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I Have Run Out Of “Can’t Evens”: Jester Gaetz Storms The Castle

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Are they working under the assumption there are no Republicans on this committee, sitting in on the hearings?

And why are they not in handcuffs?

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  4. 4.

    cain

    @TaMara (HFG):
    It should cost them their elected positions. At the very least there should be federal charges. Of course, with Pompeo in the drivers seat there won’t be. That’s why they are so emboldened.

  7. 7.

    cain

    The only way this thing is going to get worse is when the President decides to charge in and not arrest Republicans but arrest the Democrats.

  8. 8.

    bbleh

    They’re not in cuffs because it’s an attention-getting stunt, and that would just make it worse.

    They’re like little kids throwing a tantrum. Trump’s presidency is a tantrum. His election was a tantrum by his supporters. It is the Age of Tantrum.

    The only silver lining is, a lot of them will be dying off soon. My condolences to their families.

  11. 11.

    cain

    @bbleh:

    They’re not in cuffs because it’s an attention-getting stunt, and that would just make it worse.

    You know they are going to keep doing this. It’s not just for attention getting, it’s also to intimidate the witness or any other witness that shows up. It needs to be handled. They are stopping the wheels of justice. It’s a desperate move.

  12. 12.

    Martin

    I think the legal term for this is ‘pounding the table’.

    @cain: There won’t be federal charges because that’s Bill Barrs decision to make, and I’m a little surprised he isn’t in the photo somewhere.

  14. 14.

    Joe Falco

    We don’t negotiate with terrorists and neither should Adam Schiff. Either they leave their phones with police, remove themselves with their tails between their legs and have anything recorded on the phones removed, or they can be held in contempt of Congress, thrown in jail and have their phones confiscated anyway.

  16. 16.

    cain

    @Martin:

    @cain: There won’t be federal charges because that’s Bill Barrs decision to make, and I’m a little surprised he isn’t in the photo somewhere.

    Your right, I messed up my cartoon villains. Yes, I meant Barr not Pompeo. I’m surprised as well that he isn’t there either. We have reached carnival levels of stupidity. I have no idea how we are going to get anything done with this kind of behavior.

  17. 17.

    Villago Delenda Est

    If any military member tried pulling that in a SCIF, they’d lose their clearance and face a court-martial.

  19. 19.

    cmorenc

    This development is a corollary to the old saw about lawyer courtroom tactics:

    If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”

    Also, I doubt the democrats on the investigating committees will be anywhere remotely as easily intimidated as were the local Florida election officials by the “Brooks Brothers rioters”.

  20. 20.

    FlipYrWhig

    @cain: Gaetz is basically one of those people who jumps into Trump’s Twitter feed as early as possible to collect likes from idiots.

  21. 21.

    scav

    Yet another made for TEEVEE (look at the ratings!!) Moment in our new ACTION-PACKED Performance of an Administration! All of the News Cycles, All of the Time! What japes will they be up to next in the next X-citing episode? Will Gaetz get the attention of the cute girl on FOX news or will he hit the jackpot of an admiring tweet from the Big Orange himself?!

  23. 23.

    Mary G

    He tried to walk back the confession by saying “tweets by staff,” but like Twitler he confessed to the crime already.

    Reporters keep saying they are negotiating with the Republicans. We don’t negotiate with terrorists. They get out or else the Capitol Police go in with zip ties.

    @MiekeEoyang has a Twitter thread up on why bringing cell phones into a SCIF is such a problem. She used to be in charge of its security.

    I wonder if this particular witness has some real dirt on the subject? I don’t remember ever hearing her name.

  24. 24.

    Gravenstone

    @TaMara (HFG): Censure the lot of them, then expel Gaetz. As long as those are majority decisions (I was unable to confirm with a cursory search), there’s nothing the Republicans do about those punishments.

  25. 25.

    JWR

    I wonder if this was planned last night as an answer to Taylor’s testimony? First, Trump’s “victory” message, followed by this Brooks Bros type riot, just to make sure everyone’s thoroughly confused. Yeah, he’s toast.

  28. 28.

    dmsilev

    @Martin: No criminal charges because Barr is a partisan hack, but Pelosi should push through censure votes for all of them, spelling out exactly how they violated the law and their oaths of office.

