Public hearings begin in House impeachment probe

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Public hearings begin Wednesday in the House impeachment inquiry. The first hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET.

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Posted for anyone who cares to watch play by play. I don't have the stomach for it. This is like many of the court trials today. Its no longer about getting to the truth or protecting the innocent. Its a game to see who can outmaneuver who. Doesn't matter if the innocent is convicted or the guilty go free - not about justice - just winning.

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COUP’S NEXT

Today the House Intelligence Committee holds its first public hearings in the Schiff show. The Schiff show is a sort of preface to the impeachment article(s) that the House will send over to the Senate before the end of the year. Something’s happening here. Why is the House Intelligence Committee holding impeachment hearings in search of a high crime or misdemeanor?

The structure of the production has struck me from the beginning as a variation of the Russia hoax that consumed the first two-plus years of the Trump administration. The Ukraine matter is to usher in the end of the Trump era by hook or by crook.

In his most recent column, this is the case that Victor Davis Hanson makes. Here is how he puts it in the opening of his column:

There are at least 10 reasons why the Dem impeachment “inquiry” is really a coup.

1) Impeachment 24/7. The “inquiry,” supposedly prompted by President Trump’s Ukrainian call, is only the most recent coup seeking to overturn the 2016 election.

Usually, the serial futile attempts — with the exception of the Mueller debacle — were characterized by about a month of media hysteria. We remember the voting-machines-fraud hoax, the Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, the 25th Amendment, the McCabe-Rosenstein faux coup and various Michael Avenatti–Stormy Daniels–Michael Cohen psychodramas. Ukraine, then, isn’t unique, but simply another mini-coup.

You may want to read the whole thing, but I want to pause here on point 1.

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Meet Steve Castor, the attorney handling questioning for GOP during impeachment hearings

Steve Castor, House Intelligence Committee Counsel for the minority, will ask questions on behalf of the GOP. Castor was brought over from the House Oversight Committee by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who recently joined the Intelligence Committee.

Castor is expected to handle the lion's share of the opening questioning for Republicans on the committee. He and ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., will have 45 minutes to question the witnesses.

A 14-year veteran of the House Oversight Committee, Castor was involved in questioning witnesses during the Benghazi investigation and the IRS targeting scandal. He also asked questions during the closed-door sessions at the beginning of the impeachment inquiry.

Castor earned his law degree from George Washington University and was a litigation attorney in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia before getting into government work, according to a bio on the website of the Federalist Society, where he is listed as a contributor.

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Devin Nunes Devastates Schiff, Democrats With Fiery Opening Statement

During the first public impeachment inquiry hearing Wednesday morning, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes did not hold anything back and slammed Democrats for damaging the country. He also went after the media and again called on Hunter Biden to testify about allegations of corruption in Ukraine. 

 

"In a July open hearing falling publication of the Mueller report, the Democrats engaged in a last ditch effort to convince the American people President Trump is a Russia agent. That hearing was a pitiful finally of a three year long effort by the Democrats, the corrupt media and partisan bureaucrats to overturn the results of the 2016 election. After the spectacular implosion of their Russia hoax on July 24...on July 25th, they turned on a dime and now claim the real malfeasance is the Republicans dealings with Ukraine," Nunes said. 

"In the blink of an eye we are asked to simply forget about Democrats on this Committee falsely claiming they had more than circumstantial evidence of collusion between President Trump and Russians. We should forget about them reading fabrications of Trump, Russia collusion from the Steele dossier into the congressional record. We should also forget about them trying to obtain nude pictures of Trump from Russian pranksters who pretended to be Ukrainian officials. We should forget about them leaking a false story to CNN while he was still testifying to our Committee claiming Donald Trump Jr. was colluding with Wikileaks. And forget about countless other deceptions large and small that make them the last people on earth with the credibility to hurl more preposterous accusations against their political opponents." 

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The Democrats Arriving.

 

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Thank you following this...so the rest of us don't have to.

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6 minutes ago, Valin said:

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Thank you following this...so the rest of us don't have to.

Just picking off reports from Conservative sights every once and a while. Refuse to watch.

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ICYMI: House Democrats Lead Counsel For Trump Impeachment Circus Is A Former MSNBC Contributor

I mean if you want a solid example of the Democrat-media complex at work with these Trump-Ukraine impeachment hearings, look no further than the majority counsel for the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee. Right now, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent and U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Ukraine Bill Taylor are testifying before a kangaroo court that aims to reverse the results of the 2016 election. So, it is well that a former MSNBC contributor, Daniel Goldman, was tapped by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the chairman of the committee, to be another key person in this absurd effort.

