Posted on 10/31/2019 11:00:33 AM PDT by blueplum
Washington — A top National Security Council official who listened to President Trump's July call with the president of Ukraine told lawmakers he "promptly" brought concerns about the call to White House lawyers, but did not think "anything illegal was discussed."
Tim Morrison, the outgoing senior director of European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council, is testifying before committees leading the impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill on Thursday. He has emerged as a central witness to the events at the center of the inquiry, particularly the administration's policy toward Ukraine. CBS News learned the substance of his opening statement to the committees, which ran six pages...
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Noted from FOX reporting: 1) he is Vindman's superior; 2) he was warned about Vindman's poor judgement previously; 3) Vindman raised no concerns about illegal acts after the telephone conversation; 4) contrary to Vindman's opening statement, Morrison has personal knowledge that Vindman had broken the chain of command at least once prior to this instance.
If FOX reporting is true, then Morrison's blown any reason for an impeachment inquiry out of the water right along with Vindman
let’s see what all the GOPe who went after Trump for his comments on Vindman say now..
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
Copy of the transcript. LT Col Clown boy, the Democrat “star witness” this week admitted in his testimony the transcript is complete and accurate.
In any sane world this kills the Democrat Fascist clown show in the House dead. But we don’t live in a sane world anymore.
It now turns out this “impeachment” scam is all about the DC Swamp criminals trying to divert attention off the AG current criminal investigation. The “whistle blower” is one of the prime agents in the original “Russian collusion” fraud.
No wonder they were all panicked by the Ukrainian call, they knew the noose was being slipped over their heads.
He’s missing the point. All that matters is that the Democrat Party has the votes to twist the impeachment process into a toolnfor overturning the 2016 election.
thanks for the link. The other pondering question that I believe was brought up by Tucker last week is, why is it so important that ‘bipartisan support’ be expressed monetarily for Ukraine, first in the middle of their elections then well before we see any progress by the new president on the exhaustive corruption in Ukraine. (and then there’s yesterday’s article re: FBI accusing Ukraine of being a terrorist training ground). We certainly didn’t have bipartisan support for Iraq, Iran, Libya, Afganistan, Syria, etc., so why is bipartisan support of a legislature so important to civil servants all of a sudden unless civil servants mean to actively override any Presidential foreign policy decisions?
The first paragraph at the link is different than what is posted here. The CBS elucidated that his worry was about the call becoming public.
Good catch!
they made a minor change to another paragraph and added a summation to the updated article:
original article published 1:21pm:
“ Morrison said the summary released by the White House of the call between Mr. Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accurately reflects his memory and understanding of the call, but said he had three concerns about a potential leak of the summary.”
updated published 2:32pm:
“Morrison said the summary released by the White House of the call between Mr. Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accurately reflects his memory and understanding of the call, but he said he had three concerns in the event the summary became public.”
A summation drawn from the wording of the Morrison statement has been added to make a longer article, starting with the Fiona Hill paragraph. But CBS was the first into print, so I guess they get a pass on a few minor edits?
Morrisons name will NEVER be mentioned on the alphabet MEDIA! NEVER!!
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Well, well.
Leave it to another Morrison to "Break On Through" to more realism on the subject.
The republicans still do not educate the public enough. they need to explain in plain speech, what the dems are doing. Too many don’t know this is a hoax. Too many think Trump has done something that warrants impeachment. It isn’t Trump.. it’s the democrats... it isn’t Trump.. it’s the previous administration.
Words mean things to different people. Words need to be used that help Trump’s situation... too often, they slip other meaning words like they insert favors into a bill to get it past.
This “moving toward impeachment”... it’s being billed as real... it isn’t real... it’s the damn democrats in a coup, trying to get control back..trying to take the Presidency we voted for, away from Trump.
what smutz has been doing is against every law...nothing lets him do this... except the repubs.. they have taken too long to answer this and it’s going on and on... pull the plug GOP.. pull the dogone plug!
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I’ve been wondering how long until we see the transcript that Ukraine prepared on this phone call.
And then that @$$hole in Congress can start to subpoena Ukrainian officials.
LMAO
Ultimately, what he thinks is going to be irrelevant in the coming proceedings. What will matter is what he attests to having seen and heard.
What happened to Schiff-head restricting access to testimony? How did this get out?
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