Dan Coats Expected to Step Down as Intelligence Chief  —  WASHINGTON — Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, is expected to step down in the coming days after spending his tenure at odds with President Trump over issues including Russia and Mr. Trump's own attacks on the intelligence community …

We are finally on the path to Trump impeachment and saving what our Founders gave us  —  Nancy Pelosi spared moderate Democrats a floor vote on impeachment, but she has unleashed her committee chairs to do exactly what needs to be done.  —  CONNECT  —  Don't let anybody fool you …

Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Mulvaney for Saying Trump's Baltimore Tweets Have ‘Zero to Do With Race’  —  White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney insisted this morning that President Donald Trump's tweets going after Baltimore and Congressman Elijah Cummings have “zero to do with race.”

Federal Inquiry of Trump Friend Focused on Foreign Lobbying  —  WASHINGTON — As Donald J. Trump was preparing to deliver an address on energy policy in May 2016, Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman, had a question about the speech's contents for Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a top campaign fund-raiser and close friend of Mr. Trump.

Kushner owns lots of Baltimore-area apartments.  Some are infested with mice.  —  In a now-viral tweetstorm on Saturday, President Trump characterized Rep. Elijah E. Cummings's Baltimore-based congressional district as a “rodent infested mess” where “no human” would want to live.

Tapper To Rashida Tlaib: Why Do You Only Want To Boycott Israel And Not, Say, Egypt Or Pakistan Or Saudi Arabia?  —  I would happily boycott Egypt or Saudi Arabia for human rights violations, Tlaib insists, responding to Tapper's question.  —  Okay, he says.  Then why don't you?

DelBene Supports Impeachment Inquiry  —  f t # e  —  Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA) called for an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.  —  “It gives me no pleasure to announce that I am calling for the House of Representatives to begin an impeachment inquiry into the President of the United States.

When Epstein Was Cosmo's Bachelor of the Month  —  In July 1980, the predatory financier was featured as the magazine's “Bachelor of the Month” seeking a “cute Texas girl.”  —  Long before Jeffrey Epstein boasted of his billionaires-only client list—and long before his arrests …

Hoping for a Warren-Sanders clash?  Their campaigns say don't hold your breath  —  Sanders and Warren prepare for debate face off  —  (CNN)Progressives are determined to lift either Sen. Bernie Sanders or Sen. Elizabeth Warren to the Democratic presidential nomination next year.

Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detentions at a rally in the Russian capital this decade.

Rick Scott on ‘Meet the Press’ admits he hasn't read new Senate report on Russian election hacking  —  Maybe ask Marco Rubio for a copy?  —  A new report from the Senate Intelligence committee on Russian hacking has raised more serious questions about Florida election security in 2016.

Beers, nostalgia and worry in Michigan as historic GM plant closes  —  A GM factory in Warren, Mich., is closing as Democrats come to Detroit to debate.  Some workers, in a county and a state key to the 2020 presidential race, wonder whether elected officials can or will help.  —  4 AM