Impeachment Probe Will Intensify This Week While Rest Of Congress Out On Recess

on June 21, 2017 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) delivers opening remarks during an open hearing in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center June 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Form... WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) delivers opening remarks during an open hearing in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center June 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before the committee about Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential elections and his department's response to the threat. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Members of the House Intelligence Committee will remain in Washington this week to hold hearings as part of their impeachment probe, while the rest of Congress is on recess, Reuters reported.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday that he expects the whistleblower, whose complaint is at the center of the impeachment inquiry, to testify before the panel soon. The committee is also scheduled to interview intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson behind closed doors on Friday. Atkinson has previously told Congress that he thought the complaint was a matter of urgent concern.

Three House committees — Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight — are also set to review depositions from former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Trump’s former special representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, who resigned last week.

Volker was named in the whistleblower complaint as one of the U.S. diplomats who got in touch with Ukraine after Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president. The contents of that conversation — in which Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden — are the center of the whistleblower complaint.

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  1. People can say what they want about weak or feckless Democrats, all I can say is I wouldn’t want Schiff coming after me.

  2. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    Until the election … 13 + months from now … there are NO DAYS OFF… there is no 'close of business" on any day … Trump tweets are launched at all hours … capitalizing on the old saying - a lie can travel around the world before the truth can get up and put its pants on.
    … the only thing for sure from now on - is that it will get uglier

  3. Nunes, that you?

  4. The Dems need a designated tweet rebuttal team
    Each and every tweet responded immediately exposing the lies
    It will drive Fat Nixon Crazy(ER)

  5. Hear, hear! For all the incessant whining, one thing seems plainly obvious to me, the Dems were ready for this moment and loaded for fucking bear.

    They’ve literally got hundreds of them.

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