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Watching the John Dean / John Malcolm / Barbara McQuade / Joyce Vance hearing now: youtube.com/watch?v=i_mT0-2Y9-w
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They're sworn in; opening statements now
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John Dean is so old
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Joyce Vance had some trouble getting her mic to work; it's on now tho
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John Malcolm (another "John") up now; is he on Twitter?
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this "chilling effect" you're describing, Malcolm, isn't actually a bad thing. We need to reduce the power of the presidency.
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McQuade appears to be largely echoing Vance; the witnesses appear to be divided 3-1 in terms their alignment, with Malcolm being the odd one out
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Dean accusing WH of mis-citing his memos; says parties mentioned did actually end up testifying
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There's 2 GOP reps named "Collins" in the House of Reps currently; pretty sure this is Doug, not Chris
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Rep. Collins didn't really ask any questions; he mostly just blathered
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Rep. Lofgren asking confusing question about who represents whom. Seems to be about McGahn
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Rep. Chabot looks pretty old himself, but he's actually an entire generation younger than John Dean, believe it or not
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Rep. Chabot telling his own life story instead of actually asking anything
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Rep. Jackson-Lee also being long-winded in her questions; no one on either side has really asked anything good yet... pretty boring hearing so far.
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You can tell Dems are pissed about not actually being able to have McGahn in front of them now tho.
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oh no, Rep. Gohmert up now; get ready to cringe
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making this hearing a relitigation of Watergate (instead of the current scandal) is... a tactic, I guess.
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ugh, Rep. Gohmert is such a pain; I need to make sure my bot knows to complain about him
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"The REAL collusion was on the Clinton campaign's side!" Just shut the fuck up already, Rep. Gohmert, you're embarrassing yourself
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Yeahhhhh Rep. Cohen! I met one of his constituents recently at a PCCC Training I attended
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Rep. Cohen having a nice back-and-forth with Dean and Vance here; he's been the first questioner so far to do a good job keeping his questions snappy
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Crap it's Gym Jordan; ugh
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Lanny Davis: someone only Gym Jordan cares about
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The "part that frustrates so many" is your existence, Gym Jordan
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Cut Jordan's mic, Nadler
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Rep. Johnson's hair looks like it's gotten whiter since I last saw him
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Everyone is just ignoring John Malcolm during this hearing; I think he's received maybe 1 question so far... (probably deserved, tbh)
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Rep. Gaetz is so ridiculous; why is he still in office?
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OMG just shut up already, Rep. Gaetz
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you're supposed to be asking questions here, not just monologuing, Rep. Gaetz
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Rep. Deutch shading GOP for not actually reading the Mueller report
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Rep. Deutch is right, Dems HAVE in fact been much better about citing specific passages of the Mueller Report (with page numbers!)
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Rep. Biggs going back to the "relitigate Watergate" strategy again... yawn.
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Rep. Bass going back to citing specific passages of the Mueller Report, continuing the trend of Dems actually having done their homework while Republicans just bloviate
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"What's the purpose of note-taking?" Whoever said this was like a law school class was right
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lol Malcolm acknowledging the observation I made earlier of everyone ignoring him
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Rep. Cicilline asking about Lewandowski; finally SOMEONE gets around to him
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ugh I forgot how Republicans like to yield back to Gym Jordan; I thought we were done with him...
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I asked Swalwell about Lewandowski when I met him, and now Swalwell is asking McQuade about Lewandowski... hope something happens here
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Rep. Lieu's turn now but I'm getting kinda tired; think I'll tune out now...