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10:50 PM ET, September 26, 2019

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New York Times:
White House Knew of Whistle-Blower's Allegations Soon After Trump's Call With Ukraine Leader  —  The whistle-blower, a C.I.A. officer detailed to the White House at one point, first expressed his concerns anonymously to the agency's top lawyer.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House learned …
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Eli Stokols / Los Angeles Times:
Trump at private breakfast: 'Who gave the whistleblower the information?  Because that's close to a spy'  —  President Trump expressed disgust Thursday morning with the explosive whistleblower complaint, slamming the intelligence officer and the White House aides who helped him or her as “almost a spy” and suggested it was treason.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Attacks Whistle-Blower's Sources and Alludes to Punishment for Spies  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday morning told a crowd of staff from the United States Mission to the United Nations that he wants to know who provided information to a whistle-blower about his phone call …
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Rudy Giuliani: ‘You Should Be Happy for Your Country That I Uncovered This’  —  When I last saw Rudy Giuliani for lunch, at the Trump International Hotel in Washington four weeks ago, his most pressing concern was that he had been locked out of his Instagram account.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr?  —  Trump's attorney general is implicated in the Ukraine scandal, but refuses to recuse.  —  By now you have probably read the opening of the whistle-blower complaint filed by a member of the intelligence community accusing Donald Trump of manipulating American foreign policy for political gain.
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Effort to shield Trump's call with Ukrainian leader was part of broader secrecy effort  —  The White House has taken extraordinary steps over the past two years to block details of President Trump's phone calls with foreign leaders from becoming public, following embarrassing disclosures early …
YouTube:
Listen: Trump slams whistleblower at private event  —  In this audio clip excerpt, President Trump expressed disgust Thursday morning with the explosive whistleblower complaint, slamming the intelligence officer ...
Discussion: Daily Kos
Bloomberg:
Trump's Attack on Whistle-Blower in Private Meeting Was Caught on Video  —  President Donald Trump used a closed-door gathering with U.S. diplomats to the United Nations to attack Democratic rival Joe Biden and disparage a whistle-blower complaint over his controversial call …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
A Nonsense QAnon Conspiracy Theory Ended Up In Donald Trump's Call To the Ukrainian President — And The Impeachment Investigation  —  The White House released the record of a call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday.
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The Whistle-Blower Is Not a Traitor, Mr. President  —  Trump's appalling suggestion shows yet again that he is his own worst enemy.  —  Until Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump's impeachment struggles were going slightly better than expected.  Then Trump himself, as is his habit …
New York Times:
‘Spies and Treason’: Read a Transcript of Trump's Remarks Related to the Whistle-Blower  —  President Trump addressed a crowd from the United States Mission to the United Nations on Thursday.  Mr. Trump discussed a range of topics, including a whistle-blower complaint against him that says he tried …
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Warren / CNN:
Giuliani denies charges in whistleblower complaint, says details are ‘total nonsense’  —  Dana Bash: The allegation is that this is a coverup  —  Washington (CNN)Rudy Giuliani tells CNN he has “no knowledge of any of that crap” in the newly released complaint from an American intelligence community whistleblower.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Barr and Giuliani's Excellent Trump Adventure
Fred Fleitz / New York Post:   Former CIA official on whistleblower: ‘How could this be an intelligence matter?’
Evan Perez / CNN:   Justice Department knew about whistleblower complaint involving Trump more than a week before referral
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Ukraine scandal: Trump's new impeachable offense is threatening the life of a CIA officer
The Daily Beast:
Trump Ponders Violent Retribution as the White House Projects Impeachment Calm
Discussion: CNN and Bloomberg
Michael Crowley / New York Times:   Whistle-Blower Shines Light on Potential ‘Abuse’ of Secret N.S.C. Computer System
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:   The whistleblower complaint doesn't do Democrats any favors
Jared Holt / Washington Post:
How far-right conspiracy theories informed Trump's Ukraine call
Discussion: Bloomberg, Foreign Policy and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Trump's other Ukraine problem: New concern about his business
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“It's Management Bedlam”: Madness at Fox News as Trump Faces Impeachment  —  The Republicans mounting primary challenges to __Donald Trump__ are not exactly the Never Trump movement's top draft picks.  With little hope of defeating an incumbent president dependably popular inside his party …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Fox News in ‘management bedlam’ as top brass fights and frets over Trump's future: report
Discussion: Slate and POLITICUSUSA
Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Sits at the Center of the Ukraine Controversy  —  Ukrainian officials saw him as a direct conduit to Trump; former New York mayor featured in whistleblower complaint  —  A key figure at the heart of the burgeoning impeachment probe is former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani …
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Washington Post:
In gambit for Trump, Giuliani engaged parade of Ukrainian prosecutors  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani spent months cultivating current and former prosecutors in Ukraine with a particular goal: Help President Trump in next year's election by ensuring that Ukrainian authorities pursued allegations that could damage his Democratic rivals.
John Solomon / The Hill:
These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden's Ukraine story  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden, now a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, has locked into a specific story about the controversy in Ukraine.  —  He insists that, in spring 2016, he strong-armed Ukraine to fire …
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
ABC's Bombshell Ukraine Story Falls Apart
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:   Sen. Chris Murphy Changes His Story on Zelensky Meeting
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Voter Support for Impeachment Grows Amid Ukraine Scandal  —  Backing for impeachment increases by 13 net points since the weekend  —  President Donald Trump pauses during a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25 in New York City.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Public Support For Impeachment Grows After Nancy Pelosi Backs Inquiry
Discussion: Breitbart and YouGov
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Support for impeachment jumps in new poll
Discussion: The Week and Vox
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Polls show support for impeachment rising amid Trump-Ukraine scandal
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Wall Street Democratic donors warn the party: We'll sit out, or back Trump, if you nominate Elizabeth Warren  — In recent interviews of several big-money Democratic donors and fundraisers in the business community, CNBC has found that this opinion is becoming widely shared as Warren surges against Joe Biden.
CBS News:
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Trump is a “corrupt human tornado”  —  Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton calls President Trump a “threat” to the country's standing in the world and a “corrupt human tornado,” in an interview with Jane Pauley for …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:   Hillary Clinton: Trump is an ‘illegitimate president’
Carol Hunter / Des Moines Register:
We hear you.  You're angry.  Here's what we are doing about it.  —  We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers' trust.  —  CONNECT  —  The Des Moines Register staff has heard from hundreds of people in the past few days upset …
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Brandon Morse / RedState:   Anheuser-Busch Shouldn't Get Off Light for Caving to “Cancel Culture” Against a Charitable Man
 
 
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Everyone In Washington Is Reading the Whistleblower Complaint — Except Senate Republicans
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