Vindman, Wiliams testimony

This morning's hearing went as we all imagined it would.  This clip of Representative Maloney's questioning pretty much sums it up, and is my personal favorite, in no small part because of the ending.

My second favorite: 

UPDATE:

More witness intimidation

He's writing the articles of impeachment.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Who is apparently getting no more backing from the State Department than Marie Yovanovitch did.

She's also the person who took notes while listening to that "perfect" call to Zelensky and noted that indeed Burisma was specifically mentioned by Zelensky, though through some strange magic, it didn't show up on that released transcript.

UPDATE:

From Jennifer Williams (Mike Pence adviser) testimony

Filling in the ellipses on the "perfect" call.

Imagine that.

Will Trump be especially paranoid now that Pence is setting himself up to take over Trump's jo?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Could be he went to Walter Reed yesterday for a bleeding ulcer.

Be careful what you wish for

They just don't know when to shut up.

Look again at who those people are.

Tim Morrison: https://bit.ly/2OpjLAu Jennifer Williams: https://bit.ly/2rQZBaR

Is somebody keeping a suicide watch on Gordon Sondland?  I'm only half joking.

Counterpoint:  Yes, she does.

Apparently, Morrison and Williams' loyalty doesn't extend to doing jail time for perjury.

UPDATE:



LOLOLOL.

Surprise, surprise

Those ellipses in the transcript of the "perfect" phone call were to remove Biden and Burisma.

Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony.

The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.

Colonel Vindman, who appeared on Capitol Hill wearing his dark blue Army dress uniform and military medals, told House impeachment investigators that he tried to change the reconstructed transcript made by the White House staff to reflect the omissions. But while some of his edits appeared to have been successful, he said, those two corrections were not made.

  Guardian

This corrects the misunderstanding I had from someone's tweet that he wanted to keep the name Burisma out of the transcript, which didn't make sense.

UPDATE 11/1719:

Biden adviser Jennifer Williams' testimony:

Imagine that.