Lori Cooper from DoD testimony includes being puzzled by withholding congressional approved funds, and the direction she received offered no clarification. She thought that the OMB not releasing fund was possibly illegal.

Hey Mick Mulvaney, looking at you shithead.

Decision on whether he can join the lawsuit to get clarity over if he has to honor the subpoena will be the next breaking news. Ironically, the guy who filed a lawsuit doesn’t want him anywhere near it because he views the situation is completely different to include that all Nick said there was quid pro quo on TV, and all he needs to do is find out which master he needs to heel too.

Judge tosses Trump suit over New York tax returns, rejects conspiracy claim.


Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that his court was not the proper jurisdiction to hear the case.

You got a love that whoever is consulting Donald has no idea that you can’t file counter claims in jurisdictions other than where the action is being heard.

thephan wrote:

Donald Trump Jr ventured on to the University of California’s overwhelmingly liberal Los Angeles campus on Sunday, hoping to prove what he had just argued in his book – that a hate-filled American left was hell-bent on silencing him and anyone else who supported the Trump presidency.

But the appearance backfired when his own supporters, diehard Make America Great Again conservatives, raised their voices most loudly in protest and ended up drowning him out barely 20 minutes into an event scheduled to last two hours.

>> more here <<

The video is fantastic.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1193 ... 11073?s=19

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick considering jumping in the 2020 Democratic Presidential field

Wtf

Napolitano was asked On the FNN streaming service show The Liberty File if he would vote to impeach the president if he were a Democrat in the House, his response assures that he will not get that Supreme Court gig Don says he is all sour grapes about.

“If I could modify your question to ask if there’s a legal basis to argue high crimes and misdemeanors, then the answer is yes,” Napolitano said. “That’s really beyond dispute ... If I were a Democrat in the House, which I am not and never will be, I would vote to impeach.”

Squire wrote:Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick considering jumping in the 2020 Democratic Presidential field

That's it, so am I.

The four central defenses, which are detailed over the course of the memo, are as follows:

1. The July 25 call summary "shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure."
2. Ukrainian "President (Volodymyr) Zelensky and President Trump have both said there was no pressure on the call."
3. "The Ukrainian government was not aware of the hold on U.S. assistance" during the July 25 call.
4. The security assistance hold was lifted on September 11.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/politics ... index.html

1. Really?
2. Oh, well, if Trump says there was no pressure on the call, I'm convinced.
3. This assertion is proven false by testimony from Laura Cooper and Catherine Croft
4. We released the funds [once we knew we were caught] so what's the problem?

Never forget [Ukraine].

Very good 538 podcast from yesterday with Nate Cohn from the NYT joining

jerseyhoya wrote:Very good 538 podcast from yesterday with Nate Cohn from the NYT joining

What's the I-don't-have-time-to-listen version?

Wolfgang622 wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Very good 538 podcast from yesterday with Nate Cohn from the NYT joining

What's the I-don't-have-time-to-listen version?

2x speed

mayor pete in the lead in the latest Iowa poll. oh boy.

Wolfgang622 wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Very good 538 podcast from yesterday with Nate Cohn from the NYT joining

What's the I-don't-have-time-to-listen version?

They talk about polling in nerdy detail, then go back and forth a bit on how big they think Trump's electoral college vs. popular vote edge is (Cohn is more convinced it is significant than Silver). Cohn sounded bearish on both Biden and Warren in the Dem primary vis a vis conventional wisdom.

They're both quite smart and I learned stuff from listening.

Breaking via NYT: Trump has discussed dismissing the intelligence community's inspector general, Michael Atkinson, because Atkinson reported the whistleblower's complaint about Trump's interactions with Ukraine to Congress.

That'll surely help.

they all knew about wikileaks, trump included.


https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/1 ... aks-069831

I don't think we needed Roger Stone and Politico to tell us that.

“When she started this, two and a half years ago, her goal was 500,000 jobs,” Trump said, referring to the goal of a White House workforce policy advisory board co-chaired by Ivanka. “She’s now created 14 million jobs ... 14 million from 500,000. Fourteen million and going up.”

Why lie? Since he took office the jobs numbers are a robust +6M. Ivanka has not done much more then take a sizable government paycheck & spend more taxpayer funds.

I know we haven't even started today but here is nests week schedule:

Tues Nov 19
- Jennifer Williams
- Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
- Kurt Volker
- Tim Morrison

Wed Nov 20
- Gordon Sondland
- Laura Cooper
- David Hale

Thurs Nov 21
- Fiona Hill

The GOP have big cardboard signs... so this will definitely be a solemn process