  29. 29.

    sdhays

    These are the same guys who disclosed classified secrets by accident while bloviating during one of the Benghazi hearings.

  30. 30.

    Tony Jay

    Looks like a gift-wrapped opportunity for the Sergeant at arms to get in at least a little practice escorting handcuffed Republicans from Federal buildings.

    You know he’ll need it. And the pictures will give good copy later historians can fall back on if the anti-Trump Raids take place at night.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    @bbleh:

    Apparently a common punishment for violating SCIF is to have your phone confiscated and destroyed. That seems appropriate here since that tactic works on tantruming teenagers, too.

  33. 33.

    JWR

    Republicans said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) was threatening GOP lawmakers with ethics violations. Schiff was also consulting with the House’s sergeant at arms.

    Ethics violations? C’mon, Schiff. Surely you can do better than that. And just for the record:

    The GOP stunt, [was] led by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)

  34. 34.

    patrick II

    It’s like they have invisible leashes. The president said on Monday Republicans have to get tougher and fight impeachment, and legal avenues are blocked off in the House, so they do this. I hope if he asks them to roll over and play dead they will be as accomadating.

  35. 35.

    Martin

    @dmsilev: Agreed. I’d go one further. When voters protest inside the building, they’re dragged off in zip-tie cuffs. I see no reason why our lawmakers shouldn’t get the same treatment by Capitol police. There may not be charges against them, but I see no reason why they can’t still be detained.

  38. 38.

    patrick II

    @cain:

    It’s for the foxbots who will have it explained to them as a secret meeting when they see this picture on the White Power Hour this evening.

  40. 40.

    Nashville_fan

    When will we call it what it is – a treasonous coup. These people know exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it. We cannot solve the problem until we accurately call it exactly what it is and handle it accordingly. The mass lawlessness accepted from the governmental class (white males) is truly astonishing. After years of claiming to be about the Bible and the Constitution, we can now clearly see that what really motivates them is remaining in power and superior to non-white people. “Democracy” is no longer palatable when white people are in the majority. Let’s quit pretending a thing is not a thing. Russia is the perfect partner for these folks because Russians have white skin.

  41. 41.

    MattF

    It’ll be today’s feature on Fox News, preempting anything else. And that’s what they want. The net result will be a delay— which is actually bad news for the Rs. I doubt that Pelosi will be moved a millimeter.

  42. 42.

    Fair Economist

    That hearing must be about something lethal to Trump. Given that they didn’t feel the need to expose themselves to jail time for the Taylor deposition, this must be really something.

  44. 44.

    Duane

    @cain: Desperate moves are all they got left. The traitors of Democracy hope to taint the impeachment process anyway they can. Up to and including criminal acts. They are nothing more than protesters and should be treated as such, handcuffed and taken to jail. Anyone else would be.

  46. 46.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Very sad news. 39 people were found dead in a container parked in an Industrial Park in the UK. The truck was registered in Bulgaria. The driver, from Northern Ireland has been arrested for 39 murders. Trying to identify the bodies may take months if not longer.

  48. 48.

    chris

    I have MSNBC on in the background and I haven’t heard anyone mention that there are Repubs on the committee in the SCIF. Maybe the intrepid disrupters don’t know that? They are Republicans after all.

  49. 49.

    ErikTheRed

    Are they working under the assumption there are no Republicans on this committee, sitting in on the hearings?

    Come on, TaMara, you should know by now that they know very well what they’re doing and why it’s bad. They don’t give a shit.

  51. 51.

    Jeffro

    Thugs masquerading as Congressmen. A mob boss’ henchmen in suits and ties. Call them out loudly, Dems. The next step will be them calling in their goons to Congressional offices, probably while ‘open carrying’, unfortunately.

  52. 52.

    bemused

    @JWR:

    Obviously Scalise didn’t experience any life changing epiphanies nor contemplated being a kinder, more tolerant human after his close call with death and left with serious injuries.

  54. 54.

    The Lodger

    @Jeffro: I doubt open carry would work in the House office buildings. I couldn’t get through security without removing my metal belt buckle.

