On September 25, Sen. Mitt Romney said, “If the President of the United States asks or presses the leader of a foreign country to carry out an investigation of a political nature that’s troubling…if there were a quid pro quo, that would take it to an entirely more extreme level.”
When he was asked, “Could this rise to an impeachable offense?” Romney replied, let’s “leave it at what I said” and “let the process gather the facts that will ultimately come out.”
We have learned that National Security Council lawyers were so disturbed by the Trump-Zelensky phone call that they had White House officials remove the transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored and then loaded it into a standalone computer reserved for codeword-level intelligence information, such as covert action.