Rep. Jason Crow on Bill Taylor testimony: "It's shocking. It really is shocking... I'd like to say there is not much that can shock me anymore, but I still am."
"The ground is cracking. And so you need to mobilize people. If they had good arguments, they wouldn't use stupid ones." - David Frum of The Atlantic on Republicans crashing an impeachment inquiry. https://t.co/MDI49jxmMf
Turkish and Kurdish forces appeared to have clashed in northeastern Syria on Thursday, which would violate a United States-brokered cease-fire that President Trump said this week had brought peace to the area https://t.co/rkvy5IIhpd
Republicans say Trump impeachment probe is happening in 'secret,' but 47 GOP lawmakers have access @LindseyGrahamSC
https://t.co/h41st2af5P via @usatoday
Rep. Steny Hoyer on the Republican stunt to enter the SCIF: "When the Republicans talk about these secret hearings, I laugh because 47 Republicans have the opportunity to be in the room." @MSNBC
"Republicans have denounced the impeachment inquiry as happening in 'secret," a 'sham,' and a 'Soviet-style process,' but the 47 Republicans on the committees leading the investigation have access to the closed-door depositions." https://t.co/30Q73dZm37
47 Republicans from three committees are part of the closed door deposition of witnesses. They can listen and participate.
Don’t let the lies distract us from the goal — #ExposeTheTruth
"When the Republicans talk about secret hearings, I laugh, because 47 Republicans have the opportunity to be in the room."
- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on House Republicans storming a secure room during a closed door testimony.
https://t.co/Ux78DQiG3M
Sen. Lindsey Graham: "I’m doing a resolution instead focusing on the process. Sen. McConnell is now the co-sponsor. We have a resolution urging the House to adopt the same procedures that Clinton and Nixon had available to them, to call witnesses to defend themselves."
Senate Republicans need to stand up and speak out about the obvious dangers to national security that President Trump has invited.
We all need to press him to correct course in northern Syria and quickly develop a real plan of action to secure the enduring defeat of ISIS. Now.
President Trump tweeted that the US military would continue securing oil fields in Syria while also suggesting that the Syrian Kurds consider moving to the region that houses those oil fields, a move that would see them relocate hundreds of miles away.
https://t.co/ZLhlcBFv6h
These reports, if true, raise profound new concerns that the Department of Justice under AG Barr has lost its independence and become a vehicle for President Trump’s political revenge. https://t.co/0xxZ8se4Yp via @nytimes
Rep. Seth Moulton: "Amb. is a lifelong public servant... Sec. Pompeo reached out and found this guy in retirement to put him in this position, thinking he would be a Trump lackey... and here he is saying, 'Nope, my duty to the Constitution rises above my duty to this president.'"