  57. 57.

    JWR

    @chris:

    In reality, more than 45 House Republicans — nearly a quarter of the House GOP conference — already have full access to the depositions through their membership on one of the three panels leading the impeachment inquiry. During the depositions, Republican lawyers are given the same amount of time to question witnesses as Democratic counsels.

    Quoting ErikTheRed above: “.. they know very well what they’re doing …

  58. 58.

    MattF

    @Jeffro: Just thugs, egged on by the Thug-in-Chief. ‘Nice Constitution you’ve got there. Pity if something happened to it.’

  60. 60.

    PaulWartenberg

    This is a Brooks Brothers riot.
    1) they are trying to interrupt and stall the hearings in order to force Schiff and the Democrats into shutting the hearings down altogether.
    2) they are trying to present themselves as “heroes” to the wingnut Fox Not-News fanbase

    they don’t care about the reality of what a closed hearing is about. they don’t care that they’re violating a high-security section of Congress that’s not supposed to have smartphones or cameras (some of the GOP geniuses are getting caught live-tweeting from the SCIF and are blaming their staffers for such illegal acts).

    I swear to God, the only sane response to this would be to arrest every single GOP congresscritter involved in this stunt for security violations. At the very least, have Pelosi revoke any Top Secret clearances they have.

  61. 61.

    rikyrah

    @Martin:

    @dmsilev: Agreed. I’d go one further. When voters protest inside the building, they’re dragged off in zip-tie cuffs. I see no reason why our lawmakers shouldn’t get the same treatment by Capitol police.

    I see no reason why this shouldn’t happen to them too.

  64. 64.

    Gravenstone

    @JWR: Makes me wonder if any of those involved sit on either of the other relevant committees (one would hope it to be unlikely)? If so, they should lose those seats post haste.

  65. 65.

    MisterForkbeard

    Are they working under the assumption there are no Republicans on this committee, sitting in on the hearings?

    They’re certainly PRETENDING this is the case to the media. That’s the entire point – to violate the process, get thrown out and then to SCREAM about corruption and “soviet style” lynchings by the Real Democrat Traitors.

    Really though, they ALL violated the law here.

  66. 66.

    JWR

    @bemused:

    I heard an interview with Scalise not too long ago, and he actually said that he’s more committed to the 2A than ever before. So he hasn’t become “a kinder, more tolerant human”. In fact, I think he’s gotten worse. More belligerent than before.

  67. 67.

    cain

    @chris:

    I have MSNBC on in the background and I haven’t heard anyone mention that there are Repubs on the committee in the SCIF. Maybe the intrepid disrupters don’t know that? They are Republicans after all.

    You seem to be extending these interlopers some benefit of the doubt. Please don’t.

  69. 69.

    scav

    So they’re complaining about the secrecy of a scheduled meeting involving the investigation of a president using his personal lawyer (among others) as a back-channel international conduit of information (aka demands) withheld from the official diplomats and having instances of similar interactions misclassified and stored using top-secret protocalls. Yup. It’s still this timeline.

  71. 71.

    guachi

    Holy crap, entering a SCIF intentionally with a phone is a bad thing. Doing it UNINTENTIONALLY is a security violation and will get you written up and a stern warning. I’ve seen it happen when security folks come by hunting down a cell signal.

    But… wow! This makes “but her emails” look minor.

  72. 72.

    gene108

    Read somewhere the 20 idiots brought their cellphones into the SCIF.

    Big security violation

    Maybe they all need some “Lock Him Up” reminders, their Party swore were criminal violations, wrt bungling security stuff, when they were all up in arms over Hillary’s emails.

  76. 76.

    gene108

    @robmassing:

    Brooks Brothers Riot, Part Stupider

    Brooks Brothers Riot did significantly influence the media narrative regarding the recount.

    Don’t think this stunt will be as effective

  78. 78.

    Barbara

    @JWR: PTSD as a result of life threatening injuries — or even invasive medical procedures — can contribute to becoming more aggressive or paranoid. In his case, though, it probably just means that he knows which side his bread is buttered on and he thinks it unlikely he will get shot again, so, you know, who cares.

  80. 80.

