Yesterday:

Matthew Rosenberg @AllMattNYT
Replying to @GOPLeader
Nope. Not what the NYT reported. The whistleblower went to an intel committee staffer with a vague account of the complaint, and was told to file through proper channels. Schiff personally never knew the whistleblower’s identity. That’s hardly “orchestrating” the complaint
2:40 PM · Oct 2, 2019

Yesterday, still in the front row manically clapping an hour after the band has left the stage:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
This is turning into the Mueller Report all over again. This is what happens when you decide to take action and jump to conclusions based on secondhand, unsubstantiated information.

Let’s quit the political distractions and keep working to represent the American people.
[….]
2:35 PM · Oct 2, 2019

Didn’t really read the Mueller Report, did you?

Some of the responses:

Keep digging Miss Vicky. Dig deep enough, you might find your soul.

Heaven forbid that a citizen took their valid concerns for our Nation to an elected official, with the hopes that they would help our country. Oh, the blasphemy! #GOPHypocrisy

False equivalency. No wrongdoing on the part of Schiff, unlike the president.I guess
@RepHartzler is okay with asking foreign countries to meddle in U.S. elections.

It is a situation that you should find at the very least, super troubling and should be investigated to the fullest extent. The fact that other countries are involved should be the wake up call, so freaking wake up! #ImpeachmentNow #ImpeachmentInquiry

what does #SocialistHartzler feel was unsubstantiated?

Yeah, uh, this is just not true, Congresswoman. You are spreading a lie.

You people are pathetic

and this is why we don’t trust politicians and voted for @realDonaldTrump

It’s substantiated by the rough transcript released by the Administration. We have a primary source confirming what the whistleblower learned. This isn’t difficult, so I can only conclude you’re intentionally trying to deceive your constituents.

When you have allegations, the right thing to do is investigate. The House Dems are doing the right thing. You’re trying to ignore corruption, because the crooked politician is from your party.

It’s a shame that McCarthy lied then, isn’t it?

By second hand you mean…strait out of the presidents mouth correct?

There’s that.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” Your man is done.

There’s that, too.

Doing God’s work. USA loves you for it.

If so, God has a warped sense of humor.

#gaslightingKevin

Senator and Reprsentative… please tell us why schiff has not been arrested for treason at this point??? He is corrupt and destroying our country as u just standby??? Really??? Stop talking and act!!!

Uh, because there’s no reason to do so? Just spitballing here.

Breaking: GOP LYING.

Nope the “transcript” released by the White House (the White House!) is enough to impeach on. Good luck with your disinformation campaign.

If I were a betting man I would bet that you have not actually read the story.

Bring it up at the hearings.
What are you afraid of?

Oh honey.

#RIPGOP #TrumpPressConference

Did you read the Mueller Report?

Senator; please tell us why schiff hasn’t been arrested for treason at this point??? He is corrupt and destroying our country as u just standby??? Act already Sir!

Uh.

I live in MO and don’t feel the least bit represented by you. He is a crazy man and you all know it. Get him out before he hurts a lot more people. I will vote blue the rest of my life.

Lie.

Umm .. The released notes of the conversation back up what the whistleblower reported .. Keep trying to cover ..

The Mueller Report was basically a road map for Congress to follow to impeachment. So I’m not getting your point.

Lol, do you honestly believe standing by him is going to play out well for you? 10 years from now, do you think you’ll look back and be proud about your actions? I’m genuinely baffled about the thought process here.

I would bet that you haven’t read more than a few paragraphs of the Mueller report. Stop defending the criminal in the Whitehouse and hold him accountable for his crimes! He’s commiting impeachable offenses on a daily basis now.

So, youre saying that the phone transcript doesnt say what it says, but that a NY Times article says something it doesnt say.

Youre channeling the spirit of Donald Trump, arent you? #VoteThemOut #DitchMitch #ImpeachTrump

You’re corrupt, Vicky

To the tune of Jingle Bells:

Victim card
Victim card
The GOP today
The just keep playin’ the victim card
Like the criminals they are, HEY!

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.”

— Rep Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Majority Leader, 15 JUN 2016

It is based on the transcript released by the White House. Shameful. #VoteHerOut

Read the article. Stop spreading misinformation.

You think Missourians are as dumb as Republicans, don’t you?

You didn’t do the reading, did you?

The President used tax payers dollars to shake down a leader of another country for his personal political gain.

McCarthy is lying and now you are too. How embarrassing for you.

Spinning the truth is destroying America. I guess that is what you want.

You know, there is a difference between what you wish the article said, and what it really said. “Consistent with the Committee’s longstanding procedures, Committee staff appropriately advised the whistleblower to contact an Inspector General and to seek legal counsel.”

Yes! Let’s distract from the revelations and keep the political corruptions going.

It also makes you complicit.

Vicky, The Mueller report was filled with examples of wrong-doing – a total of thirty-four individuals and three companies were indicted by Mueller’s investigators. The President’s bought and paid for AG, Barr said a sitting president can’t be indicted, or he would have been too.

Bless your heart. That’s why there are hearings.

Thank you for confirming that Missouri needs better educators: ones who teach the value of reading comprehension, reason, and plain old logic. By the way, when the information is confirmed by the participants, it is now first-hand information.

This is what happens when you believe the lying @GOPLeader and don’t read either the article or the DNI guidelines on how to report misconduct.

Oh, please. Take a reading comprehension course.

