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“Ranking member, it’s Lt. Col. Vindman, please.”
— In a somewhat tense moment during today’s House Intelligence Committee hearing, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman corrected Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) after the ranking member referred to the Iraq War veteran as “Mr. Vindman.”
4 million
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign announced on Tuesday that it has reached 4 million individual donors, The Hill reports.
“Donald Trump is toast.”
— “Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman on Monday predicted Donald Trump will be doomed by EU ambassador Gordon Sondland’s upcoming congressional testimony in the impeachment inquiry into the president,” the HuffPost reports. Akerman claimed Sondland has “got no choice here” but to “come clean” about his role and Trump. He added: “Otherwise he’s gonna wind up like Roger Stone in federal prison, with Roger Stone as his roommate. I mean, he does not want that to happen.”
“As televised impeachment hearings roll into Week 2, one surprise has been how many of the Trump team’s wounds have been self-inflicted, because of his allies’ curious habit of leaking on themselves. … The leaks and revelations have thrown President Trump into a constant state of defensiveness, and turned a growing number of Republicans into frustrated, sometimes bewildered, defenders. … From revelations about secret servers to off-the-books diplomacy said to resemble ‘drug deals,’ many of the juiciest details about the impeachment case came not from Democrats but from Team Trump.”
“It was not me!!!!! Ha… It’s funny though.”
— In an interview on MSNBC, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) “appeared to… well, rip an absolutely enormous fart,” BuzzFeed News reports.
234,000
“More than 234,000 voters in Wisconsin would be made unable to cast their ballot unless they register again before the next election under a lawsuit filed Wednesday that liberals fear could dampen turnout among Democrats in the 2020 presidential race,” the AP reports. “The lawsuit could affect how many voters are able to cast ballots in both the April presidential primary and November 2020 general election in Wisconsin, a key swing state that both sides are targeting.”
$45 million
A progressive nonprofit funded mainly by Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer is investing $45 million as part of a youth voter turnout campaign ahead of the 2020 election, The Hill reports.