    Matt McIrvin

    The Democrats in Congress must have some SUPER insecure email servers to justify this one!

  84. 84.

    PPCLI

    Are they working under the assumption there are no Republicans on this committee, sitting in on the hearings?

    Not only that, but there is a lawyer for the House republicans asking questions, isn’t there? (Or so I understand from Jim Jordan’s otherwise tight-lipped comment yesterday after Taylor’s testimony. His usual goofy grin nowhere to be seen, the only thing he could think of to say was to praise the Republican counsel for a good job.)

  86. 86.

    The Moar You Know

    Arrest them and then get on tv the GOP is a radical fascist movement

    @Ksmiami: I cursorily read this as “Arrest them and then get on tv the GOP is a radical feminist movement” and I was like “OMG that would totally work”.

    Sadly, the people who have a problem with fascists aren’t the people who vote for the GOP. No hearts and minds would be changed by the tie to fascism.

  87. 87.

    Mnemosyne

    @guachi:

    Rules only apply to Democrats, don’t’cha know.

    This is why idiot conservatives are indignant when they get caught violating voting laws when they were just trying to prove that the laws could be violated! They’re performing a public service by breaking the law!

  88. 88.

    Hob

    @trollhattan: “The Wire” was not, technically, a documentary. I wish people would stop trying to copy it in real life.

    Does everyone who recognizes a story element that was used in a TV show really have to jump at the chance to reference that show? I love The Wire, but this is just gross. David Simon did not invent the idea of smuggling people in shipping containers or the idea that this could be fatal. It’s happened many times. That’s why he included it in the show.

  90. 90.

    PPCLI

    @JWR: What do you expect from someone who proudly described himself proudly as “David Duke without the baggage”?

  96. 96.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    The Republican sit-in disrupting the impeachment inquiry shows no sign of resolution: They just wheeled in 17 pizzas.— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) October 23, 2019

    They better make sure the pizza guy doesn’t have his cellphone on him or he’s in BIG TROUBLE, right?

  97. 97.

    Cacti

    House leadership needs to come down on this like a ton of bricks, or they’ll be greenlighting these brown shirt tactics for the rest of the process.

  98. 98.

    bemused

    @JWR:

    Pretty sad and pathetic he didn’t do some self examination, what he wanted to be as a human for the rest of his life but not a surprise he’d double down with his type of evangelical.

  99. 99.

    The Moar You Know

    David Simon did not invent the idea of smuggling people in shipping containers or the idea that this could be fatal. It’s happened many times. That’s why he included it in the show.

    @Hob: We used to get about one a week here in SoCal. Sometimes the “cargo” would live, sometimes not. CBP put in full-container roll n’go X-ray machines at Otay Mesa and Mexicali and now we don’t get them anymore. Texas still does. Far more of the folks trying that crossing through Texas die; it’s a lot hotter there.

  100. 100.

    MattF

    @PPCLI: In fact, all the ‘process’ stuff is being done by-the-book. The inquiry is analogous to a grand jury proceeding. Hugh Hewitt tried to make the argument that it was all unfair, and got creamed.

  101. 101.

    joel hanes

    Just a reminder that, before his father set him up in politics, Matt Gaetz was employed as an outside attendant at a strip club — outside, because Matt is not the kind of person that the proprietor of a strip joint can trust to work inside the club.

    Gaetz’s sense of impunity and his smug hooliganism augment his stupidity to make him a more toxic Representative than Gohmert or Foxx or Blackburn. He and Nunes seem to be competing to see who can be the biggest damned fool

  102. 102.

    Spanky

    “Barging into the SCIF” will get you a gun in your face and some jail time in places where they take that shit seriously. These assholes need some time in the cooler.

  103. 103.

    West of the Rockies

    Do we know the make-up yet of this rabble? Let me guess: 30 middle-aged white guys, half of whom are millionaires. No doubt they’ll compose their own letter from the Birmingham jail. Brave freedom fighters, the lot of them.//

  104. 104.

    mrmoshpotato

    Don’t ever let anyone tell you that the entire Russthuglican party isn’t a national security risk.

    ETA – this is still unfuckingbelievable even after paying attention to the shitshow going on since 2015.

