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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge fast-tracks fight over congressional subpoena of Trump financial records — NYT reporter calls Trump business losses ‘unbelievable’ — Washington (CNN)Congress and Donald Trump's fight over his financial records is now on the fast track. — Judge Amit Mehta plans next week to weigh …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena — Richard Burr faces intense pressure from Republicans to drop his subpoena of President Donald Trump's eldest son and quickly wrap up the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia probe. — But despite a day facing attacks …
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Wall Street Journal:
Burr Draws GOP Scrutiny for Subpoena of Donald Trump Jr. — Senate Intelligence Committee chairman has investigated President Trump in a more bipartisan fashion than some of his fellow Republicans — The Senate Intelligence Committee's decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. opened …
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Political Wire
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump's inner circle frustrated by son's subpoena — Washington (CNN)Members of President Donald Trump's inner circle are frustrated that the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr., multiple sources tell CNN. — Those close to Trump are exasperated …
Lily Batchelder / New York Times:
Trump Is a Bad Businessman. Is He a Tax Cheat, Too?
Trump Is a Bad Businessman. Is He a Tax Cheat, Too?
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Bloomberg, Washington Post and Reason
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Goes On Extended Rant About Subpoena Of Don Jr.
Trump Goes On Extended Rant About Subpoena Of Don Jr.
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Washington Press, HillReporter.com and Hullabaloo
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dem senator: Trump Jr. should be ‘locked up’ if he doesn't comply with subpoena
Dem senator: Trump Jr. should be ‘locked up’ if he doesn't comply with subpoena
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New York Times:
A Strategy Emerges to Counter House Democrats: Dare Them to Impeach — WASHINGTON — As the White House and Congress escalate their constitutional showdown, President Trump and his team are essentially trying to call what they see as the Democrats' bluff. The message: Put up or shut up.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
‘Things were often a bit not normal’: Rosenstein gets fond, jokey send-off from Justice Dept. — Rod J. Rosenstein, whose two-year tenure as the Justice Department's No. 2 official was spent in the eye of a public storm surrounding special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of President Trump …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Republicans are hall-of-fame hypocrites — “In scandals such as this, it is always members of the president's party who have particular leverage, and therefore who have a particular responsibility, to hold the president accountable for his actions.” — So wrote noted Republican moralist Bill Bennett …
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Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Did Attorney General William Barr deceive Congress? — William Barr, the attorney general of the United States, now faces a likely contempt citation for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena and for misleading Congress. This is about the Mueller investigation …
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Fox News Insider and Contemptor
New York Times:
Pelosi Declares Nation Is in a ‘Constitutional Crisis’
Pelosi Declares Nation Is in a ‘Constitutional Crisis’
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New York Times:
Trump Suggests Mueller May Testify; Pelosi Declares ‘Constitutional Crisis’
Trump Suggests Mueller May Testify; Pelosi Declares ‘Constitutional Crisis’
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Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
David French / National Review:
Against the Persecution of Bill Barr
Against the Persecution of Bill Barr
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Hot Air, New York Times and Lawfare
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump — WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev …
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Raw Story, New York Post, CNN and Foreign Policy
Abbey Crain / al.com:
Alabama bill would criminalize false rape accusations — A bill making it a crime to falsely accuse someone of a sexual crime was first read in the Alabama House of Representatives last week. — The bill, introduced by Rep. Dickie Drake, R-Leeds, would make falsely reporting a sex crime …
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Washington Post:
Alabama Senate passes nation's strictest abortion bill, making performing the procedure a felony with few exceptions
Alabama Senate passes nation's strictest abortion bill, making performing the procedure a felony with few exceptions
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Axios, Jezebel, New York Times and Political Wire
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Amid Chaos, Alabama Lawmakers Delay Vote on Far-Reaching Abortion Ban
Amid Chaos, Alabama Lawmakers Delay Vote on Far-Reaching Abortion Ban
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Balloon Juice, The Daily Caller, The Root and Hullabaloo
Mike Cason / al.com:
Chaos erupts as Alabama Senate strips rape exception from abortion ban, delays vote
Chaos erupts as Alabama Senate strips rape exception from abortion ban, delays vote
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Raw Story and Splinter
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA — The FBI's sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying faster than a $5 souvenir t-shirt bought at a tourist trap. — Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official …
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The Last Refuge, The Gateway Pundit, American Greatness, twitchy.com, Townhall, RealClearInvestigations and LewRockwell
Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted — The FBI has opened a public corruption investigation into Republican donor and South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, focusing on whether she illegally funneled money from China …
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Raw Story, New York Post and The Guardian
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Colorado students walk out as school shooting vigil turns political — A vigil held Wednesday evening to recognize the victims and heroes of the shooting earlier this week at a Colorado high school turned into a political protest after some students in attendance expressed frustration with the tone and focus of the speeches.
