Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, a National Security Counsel official who listened in on President Donald Trump’s July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, testified Tuesday that the White House omitted some details from the conversation in the publicly released call memo.
Not a transcript, it was a Memo!
I’m…I’m…shocked! Where are my pearls and fainting couch!
dude nails it a month ago, though we all suspected it, amirite?
In a functioning democracy, with an independent legal system, this would surely be the end of the road for a person in high office responsible for upholding and respecting the Constitution and the rule of law. The ferocity of the exchanges - said to have characterised the hearing - suggest that even the dimmest GoPers now get it.
So the grossly incriminating “transcript” that the White House thought was exculpatory was in fact edited to be the latter, they thought, and they still fucked it up.
Vindman’s hearing grew to such a fever pitch that various Democrats and Republicans got into a screaming match
One side is desperate and frenzied, the other is calmly trying to go about their business causing the frenzied desperation. And yet it is described as a both sides screaming match.
And they had half a dozen clips on Mourning Joe with PP saying it’s an “Exact” transcript
No fat boy
You can’t lie with impunity.
Right here 
Hello, Senator Graham, hello, Senator, are you there? We want you to answer some follow-up questions on live TV.
Turn, worm, turn. Defend it.
Because when you have a PERFECT call, you need to leave things out of the memo of that call, refuse to add them in when an expert brings up the omissions, and lock it up in a super secret server.
At this point the whistleblower is beside the point. All the Rethugs want is a name so they can proceed with a smear campaign. Not interested in the truth.
It had been reported elsewhere that the WB’s identity was an open secret. So open none of these guys know who it is?
Wow! There’s missing stuff!
Is anybody out there surprised? Anybody that didn’t see this coming? Anyone at all???
Nobody?? Nobody at all??? Gee…color me surprised about that. Not. 
This is a president who doesn’t believe the emoluments clause exists and who thinks being president is just like running a company, and the goal is to benefit the head of the ‘company’ at everyone else’s expense. With that mindset, it’s understandable why Trump and company thought the original expurgated transcript would do the trick and why he is so indignant about things he’d do in running (down) his own private companies being considered potentially criminal or impeachable in the public sphere. He really did think becoming president was becoming CEO of a business that could be milked for every bit of personal gains letting the shareholders or lenders (in this case, taxpayers) to front the money and swallow the costs. That’s how he ran his bankruptcies, after all.
He’s just too dumb to understand the difference and too lazy to even begin to learn. He is consistent: his first instinct, “what’s in it for me,” which inevitably means the law, ethics and morality are irrelevant.
They know. They’re just trying to get someone else to say it to protect themselves.
They’re not sending their best people.
Maybe. But I think it’s worse than that: Nunes aide reported this AM to have leaked a name.
I think Nunes (among others) is owned by Putin, and Putin wants to put out a contract. And I think that’s what Donald wants too.
R. I. P.
To be fair, Swalwell did raise his voice a notch.
