| Democrats Warn 'We're Not Fooling Around,' Say White House Will Face Subpoena |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=51745"><span class="small">John Wagner and Felicia Sonmez, The Washington Post</span></a> |
| Wednesday, 02 October 2019 13:27 |
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Excerpt: "House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff warned the White House Wednesday that 'we're not fooling around here' on the impeachment inquiry as Democrats announced that they would subpoena documents related to Trump's July phone call with the leader of Ukraine."
Democrats Warn 'We're Not Fooling Around,' Say White House Will Face Subpoena02 October 19
Earlier Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged during a news conference in Rome that he listened to the July call on which Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son. Trump tweeted insults at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Schiff as they held a late-morning news conference, then lashed out at them again during an event in the Oval Office. Pelosi said in a television interview that she believes Trump is “scared” of the inquiry. 2:10 p.m.: Pelosi said Trump ‘scared’ of impeachment inquiry Pelosi said during a television interview Wednesday that she believes Trump is “scared” of the impeachment inquiry being led by House Democrats. “I think the president knows the argument that can be made against him, and he’s scared,” Pelosi said in an interview with ABC News, excerpts of which were released Wednesday afternoon. “And so he’s trying to divert attention from that to where [he’s] standing in the way of legislation.” ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Pelosi whether Trump had fear in his voice when the two spoke last week before her announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry in response to the whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s call with Zelensky. “I saw the surprise in his voice that he didn’t understand that I thought what he did was wrong,” Pelosi said. “That he was undermining our national security, that he was undermining our Constitution by his actions, and he was undermining the integrity of our elections. He just didn’t see it.” 1:30 p.m.: California’s governor offers a rejoinder to Trump California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took to Twitter to respond to Trump’s comments about him during a 13-minute stretch of Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in which they fielded questions from reporters. In the midst of insults directed at Pelosi and Schiff, Trump also derided Newsom as “a do-nothing” as he complained about a California law that would keep him off the primary ballot in the state next year if he doesn’t publicly release his taxes. “Hello @realDonaldTrump...heard you just gave me a shout out in the Oval Office,” Newson tweeted. “Actually watched your press conference — mainly just feel bad for the poor President of Finland who had to endure that. Today, we are all Sauli Niinistö.”
12:50 p.m.: Trump says identity of the whistleblower’s sources should be public Trump, during an event in the Oval Office, called for the identity of those who provided information to the whistleblower to be publicly disclosed. “This country has to find out who that person was, because that person’s a spy, in my opinion,” Trump told reporters while visiting Finnish President Sauli Niinistö looked on. The whistleblower said his complaint was based on conversations with more than a half dozen U.S. officials. In his remarks Wednesday, Trump acknowledged that there is value in protecting the identity of whistleblowers in some cases. “I think a whistleblower should be protected if the whistleblower’s legitimate,” he said. Trump also expanded on grievances aired earlier Wednesday on Twitter and took repeated shots at Schiff and Pelosi. The president called Schiff “a low life” and a “shifty dishonest guy” and again called for him to resign. Among other things, Trump took issue with Schiff having criticized Pompeo, saying “that guy couldn’t carry his blank strap.” Trump said he was trying to sanitize a common phrase about carrying a jock strap. Trump suggested Pelosi should focus on her San Francisco-area congressional district, where he said there are people living in tents and “people dying in squalor.” |
ouse Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff warned the White House Wednesday that “we’re not fooling around” on the 