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Edit: Morrissey added

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From Nunes’s opening remarks: “They got caught trying to obtain nude photos of President Trump”

I think he should maybe let that line of accusation die quietly.

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No One Asked For This .gif

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I must’ve missed it, but why is the break like… all day?

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Maybe we got him!

The first streaming link I saw was for C-SPAN so I’m listening to that. And right now during the break they seem to be answering phone call after phone call of crazy Republican conspiracy theorists ranting about their crazy conspiracy shit. Well done, C-SPAN.

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Scheduled votes for some of the committee members.

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Votes are happening.

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To me, the statement from Fiona Hill needs to be repeated again & again to pound this into our dumb-ass electorate:

Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of
you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and
its security services did not conduct a campaign against
our country—and that perhaps, somehow, for some
reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has
been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security
services themselves.
The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power
that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in
2016. This is the public conclusion of our intelligence
agencies, confirmed in bipartisan Congressional reports. It
is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details
must remain classified.
6
The impact of the successful 2016 Russian campaign
remains evident today. Our nation is being torn apart.
Truth is questioned. Our highly professional and expert
career foreign service is being undermined.
U.S. support for Ukraine—which continues to face armed
Russian aggression—has been politicized.
The Russian government’s goal is to weaken our
country—to diminish America’s global role and to
neutralize a perceived U.S. threat to Russian interests.
President Putin and the Russian security services aim to
counter U.S. foreign policy objectives in Europe,
including in Ukraine, where Moscow wishes to reassert
political and economic dominance.
I say this not as an alarmist, but as a realist. I do not think
long-term conflict with Russia is either desirable or
inevitable. I continue to believe that we need to seek ways
of stabilizing our relationship with Moscow even as we
counter their efforts to harm us. Right now, Russia’s
security services and their proxies have geared up to
repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are
running out of time to stop them. In the course of this
investigation, I would ask that you please not promote
politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance
Russian interests.
7
As Republicans and Democrats have agreed for decades,
Ukraine is a valued partner of the United States, and it
plays an important role in our national security. And as I
told this Committee last month, I refuse to be part of an
effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the
Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that
Ukraine—not Russia—attacked us in 2016.
These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for
purely domestic political purposes. President Putin and
the Russian security services operate like a Super PAC.
They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own
political opposition research and false narratives. When
we are consumed by partisan rancor, we cannot combat
these external forces as they seek to divide us against each
another, degrade our institutions, and destroy the faith of
the American people in our democracy.
I respect the work that this Congress does in carrying out
its constitutional responsibilities, including in this inquiry,
and I am here to help you to the best of my ability. If the
President, or anyone else, impedes or subverts the
national security of the United States in order to further
domestic political or personal interests, that is more than
worthy of your attention. But we must not let domestic
8
politics stop us from defending ourselves against the
foreign powers who truly wish us harm.
I am ready to answer your questions.

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Thanks for that

4179

They are back. Castor is up to put everyone to sleep while helping to make the Democrat’s case.

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It really shows how completely disorganized the republic defense is when Nunes asks a series of questions about if she’s seen the Steele Dossier but apparently has zero point and Castor doesn’t follow up on the line of questioning at all.

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Because Castor is doing his own thing while Nunes and the rest of them are there to make sound bytes for Fox and Breitbart.

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It’s all sounds bites for fox.

Best case scenario is that Bidden isn’t the nominee, and all this time and effort is wasted

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Not the answer Nunes expected there.

4184

Nunes back to the Steele Dossier. Again.

Jesus Christ.

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Those are amazing and just made my day! Thank you for sharing them.

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Nunes isn’t making the point he thinks he’s making.

4187

Well done, Devin!
“The Black Ledger - is that seen as credible information?”

Holmes: “Yes”

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Good of Nunes to point out that foreigners should not be paid for dirt on political opponents.

Man, that really did not go well for him.

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He went with some conspiracy bullshit and managed to remind everyone that what Trump did is wrong.

He’s amazingly bad at this.