Having now had the opportunity to watch today's proceedings and imagine myself a United States Senator, I must tell you that the presentation by Patrick Philbin is the one I found most powerful. In showing that the entire impeachment process that unfolded in the house was completely illegitimate from the outset he conclusively made the case for me to simply vote to dismiss with prejudice.

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Having now had the opportunity to watch today's proceedings and imagine myself a United States Senator, I must tell you that the presentation by Patrick Philbin is the one I found most powerful. In showing that the entire impeachment process that unfolded in the house was completely illegitimate from the outset he conclusively made the case for me to simply vote to dismiss with prejudice.

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I was out all morning and finally caught up on watching. Very good strategy to wait until Monday. Thanks to all of you for the commentary. Don't forget Gutfeld has Tom Shillue as Adam Schitt tonight!

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I've been tied up all morning too. Sleeping. (ooops)

What did I miss? lololol

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LOL.... you missed the first couple hours from this fiasco worth tuning in for!!

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Took WH lawyers just 2 hrs to gut the Dems' case like a fish & expose Schiff-Pyle as the blatant liar he is in the bargain. Then they clocked out early. 23 hrs of Democrat politician BS blown away by 2 hrs of Trump-hired competence. A typical @realDonaldTrump vs. govt outcome.— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) January 25, 2020

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It took less than 2 hours for the White House Counsel to completely shred and eviscerate Adam Schiff’s case.

The President’s legal team focused on the indisputable facts and effectively showed the American people what Adam Schiff has been hiding from them - the TRUTH.— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) January 25, 2020

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Now, as a slight shift in gears, I want to touch on one last point before I yield to one of my colleagues, and that relates to the whistleblower--the whistleblower, whom we haven't heard that much about--who started all of this. We know from a letter that the inspector general of the intelligence community sent that he thought the whistleblower had political bias. We don't know exactly what the political bias was because the inspector general testified in the House committee in an executive session, and that transcript is still secret. It wasn't transmitted up to the House Judiciary Committee. We haven't seen it. We don't know what is in it. We don't know what he was asked and what he revealed about the whistleblower.

Now, you would think that before going forward with an impeachment proceeding against the President of the United States, that you would want to find out something about the complaint that had started this, because motivations, bias, reasons for wanting to bring this complaint could be relevant. But there wasn't any inquiry into that.

Recent reports, public reports suggest that, potentially, the whistleblower was an intelligence community staffer who worked with then-Vice President Biden on Ukraine matters, which, if true, would suggest an even greater reason for wanting to know about potential bias or motive for the whistleblower.

Saturday, January 25, 2020 - President's Counsel (Philbin)

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-r.../article/S567-4

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(Just want to park this here for later reference)

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Of the many things about this that grind my gears, this one really sticks in my craw....

All of this needs to blown open on national television followed by criminal prosecution of all involved.....

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