As this goes through the impeachment inquiry, there will be the WH and others who will stonewall
the House's efforts to testify. With cheeto and his cronies, that will be a fact.
This ex-congresswoman, Elizabeth Holtzman from the Judiciary committee, during the Watergate prosecution,
has the right temperament to deal with them and play hardball.
Watergate-era Dem urges party to go after Trump on all fronts
Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of the Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach President Richard Nixon, warned Democrats in charge of making the case against Donald Trump need to learn some lessons from the past.
news.yahoo.com
"She continued: “We didn’t just impeach Nixon for a cover-up. We had a many-pronged charge with regard to the cover-up, but then we also had abuses of power, illegal wire tapping, the enemies list, the break-in to Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. This was not one thing, but a president that had gone amuck, and that is what created the danger to democracy.”
The same case can be made with Trump, Holtzman believes, but says that there is work to be done by Congress. “I think the case is very strong at this point, it’s just a question of can they put it together and acquire the additional evidence that needs to be acquired.”
"She is not impressed so far by the questioning of recent witnesses
Corey Lewandowski and
Joseph Maguire, who she saw as “stonewalling” the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees.
Representatives need to “get a lot tougher,” Holtzman said, and use such tools as contempt charges, fines, “warnings that they will draw the most serious adverse inference from refusal to cooperate that they can.” Should all that fail, she added, Democrats in Congress should “get out some fresh sheets, clean out the [detention] room in the Capitol and arrest them.” "
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