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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Rudy 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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump is Pressuring Ukraine to Smear Clinton and Biden  —  In 2016, Donald Trump's campaign learned Russia was working to help him win, and many of its members actively sought to exploit that assistance.  In 2020, now possessing the powers of the Executive Branch, it's pressuring …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff on Giuliani's Ukraine trip: “It just takes your breath away”  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told Axios' Mike Allen Friday that Rudy Giuliani's trip to Ukraine to ask Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate opponents of President Trump is an example of the …
NBC News:
Team Trump wants another foreign government's help for 2020
Discussion: Just Security and USA Today
BBC:
Andrew Neil takes on US conservative Ben Shapiro  —  He has more than 2 million followers on Twitter, 600,000 YouTube subscribers and his videos on the Daily Wire channel rack up millions of views.  —  Ben Shapiro is a controversial figure but one of the US' leading conservative political commentators.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap and Boing Boing
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Cockburn / Spectator USA:
WATCH VIDEO: Ben Shapiro has mega TANTRUM on the BBC  —  Ben Shapiro is the famous, fast-talking pundit who regularly ‘owns’ aggressive campus students with his quick wit and rapid repartee.  —  Alas, Shapiro isn't so ‘crazy smart’ when he comes up against difficult questions from a real interviewer.
Jack Crosbie / Splinter:
Please Enjoy Ben Shapiro Melting Down and Running Out of a BBC Interview  —  Ben Shapiro, the right-wing “thinker,” baby Hitler-defender and former toothbrush startup-endorser, rose to fame thanks to his combative, shrill interview style that promised TOTAL DESTRUCTION of any liberal talking point or talking head he encountered.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Ben Shapiro Storms Out of Confrontational BBC Interview: 'I'm Popular and No One Has Ever Heard of You'  —  Right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro walked out of a BBC interview yesterday after the host Andrew Neil confronted him with his racist remarks about Arabs and other past controversial comments.
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:   Ben Shapiro Storms Out of BBC Interview: 'I'm Popular and No One's Ever Heard of You'
Politico:
House Intel Republicans offer rare praise for Adam Schiff  —  Republicans once called for Schiff's resignation.  Now they credit him with bringing the committee together.  —  President Donald Trump and Republicans have harangued House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Trump shouldn't worry about Trump Jr. subpoena
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: McConnell holds reins in GOP's Don Jr. fight
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and Hullabaloo
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Trump Drops the Fig Leaf on Trade  —  Contra his advisers, the president does not see tariffs as a means to an end, but as an end.  —  There has always been a massive contradiction at the heart of the Trump administration's trade policy.  For two years, the president has pursued …
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Karen Yeung / South China Morning Post:
Will China use its US$1.2 trillion of US debt to fight the trade war?
Discussion: Politico
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
HUD says 55,000 children could be displaced under Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants  —  The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children, all of whom are legal U.S. residents or citizens.
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Federal Register:
AGENCY:  —  Office of the Secretary, HUD.  —  ACTION:  —  Proposed rule.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Immigrant children in US custody soaring back toward record levels
Discussion: Axios
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Experts see Russia fingerprints on North Korea's new missile  —  TOKYO (AP) — The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian military …
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:   On Eve of Russia Trip, Pompeo Squelches Criticism of Moscow
Jim Baker / Lawfare:
Why I Do Not Hate Donald Trump  —  Many people would probably believe me justified in hating Donald Trump.  —  While I was general counsel of the FBI, I watched the president fire my boss and friend, Jim Comey.  I've read and heard the many false statements that the president and his supporters have made about him.
Discussion: Politico and Althouse
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
If This Is a Constitutional Crisis, Act Like It  —  Democrats in Congress need to deploy all their powers, including impeachment.  —  In their best-selling 2018 book “How Democracies Die,” the Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt wrote about the concept of “constitutional hardball …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Here's why Democrats may rethink impeaching Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and Informed Comment
Sean Illing / Vox:
How golf explains Trump.  Seriously.  —  “This guy cheats like a mafia accountant.”  —  Have you ever won a tournament you never competed in?  Have you ever stolen the ball from an opponent to gain a competitive advantage?  —  If the answer to either or both of those questions is no, then you're not cheating at the highest level.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff considers fining Trump officials held in contempt $25,000 a day  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told Axios' Mike Allen Friday that the House is considering reviving its “inherent contempt” power, which would allow Congress to enforce subpoenas through coercive measures like fines.
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Axios:   Trump's new impeachment trap
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Exclusive: Presidential hopeful Biden looking for ‘middle ground’ climate policy  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is crafting a climate change policy he hopes will appeal to both environmentalists and the blue-collar voters that elected Donald Trump …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Shocker!  The GoFundMe Campaign to Build the Wall Is a Bust  —  And now, the donors to the effort are demanding answers. … Back in December, Washington state Trump supporter Joshua Greene donated a small amount of money to the crowdfunding effort to build a wall along the southern U.S. border.
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
John Paul Stevens Worries About the Court  —  A retired Supreme Court justice wants his former colleagues to adhere to precedent and the president to comply with subpoenas  —  At 99, John Paul Stevens can remember a time when a Supreme Court nomination prompted minimal controversy …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Mak / NPR:
Exclusive: Documents Detail Meetings Of Russians With Treasury, Federal Reserve  —  Newly obtained documents describe what happened when two now-infamous Russians took their outreach campaign into the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve in 2015.  —  Alexander Torshin …
Discussion: Raw Story
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
Schedules show West Virginia governor largely absent in job  —  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — He's a billionaire who owns mines, farms and the swankiest resort in all of West Virginia.  But how Jim Justice spends his time as the state's 36th governor has largely been a mystery.
Kansas City Star:
‘We have a God-given right to discriminate.’ Is this the state Missouri wants to be?  —  BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR EDITORIAL BOARD  —  Ron Calzone, a conservative activist from Dixon, Missouri, had something to say.  —  The Missouri House Committee on General Laws heard testimony Wednesday …
Discussion: Raw Story and ThinkProgress
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Beto's Long History of Failing Upward  —  AMES, Iowa—The presidential run of Beto O'Rourke is a profoundly personality-driven exercise, his charisma and Kennedy-esque demeanor the topic of one profile after another, so it's surprising to listen to his speeches on the stump in which he doesn't talk a whole lot about himself.
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon shifting $1.5 billion to border wall construction  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is shifting $1.5 billion in funds originally targeted for support of the Afghan security forces and other projects to help pay for construction of 80 miles of wall at the U.S.-Mexican border, officials said Friday.
Discussion: Axios, Joe.My.God. and Roll Call
Associated Press:
US B-52 bombers land in Qatar over unspecified Iran threat  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged Friday.
Discussion: NBC News and Boing Boing
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
OGE Ignores Own Advisory, Stays Silent on Uncertified Disclosures  —  Documents obtained by CREW via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) broke with one of its own program advisories by failing to mention the financial disclosure reports …
 
 
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
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The Trump ‘brand’: Debt and hot air
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