Yesterday, a group of my Republican colleagues disgracefully broke House rules and stormed the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, to delay hearings pertinent to the investigation into Trump’s Ukraine debacle.
Let’s be clear here: their rationale was utterly bogus. A full 25% of the members of Congress who participated in the above-the-law mob were already allowed to enter the SCIF — they were just making a show of it to get on Fox News.
The SCIF is supposed to be very secure, and the one rule that everyone knows is that you can’t bring electronic devices in there, because it can compromise the room.
This mob didn’t care. They brazenly violated the rules, and occupied the secure room for hours. And it gets even worse — Trump knew about the plan, and endorsed it.
Even with this partisan sabotage, we’re going to get to the bottom of what happened with Trump and Ukraine. No one is above the law – not members of Congress, and certainly not the President of the United States.
In solidarity,
Ro Khanna