  105. 105.

    bemused

    I often think of what my parents who passed away decades ago would think of the trump administration and the GOP. They wouldn’t believe their eyes and ears.

  106. 106.

    joel hanes

    @PaulWartenberg:

    They are trying to intimidate the witness and worse, to disclose the identity of the witness to expose her or him to partisan harassment by the fascist Republican base.

  107. 107.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    According to someone in the Dailykos comments on their thread about this, Gaetz tried to post the live video of Brooks Bozos Riot II to Facebook but it failed..

    I too am completely out of Evens today…
    I did 20 years in the U.S. Navy and this is just disgusting.

  108. 108.

    guachi

    I don’t know about the SCIF on Capitol Hill, but the ones I work in have signs, with pictures, saying NO CELLPHONES!!!!

    I can’t stress how much I want the people who are doing this to go to jail and/or have their clearances stripped. They should be sanctioned on the House floor.

  109. 109.

    topclimber

    I know this is just a pipe dream, but since Nancy runs the House, have Schiff and company exit by back doors, turn off the lights, and lock the entrance while the GOP Gang is figuring out who gets the Pepperoni or the Plain slices. Oh and shut off the electricity too.

  111. 111.

    rikyrah

    This is a thread explaining the threat to our NATIONAL SECURITY that was done by those clowns today.

    A few words on why Gaetz stunt to storm the SCIF to disrupt Laura Cooper’s deposition is a VERY serious national security problem.

    Note, I worked in that SCIF for HPSCI and handled cybersecurity issues while there.

    — Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) October 23, 2019

    https://twitter.com/MiekeEoyang/status/1187032800572125191

  112. 112.

    Jeffro

    BREAKING: Bloomberg reporting that trumpov both knew AND approved of this Gaetz brownshirt crap IN ADVANCE.

    “Go forth, my minions…even though there are already Republicans in the room, and even though it’s a SCIF…” Unbelievable.

    Literal obstruction, to go with all the other obstruction.

    Let ’em have it, Dems! Time to get some prime-time national speeches going and rallies after that. trumpov will be calling for his ‘very fine people’ to intimidate (or worse) – we HAVE to stand up!

  114. 114.

    Rommie

    So Twitler gave the go-ahead for this? Is he trying to get the House to Impeach tomorrow or something? This is Mr. McMahon strutting down the aisle with No Chance In Hell playing over the speakers Obstruction of Justice.

  115. 115.

    Spanky

    Meanwhile, via WaPo:

    Oct. 23, 2019 at 11:23 a.m. EDT
    NEW YORK — President Trump’s private attorney said Wednesday that the president could not be investigated or prosecuted as long as he is in the White House, even for shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

    The claim of “temporary presidential immunity” from Trump’s private attorney William S. Consovoy came in court in response to a judge’s question that invoked the president’s own hypothetical scenario. As a candidate in 2016, Trump said his support was so strong he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not “lose any voters.”

    The president’s lawyer was asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit to block a subpoena for Trump’s private financial records from New York prosecutors investigating hush-money payments made before the 2016 election. The judges seemed skeptical of the president’s sweeping claims of immunity not just from prosecution, but also from investigation.

  116. 116.

    chris

    Ukraine is going to bring down all the Republicans. Natasha Bertrand finds some more including, of fucking course, Devin Nunes.

    Kashyap Patel, a longtime Nunes staffer who joined the White House in February, was so involved in the issue that at one point Trump thought he was in charge of Ukraine policy for the National Security Council, according to congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian Affairs whose portfolio included Ukraine.

  117. 117.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @ErikTheRed:

    Are they working under the assumption there are no Republicans on this committee, sitting in on the hearings?

    No, just that the low information Trumpthuglicans hearing about their “courage and bravery” have no idea how all this works.

    Betting that pretty soon we’ll see analogies popping up on Twitter by the right to the armed Bundy Ranch standoff or the Malheur takeovers which will not be lost on the likes of Oath Keepers and Sovereign Citizens groups either.

    These douche bags are playing with fire.

  119. 119.

    Sloane Ranger

    @topclimber: I agree. If there are Democrats and others caught in there they should pick up their papers and walk out. Any attempt to stop them would be technically an assault and, possibly kidnapping.