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USA Today:
Students walk out of Colorado school shooting vigil, saying their trauma was being politicized — HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - Gun rights advocates posted support on social media Thursday for students who walked out of a gun-control rally in anger and tears over concerns the event inappropriately politicized their grief.
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Washington Post:
Trump and Kim battled subordinates ahead of spike in tensions — President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shattered more than a year of relative tranquility Thursday with the U.S. seizure of a North Korean vessel and the isolated regime's launch of two short-range ballistic missiles.
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Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Kim Jong Un wanted ‘famous’ US basketball players as part of denuclearization deal: Sources
Kim Jong Un wanted ‘famous’ US basketball players as part of denuclearization deal: Sources
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Rolling Stone, New York Times, One America News Network, NPR and Mediaite
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire — Statistics like this throw into sharp relief the challenge for Silicon Valley and its leaders in 2019. — If you want to run into a celebrity, you go to Hollywood. If you want to run into a billionaire, you should move to San Francisco.
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Kate Conger / New York Times:
They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States.
They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States.
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National Review, Splinter and NPR
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Mayor Pete blindsides Kamala Harris in California
Mayor Pete blindsides Kamala Harris in California
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Breitbart, Variety, ActBlue and VodkaPundit
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Americans' support for impeaching Trump rises: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans who said President Donald Trump should be impeached rose 5 percentage points to 45 percent since mid-April, while more than half said multiple congressional probes of Trump interfered …
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and TheBlaze
Charles Leerhsen / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen — On Tuesday, the New York Times scooped the world on the news that from 1985 to 1994, Donald Trump incurred the biggest business losses of any single taxpayer in American history.
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New York Post, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates at 15 percent — They have been reaching record levels as the Fed raised key interest rates and the industry prepares for the next recession. — Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce legislation …
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Bonchie / RedState:
AOC and Bernie Have a Brilliant New Idea for Banking
AOC and Bernie Have a Brilliant New Idea for Banking
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Hot Air and PJ Media Home
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Trump's Most Nakedly Corrupt Tweet Yet — As the president props up lobbyists and cronies, Democrats must respond with aggressive oversight. — It used to be that I was concerned that the media was paying too much attention to Donald Trump's tweets; now I'm concerned that they're not paying enough.
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Splinter, CNBC and CBS Boston
Anita Hill / New York Times:
Let's Talk About How to End Sexual Violence — That's the most important conversation right now. — Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University. — Last month, Joe Biden called me to talk about his conduct during Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991.
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Axios
Polls:
Trump Bigger Factor than Obama for 2020 Dem Primary Voters — West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden is the clear front-runner for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Democratic primary, according to the first Monmouth University Poll of Granite State primary voters in the 2020 cycle.
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Petitions with 10 million signatures to impeach Trump delivered to Congress — “This is incredible because this is how movements start,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who received the signatures on a flash drive. — WASHINGTON — National advocacy groups on Thursday delivered …
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Axios
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Three Production Companies Say They Won't Film in Georgia Over Abortion Law — David Simon's Blown Deadline Productions, Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon and Mark Duplass pledged to no longer shoot in the state as long as the law exists. — Georgia, no stranger to threats of boycotts due …
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ProPublica:
Listen to TurboTax Lie to Get Out of Refunding Overcharged Customers — TurboTax successfully lobbied to keep the IRS from offering free tax prep. Now it's pretending the government already does it. … The makers of TurboTax have long been luring customers into paying for a service …
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Above the Law
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former Intelligence Analyst Charged with Disclosing Classified Information — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An indictment was unsealed today charging a former intelligence analyst with illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter.
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New York Times:
It's Time to Break Up Facebook — The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg — was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., office and drove to his house, in a quiet, leafy neighborhood.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It turns out Trump's business success was a media-made myth — President Trump has finally proved, beyond any doubt, that there is such a thing as #FakeNews. — In the 1980s and 1990s, the media conspired to perpetrate a vast fraud on the American people.
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RedState, Hollywood Reporter and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Poolreports / Public Pool:
Subject: Pool report 3: POTUS on Mueller/NK/China/Venezuela/Iran — There is NO service in Roosevelt Room but have been trying to send. Here we go: — POTUS entered at 12:07 to talk about medical billing (more on that in a sec) then went on a tangent about Mueller, North Korea and China.
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Yes, Christians Can Support Trump Without Risk to Their Witness — Can an adulterer be a great surgeon? If your child needed care and the best surgeon had cheated on his wife, maybe more than once, would you let him operate? What if you are a Christian and he is not? Does that matter?