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What Went Down In Maguire’s Whistleblower Testimony
Business Insider and SurveyMonkey must have been reading your mind, Nathaniel, on wanting an impeachment question that gave respondents info about the process. They asked: “Impeachment is the first step in the process of removing a president from office. Do you think the House of Representatives should impeach President Trump?”
Forty-five percent said yes; 30 percent said no.
When the question was phrased around starting an impeachment inquiry, it got a bit more support. SurveyMonkey asked, “Do you believe launching a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump for soliciting foreign interference in a US election is the right thing to do?” And a majority (53 percent) said either “definitely yes” (33 percent) or “probably yes” (20 percent).
Maguire saying our biggest national security priority is protecting the sanctity of our election system. Makes me wonder what has him concerned that we don’t yet know about. And reminds me of Clare’s great piece about what the worst case scenario of election hacking could look like.
Rep. Hurd getting at whether the branches of government are really co-equal. Asking if the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel can override congressional rules, getting at whether the OLC would’ve had jurisdiction to tell the DNI not to share the complaint and IG report.