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New York Times:
Whistle-Blower Is a C.I.A. Officer Who Was Detailed to the White House  —  His complaint suggested he was an analyst by training with an understanding of Ukrainian politics.  —  WASHINGTON — The whistle-blower who revealed that President Trump sought foreign help for his re-election …
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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 …
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.
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.
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
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.
CNN:
Lewandowski may lead White House impeachment team  —  (CNN)Corey Lewandowski, the political operative who helped elect Donald Trump, has had conversations with White House officials in recent days about potentially taking a position inside the administration to help the President confront a looming impeachment fight.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
$50,000 reward offered to out Trump whistleblower  —  Two Trump supporters are offering a $50,000 reward for information about the national security whistleblower at the center of the Ukraine phone affair.  —  Controversial conservatives Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl said they would pay the money for …
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and The Week
New York Times:
Full Document: The Whistle-Blower Complaint  —  The President also praised Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Mr. Yuriy Lutsenko, and suggested that Mr. Zelenskyy might want to keep him in his position.  (Note: Starting in March 2019, Mr. Lutsenko made a series of public allegations …
Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
Critics blast New York Times for outing whistleblower as CIA officer and giving clues to his identity  —  A New York Times report published on Thursday outed the anonymous intelligence community whistleblower at the center of a presidential impeachment inquiry as a CIA officer and provided clues …
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Complaint From So-Called ‘Whistleblower’ Is Riddled With Gossip, Blatant Falsehoods
Discussion: Washington Post
Molly Ball / TIME:
How Donald Trump Triggered an Unprecedented Impeachment Fight
Discussion: HuffPost
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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Associated Press:
A first: Vermont GOP governor backs Trump impeachment probe  —  ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. — Vermont's governor has become the first Republican chief executive to support impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump but cautions that he wants to know more before any further actions are taken.
Steven Shepard / Politico:   Support for impeachment jumps in new poll
CBS News:
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Trump is a “corrupt human tornado”
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Republican governor throws weight behind Trump impeachment inquiry, becomes first to do so
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Arren Kimbel-Sannit / Politico:
Cory Booker optimistic impeachment will get bipartisan support  —  Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a Democratic presidential hopeful, said on Thursday he was convinced that an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump could gain bipartisan support among his colleagues in the upper chamber.
Discussion: YouGov, Breitbart and The Daily Beast
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Public Support For Impeachment Grows After Nancy Pelosi Backs Inquiry
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What did they all know about the whistleblower complaint, and when they know it?
Discussion: The Guardian
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Impeachment Fervor Isn't Going Anywhere
Discussion: Fox News and Instapundit
Kate Brannen / Just Security:
Whistleblower Says White House Took Unusual Steps to Limit Access to Ukraine Call Record
Discussion: Vox, Washington Post and Mediaite
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.
Washington Post:
Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden ‘did not violate anything’  —  KIEV, Ukraine — A former top Ukrainian prosecutor, whose allegations were at the heart of the dirt-digging effort by Rudolph W. Giuliani, said Thursday he believed that Hunter Biden did not run afoul of any laws in Ukraine.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:   Giuliani Won't Say if He Has a Security Clearance
NBC News:
Kurt Volker, Trump's part-time Ukraine envoy, played role in Giuliani outreach
New York Times:
Phone Call Showed Only a Slice of Trump's Obsession With Ukraine
Washington Post:
Trump's other Ukraine problem: New concern about his business  —  Zelensky recounted his stay at the president's N.Y. hotel in call with Trump.  —  Buried in the controversy over President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was an effort by the Ukrainian leader …
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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 …
Discussion: CNN
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Theodore Olson, Conservative Stalwart, to Represent ‘Dreamers’ in Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — The young immigrants known as “Dreamers” have gained an unlikely ally in the Supreme Court.  —  Theodore B. Olson, who argued for robust executive power in senior Justice Department posts under …
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
DOD Statement on Deployment of U.S. Forces and Equipment to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia  —  Attributed to Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman:  —  “In light of recent attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and at their invitation, Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper announced today …
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:   US deploys air defense systems, troops to Saudi Arabia
Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
Income inequality in America is the highest it's been since census started tracking it, data shows  —  In the midst of the nation's longest economic expansion, the separation between rich and poor is at a five-decade high  —  Last year, income inequality in the United States reached …
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Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Census: Inequality grew, including in heartland states
Discussion: KTLA
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Brace Yourself for the Internet Impeachment  —  Even before the impeachment inquiry against President Trump was announced on Tuesday, the president's re-election campaign blasted an email to supporters, urging them to defend Mr. Trump against the “baseless and disgusting attacks.”
 
 
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