way to the secure briefing room.
“I was concerned by the call,” Vindman was saying, according to the testimony obtained Monday night by The Associated Press. “I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine.”
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https://apnews.com/c45cb728edf84d96adf9a88e98979c51
https://twitter.com/LisaMascaro/status/1189215850198224896
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212636182
Trump Supporters Want John Roberts to Recuse Himself From Impeachment Trial
Follow me, if you will, on a brief hypothetical journey. Let’s say the House of Representatives draws up and passes articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Per the Constitution, Chief Justice John Roberts would preside over Trump’s trial in the Senate. Now, imagine Roberts—a George W. Bush appointee—recusing himself from the trial because he once publicly emphasized judges’ responsibility to act in a non-partisan manner.
That’s how influential Trump supporter and radio host John Cardillo would have it, the conservative Washington Times reported Sunday. Cardillo claims that a statement made by Roberts in November 2018—in response to Trump’s criticism of a federal judge—means that he is biased against the president.
“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Roberts wrote last year in a statement released by the court’s public information office. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”
For Cardillo, these comments are apparently disqualifying. “There is already a crisis of confidence among the American people that we have a fair system of justice,” he said, according to the Times. “When you have a chief justice of the Supreme Court overtly making comments that are derogatory to the president of the United States, take all speculation out of the process.”
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https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2019/10/trump-supporters-want-john-roberts-to-recuse-himself-from-impeachment-trial/
A federal judge today has blocked Alabama's near-total abortion ban from going into effect.
A federal judge today has blocked Alabama’s near-total abortion ban from going into effect Nov. 15.
District Judge Myron Thompson issued a ruling blocking the Human Life Protection Act from taking effect while a challenge to the law makes its way through court.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama and Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates sued the state declaring the law, which bans nearly all abortions included in the cases of rape and incest, is unconstitutional.
https://www.al.com/news/2019/10/federal-judge-blocks-alabama-abortion-ban.html#incart_push
... "But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.
The punditocracy roared, loudly, so as to demonstrate their respectability.
"Even if you abhor the emperor's new clothes, you must respect the office!" one said.
"This child is an affront to civility!" cried another.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1188878015197044736
Laura Ingraham/Fox go after VINDMAN Acuse him of Espionage
That was quick: Laura Ingraham goes right at LTC Vindman being a Soviet refugee of Ukrainian origin; John Yoo then says LTC Vindman may be guilty of espionage https://twitter.com/Page1ANews/status/1189005519618560000 …
Replying to @JohnJHarwood
Oh my God, look at the spin they are using right now, actually saying that Vindman is a Ukrainian double agent....this is so freaking bananas pic.twitter.com/ritg9QcNgV
https://twitter.com/dburbach/status/1189007145238446080
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212632951
WH Aide who listened to Ukraine call -Heard Trump appeal to Ukraine's president to investigate Biden
VINDMAN:
—Has first-hand knowledge
—Was on July 25 call
—Twice reported concerns to NSC lawyer
—Believed Trump undermined U.S. nat'l security
—Is an immigrant from the Soviet Union
—Served in Iraq & was wounded by roadside bomb
—Received a Purple Heart
NEW: Alex Vindman, the first White House aide who listened to Trump’s July call to testify, will tell impeachment investigators he considered Trump’s treatment of Ukraine so damaging to US interests that he twice raised it with superiors
Vindman will also testify that he wrote a memo in August to try to restart security aid for Ukraine but Trump refused to sign it
"On many occasions I have been told I should express my views and share my concerns with my chain of command and proper authorities," Vindman said. "I believe that any good military officer should and would do the same, thus providing his or her best advice to leadership."
“I am a patriot,” Colonel Vindman plans to tell the investigators, “and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country irrespective of party or politics.”
Breaking via NYT: A W.H. national security official who's a decorated Iraq war vet plans to tell investigators he heard Trump appeal to Ukraine’s president to investigate Biden, a request he considered so damaging that he reported it to a superior.
https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1189000333613240321
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https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1189000491193253890
Read Vindman’s opening testimony
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/5197-read-vindman-s-opening-stateme/451770f94b62c504f723/optimized/full.pdf
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