Bipartisan question: Will Trump assure us that private citizens will not be directed to conduct foreign policy or national security policy unless they've been specifically and formally designated by the president and the State Department to do so?
Senators are taking their last shot Thursday to extract new information from the House prosecutors calling for President Donald Trump's removal from office, as well as the team of attorneys defending him.
This was the first bipartisan question in the two days of the Q & A period so far — and it was a revealing one. The question prefaced with the Logan Act, which prohibits private American citizens to interact with foreign governments on behalf of the United States. It suggests that both Collins and Murkowski — who are considered to be the swing votes on the question of whether Trump should be acquitted or convicted — believe that Trump’s decision to deputize Giuliani was improper.
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