also a part of house leadership overall. but i will tell you just as a person who s paid a lot of attention to this story and spent a lot of time absorbing this new material today, here s what i didn t expect about this impeachment report today. and maybe i should have expected it. but what i didn t expect was that in laying out everything they found in this impeachment investigation, including the committee, you know, organizing their findings into section 1, the president s misconduct and section 2, the president s obstruction of the impeachment inquiry, in seeing them lay out and organize what they found, i guess i should have expected it but i didn t really get it until i saw it all laid out in this report today. that having them break it down and lay it out in this format makes it much easier to see the rationale for breaking all this evidence and all of these allegations up into separate articles of impeachment.
on the committee doing this investigation was himself frequently communicating with multiple people involved in this scheme while they were carrying out the scheme. shouldn t congressman devin nunes have had to recuse himself from the investigation? this is like like imagine you re a cop, you re investigating a bank robbery in your town. then it turns out that the bank robber was your roommate and you were on the phone with him during the heist, right? what would the chief of police do to you if the chief found out that s the circumstance you were in with regard to that bank robbery and you ve been part of the investigation into the bank robbery, right? that would be a problem for you working on that investigation. i doubt you would stay a cop for long. so this is a whole new plot point that will presumably have to be explained. but the whole reason we now have this information is that the impeachment investigation got call records, got phone call records. i m not sure we knew the ho