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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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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
What happened to Michael Cohen? Mystery ex-Trump fixer arrives at home with apparent black eye and arm in sling hours after bombshell report that president ordered him to LIE to Congress — Longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arrived at his Manhattan apartment with was treated at a New York hospital with his left arm covered
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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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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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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 …
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Democrats demand investigation after report that Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie to Congress
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Congress Can't Wait for Mueller. It's Time to Start the Impeachment Process.
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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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Politico, CNN, Raw Story and Common Dreams
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
One of the BuzzFeed Reporters Behind the Trump Report Has a History of Making Things Up
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Trump, Cohen, and Buzzfeed: Is This the Big One?
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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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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Team Split on Border-Wall Strategy
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Axios:
Exclusive: Former aide describes in new book how Trump demanded names of leakers
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Pelosi abandons Afghanistan trip, accuses Trump of imperiling lawmakers with disclosure
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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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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Pelosi Delays Trip as Trump Administration Leaks Travel Plans
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Mnuchin Flew to L.A. on Private Jet of Billionaire Michael Milken — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin flew from Washington to Los Angeles this month on the private aircraft of Michael R. Milken, the billionaire “junk bond” king who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 1990 and served two years in prison.
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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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Republican Congressman: Trump's Border Crisis Is a ‘Myth’ — A conversation with Texas Rep. Will Hurd, who knows the border better than most of his colleagues — WASHINGTON — Congressman Will Hurd of Texas is an increasingly lonely voice in the “build the wall” Republican Party of Donald Trump.
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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 …
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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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
R. Kelly Dropped by RCA Records After Documentary Furor — RCA Records has dropped R. Kelly, the R&B star accused of decades of misconduct, after weeks of protests and a television documentary series that drew national attention, according to a person briefed on the move who declined …
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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 …
Washington Post:
U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for some of its privacy violations — U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for violating a legally binding agreement with the government to protect the privacy …
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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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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.
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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Bloomberg:
Even College Graduates Can't Afford a Home on the West Coast — College graduates priced out of some of the biggest job hubs — But, grads can find affordable housing in many thriving cities — College graduates earn a lot of money in San Jose but are still $100,000 short to afford …
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.
Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have a history. If he runs, it may come back to haunt him. — Four years ago, I interviewed Vice President Joe Biden in his West Wing office about his recollections of the 1980 presidential election. — I went back through that interview recently …
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