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Post by jkjacq on Jan 15, 2019 11:51:55 GMT -6
Brings up a sworn affidavit stating the merger being turned down at time warner because of politics instead of anti-trust.
um uh gee uh the affidavit says it all
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 11:52:42 GMT -6
Ted and his beard are up next. Ted is v concerned that the DOJ is becoming partisan. His beard thinks he's full of it.
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 15, 2019 11:52:50 GMT -6
I really just want to punt Cruz into the sun.
i hate his voice, it literally makes my skin crawl
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 11:54:33 GMT -6
Ted is v concerned because some Democrats said nice things about bill barr 20 years ago
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Post by starbuck on Jan 15, 2019 11:57:17 GMT -6
This is the first I've seen of Ted's beard.
I usually am a big fan of beards but I'm not on board with this.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 11:58:08 GMT -6
This is the first I've seen of Ted's beard. I usually am a big fan of beards but I'm not on board with this. he looks like if Wolverine developed depression and a beer habit
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Post by talon on Jan 15, 2019 11:58:13 GMT -6
Cruz doesn't want a Republican justice department. Ok Ted 🙄
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Post by starbuck on Jan 15, 2019 11:59:15 GMT -6
This is the first I've seen of Ted's beard. I usually am a big fan of beards but I'm not on board with this. he looks like if Wolverine developed depression and a beer habit /ded
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 15, 2019 12:00:13 GMT -6
Makes my skin crawl
Ted wants to hear thoughts on First Amendment
We believe in the democratic process. Power of voting by informed electorate.
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 15, 2019 12:02:27 GMT -6
Wants to know about religious liberty.
Our system only works if people are in position to control themselves. Fewer laws more self control.
(OBVIOUSLY the founding fathers never dealt with a toddler)
The founders believed religion would guide people more than laws. Yeah not so much....
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:02:41 GMT -6
I couldn't listen to Ted anymore. I went to Twitter bc it's less infuriating.
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 15, 2019 12:04:27 GMT -6
I couldn't listen to Ted anymore. I went to Twitter bc it's less infuriating. His time is almost up.
Barr thinks our current tensions in our society is because we're turning back on what the founders wanted. And we need to decentralize something..
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 15, 2019 12:04:42 GMT -6
Coons is up
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:04:52 GMT -6
It's Chris Coon's turn, thank god. He's drawing parallels between this hearing and the AG confirmation hearing during Watergate. Someone's been watching Maddow
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:05:35 GMT -6
Coons: Do you want special counsel Mueller to shield no one, and to prosecute anyone who he determines broke the law?
(this should be easy, Bill)
Barr: I want him to do his job
(......)
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:07:40 GMT -6
Barr won't state that he wouldn't overrule Mueller if they had a difference of opinion
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:09:03 GMT -6
Coons brings up the Saturday Night Massacre and Barr states that he would not fire Mueller without cause, even at the direction of Trump
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:11:23 GMT -6
Coons: if POTUS asked for information that could be used to curtail the investigation, would you give it to him?
Barr: the integrity of investigations has to be protected.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:12:19 GMT -6
good question, Senator Coons!
If you learned information about the White House interfering with the investigation, would you report that to Mueller?
Barr says he would "deal with it"
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:17:41 GMT -6
Sasse is concerned about protecting Mueller, but he's also concerned about partisan hackery in the media (eyeroll)
I can't believe we live in a world where a nominee for AG has to be asked whether he believes Vladimir Putin is an enemy of America
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:18:37 GMT -6
good question, Senator Coons! If you learned information about the White House interfering with the investigation, would you report that to Mueller? Barr says he would "deal with it" What does that mean? to me, it means, "I won't commit to reporting it to Mueller, but I'll go to the White House and tell the Hamburgler to stop it"
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:19:27 GMT -6
I mean his answers are lawyery, by design, bc he can't let himself be put in a position where he's accused of perjury bc he gives too broad or definitive of an answer. But he's equivocating unnecessarily.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:21:15 GMT -6
Barr: protecting our elections from bad actors shouldn't be entirely reactive, we should take deterrent actions too
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:22:05 GMT -6
he's on the CIA's advisory board?!
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:25:26 GMT -6
Sasse: Is it the job of the AG to protect the president? Sometimes Trump says it is. Is it?
Barr: in the policy arena, the AG should be sympathetic to the administration and its policy goals.
Sasse: But there are places where you could be asked to do something to "protect the president" that you didn't feel comfortable doing?
Barr: I mean, yeah, if I was asked to do something illegal I would resign before I would do it. I mean, duh?
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:25:53 GMT -6
Sasse is out of time but he wants us to know that he's racisty too and agrees with Joni Ernst
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:26:06 GMT -6
BLUMENTHAL! ::rubs hands together::
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Post by redbears on Jan 15, 2019 12:27:24 GMT -6
Who is this grandson they keep referring to??
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:28:35 GMT -6
Blumenthal has already run out of patience, lol
If the FBI was going to open a counterintelligence investigation into the president, the AG and DAG would be informed, yes?
Barr doesn't answer but takes a random dig at Peter Strzok
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Post by dc2london on Jan 15, 2019 12:28:59 GMT -6
Who is this grandson they keep referring to?? Bill's grandson is in the room. He's about 7 years old
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