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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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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 …
NBC News:
Kurt Volker, Trump's part-time Ukraine envoy, played role in Giuliani outreach  —  The special envoy served as the facilitator for Giuliani's talks with Ukrainian officials.  —  WASHINGTON — After President Donald Trump asked Ukraine's president to work with his personal attorney …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
All the president's loyalists: Impeachment net snares Trump's top advisers  —  Donald Trump has done it again: He's dragged some of his closest aides and advisers into a scandal packed with potentially devastating personal consequences.  —  That's good news for white-collar lawyers who charge by the hour.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
If This Is Trump's Best Case, The Ukraine Scandal Is Looking Really Bad For Him
Jessica Campisi / The Hill:
Hacker changes Seattle road sign to say ‘Impeach the bastard’
Discussion: RedState
Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Trump Threatened An American Serving Her Country As He Pressured Ukraine
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Rudy Giuliani's Amateur Diplomacy
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post and Fox News
Zachary Basu / Axios:   Ex-Zelensky adviser says Biden case was precondition to Trump phone call
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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U.S. House of Representatives Permanent …:
House Intelligence Committee Releases Whistleblower Complaint  —  f t # e  —  Washington, DC - Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the declassified whistleblower complaint.  The complaint can be viewed here, and the Intelligence Community Inspector General letter regarding …
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 …
Anna Palmer / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The Democrats' impeachment gurus
Discussion: Fox News, CNN and New York Times
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.”
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Washington Examiner:
Trump put presidential powers to work for partisan politics
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Republicans Say Impeachment Will Backfire.  History Says It Won't  — Nixon's resignation boosted Democrats in the next election  — Clinton impeachment helped Republicans win back White House  —  Citing their experience in the 1990s, Republicans warned Democrats this week …
Discussion: The Hill
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:   Trump's political defense: Play the victim card
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:   It Has Begun  —  An impeachment inquiry is nothing to celebrate.
KHON2:
Tulsi Gabbard's opposition is Kai Kahele's opportunity
Discussion: CNN
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Ocasio-Cortez defends impeachment inquiry as preventing 'potential meddling in the 2020 election …
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.
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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The Boston Globe:
The limits of Trump's ‘so what if I did?’ strategy  —  WASHINGTON — As news that he asked a foreign leader to investigate his political rivals rocked Washington, President Trump turned to a tried-and-true strategy: Embrace it.Trump took the unusual step of releasing a rough transcript Wednesday …
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Pavel Polityuk / Reuters:
Ukraine president thought only U.S. side of Trump call would be published
Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News and The Week
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Census: Inequality grew, including in heartland states  —  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year to its highest level in more than 50 years of tracking income inequality, according to Census Bureau figures.
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
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 …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Tom Price joins the hunt for Georgia's Senate seat  —  Former Health Secretary Tom Price entered the sweepstakes to be Georgia's next U.S. Senator by submitting his resume with Gov. Brian Kemp's office for the soon-to-be-vacated seat held by Johnny Isakson.
Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
Trump Doesn't Need to Commit a Crime to Be Kicked Out of Office  —  The Constitution is clear that the standard for an impeachable offense is political, not criminal.  —  Mr. Katyal was an acting solicitor general in the Obama administration.  —  An important line of defense for President Trump …
Discussion: NBC News
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New York Times:
Elated, Furious, Wary: Impeachment Divides Voters, Like Everything Trump
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Israel's Netanyahu begins coalition hunt amid deadlock
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The House doesn't need an impeachment inquiry to confirm Trump's wrongdoing.  Just look at his hotel.
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Teenage Girls Are Leading The Climate Movement — And Getting Attacked For It
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Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Sen. David Perdue OKs Silicon Valley Takeover of College Graduate Job Market
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Citing Falsehoods, Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC Cut Away From Trump's Remarks
David Welna / NPR:
Pentagon Letter Undercuts Trump Assertion On Delaying Aid To Ukraine Over Corruption
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Actually Has 2 Whistleblowers To Worry About
 

 
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CNN:
Syrian locals say a man filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime

Julian Fowler / BBC:
A UK court finds the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Metropolitan Police unlawfully spied on two Belfast journalists to identify their sources

Hadas Gold / CNN:
Donald Trump says he plans to sue The Des Moines Register over its final poll of Iowa voters by Ann Selzer, saying he wants to “straighten out the press”
 
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