Congressman Denny Heck on the nine-hour deposition of Fiona Hill & her near perfect memory: “I can say in all candor, that after 1000s of hours of hearings, I have never had a witness that came across as substantive per minute as she did.”
Key witnesses are ignoring Trump and delivering bombshell testimony in Democrats’ Ukraine investigation.
Donald Trump’s impeachment blockade has collapsed.
The president’s former top Russia adviser, Fiona Hill — the first White House official to cooperate in Democrats’ investigation of the Ukraine scandal — has sketched for lawmakers a trail of alleged corruption that extends from Kiev to the West Wing. In dramatic testimony on Monday, she roped insome of Trump’s top advisers as witnesses to the unfolding controversy.
And on Tuesday, a senior State Department official, George Kent, appeared on Capitol Hill to testify about his knowledge of the episode despite an attempt by administration lawyers to block him, according to a source working on the impeachment inquiry. The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for his testimony Tuesday morning, and Kent complied.
It’s the latest evidence that the White House’s stonewalling against congressional requests for documents and testimony is crumbling — and Democrats are feeling a new sense of momentum.
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On Wednesday, a top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — who resigned abruptly last week — intends to testify before lawmakers.
On Thursday, comes Gordon Sondland, the EU ambassador whose text messages revealed by lawmakers indicated he was aware of efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate Biden. Sondland is reportedly ready to deflect any blame on to Trump about whether there was any quid pro quo.
Congressional investigators on Friday will hear from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper, who oversees Russia- and Ukraine-related matters at the Pentagon.
Despite the series of breakthroughs, Democrats will still face resistance from the White House to some of their high-level requests.
When asked whether Trump’s budget office planned to comply with a Tuesday subpoena deadline for documents, a senior administration official did not say, instead pointing to a White House letter last week that deemed the House impeachment probe "unconstitutional."
The procession of high-ranking witnesses to the House’s impeachment inquiry continued apace on Tuesday, as George P. Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state in charge of Ukraine policy, arrived on Capitol Hill to face questions from investigators about his knowledge of the widening Ukraine scandal.
Mr. Kent, who appeared behind closed doors despite the State Department directing him not to do so, raised concerns to colleagues early this year about the pressure being directed at Ukraine by Mr. Trump and his private lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to pursue investigations into Mr. Trump’s political rivals, according to people familiar with Mr. Kent’s warnings.
As far back as March, they said, Mr. Kent was pointing to Mr. Giuliani’s role in what he called a “disinformation” campaign intended to use a Ukrainian prosecutor to smear targets of the president. Those included former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Marie L. Yovanovitch, then the United States ambassador to Ukraine, and Ukrainians who disseminated damaging information during the 2016 campaign about Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
Mr. Kent, wearing a three-piece suit and bow tie, entered the obscured chambers of the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday morning to kick off another jam-packed day for investigators. Lawmakers are scheduled to return to the Capitol from a two-week recess later Tuesday, and Democrats will huddle to compare notes on the direction of the inquiry. Separately, the committees leading the investigation had set a series of crucial deadlines on Tuesday for key witnesses and executive branch agencies to hand over relevant documents.
Subpoenas and Requests for Evidence in the Trump Impeachment Inquiry
House Democratic leaders are reaching out to members in swing districts to gauge their support for an official vote on the House floor to open an impeachment inquiry, two sources told NBC News.
Leadership is contacting the most vulnerable members first and then will discuss with the larger caucus as early as tonight at their 6:00 pm ET caucus meeting.
House Republicans and the White House have been demanding an official vote to open an inquiry. The White House has said it won’t cooperate with Democrats demands until they do.
While this would be a significant development to make the inquiry more official, Democrats have argued that it is not necessary as deemed by the Constitution.
Republicans would like a vote to officially open the inquiry because it could give them more rights, including subpoena power.
President Donald’s Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani told ABC News on Tuesday he is not complying with a congressional subpoena.
Giuliani told ABC News “if they enforce it, then we will see what happens.”
Giuliani went on to say he is no longer retaining the services of Jon Sale, who was acting as his attorney for this matter. Giuliani said that if Congress seeks to enforce a subpoena, then he will retain counsel.
As part of his final acts as his attorney, Sale sent a letter to Congress on Tuesday replying to the subpoena Giuliani was sent.
Tuesday was the deadline for Giuliani to comply with a wide-ranging subpoena from three of the House committees working on the growing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
ABC your site looks like clickbait internet trash. You should do something about that, it’s almost completely unreadable.
I was not sure if this had been posted or not…from NYT
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Speaker Pelosi is about to make a STATEMENT on IMPEACHMENT - she has met with her caucus. Be on the lookout 
…more than likely just before the Ohio Democratic Debates taking place at 5p PST/8p EST
LIVE
Rep Schiff made comments too
got it thanks
Cross-posting for the timeline 
I’ll update the timeline first thing tomorrow, summary is pretty much done I just have to double check it against what matt dragged in. 
good, why take a vote when you don’t need to
Bah, Someone please find this, I’m already running late to my class.
