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I also appreciate your changing your tune on Barr and the bigwigs testifying live. Being able to selectively show key statements (and avoiding any gaslighting) , and showing his body language is a great advantage for the J6 committee. Watching many of them squirm - carefully choosing words, all the "ums", hesitancy, and general discomfort and demeanor - was priceless and would not have been as impactful as live testimony. I'm riveted, and really appreciate the "production values" and the absence of Gym Jordan, etc. for obvious reasons.

I watched the Watergate hearings with my dad and brother, and we would recount the highlights of the hearings over dinner, devouring the "Watergate Weeklies" - Newsweek and the Sunday New York Times. Watching Sam Ervin's eyebrows when Butterfield gave away the taping was a highlight, one of many. Bennie's gravitas, Liz' rapier I'm glad Zoe Lofgren got her moment in the sun (I've met her in person a few times), and look forward to seeing the other Committee members in action. I'm proud that Adam Schiff is a Stanford 1982 classmate of mine. I'll be in front of the TV Thursday 10 AM PDT!

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I meant was MORE impactful than live testimony.....

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Lucien, I appreciate your changing your time about the Jan 6 Committee and hearings; your willingness to reverse yourself speaks to your integrity,

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I appreciate your keen and studious analysis, but I'm worried that while the 1/6 Committee is doing their job and making all the points connect that the DOJ is not really interested in the outcome because Tuesday was Primary day in many states.

The reason that matters is that an awful lot of people who were and are election deniers were elected in that primary and we should be very afraid should they be ultimately elected to the House or Senate because those hearings could be just another 'nothing to see here' in November when they're elected.

https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/election-deniers-quiet-on-fraud-claims-after-primary-wins/

So the Committee better wrap it up before November and hand in their results because they're running out of time to get anything done about Trump because he's still pulling the strings.

By the way there are a lot of major corporations that are funding those people who have and are denying the election, supported the Insurrection and refusing to testify before the committee.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/promises-kept-the-companies-not-funding-sedition/

Citizens United was the worst decision ever issued in the modern age, and it's been continuing the steady erosion of our democracy.

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Definitely agree with your comment on Citizens united and yes I was very worried about the results of the primaries held this past Tuesday.

I, like Lucian, live in Pennsylvania. Yesterday I saw a poll for the Governor's race (Shapiro/Mastriano) that was within the margin of error. It would be very bad if Mastiano wins.

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Bravo, Lucian. Great connections…. As Calvin says to Hobbs as their wagon flies down a hill, “I love it when a plan comes together.”

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I also like the C&H cartoon of them barrelling down the hill on a toboggan, Calvin spouting brave words, and crashing at the end "We'd better be careful to not learn from this" (paraphrase).

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Whew! Glad you had a “come to Jesus” moment! I was a little worried about you. I saw that video filmed by that stupid prick but found myself kinda chuckling at Loudermilk’s denial when the evidence was released. Talk about putting a nail in the coffin…

I have been telling my friends that I think the DOJ and the FBI have been up to their eyeballs in 1) straightening out the mess the Chump administration left and 2) Garland and his prosecutors will cast a wide net over the Repubs and their financiers for their actions. Hell, I’d be happy if Manchenema were included!

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The white / male / hetero supremacist segment of our country is being stripped naked for all to see. Call them Republicans, call them Dumpsters (Trumpsters), call them whatever you want, the heirs to slavery society America and females-are-invisible society are getting their day in the sun just before they are forced to convert. You have to put light on the dark corners of the attic while you’re cleaning it out.

The January 6 Committee is the garbage truck. Normally, nobody wants a video of their neighbors’s garbage. But this time we have to look at it, because it’s the corruption in our society. This is our society’s dirty laundry.

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I call them “fascists,” Roland.

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👍👍

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Yes and isn’t that a crying shame?!!

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You nailed that SOB William Barr and his disrespectful body language perfectly. Bravo!

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Excellent. I’m watching every minute, also. I was in law school at Berkeley during the Watergate hearings, and still watched nearly every bit of them. This one’s even more important. The question is, are the people who matter paying attention.

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Not if TuckerSeanLaura have their way...turn on the fog machine.

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The Deplorables get to come out and play right now (2016-now). And we all get to watch the trailer trash show. Their “church,” the fog machine, is of course the Murdoch White Supremacy Channel.

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I don't know where Garland will go but one thing I do know is that the number of Republicans caught up one way or another in this coup is growing exponentially but all are consistent with their steadfast lying about whatever they did. Loudermilk is the latest to join the likes of Jordan, Perry, Gohmert and, of course, Meadows, in denying they had anything to do with the planning to throw out the votes from the five swing states. Eastman, Navarro, Flynn, Guiliani, et al were spear carriers but the party elected and Meadows knew how to push the levers inside the Capitol to make it all happen. Everyone of them needs to be indicted. If some of them want to cut a deal to rat out a higher up, that will be OK but to start with every one of the has to be painted as the TRAITORS they are.

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This from Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter:

On Monday, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger wrote a letter to Representative Rodney Davis, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, a committee on which Loudermilk sits. Manger wrote that surveillance video showed Loudermilk with a group of approximately 12 people that later grew to 15, but that “[t]here is no evidence that Representative Loudermilk entered the U.S. Capitol with this group on January 5, 2021,” nor did the group with Loudermilk “appear in any tunnels that would lead them to the US Capitol.” “We train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance,” Manger wrote, “and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious."

The Capitol Police Chief is undercutting the January 6 Committee and giving Loudermilk plausible deniability. I find that disturbing. I also am doubtful that Garland and the DOJ will act on the evidence being given them by the Committee, and that once again Drumpf will not be brought to justice.

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Yeah, it would appear the Chief was actively participating in butt covering himself. How would he know what that group was doing without investigating who they were? In this particular case where it has now been substantiated one of the "tourists" was in the mob storming the Capitol and calling for harming key Democrats the Chief looks more like Inspector Clouseau.

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Should Republicans retake the House and Senate they will try to bury everything the committee has done and that will only delay the final act. Trump might be a 78-year-old man in a courtroom. If not, historians will have at him. AS usual you have given insight and wisdom, thank you sir.

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Excellent analysis - spot on. Yes - keep it up!

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Keep up your good work.

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I almost wrote to you about your original opinion of not presenting live witnesses. As a long-time federal criminal defense attorney, I believe that there is great danger in trying to examine or cross-examine hostile witnesses, of which Barr and his ilk most certainly are. I also would point out that unless the witnesses were promised some sort of immunity in exchange for their testimony, or pleaded the Fifth, I believe their own testimony could indeed be used against them.

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Brav.o.

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On an out of the way airstrip in S FL is a little plane ready to take DJT to Cuba, from where he will go on a Russian jet to a heroes welcome, where his buddy, Vlad, will remind DJT what is in their file on him.

He too is watching the TV.

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Not if he wonders if his SS detail could serve an arrest warrant from the DOJ. As in,” good morning sir here is your coffee to sip before we cuff you!”

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The cuffs are, unfortunately, a total fantasy. It will never happen.

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