It\u2019s Monday. Like drinking water from the proverbial fire hose, there\u2019s a ton of information coming at you today. Why \u2013 because it\u2019s Monday in the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So what\u2019s happening today? First, the House Judiciary Committee is meeting from 9am to 11am (please note: time is kind of a nebulous thing to the Committee, it might start by 9:30, and it might end \u2013 well, at 1 or so). <\/em>The legal staff of the intelligence committee is presenting the evidence for impeachment to the Judiciary Committee members for their consideration in impeachment resolutions. Also, the legal staff of the Judiciary Committee itself will be presenting evidence as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can expect a summary of the hearings held by Adam Schiff\u2019s Intelligence Committee, presented by Intelligence Committee counsel Dan Goldman. Goldman will hold his own in questioning from the two staff attorneys of the Intelligence Committee, then sit patiently while the Committee Members have their say. Another day of Republican Doug Collin\u2019s eye rolls and yelling, and more of young Matt Gaetz\u2019s disdain for the process and decorum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the testimony, we might have a better feel for what the impeachment resolutions will look like. The one thing to focus on: if the testimony goes back to the Mueller Report, we can expect that Mueller findings may become part of the impeachment. Certainly the second volume of Mueller\u2019s findings, describing obstruction of justice, may well get rolled into the current charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a different note, today we expect to see the Inspector General\u2019s Report from the Justice Department about the origins of the Russia investigation into the Trump campaign. Many of the findings were leaked early from the Justice Department, to lessen the impact of what the Report states. Overall, in hundreds of pages, the report supposedly finds that the investigation opened under Director Comey was legal and proper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The leaks state that Inspector General Horowitz found (for at least the second time) that despite all of the right-wing cries of bias from Comey, Strzok, McCabe, Ohr and the rest, the investigation was, to use the Justice Department term of art, \u201cproperly predicated.\u201d There were mistakes made, and we will hear a lot about a junior attorney in Justice who added information to an email, but overall the vast conspiracy that Fox News and the rest has searched for, didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attorney General Barr supposedly will contest the conclusions, denying his own IG\u2019s findings. That will allow Barr to continue the crisis, and make his worldwide search for evidence seem reasonable. In the political world of Trump, if you don\u2019t have the facts, keep stirring up \u201cthe mud\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And speaking of mud, Rudy Giuliani has decided to go into the film making business. He\u2019s over in Ukraine, continuing his attempt to prove that it was Ukraine that attacked our election in 2016, and not Russia. Rudy\u2019s lined up \u201cfact witnesses\u201d to demonstrate his evidence. The real \u201cfacts\u201d of those witnesses: they either have an \u201cax to grind\u201d against Joe Biden, particularly Viktor Shokin the fired Ukrainian State Prosecutor, or they are fully funded assets of Russia. But Giuliani is going to use the \u201cdocumentary\u201d to keep the Ukraine story going. Supposedly he\u2019s going to come back and present his findings to Attorney General Barr and Congress (I suspect to a sympathetic Senate Judiciary Committee headed by Lindsey Graham). <\/p>\n\n\n\n For Giuliani\u2019s sake, I hope the FBI doesn\u2019t arrest him as he comes off the plane. The SDNY (Southern District of New York) Federal Prosecutor seems to be breathing down Rudy\u2019s neck, and charges can\u2019t be too far behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So there\u2019s a lot going on today. Chairman Nadler started right on schedule. Keep in mind, through all of the bluster and obfuscation, that history has it\u2019s eye on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horowitz Report<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lights, Action, Rudy!!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n