Got it @anon95374541
A SDNY request for records from former Rep Pete Sessions by subpoena. It is meant to coordinate the information about Igor and Lev’s contribution to Sessions re-election campaign.
Oct. 15, 2019 at 3:44 p.m. PDT
A federal grand jury in New York has issued a subpoena to former Texas congressman Pete Sessions seeking records and other information on his interactions with President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and two Giuliani associates charged last week with a scheme to funnel foreign money to U.S. politicians, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
The subpoena seeks records about Sessions’s dealings with Giuliani and two business associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who before their arrest had been helping Giuliani investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden.
Parnas and Fruman were charged last week with violating campaign finance law in an ongoing investigation that has ensnared the president’s personal lawyer because of his relationship with the two men. The subpoena indicates the investigation remains active, with investigators keen to determine whether Giuliani committed any wrongdoing.
A spokesman for Sessions, a Republican from Texas, said in a statement: “Mr. Sessions is cooperating with the US Attorney from the Southern District of New York and will be providing documents to their office related to this matter over the next couple of weeks as requested.”
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan declined to comment. Giuliani did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
and WSJ - Subpoena is all about Giuliani’s actions in this imbroglio.
The subpoena seeks documents related to Mr. Giuliani’s business dealings with Ukraine and his involvement in efforts to oust the U.S. ambassador in Kyiv, as well as any interactions between Mr. Sessions, Mr. Giuliani and four men who were indicted last week on campaign-finance and conspiracy accounts, the people said.
Mr. Sessions’ knowledge of Mr. Giuliani’s dealings is a primary focus of the subpoena, the people said. Mr. Giuliani has denied wrongdoing and said he has had no indication his actions are being investigated by prosecutors.
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The subpoena of the former congressman offers a window into the investigation by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office into the business dealings of Mr. Giuliani in Ukraine, including his finances, meetings and work for a city mayor there. Investigators have examined his bank records and have questioned witnesses about him since at least August.
The probe comes as House Democrats continue to interview former and current administration officials and others in their impeachment inquiry focusing on efforts by Mr. Trump, Mr. Giuliani and others to press Ukraine to mount investigations that could benefit the president politically. Among other things, they wanted Ukrainian officials to investigate activities by former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential 2020 election rival to Mr. Trump, and his son Hunter Biden, who was on the board of an energy company in Ukraine. No evidence has emerged that the Bidens, who have denied wrongdoing, have done anything improper.
Giuliani’s Response
From NY Daily News - hometown paper for Giuliani
Giuliani — who ran the the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan in the 1980s — said prosecutors had not contacted him as of late Tuesday, and called the inquiry targeting him “strange.”
“I would find it very unusual that they’re carrying out an investigation by leaks,” Giuliani told The News, referring to a string of news reports over the past week on the ongoing investigation. “It would seem to me that it’s not the type of investigation the Southern District carries out, and I have to find out what’s going on."
Just breaking…
Say what? Looks like another head fake – wonder if this one will be as successful as releasing the call summary.
… Even as the impeachment inquiry intensifies in Congress, White House lawyers are leading their own review, the people said. They are seeking to understand White House officials’ actions around Mr. Trump’s July 25 call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, which is central to the whistle-blower’s allegation that Mr. Trump abused his power.
The lawyers’ inquiry centers on why one of their colleagues, the deputy White House counsel John A. Eisenberg , placed a rough transcript of the call in a computer system typically reserved for the country’s most closely guarded secrets. Mr. Trump later directed that a reconstructed transcript be released amid intensifying scrutiny from House Democrats.
Run, Eisenberg, run for your life! The Trump bus is headed straight for you. 
Sounds good. I’ll organize. I want to see if a wiki style header is obtainable through this format for quick reference. Sometimes I can’t find all the incredible stories y’all post.
He shows up in different parts of the story all over the place. He’d be an easy one to throw under the bus.
Vice President Mike Pence’s office said Tuesday it will not comply with a request from the House to turn over documents related to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
In a letter to the chairmen of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees, Pence counsel Matthew Morgan called the request part of a “self-proclaimed impeachment inquiry,” noting that the House of Representatives has not yet taken a vote to open the inquiry and asserting that the request was part of a process that “calls into question your commitment to fundamental fairness and due process rights.”
Those chairmen sent Pence a request on Oct. 4 asking for documents and communicationspertaining to the phone call and the withholding of military and security aid to Ukraine.
Guys, the Vice President of the United States refused to comply with a subpoena from Congress. Does he get an article now too?