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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cracks emerge among Senate Republicans over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Zelensky adviser says Biden case was precondition to Trump phone call
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It's a Massive Plot.
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Washington Post:
The Trump-Zelensky readout is a devastating indictment of our president
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Washington Examiner:
Trump put presidential powers to work for partisan politics
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Raw Story
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The White House's Ukraine memo destroys Giuliani's attempts to frame the State Department
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Ice in his veins’: McConnell steers GOP through Trump's Ukraine scandal
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Pavel Polityuk / Reuters:
Ukraine president thought only U.S. side of Trump call would be published
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Barr is thrust back in harsh glare as Ukraine scandal grows
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Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
Trump Doesn't Need to Commit a Crime to Be Kicked Out of Office
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New York Times:
‘Do Us a Favor’: Calls Shows Trump's Interest in Using U.S. Power for His Gain
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Sky Palma / Raw Story:
FLASHBACK: McGahn warned Trump he could be impeached if he asked law enforcement officials to investigate his rivals
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Raheem Kassam / The Daily Caller:
Trump Transcript Shows Him Trying To Stop Corruption, Nothing Else
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:
What Is CrowdStrike and Why Is Donald Trump Blabbering About It to Ukraine
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
The Ukraine transcript is not a dud, it is bad news for Trump
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Noah Bookbinder / New York Times:
The Zelensky Memo Is All the Proof Needed to Impeach Trump
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Full Feed:
Ashton Kutcher Pushes For Trump Impeachment After Meeting Ukrainian President
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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 …
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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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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.
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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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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 …
NBC News:
Majority of House members now back some type of impeachment action against Trump
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Mediaite
CNN:
Whistleblower tentatively agrees to testify, attorneys say, as long as they get appropriate clearances to attend hearing
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Axios:
Democrats ‘disturbed’ after reviewing whistleblower complaint
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
AP sources: Lawmakers, staff to view whistleblower complaint
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Democrats troubled by ‘disturbing’ whistleblower complaint
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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 — 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 …
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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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Pelosi Tells Trump: ‘You Have Come Into My Wheelhouse’
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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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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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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 — In the living room of Carson King's unassuming bungalow in Altoona, a sign hand-painted by his step-grandmother hangs on the wall with the message “King: Start unknown, finish unforgettable.”
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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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