Republican opposed to Omar on abortion and guns finds one point of agreement: this investigation is bullshit.

…(cont) What's it about? Next line. CBS is citing sources who say the paperwork at the center of this is immigration paperwork — filled out by her father, when she was a child. Not paperwork she filed herself. Paperwork filled out for her, by somebody else, back when she wasn't old enough to fill out her own forms. I wrote "child" and circled it, because that's the word in the reporting, not mine.

Same page: the Attorney General. Blanche. CBS says he was personally aware of the search. I'll be straight with you, the reporting doesn't say when he became aware, just that he was, so that's all I wrote — "aware" — and I left it there, because I don't put down more than I've got.

The Congresswoman put out a statement that same Monday. Her words, not mine: an attempt to target "political enemies" — plural, I went back and checked that twice — and "weaponize law enforcement." She said she would not be silenced. I wrote that part down slow.

And then, same page, same Monday — a reporter asks the President if he had anything to do with any of it. He says no. Nothing to do with him. I wrote that right underneath her statement, because on one page you've got the raid, her answer to it, and his denial of it, all before the day's out.

A couple days go by quiet. I was out on the porch Wednesday morning with the toolbox open, sorting sockets back into the tray — the quarter-inch, the half-inch, the ones that haven't had a home in years because the set's missing half its pieces — dog working over the same spot in the yard he always works over, when the next page starts. Phone seized. Relatives subpoenaed. I wrote "a dozen" at first and then crossed it out, because I didn't have a real count and I won't put one down I can't back up. Just "relatives." Plural. That's what's on the page.

Wednesday's also when a Republican — a former colleague of hers, someone who told everybody, right out loud, that she's pro-life where the Congresswoman's pro-choice, for the Second Amendment where she's for gun control, "on and on," opposite on everything they could name — looked at this same investigation, the one sitting on all my other pages, and called it bullshit. Her word. I wrote it down because I went back through every other page first, looking for it anywhere else — "judicially authorized," "ongoing criminal investigation," "personally aware" — and it isn't there. Not once. Not from the Department. Not from the Attorney General. Not from the President, who only told me what it had nothing to do with.

Oh — before you go. I'm sorry, I said I'd only bring that word up once, and here I am flipping back to it. I just want to ask you something, since you've seen the same pages I have: in all of this — the raid, the subpoenas, the phone they took — has anybody running it ever once called it what the one person outside it, who disagrees with the Congresswoman on everything else, finally called it out loud — bullshit?