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9:40 PM ET, September 25, 2019

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New York Times:
Whistle-Blower Is Said to Allege Concerns About White House Handling of Ukraine Call  —  New details have emerged about the intelligence officer who raised alarms about the president's pressure on Ukraine to open inquiries that could benefit him politically.
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Washington Post:
Acting director of national intelligence threatened to resign if he couldn't speak freely before Congress  —  The acting Director of National Intelligence threatened to resign over concerns that the White House might attempt to force him to stonewall Congress when he testifies Thursday …
Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Ukrainians understood Biden probe was condition for Trump-Zelenskiy phone call: Ukrainian official  —  When Ukrainians voted to elect comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as their next president in the spring of 2019, the fledgling administration was eager to coordinate a phone call with Kyiv's …
New York Times:
Phone Call Showed Only a Slice of Trump's Obsession With Ukraine  —  Since the 2016 campaign, the president has had an intense fixation on the country, which he believes is tied up in the origins of the special counsel's investigation.  —  WASHINGTON — It was not a country that would naturally …
Discussion: Townhall, Raw Story, Washington Post and CNN
David French / National Review:
The Trump-Ukraine Transcript Contains Evidence of a Quid Pro Quo  —  I haven't been a litigator since 2015.  I haven't conducted a proper cross-examination since 2014.  But if I couldn't walk a witness, judge, and jury through the transcript of Donald Trump's call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cracks emerge among Senate Republicans over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden  —  Several Senate Republicans were privately stunned Wednesday and questioned the White House's judgment after it released a rough transcript of President Trump's call with the Ukraine president …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
White House mistakenly sends Trump-Ukraine talking points to Democrats  —  In the hours after the release Wednesday of the rough transcript of President Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the White House circulated an email with proposed talking points for Trump's defenders.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call.  It's a Massive Plot.  —  On July 25, President Trump held a phone call in which he repeatedly leaned on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and Paul Manafort's prosecutors.  The episode is so blatantly inappropriate …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Ice in his veins’: McConnell steers GOP through Trump's Ukraine scandal  —  In the face of an earthshaking political storm, Mitch McConnell seems unmoved.  —  The Senate majority leader has kept a sphinx-like pose during all manner of President Donald Trump controversies.
Washington Post:
The Trump-Zelensky readout is a devastating indictment of our president  —  THE MEMORANDUM on President Trump's July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a devastating indictment of the U.S. president.  In it, Mr. Trump presses the neophyte Ukrainian leader …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News, CNN, NBC News and HuffPost
New York Times:
Trump's Not-So-Excellent Day  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's mood went from feisty to self-pitying to deflated on Wednesday as he fended off questions about a July phone call in which he urged the president of Ukraine to work with Attorney General William P. Barr on potential corruption …
New York Times:
‘Do Us a Favor’: Calls Shows Trump's Interest in Using U.S. Power for His Gain
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. rejected investigation of Trump phone call just weeks after it began examining the matter
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump offered Ukrainian president Justice Dept. help in an investigation of Biden, memo shows
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The White House's Ukraine memo destroys Giuliani's attempts to frame the State Department
Discussion: HuffPost, Daily Mail, MSNBC and The Week
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Pelosi Tells Trump: ‘You Have Come Into My Wheelhouse’
Discussion: The Stranger
NBC News:   Majority of House members now back some type of impeachment action against Trump
Pavel Polityuk / Reuters:
Ukraine president thought only U.S. side of Trump call would be published
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Sen. Rand Paul / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Rand Paul on the Fake Witch Hunts: BASTA!
Discussion: Hot Air, The Daily Signal and CBS News
Raheem Kassam / The Daily Caller:
Trump Transcript Shows Him Trying To Stop Corruption, Nothing Else
Discussion: IJR
Washington Post:
Trump was fixated on attacking Biden long before his call with Ukraine
Discussion: Politico, Axios, Fox News and Breitbart
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Today in impeachment madness
Discussion: New York Times and Mother Jones
Full Feed:
Ashton Kutcher Pushes For Trump Impeachment After Meeting Ukrainian President
Discussion: Splinter
Dan Desai Martin / Shareblue Media:   Attorney general denies involvement with Ukraine scandal after Trump's memo implicates him
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
REPUBLICAN SOURCE: “[The whistleblower] paints a clear path to impeachment.”  —  Speaking on background to a Republican congressional source who has direct knowledge of the whistleblower report, he says it is really bad.  He says the GOP can attack it as partisan because, in his words …
Discussion: Political Wire
Representative Sharice Davids:
Rep. Sharice Davids Statement on House Impeachment Inquiry  —  Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement on the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump:  —  The people of Kansas' Third District elected me to represent our community and our values.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Majority of House supports impeachment inquiry  —  A majority of the House now backs impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, a significant milestone as Democrats move rapidly on an impeachment inquiry.  —  As of Wednesday night, 218 lawmakers have indicated support …
MSNBC:
‘One Republican senator told me if it was a secret vote, 30 Republican senators would vote to impeach Trump’  —  Mike Murphy, Fmr. Senior adviser to Mitt Romney and John McCain, tells MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that “'One Republican senator told me if it was a secret vote, 30 Republican senators would vote to impeach Trump.”
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Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
Democrats Still Hope Mitt Romney Will Take On Trump
Discussion: Roll Call and The Gateway Pundit
MSNBC:   ‘One Republican senator told me if it was a secret vote, 30 Republican senators would vote to impeach Trump’
CNN:
Pelosi wants narrow inquiry as caucus debates scope of impeachment resolution  —  Speaker Pelosi reacts to release of Ukraine transcript  —  (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats in a private meeting Wednesday that she wants to focus their impeachment inquiry on President Donald …
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Sister Toldjah / RedState:
Trump Says He Feels Pelosi Is “No Longer Speaker of the House”, Media Opens up a Can of Dumb in Response
Paul Brandus / USA Today:
Nancy Pelosi's impeachment waiting game paid off. Americans will turn on Donald Trump.
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Aaron Calvin / Des Moines Register:
Meet Carson King, the ‘Iowa Legend’ who's raised more than $1 million for charity off of a sign asking for beer money
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Actually Has 2 Whistleblowers To Worry About  —  Don't forget the whistleblower alleging possible interference with the IRS audit of the president's tax returns.  —  WASHINGTON ― An intelligence community whistleblower has stunned Washington with possible evidence …
David Welna / NPR:
Pentagon Letter Undercuts Trump Assertion On Delaying Aid To Ukraine Over Corruption  —  President Trump cited concerns about corruption as his rationale for blocking security assistance to Ukraine earlier this week.  But in a letter sent to four congressional committees in May of this year …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Pre-Transcript Release, Chris Christie Argued Trump Was Only in Trouble If He Said Something Like ‘Do Me a Favor...’  —  Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie proved prescient Wednesday morning on the set of Good Morning America.  Just hours before the transcript of a phone call between …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jamie Ehrlich / CNN:
Cindy McCain says GOP no longer the ‘party that my husband and I belonged to’  —  Cindy McCain: John would be very disappointed  —  Washington (CNN)Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Sen. John McCain, said on a podcast released Wednesday that the Republican Party is “excluding people for the wrong reasons” …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Citing Falsehoods, Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC Cut Away From Trump's Remarks
Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Rivlin gives Netanyahu mandate to form government
Discussion: Power Line and New York Times
Natalie Fertig / Politico:
How Republicans learned to love a pot bill
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Own Lawyers Suggested Democrats Would Have A Stronger Case To Get His Records If They Were Pursuing Impeachment
Discussion: Raw Story
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