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President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project — President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Reporter with checkered past comes back with Trump Tower Moscow bombshells for BuzzFeed — New York (CNN Business)Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, two reporters for BuzzFeed News, may have just scored the scoop that, if it is ultimately confirmed, irrevocably changes the course of the Trump presidency.
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Why Trump's Directing Cohen, Others to Lie Would Be Far Worse Than Watergate — If the President of the United States directed his personal attorney and fixer to help sabotage the Russia investigation by lying to Congress, there is no turning back for the nation.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Buzzfeed News Bombshell Reporter: No We Have Not Seen the Evidence Supporting Our Report — Anthony Cormier is one of the two investigative reporter at BuzzfeedNews who co-authored the bombshell report published Thursday night — a report which claimed President Donald Trump directed …
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Why Democrats Have Suddenly Started Talking About Impeachment — Late Thursday night, BuzzFeed News published a report that, if true, could prove historic: President Donald Trump allegedly directed his then-personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about a real-estate deal he was pursuing in Moscow during the 2016 election.
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Democrats demand investigation after report that Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie to Congress — Democratic leaders reacted with fury and demanded an investigation late Thursday following a new report that President Trump personally directed his former attorney, Michael Cohen …
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Trump, Cohen, and Buzzfeed: Is This the Big One?
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Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Trump's Articles of Impeachment Are Writing Themselves, With Echoes of Richard Nixon Growing Stronger
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
14 Republican senators are on-record holding a president accountable for obstruction: Bill Clinton
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Congress to probe report that Trump directed lawyer to lie
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump reportedly told Michael Cohen to lie. His own attorney general pick testified that's a crime.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
The circular firing squad: Mueller targets turn on each other
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Cohen bombshell could significantly change Mueller debate
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump White House reportedly sought to put Pelosi ‘in her place’ — One of the most striking aspects of Donald Trump's petty decision to cancel House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Afghanistan is the degree to which it was lacking in any sense of proportionality.
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Axios:
Exclusive: Former aide describes in new book how Trump demanded names of leakers — President Trump was frustrated about leaks — specifically leaks attributed to “White House officials” — that were critical of him. — Behind the scenes: Cliff Sims, a young White House communications aide …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Pelosi abandons Afghanistan trip, accuses Trump of imperiling lawmakers with disclosure
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Lauren Fox / CNN:
Pelosi says Trump ‘outing’ war zone trip made it more dangerous
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CNBC:
First lady Melania flies to Florida on government jet after Trump postpones Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip …
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John Parkinson / ABC News:
Pelosi cancels trip, accuses White House of security leak
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Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
PICTURE: Trump Returns CODEL Luggage to Pelosi's Office
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Are We Really Where We Are?”: Trump, Putin, and Washington's Unbelievable New Normal — Regardless of whether Trump ends up making a speech on Capitol Hill on January 29th, the state of the union is not strong, and everyone knows it. — Sunday will mark the second anniversary of Donald Trump's Presidency.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Waiting for a Shutdown to End in Disaster — As the longest government shutdown in American history lurches toward its fifth week, a grim but growing consensus has begun to emerge on Capitol Hill: There may be no way out of this mess until something disastrous happens.
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
'Feel like I'm going to strangle you': Shutdown breaks Congress' spirit
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz / USA Today:
Why I refuse to walk with the Washington Women's March — It should not be this difficult to condemn hate speech. Until national leaders get it right, local marches will carry the mission forward. — CONNECT — I walked away from the Women's March on Washington two years ago absolutely electrified …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: What the shutdown tea leaves tell us — NEW ... ACTING OMB DIRECTOR RUSS VOUGHT has issued official guidance about congressional travel during the shutdown. The guidance — READING THE SHUTDOWN TEA LEAVES ... VP MIKE PENCE and White House aide JARED KUSHNER met …
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Federal Courts, Running Out of Money, Brace for Shutdown's Pain
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump's Prayer-Rug Paranoia — The president is tweeting again. — Three weeks into a government shutdown triggered when the president reneged on a deal to fund the government, insisting instead that any deal had to include money for a wall on the southern border, Donald Trump tweeted …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump touts story about finding ‘prayer rugs’ along border
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Nicole Weisensee Egan / The Daily Beast:
Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the U.S.? — Dozens of college-age men dead from ‘accidental’ drownings—but a team of retired detectives say the boys were drugged and killed by a shadowy gang with a sinister symbol. — On the evening of Dec. 15, 2016, Dakota James called his friend Shelley in a panic.
Robin Opsahl / Des Moines Register:
Rep. Steve King raising money off controversy from white nationalism, supremacy comments — The House has approved a Democratic measure disapproving of Republican Rep. Steve King's comments about white supremacy. The nine-term Iowa congressman was among those supporting the measure, which was approved, 416-1.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Larry Hogan stokes speculation he'll primary Trump in 2020 — Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is acting a lot like a guy who wants to run against Donald Trump in 2020 — and the president's reelection team is taking notice. — The second-term Maryland governor has been implicitly going after Trump …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Unto the Breach — An open letter to those considering a Trump primary.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll shows a deeply divided Georgia and tough numbers for Kemp — Editor's note: For a detailed explanation about how this poll was conducted, see the end of this story. — After an intensely partisan race for Georgia governor, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday shows …
Brett McGurk / Washington Post:
Trump said he beat ISIS. Instead, he's giving it new life. — The president decided to withdraw U.S. forces without consulting allies or understanding the facts on the ground. — On Dec. 17, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked for an important call with me and a few …
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CBC News:
Twins get some ‘mystifying’ results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test — Chief geneticist at a popular ancestry company admits it's ‘kind of a science and an art’ — One set of identical twins, two different ancestry profiles. — At least that's the suggestion …
Pew Research Center:
Trump Begins Third Year With Low Job Approval and Doubts About His Honesty — Views of economy remain positive, divided by partisanship — At the second anniversary of his inauguration, public views of Donald Trump's job performance, as well as his honesty and administration's ethics, are decidedly negative.
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CNN:
A Biden campaign plan takes shape, waiting only for the candidate himself — Trump: Obama took Biden off the ‘trash heap’ — Washington (CNN)Joe Biden knows more than most anyone about the nuts-and-bolts of running for president. What he knows less about is how to win.
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