 

Goldman has peddled Russian collusion tin foil hat nonsense in his previous appearances on the network, so I mean this is a match made I heaven. Now, he’s working with House Democrats in trying to remove Trump

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7 hours ago, Geee said:

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Public hearings begin Wednesday in the House impeachment inquiry. The first hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET.

Follow below on the Fox News live blog. Mobile users click here.

 

1 hour ago, Geee said:

ICYMI: House Democrats Lead Counsel For Trump Impeachment Circus Is A Former MSNBC Contributor

I mean if you want a solid example of the Democrat-media complex at work with these Trump-Ukraine impeachment hearings, look no further than the majority counsel for the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee. Right now, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent and U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Ukraine Bill Taylor are testifying before a kangaroo court that aims to reverse the results of the 2016 election. So, it is well that a former MSNBC contributor, Daniel Goldman, was tapped by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the chairman of the committee, to be another key person in this absurd effort.

 

Goldman has peddled Russian collusion tin foil hat nonsense in his previous appearances on the network, so I mean this is a match made I heaven. Now, he’s working with House Democrats in trying to remove Trump

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1 hour ago, Geee said:

ICYMI: House Democrats Lead Counsel For Trump Impeachment Circus Is A Former MSNBC Contributor

I mean if you want a solid example of the Democrat-media complex at work with these Trump-Ukraine impeachment hearings, look no further than the majority counsel for the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee. Right now, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent and U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Ukraine Bill Taylor are testifying before a kangaroo court that aims to reverse the results of the 2016 election. So, it is well that a former MSNBC contributor, Daniel Goldman, was tapped by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the chairman of the committee, to be another key person in this absurd effort.

 

Goldman has peddled Russian collusion tin foil hat nonsense in his previous appearances on the network, so I mean this is a match made I heaven. Now, he’s working with House Democrats in trying to remove Trump

 

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The curious timeline for taking down Trump

By Sharyl Attkisson, opinion contributor — 11/08/19 09:00 AM EST

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ORANGE MAN BAD!!!

 

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Heat but no light: First public impeachment hearing a dud

The first public hearing in the impeachment investigation of President Trump produced more heat than light.

 

House Democrats claim this impeachment process is identical to that used for Presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. This is a whopper, even for politicians. Take subpoena authority, one of the most important tools of any investigation. For Clinton and Nixon, the majority and minority had equal authority; if the other side did not cooperate, each could get permission from the committee. Today, the majority can subpoena unilaterally, but the minority must always get permission. One of these impeachments is not like the others.

Several things became apparent today. First, we saw why Democrats chose not to follow the less-partisan process used in past impeachments. Republicans asked Chairman Adam Schiff, D-California, when their request for the “whistleblower” to testify would be granted. He responded that they could later make a motion that the committee would decide. If you think Schiff’s committee will grant that request, I have some oceanfront property in Oklahoma to sell you.

Second, the opening statements by Schiff and Rep. Devin Nunes, R-California, the committee’s ranking member, made clear their approach. Schiff and the Democrats say that Trump is guilty of “bribery” or even “extortion” by withholding foreign aid until the president of Ukraine promised to help him get reelected. Nunes and the Republicans challenge the Democrats’ credibility and their interpretation of whatever facts can be established.

 

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How Much Live Coverage of the Trump Takedown Attempt Must Air?

The networks are planning live coverage of the House Democrats attempting to impeach President Trump over a phone call to the president of Ukraine. This is a very partisan exercise, but the very partisan networks always paint these as momentous turning points of history that are somehow nonpartisan.

One of the most obvious ways our television “news” divisions demonstrate their bias is by deciding which news events deserve live coverage, canceling out their regular programming. At least, it’s obvious on the days when it happens. But it’s sneaky when you try to compare it to how they covered other breaking-news events that don’t line up with the Democrat agenda.

Five years ago, the networks skipped any live coverage of the first hearings into the government failure to protect the consulate in Benghazi.

But here we go again, with the Impeachment Hype Machine rolling at high speed. The sacred “process” must be aired live, and when Republicans attempt to impose a different narrative, in the words of Chuck Todd, that is “sabotaging” the process.

Watergate analogies abound. So it’s not surprising that longtime PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers took out an ad in The New York Times insisting that for “the sake of the nation,” PBS replay the impeachment hearings in prime time, just as PBS did in 1973. “Disrupting its programming for a few weeks is a small price to pay for helping preserve the republic.”

The fate of democracy and the fate of the Democrats are synonymous.