Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, (R-SC) confirmed in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News that he is sending a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting the transcripts of three phone calls the senator said then-Vice President Joe Biden had with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

"I want to know are there any transcripts or readouts of the phone calls between the vice president and the president of Ukraine in February [2016] after the raid on the gas company president's house," said Graham.

"After this raid, Hunter Biden kicks in. Hunter Biden's business partner meets with [then-Secretary of State] John Kerry, and Vice President Biden on three occasions makes a phone call to the president of Ukraine and goes over there in March and they fire the guy, and this is the same man that the ambassador wanted investigated in 2015."

Graham added he found it "odd" that instead of lauding the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, for investigating the Burisma chairman, he was instead relieved of his duties.

He said that in 2015, President Obama's ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, said in a speech he wanted Shokin to be more forceful in his investigation of domestic corruption.

"The one person he named as being a sleazebag was the president of Burisma," Graham remarked.

President Trump tweeted that the Navy "will NOT" take away the trident pin, an emblem signifying membership on the elite SEAL team, from embattled Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher.

Ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales said he has "zero doubt" that a mechanical failure that occurred on a helicopter he was traveling on last month was an "assassination attempt" and no accident. Morales said the incident - apparently a mechanical fault with the tail rotor - happened while he was flying to the opening ceremony for a new road.

The socialist leader pinned blame for the alleged assassination attempt on Air Force General Jorge Gonzalo Terceros Lara, who he said had "changed completely" in recent times. He also pointed to the fact that coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho had announced on the same day that Bolivians were about to "witness Evo's fall" and that it would be "captured on video."

"When the news came that we survived the crash that night, those who expected the president to die in it were disappointed," he said. Over the following days, Morales recalled, police began to join protesters on the streets.

On a visit to Chimoré that Saturday, Morales said one police officer showed him "numerous text messages and phone calls offering 50 thousand dollars" for capturing him. The officer warned him to be careful, to double up on security and go back to the capital La Paz.

Morales on Wednesday called on the UN to intervene and denounce the coup and subsequent massacre.

The Organization of American States played a key role in deposing him, and that Bolivia's huge reserves of lithium had spurred on the coup, had engineered his downfall.

"Nowhere did it say that there is fraud," he said of the OAS' report on Bolivia's October elections, which found "irregularities" at the polls, despite contradictory reports from other expert groups. "The OAS made a decision and its report is not based on a technical report, but on a political decision."

The coup against him, Morales continued, was aimed at installing a right-wing leader who will open up Bolivia's lithium reserves - some of the largest in the world - to exploitation by industry. Morales had planned on nationalizing the extraction of lithium to secure the country's economic future. "In Bolivia we could define the price of lithium for the world...Now I have realized that some industrialized countries do not want competition."

Tesla, whose electric cars use lithium in their batteries - saw its stock jump following Morales' departure. Companies that manage to get a hold of Bolivia's lithium stocks - estimated at around 900 million tons - stand to make a lucrative profit. Worldwide demand for the element is expected to more than double by 2025, Bloomberg noted last year.

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Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has finally provided her take on the violent unrest that toppled the sitting president Evo Morales, telling her followers that it was a coup which shouldn't involve US interference. "What happened in Bolivia is a coup. Period," Gabbard wrote on Twitter, warning against what may lie in store for Washington's interventionists. "The United States and other countries should not be interfering in the Bolivian people's pursuit of self-determination and right to choose their own government," she argued.

Gabbard's words come days after another top-tier Democrat, Bernie Sanders, used the same vocabulary when commenting on Bolivia's turmoil. "When the military intervened and asked President Evo Morales to leave, in my view, that's called a coup," he tweeted.

According to her resume Fiona Hill worked for the George Soros Open Society Institute from 2000-2006, just 13 years ago.

Part of Fiona Hill's CV

But there's more -

Hill has connections to Christopher Steele (who is suspected of being a source for Hill's Vox article). According to people familiar with their relationship, the two British Russia hands are not exactly friends. But they have known each other for years, beginning when Hill was working on Russia at the National Intelligence Council and Steele was on MI6's Russia desk. "She had a high opinion of Steele, and thought he was very smart," a foreign policy veteran, and one of Hill's close friends, told POLITICO. Hill spoke to Steele in 2016 and discussed him with friends in 2017, after BuzzFeed published his memos outlining a potential conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to win the election.

Hill also has past connections to Adam Schiff. Fiona Hill was a speaker, for example, at the Aspen Institute Security Forum in July 2017, an event for which Adam Schiff, now taking her testimony in a closed-door hearing, was also a speaker. This is a pattern with Schiff, given his Aspen participation in July 2018 and meeting with Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS and dossier fame, who was also in attendance.

Hill also has connections to Professor Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor at the center of the storm with George Papadopoulos. Hill has attended the conferences of the Russian Valdai Club, like Spygate principal Joseph Mifsud and his Russian contact Ivan Timofeev. She has done this under the auspices of the Brookings Institution, with which she has been affiliated as a senior fellow and program director for many years.

Hill also has deep ties to Clinton crony, Strobe Talbott (who was a recipient of the Cody Shearer dossier that later became a part of the Steele dossier): Her work at Brookings, where she has stood alongside author collaborator Clifford Gaddy as resident Russia expert since 2009, was under the leadership of long-time Clinton intimate Strobe Talbott, who headed the Institution until 2017.

And now this...

For some strange reason, Fiona Hill could not remember the Eric Ciaramella's name during testimony.

It was almost like she was afraid of mentioning his name even though she worked with him on Ukrainian policy.

That's odd.

The Washington Examiner reported:

When former National Security Council official Fiona Hill testifed before the House Intelligence Committee, she said that she could not remember the name of the Ukraine director when she joined the White House.

That person was Eric Ciaramella, the career CIA analyst who is alleged to be the Ukraine whistleblower.

Hill was White House NSC senior director for European and Russian affairs, a position Ciaramella held in an acting capacity while still Ukraine director, for a brief period immediately before she took the post.

Ciaramella, 33, is now a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council under President Trump's director of national intelligence, the Washington Examiner previously reported.

This woman should never be allowed in government office ever again. She's a crooked Soros connected traitor. Period.

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