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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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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 …
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HuffPost, Raw Story, Commentary, Townhall and CNN
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 …
Murray Waas / The New York Review of Books:
Trump, Giuliani, and Manafort: The Ukraine Scheme — The effort by President Trump to pressure the government of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son had its origins in an earlier endeavor to obtain information that might provide a pretext and political cover …
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Politico, HuffPost, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Week, Vox and Vanity Fair
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 …
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Raw Story and The American Conservative
NBC News:
Trump allies voice concerns about Rudy Giuliani's involvement in Ukraine — Giuliani's role as the president's personal attorney and his claims that the State Department asked him to contact Ukrainian officials have Trump allies concerned. — WASHINGTON — Even as they publicly insist …
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Dems Worry Rudy Would Send Impeachment Hearing Off the Rails — Giuliani isn't really known for his staid public appearances these days, and that's exactly what gives some Democrats pause. — If Congress is to get to the bottom of President Trump's efforts to get the Ukrainian government …
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 …
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CNN, BuzzFeed News, HuffPost, NBC News, Fortune and CANNONFIRE
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 …
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. rejected investigation of Trump phone call just weeks after it began examining the matter
Justice Dept. rejected investigation of Trump phone call just weeks after it began examining the matter
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The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Balloon Juice
NBC News:
Majority of House members now back some type of impeachment action against Trump
Majority of House members now back some type of impeachment action against Trump
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The American Spectator, Mediaite, The Hill and Fox News
Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
Trump Doesn't Need to Commit a Crime to Be Kicked Out of Office
Trump Doesn't Need to Commit a Crime to Be Kicked Out of Office
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NBC News
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The White House's Ukraine memo destroys Giuliani's attempts to frame the State Department
The White House's Ukraine memo destroys Giuliani's attempts to frame the State Department
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HuffPost, Daily Mail, The Bulwark, Mother Jones and The Daily Signal
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It's a Massive Plot.
The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It's a Massive Plot.
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Newsweek, KTLA, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Foreign Policy and Hullabaloo
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Rudy Giuliani's Amateur Diplomacy
Rudy Giuliani's Amateur Diplomacy
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Washington Post, Breitbart and Fox News
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Barr is thrust back in harsh glare as Ukraine scandal grows
Barr is thrust back in harsh glare as Ukraine scandal grows
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Fox News, The American Spectator, Raw Story, Washington Post and Axios
Full Feed:
Ashton Kutcher Pushes For Trump Impeachment After Meeting Ukrainian President
Ashton Kutcher Pushes For Trump Impeachment After Meeting Ukrainian President
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Splinter
Raheem Kassam / The Daily Caller:
Trump Transcript Shows Him Trying To Stop Corruption, Nothing Else
Trump Transcript Shows Him Trying To Stop Corruption, Nothing Else
Noah Bookbinder / New York Times:
The Zelensky Memo Is All the Proof Needed to Impeach Trump
The Zelensky Memo Is All the Proof Needed to Impeach Trump
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Slate, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, New York Times and Common Dreams
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 …
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Washington Post:
Seven days: Inside Trump's frenetic response to the whistleblower complaint and the battle over impeachment — After news broke that a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was at the center of an explosive whistleblower complaint, Trump was largely undaunted.
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Raw Story
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Ice in his veins’: McConnell steers GOP through Trump's Ukraine scandal
‘Ice in his veins’: McConnell steers GOP through Trump's Ukraine scandal
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Washington Post, Breitbart, Townhall, Raw Story and Common Dreams
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cracks emerge among Senate Republicans over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden
Cracks emerge among Senate Republicans over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden
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The Hill, Axios, Hot Air, Florida Politics, The Daily Caller, The National Interest, CNN, The Mahablog, The Week, Power Line, Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and Eschaton
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
White House mistakenly sends Trump-Ukraine talking points to Democrats
White House mistakenly sends Trump-Ukraine talking points to Democrats
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New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, Axios, Breitbart, HuffPost, Mother Jones, Raw Story, Townhall, Contemptor and The Week
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 …
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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
Majority of House supports impeachment inquiry
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Fox News, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller, CBS Chicago and Common Dreams
CNN:
Whistleblower tentatively agrees to testify, attorneys say, as long as they get appropriate clearances to attend hearing
Whistleblower tentatively agrees to testify, attorneys say, as long as they get appropriate clearances to attend hearing
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Political Wire and KTLA
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Democrats troubled by ‘disturbing’ whistleblower complaint
Democrats troubled by ‘disturbing’ whistleblower complaint
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Axios, PJ Media Home and Breitbart
Axios:
Democrats ‘disturbed’ after reviewing whistleblower complaint
Democrats ‘disturbed’ after reviewing whistleblower complaint
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Politico, Breitbart and One America News Network
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
AP sources: Lawmakers, staff to view whistleblower complaint
AP sources: Lawmakers, staff to view whistleblower complaint
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The Week, The Gateway Pundit and The Root
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 …
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Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Fox News Civil War: Tucker Carlson Repeatedly Mocks ‘Daytime Host’ Shepard Smith in Jawdropping Segment — The war of words between Fox News personalities over Trump's actions on Ukraine ratcheted up another notch as primetime host Tucker Carlson repeatedly mocked Shepard Smith and parodied the latter's claim calling him “repugnant.”
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Do Us a Favor”: The Forty-eight Hours That Sealed Trump's Impeachment — President Trump began Wednesday in a dark place. “There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have,” he lamented on Twitter, before 8 a.m. The night before …
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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
Trump Says He Feels Pelosi Is “No Longer Speaker of the House”, Media Opens up a Can of Dumb in Response
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Power Line, Roll Call and Splinter
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Pelosi Tells Trump: ‘You Have Come Into My Wheelhouse’
Pelosi Tells Trump: ‘You Have Come Into My Wheelhouse’
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The Stranger
Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
The Pee Tape Is Real, but It's Fake — There's a video going around that no one's really talking about. What makes it most unreal is how believable it is. — There exists a video online that, considering the subject matter, astoundingly few people have seen.
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 …
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Political Wire
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Iowa reporter who found a viral star's racist tweets slammed when critics find his own offensive posts — On Sept. 14, an Iowa man named Carson King went viral after holding a sign on ESPN's “College GameDay” asking for donations on Venmo to pay for his “Busch Light Supply.”
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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
Meet Carson King, the ‘Iowa Legend’ who's raised more than $1 million for charity off of a sign asking for beer money
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KCCI-TV, The Daily Caller, WHOTV, Breitbart, National Review, Mediaite, globalnews.ca, twitchy.com, Fox News, New York Post, NB Blog, Daily Wire and Instapundit
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
Democrats Still Hope Mitt Romney Will Take On Trump
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Roll Call and The Gateway Pundit