    Then lock them in there. 17 pizzas aren’t going to last forever. No further food, drink and no access to toilet facilities. They’ll be begging to be let out by tomorrow morning at the latest.

  120. 120.

    Eliie

    We are going to have to be in the streets on this stuff soon. We are going to have to make this much more visible. The wound on our democracy is infected and needs to be cleaned out. Its going to hurt a bit and we are going to have to get down in it to clean and flush it. These people will not stop so we must press onward.

  121. 121.

    Avalune

    Today is apparently National Slap Your Annoying Co-worker Day. I see a bunch of fine candidates in these photos for such an honor.

  124. 124.

    Elie

    We are going to have to be in the streets on this stuff soon. We are going to have to make this much more visible. The wound on our democracy is infected and needs to be cleaned out. Its going to hurt a bit and we are going to have to get down in it to clean and flush it. These people will not stop so we must press onward.
    (I misspelled my nym so think that was why my comment was moderated?)

  125. 125.

    Kattails

    Trying to get some work done today and made the mistake of checking back here. I instantly called my own thankfully Dem house rep. to continue to support impeachment. I then looked up Gaetz’s House phone number and spit out an outraged message, driven to actual profanity. Bastards all of them. With apologies to anyone simply born without benefit of parental marriage licenses.

  126. 126.

    patroclus

    When Democrats had their gun control sit-in last term, the Republicans handled it by letting them do it and punishing no one. Like it or not, the whole thing fizzled after that. That is how this should be handled. Tomorrow, though, there should be a narrow entrance, closely guarded by the Sergeant at Arms and Capitol Police, that checks everyone’s credentials carefully.

  127. 127.

    bluefish

    @bbleh:
    thank you — whatever makes me laugh with enjoyment is what gets held onto these days – absolutely wonderful

  128. 128.

    The Moar You Know

    Is he trying to get the House to Impeach tomorrow or something?

    @Rommie: Bingo. That is exactly what he is trying to do, knowing that acquittal is just across the Hill in the Senate chamber.

    This is why all the GOP has been saying “oh yeah, we can have this wrapped up by Christmas, no problemo”

    The sooner it happens the better…for them. Not for us.

  129. 129.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @gene108: And Hillary’s emails were only classified retroactively. At the time, they were at best FOUO (For Official Use Only, which is a handling instruction, not a classification.)

  130. 130.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Eliie: Because WordPress probably objected to a word you use that is like a gaming establishment or a boner pill.

  132. 132.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @patroclus: except in that case, Dems didn’t willfully storm an active hearing in a SCIF and start recording with their cellphones.

  134. 134.

    pat

    So the FNYT has a headline that they are protesting “outside” the room. And it is still up now while everyone else talks about them taking cell phones into the room…

    How can they get it so wrong..????

  135. 135.

    Kattails

    Now wondering– there was the cell phone “leak” last night of the Ambassador’s statements. There was speculation about how it happened and the motives. Now I’m wondering if it wasn’t actually done maliciously. There was one suggestion that if all the Reps. got copies, the copies may have been made by a staff member on the side. I’m mentally linking this cell phone stunt today with that leak from the previous hearing, i.e. as giving an excuse for today’s disruption. It might mean some pre-planning, or might just be taking advantage of a perceived opening to spread some chaos. Or am I overthinking this?

  138. 138.

    mrmoshpotato

    @pat:

    How can they get it so wrong..????

    It’s the FNYT. Gotta find something major to be majorly wrong about since screaming about HER EMAILS! is over.

  139. 139.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @pat: The Vichy Times being the Vichy Times. Baquet needs to be fired like Dick Jones was in Robocop.

  140. 140.

    JAM

    According to Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel, about a dozen of the protesters are actually on the participating committees.

  143. 143.

    Val Fitzgerald

    @TaMara (HFG): h Republicans are lucky beyond belief that I wasn’t around to call the Capitol police (which Adam Schiff should have immediately done when they ‘stormed the closed-door hearing-room! Also, i
    it’s against the law for them to have brought their phones into that hearing-room, then why were the Republicans allowed to do that?

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