Senate Intel Pushes For Interview With Ukraine Tipster | Talking Points Memo

The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing to secure an interview with the mysterious whistleblower who came forward last month with allegations that reportedly relate to President Trump pressuring Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.


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Please - let it happen.

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Get in line Senate GOPs.

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The House first. I flat out don’t trust Burr. He’s a Trump Toady extraordinaire. The GOP will attack the WB and turn it into a circus, like the bully-clowns they are.

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Will the GOP continue to stonewall the House and Senate?

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We need the complaint.
Not closed door interview with complaintant.

That just results in spin.

Obey the law & Give Congress the complaint.

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They want to be able to protect Trump by having Republicans set the rules for how he is questioned. The House needs to insist on the Whistleblower appearing before the House first. Then the Repube Senate can go into their cleanup mode.

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Well, they might have to get in line with the others. I think there are several pressing interviews over at the House first that need to happen.

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I understand your distrust of Burr, but I don’t think Warner will let that happen. What I really want to see is the House interviewing the WB under Schiff’s guidance.

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Let me also say that this turn of events does not portend well for the Dotard or others in Trumplandia. The Repubes have a bad feeling about this one and they are all setting up their escape hatches.

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Maguire’s public testimony Thursday shaping up to be must-see.

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Those specks you see in the sky are chickens coming home to roost.

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Unlike the shameless lickspittle HPSCI under Angry Cow Devin Nunes’ leadership, Senate Intel has been occasionally willing to do their jobs. I think the closed-door nature of the interview sends a foreboding signal to the White House. If Warner wanted a circus, he’d conduct a circus.

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I am, for once, going to see how the all plays about before assuming the best (or worst). I’ve been pretty much wrong 100% of the time. I remember thinking he was toast when he fired Comey…

But I am off to get a nice bottle of red for tonight…

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Perfect. Let’s get the ‘unredacted’ SCOOP!

The word from the WH is that the whistleblower did not get the information first hand, so Burr and co are trying to blow his credibility.

By the way, I been wondering if the whistleblower got his information from John Bolton, the word is that he opposed the Ukrainian aid suspension. It is going to be ironic that the chickenhawk Bolton is the one that stands up against the criminal president, while the “incorruptible” law-men of the FBI and lawyers of the DOJ and the patriotic and honorable generals stayed mum while they stared at their shoes.

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The moment this “whistleblower’s” name becomes public, expect the Trumpsters to make his/her life a living hell.

I sure hope this person is a “registered Republican”, “Evangelical Christian”, White, Blond, Male, father of 3.

Even then, I expect death threats and the person will need 24x7 security detail.

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It’s a thing. Fuck the manuscript they’re wordsmithing…

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Speaking of credibility, you know what Trump has zero of? That.

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No Trumpian Rosemary Woods please. A Whitehouse edited transcript can’t be trusted so this person must publicly testify under oath and be questioned by a trial lawyer for the majority of the House of Representatives.

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