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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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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 …
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New York Times:
The Whistle-Blower Complaint: Read the Document — Here is the complaint filed by an intelligence officer about President Trump's interactions with the leader of Ukraine. It was released with a letter from the inspector general for the intelligence community.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Read: the whistleblower complaint about Trump and Ukraine — Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images — The complaint at the center of Democrats' impeachment inquiry has been released. — The whistleblower complaint at the center of Trump's Ukraine scandal …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What did they all know about the whistleblower complaint, and when they know it? — The whistleblower complaint released Thursday morning is detailed, professional and compelling. It tells the story of an ongoing scheme primarily by President Trump and his private attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Complaint From So-Called ‘Whistleblower’ Is Riddled With Gossip, Blatant Falsehoods
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Justice Dept.'s Dismissal of Ukraine Call Raises New Questions About Barr
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Washington Post:
Acting director of national intelligence threatened to resign if he couldn't speak freely before Congress
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
NBC News:
Trump allies voice concerns about Rudy Giuliani's involvement in Ukraine
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
All the president's loyalists: Impeachment net snares Trump's top advisers
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
Rudy Giuliani's Amateur Diplomacy
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Trump Threatened An American Serving Her Country As He Pressured Ukraine
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CNN:
Trump without strategy in fast-moving impeachment inquiry — Jake Tapper breaks down Trump's call with Ukraine — New York (CNN)Questionable rapid-pace decisions spurred by President Donald Trump himself have left some allies wondering if there's a cogent strategy in place to counter Democrats …
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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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Washington Post:
Trump's other Ukraine problem: New concern about his business
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Whistleblower says White House officials tried to ‘lock down’ details of Trump's Ukraine call
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Acting DNI Joseph Maguire: Whistleblower “did the right thing”
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
If This Is Trump's Best Case, The Ukraine Scandal Is Looking Really Bad For Him
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Jessica Campisi / The Hill:
Hacker changes Seattle road sign to say ‘Impeach the bastard’
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Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Republicans Say Impeachment Will Backfire. History Says It Won't
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New York Times:
Trump's Not-So-Excellent Day — WASHINGTON — President Trump's …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Ice in his veins’: McConnell steers GOP through Trump's Ukraine scandal
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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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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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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Why Pelosi and her party finally embraced impeachment
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Sparks fly at assault-weapons ban hearing on Capitol Hill, ex-cop vows she would ‘not comply’
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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.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Biden's brother touted Biden Cancer Initiative ties in investment pitch — James Biden suggested the former vice president's anti-cancer efforts could benefit potential investors, a litigant says. His spokesman denies it. — James Biden is accused of telling executives at a healthcare firm …
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The Democrats' impeachment gurus
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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.
Washington Post:
EPA tells California it is ‘failing to meet its obligations’ to protect the environment — Trump officials will notify California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday that the state is “failing to meet its obligations” to protect the environment, just days after the president mocked its biggest cities for their “tremendous pollution.”
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. rejected investigation of Trump phone call just weeks after it began examining the matter — Justice Department officials took less than a month to abandon an inquiry into President Trump's communications with his Ukrainian counterpart about investigating former vice president Joe Biden …
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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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