Yes, ma’am, “Let’s quit the political distractions…” As a constituent, I’d love for you to lead the way. While you’re at it, representing all of us, not just those who share your views, here in your MO Congressional District, would be a great start. LMK date of Town Hall.

An open public town hall is not gonna happen.

Previously:

Impeachment: Consciousness of Guilt (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) (September 24, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighting (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) – “Tell your people to obey the law.” (September 25, 2019)

Impeachment: the smell of fear (September 25, 2019)

Impeachment: It became self aware at 6:24 a.m., September 26, 2019… (September 26, 2019)

Impeachment: NPR/PBS NewsHour Marist Poll – September 25, 2019 (September 26, 2019)

Flop sweat (September 27, 2019)

Impeachment: this morning’s “Executive Time” (September 28, 2019)

Impeachment: unhinged (September 29, 2019)

Hillary Clinton (D) is living rent free inside of Donald Trump’s (r) head (September 29, 2019)

Going 0-2 (September 30, 2019)

Impeachment: almost too stupid to remember to breathe (October 1, 2019)

Hillary Clinton (D) is having fun these days (October 1, 2019)

Impeachment: in a panic (October 2, 2019)

Last night:

Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi
The times have found us.
[….]
7:12 PM · Sep 24, 2019

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D) remarks:

Pelosi Remarks Announcing Impeachment Inquiry
September 24, 2019 Press Release

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Below are the Speaker’s remarks as delivered:

Speaker Pelosi. Good afternoon. Last Tuesday, we observed the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution on September 17.

Sadly, on that day, the Intelligence Community Inspector General formally notified the Congress that the Administration was forbidding him from turning over a whistleblower complaint. On Constitution Day. This is a violation of law.

Shortly thereafter, press reports began to break of a phone call by the President of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. This is a breach of his constitutional responsibilities.

The facts are these: the Intelligence Community Inspector General, who was appointed by President Trump, determined that the complaint is both of ‘urgent concern and credible,’ and its disclosure, he went on to say, that it ‘relates to one of the most significant and important of the Director of National Intelligence’s responsibilities to the American people.’

On Thursday, the Inspector General testified before the House Intelligence Committee, stating that the Acting Director of National Intelligence blocked him from disclosing the whistleblower complaint. This is a violation of the law.

The law is unequivocal. The DNI, it says, the Director of National Intelligence ‘shall’ provide Congress the full whistleblower complaint.

For more than 25 years, I have served on the Intelligence Committee – as a Member, as the Ranking Member, as part of the Gang of 4 even before I was in the Leadership.

I was there when we created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. That did not exist before 2004.

I was there ever earlier in 90’s when we wrote the whistleblower laws and continue to write them, to improve them to ensure the security of our intelligence and the safety of our whistleblowers.

I know what their purpose was, and we proceeded with balance and caution as we wrote the laws. I can say with authority, that the Trump Administration’s actions undermine both: our national security and our intelligence and our protections of whistleblowers – more than both.

This Thursday, the Acting DNI will appear before the House Intelligence Committee.

At that time, he must turn over the whistleblower’s full complaint to the Committee. He will have to choose whether to break the law or honor his responsibility to the Constitution.

On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when our Constitution was adopted, Americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall to await the news of the government our Founders had crafted.

They asked Benjamin Franklin, ‘What do we have: a republic or a monarchy?’ Franklin replied: ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’

Our responsibility is to keep it.

Our republic endures because of the wisdom of our Constitution, enshrined in three co-equal branches of government, serving as checks and balances on each other.

The actions taken to date by the President have seriously violated the Constitution – especially when the President says, ‘Article II says, I can do whatever I want.’

For the past several months, we have been investigating in our Committees and litigating in the courts, so the House can gather ‘all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity — approval of articles of impeachment.’

And this week, the President has admitted to asking the President of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. The action of – the actions of the Trump Presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the President’s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections.

Therefore, today, I am announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. I am directing our six Committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry.

The President must be held accountable. No one is above the law.

Getting back to our Founders – in the darkest days of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote: ‘The times have found us.’ The times found them to fight for and establish our democracy. The times have found us today, not to place ourselves in the same category of greatness as our Founders, but to place us in the urgency of protecting and defending our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. In the words of Ben Franklin, to keep our Republic.

I thank our Chairmen – Chairman Nadler, Chairman Schiff. Chairman Nadler of Judiciary. Chairman Schiff of Intelligence. Chairman Engel of Foreign Affairs. Chairman Cummings of Oversight and Chairman Cummings I have been in touch with constantly. He is a master of so much but including, Inspectors General and whistleblowers. Congressman Richie Neal of the Ways and Means Committee. Congresswomen Maxine Waters of the Financial Services Committee.

And I commend all of our Members, our colleagues for their thoughtful, thoughtful approach to all of this – for their careful statements.

God bless them and God Bless America. Thank you all.

Also last night:

Heidi Przybyla @HeidiNBC
The exact words I was given were that Trump said he’d like to “figure this out.”
Pelosi said: “Tell your people to obey the law.”
[….]
5:58 PM · Sep 24, 2019

The times have found us.

#NationalSecurity

#ImpeachTheMF

Previously:

Impeachment: Consciousness of Guilt (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) (September 24, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighting (September 24, 2019)

This afternoon, from Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D):

Cleaver For Congress @Vote4Cleaver
I want history to know where I stood.
[….]
12:03 PM · Sep 24, 2019

Previously:

Impeachment: Consciousness of Guilt (September 24, 2019)