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Here are the nine GOP senators who have not signed on to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s tepid resolution condemning the impeachment process in the House:
NYT: “Republicans close to the White House are increasingly concerned that a bloc of senators could emerge, including some they suspect might not run for re-election, to break with the president.”
If you missed it last night, check this out. When Parnas and Fruman were arrested at Dulles airport on their way to Vienna, they were apparently going there to help with logistics on an interview Viktor Shokin (the fired Ukrainian prosecutor) was going to do on Hannity.
The Prime Minister of Italy has shot down a big chunk of the Barr/Trump conspiracy theory about a Deep State plot against President Trump that allegedly gave birth to the Russia probe. Giuseppe Conte says Italy had nothing to do with the Russiagate probe or investigation. He goes on to discuss the extraordinary detail that Barr asked Italian intelligence officials to confirm or explain the actions of U.S. intelligence officials. In other words, Barr has told foreign intelligence leaders that he does not believe his own country’s intelligence officials and and gone to Italy to ask if U.S. intelligence officials are telling the truth.
In a court hearing today President Trump’s personal lawyer, William Consovoy, told a federal judge that if President Trump shot someone on Fifth Avenue that not only could he not be arrested but that the NYPD wouldn’t even be allowed to investigate the crime. Josh Kovensky has the story.
New episode of the podcast in which I admit to Kate Riga that she was right and I was wrong about Bill Taylor’s testimony, along with other marvelous commentary, as many people are saying.
The extreme antics on Fox News give away how bad Bill Taylor’s testimony was for the President.
I want to make sure you don’t miss this piece. As Josh Kovensky explains, we now have several overlapping pieces of information that strongly suggest that Rudy Giuliani and his two now-indicted associates were oligarch shopping in their plan to bring down the Bidens. Dmitry Firtash, the indicted oligarch fighting extradition to the US, seems to have come into the picture relatively late. They were seemingly going from one oligarch to the next trying to find one who would be their juice in Ukraine and help manufacture damaging information about the Biden family.
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