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ing this click here. The Daily 202 Share: Listen to The Big Idea Witnesses called by GOP to defend Trump offer more bad facts for the president Volker and Morrison's impeachment testimony, in under 5 minutes BY JAMES HOHMANN with Mariana Alfaro THE BIG IDEA: They were there to bat cleanup, but bo

, deepened a damning fact pattern for Trump and said that the underlying conduct the president stands accused of would generally be inappropriate. Volker said he "would have objected" if he knew at the time that Trump brought up Joe Biden repeatedly and specifically during the July 25 call with the U

in which the federal government had not imposed capital punishment on prisoners. Devlin Barrett reports: "Attorney General William P. Barr ordered the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions for five inmates currently on death row. The prisoners were convicted of murdering children. The last federal execution was

r will modify his testimony and plans to say this afternoon that he didn't know the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations. From the Times: "Mr. Volker will say that he did not realize that others working for Mr. Trump were tying American security aid to a commitment to investigate Democrats. His t

Stanley-Becker report. -- Vindman is the second of three immigrants scheduled to testify. (My Big Idea from Friday explains the significance.) -- Volker will modify his testimony and plans to say this afternoon that he didn't know the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations. From the Times: "Mr. V

financier have questioned that conclusion. ... The death of the most high-profile defendant in the federal prison system led to a major shake-up at the Bureau of Prisons. Attorney General William P. Barr brought in a former director of the agency to run it again, and replaced the top official at the MCC, saying the

accusations of corruption, was tantamount to investigating Vice President Biden. I drew a sharp distinction between the two: However, the Post says Volker's testimony is "belied by text messages that he tumed over to the House Intelligence 4 EFTA01653166 Committee last month, which show acting U.S.

ed as saying, "I feared at the time of the call on July 25 how its disclosure would play in Washington's dimate. ... My fears have been realized." Volker Says He Misunderstood Import Of Push For Burisma Probe. The Washington Post (11/19, Wagner, Itkowit, 14.2M) reports that Kurt Volker, a former envo

of chronic understaffing in federal prisons," while NBC Nightly News (11/19, story 4, 2:10, Hosk, 6.37M) showed Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, saying, "This incident was a black eye on the entire Bureau of Prisons." NBC added that in a Senate hearing yesterday, Sawyer also "said she coul

esent circumstance, so there will be no direct contact with any of the victims. If Mr. Hoffenberg wants to talk to Jamie Dimon or Jeremy Epstein or Volker or anybody else about getting some money back, that's fine. Obviously, he can do that. Here's the point. If this is going to be a satisfactory su

sue, it's my understanding that the primary reason to have that direct contact is not for safety reasons, although I would note in the defendant's Bureau of Prisons file, there is a write-up with respect to an assault that occurred on corrections staff. So there are potential safety concerns, but really our cor

ance, so there will be no ..+•••-•r • direct contact with any of the virtimo„. If Mr. Hoffenberg wants to talk to Jamie Dimon or Jeremy Epstein or Volker or anybody else about getting some money back, that's fine. Obviously, he can do that. Here's the point. If this is going to be a satisfactory sup

11 understanding that the primary reason to have that direct 12 contact is not for safety reasons, although I would note in the 13 defendant's Bureau of Prisons file, there is a write-up with 14 respect to an assault that occurred on corrections staff.. So 15 there are potential safety concerns, but reall