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(16,616 posts)Castor has not interrupted her once. He's just letting her speak, and her words are poison to the republicans' talking points. It's absolutely mind-blowing.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Heron5
(71 posts)He just let her run on and on detailing the real narrative. I half expected the GOP members to yell out For Gods sake man, stop her! Stop her!
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,251 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)handmade34
(22,757 posts)well informed, well spoken, involved woman... she knows what's going on and telling it like it is (was)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212715257
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)She let the GOP have it for promulgating conspiracy theories that advance Russian interests in her opening statement. Her replies have not been what the GOP wants to hear, and she does it in a way that is very clear.
She's obviously brilliant and knows her shit cold!
rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)lkinwi
(1,477 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Love the way she is burning the Rethugs with Facts. But,Devin the Cow Nunes is still doing his Audition.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)I could listen to that all day. She could be a BBC presenter.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)... can talk so extemporaneously and eloquently at length like Dr. Hill is doing.
For my entire life, I've only been able to muster a sentence or two at a time... and then I lose track.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)This is from the guy who publishes the Lawfare blog and posts announcements of important events with a film of his baby cannon blasting something. I love the baby cannon.
This is a great warning to the GOP https://politicalwire.com/2019/11/21/a-warning-to-republicans/
She was not a Trumpist, in any sense, which made her decision to go into the administration a matter of some surprise among her colleagues. For a serious Russia hand to serve in Trumps NSC was, after all, quite a leap. I am sure that Fiona has had to make compromises as a result of the contradictions inherent in that decision. (Imagine being a serious Russia person on the NSC during and after Helsinki, for example).
But it should be impossible to dismiss Fionas testimony as that of a Never Trumper. This is someone who was not a career bureaucrat who was willingto the confusion of much of her professional cohortto go into government in a political role to serve under Trump on Russia.
One other thinga warning to the cocky Republican member who may try to be patronizing or think he or she is gonna have a good C-SPAN moment at Fionas expense: Fiona is smarter than you. She knows more. And she is impatient with idiocy. You are likely to embarrass yourself.
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)by calling it antisemitism in line with Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a total mic drop moment