Hearings Day 3, Part 2

[dc2london]

Morrison: "I was hoping for a more full throated statement of support for Zelensky's anti corruption efforts" from Trump on the call

[jkjacq]

Nov 19, 2019 15:23:10 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Morrison: "I was hoping for a more full throated statement of support for Zelensky's anti corruption efforts" from Trump on the call

So far, nobody was happy with this 'perfect' call except 45

[dc2london]

Morrison: Conspiracy theories about Crowdstrike and Biden were not included in the NSC issued talking points for the call, nor was pursuit of those in line with US policy
Morrison also says he wasn't aware of those particular frothy right theories

[dc2london]

Fiona Hill warned Morrison of Rudy and Sondland running around shrieking about Burisma during one of their hand-off meetings before he took over her position full time. Wow.

[dc2london]

Volker: circulating "conspiracy theories" is not what we should be doing as part of our foreign policy

[dc2london]

So in the first hour of the hearing both of the minority's witnesses have said that the major talking points of the GOP are crazy conspiracy theories

[Wtfshouldmynamebe]

It was an administrative error to put the call record in the secure system???!!!

[dc2london]

we have contradictory testimony!

Vindman said this morning that Eisenberg quite deliberately put the transcript on the super secret codeword server.
Morrison just testified that Eisenberg told him it was an "administrative error"

[Wtfshouldmynamebe]

This is so exciting.

[dc2london]

"After that meeting did you, in fact, talk to Rudy?"
Why is that so funny LOLLLL

[oreobitsy]

Nov 19, 2019 15:30:23 GMT -6 dc2london said:

we have contradictory testimony!

Vindman said this morning that Eisenberg quite deliberately put the transcript on the super secret codeword server.
Morrison just testified that Eisenberg told him it was an "administrative error"

Get Eisenberg in there.

[oreobitsy]

Nov 19, 2019 15:31:38 GMT -6 Wtfshouldmynamebe said:

This is so exciting.

We've moved on and are making cookies over here while I listen.

[dc2london]

Interesting new angle I don't think we've heard yet: Volker and Zelensky pushed for a meeting with Trump bc they didn't feel Trump understood how capable and how committed to fighting corruption Zelensky was, and they thought, if Trump sat down with him, they could convince POTUS to support Zelensky

[dc2london]

I can't believe this level of foreign policy was being conducted on WhatsApp

[dc2london]

Goldman: Did you find it unusual that there was such emphasis on a public statement from Zelensky about what he was investigating?

Volker : wellllll Trump really thinks Ukraine is The Worst so maybe not that unusual

Goldman: but a public statement would be important to Giuliani bc it would be politically useful to Trump?

Volker: It would be...helpful

[dc2london]

Volker: I wouldnt call investigating Burisma "a condition" of a White House meeting, I just thought it would help us convince Trump to do the meeting

[dc2london]

oh lord Volker forwarded Giuliani's actual word for word demands to Andrey Yermak

[jkjacq]

I feel like we are somehow being gaslighted here.

I realize he's talking in diplospeak but he's not that dumb to realize what had been happening.

[dc2london]

So Volker wants us to believe that he saw nothing wrong with what Giuliani was doing, but he was instead leveraging Giuliani's bullshit to help him advance American foreign policy interests and it was all completely on the up and up.

My gosh.

[dc2london]

Goldman is doing a great job questioning here but I'm concerned this is hard for people to follow, especially if they haven't been plugged in to the narrative

[dc2london]

So after Sondland told Yermak that 'everything' was conditioned on publicly announcing the Burisma investigations, Morrison called both Taylor and Bolton. Bolton's instruction was, "Tell the lawyers"

[enchanted]

Nov 19, 2019 15:31:38 GMT -6 Wtfshouldmynamebe said:

This is so exciting.

Pizazz!

[jkjacq]

so both of the minority witnesses are in agreement that this 'statement' was bananas.

Am i following correctly?

[dc2london]

Bolton knows about it allllllllllllllll

and every time he heard something shady he instructed the messenger to tell the lawyers

[starbuck]

Nov 19, 2019 15:51:47 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Bolton knows about it allllllllllllllll

and every time he heard something shady he instructed the messenger to tell the lawyers

He has refused to testify, right?

[jkjacq]

I feel like tomorrow they need to have a board with strings and pins
I need some visual aids

[jkjacq]

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO drug deal mooooooooooo
ratings down

thisisntagameshow

[starbuck]

Nunes, after saying TV ratings are down "whatever drug deal the democrats are cooking up, the American people don't buy it."

[Wtfshouldmynamebe]

Ok. I have to drive home now. I probably need to find a way to stream this in my car

[jaygee]

Nov 19, 2019 15:54:34 GMT -6 starbuck said:

Nov 19, 2019 15:51:47 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Bolton knows about it allllllllllllllll

and every time he heard something shady he instructed the messenger to tell the lawyers

He has refused to testify, right?

He is waiting for the court to say what he has to do - obey the subpoena or the WH. I don’t think he wants to testify.