A draft report will be available for Congressional members of the House Intelligence Committee to view in a secure location before their planned vote on Tuesday, which would send their findings to the House Judiciary Committee to consider actual charges. “If he chooses not to (testify), then I really question his veracity in what he’s putting in his report,” said Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the judiciary committee. The judiciary committee gave the White House until Sunday evening to decide whether Trump or his attorneys would attend, but the White House responded ahead of the deadline that it didn’t plan to participate. “Why would they want to participate in just another rerun?” asked Collins, noting that the judiciary committee previously heard from constitutional scholars on impeachable offences during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. To McClintock, Trump was using “the blunt talk of a Manhattan businessman” and “was entirely within his constitutional authority” in his dealings with Ukraine’s leader.

Source: thestar December 02, 2019 02:37 UTC