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House Intelligence Committee, December 3, 2019, Impeachment Draft Report

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., 
holds a news conference after his committee released their impeachment report.

Streamed live December 3, 2019  |  NBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXrm51yfgA

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The Rachel Maddow Show 12/03/19 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmLuvEAFqtI

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House Intelligence Committee Releases Draft Report As Part of Impeachment Inquiry

Report To Be Voted on This Evening

Washington, December 3, 2019

https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=890

Washington, DC – Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the draft report – “The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report” – to all Members and the public.

C-SPAN's Trump Impeachment Inquiry Collection - days 1,2,3,4,5

Here's a collection of C-SPAN videos covering November's House Impeachment Inquiry Hearings.  I'm also including the time signature notes Make-Make has been posting as comments.  I think Make-Make has done a wonderful service worth sharing.  These notes can be helpful when trying to navigate the hours worth of questions, answers and GOP's rhetorical fancy dancing and diversions, (not to mention their god-awful normalization of out and out criminality and even treasonous behavior).  But I digress, this is about creating my own record of what was actually said. As a personal bonus, it would be cool if some others can find it helpful.  Feel free to copy and share.

Rev POLITICAL TRANSCRIPTS

https://www.rev.com/blog/category/political-transcripts

For Impeachment Hearing Transcripts link to: 

November 13: Bill Taylor, George Kent Testimony Transcript

November 15: Marie Yovanovitch Testimony Transcript

November 19 AM: Alexander Vindman, Jennifer Williams Testimony Transcript

November 19 PM: Kurt Volker, Tim Morrison Testimony Transcript

November 20: Gordon Sondland Testimony Trancript

November 21: Fiona Hill, David Holmes Testimony Transcript

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Streamed live on Nov 13, 2019, by C-SPAN

House Impeachment Inquiry, Hearing Day 1 - Taylor & Kent Testimony

Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent testify on Impeach Inquiry before House Intelligence Committee. Go to 34:02 for gavel start of hearing. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdXAhuHhqUY

also notes from Matthew Caplan and Make-Make

Matt Kiser - Impeachment Watch - WhatTheFuckJustHappenedToday.com

I'm always amazed at how the days and weeks speed by, between having to spend time getting caught up on pre-winter and now early-winter chores (we do live in the country and our little cabin is heated by wood) so there's work that needs to be done.   Plus the 500 mile trip down to spend a week with family and our young grandson.  Too much going on.  Enough time to get caught up on news, vent by starting yet more potential projects, while not enough to concentrate on getting any of them finished.  Now it's time to get back to it.

The following is a collection of links to resources provided by Matt and friends over at the blog, What The Fuck Just Happened Today, which has been tracking and compiling Trump news since day one, so that We The People have a record to learn from, to use and retain for future reference.  And me?, it simply seems like a patriotic duty to share and hopefully help spread this information.

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Impeachment Watch: Day 4.0 (and Day 3.0)

https://talk.whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/t/impeachment-watch-day-4-0/5338

Matt Kiser

WTF Community Leader

1/ The U.S. ambassador to the European Union testified that he and senior administration officials “followed the president’s orders” to work with Rudy Giuliani to pressure Ukraine into announcing investigations into Joe Biden and the discredited conspiracy theory that the country helped Democrats in the 2016 election. Gordon Sondland testified that he, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and special envoy Kurt Volker coordinated with Giuliani at the “at the express direction of the president of the United States” to pressure Ukraine into launching investigations. 

Sondland said he directly communicated the “quid pro quo” arrangement to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Sondland also provided House impeachment investigators with emails and texts showing that acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Perry, and others were all aware that Trump conditioned a White House meeting for Zelensky on his willingness to launch investigations. “They knew what we were doing and why,” Sondland said. “Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret.” 

(New York Times / Washington Post / Politico 1 / Wall Street Journal / NBC News / Bloomberg / CNN

• Quotables: Gordon Sondland.
• “Again, everyone was in the loop.”
• “Was there a quid pro quo? … YES.”
• “… we knew these investigations were important to the president.”
• “… we followed the president’s orders.”
• “I followed the directions of the president.”
• ANALYSIS: 4 things we learned from Gordon Sondland
• ANALYSIS: 5 takeaways from Gordon Sondland’s testimony
• READ: Gordon Sondland’s opening statement
• Live blogs: New York Times / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / NBC News / CNN

2/ Sondland testified that he told Pence before his Sept. 1 meeting with Zelensky that he “had concerns that the delay in aid had become tied to the issue of investigations.”

(CNN / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal)