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Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Ukraine Phone Call, Alarmed Aides Saw Trouble  —  WASHINGTON — No one bothered to put special limits on the number of people allowed to sit in the “listening room” in the White House to monitor the phone call because it was expected to be routine.  By the time the call was over 30 minutes later …
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New York Times:
Trump Said His Ukraine Envoy Would ‘Go Through Some Things.’ She Has Already.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's words about Marie L. Yovanovitch, his former ambassador to Ukraine, were ominous.  In a telephone conversation that has set off a political crisis for Mr. Trump, he told Volodymyr Zelensky …
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
More than 300 former officials call Trump's actions concerning Ukraine ‘profound national security concern’  —  More than 300 former U.S. national security and foreign policy officials have signed a statement warning that President Trump's actions regarding Ukraine are a “profound national security concern” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump, the TV president, finally meets a media story he can't control  —  Donald Trump's presidency would have been impossible without his reality-TV fame from NBC's “The Apprentice.”  —  And he is skilled at dominating the visual medium that still matters so much — even in our digital age …
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
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 …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How a conservative columnist helped push a flawed Ukraine narrative  —  Back in March, the Hill newspaper published a series of stories and interviews that seemed, at the time, to be mainly of interest to foreign-policy wonks.  —  John Solomon, the paper's executive vice president …
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion  —  The whistleblower's identity remains obscured, the details of his work for the CIA cloaked in secrecy.  But the document he delivered reveals almost as much about the investigative mission …
Discussion: RedState
David Harsanyi / New York Post:   Wherever Joe Biden went, son Hunter cashed in
HuffPost:
Democrats Show Unity On Impeachment; Republicans Show Fractures
Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Sits at the Center of the Ukraine Controversy
Discussion: Mediaite
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Rudy Giuliani: ‘You Should Be Happy for Your Country That I Uncovered This’
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 …
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Bloomberg:
Kremlin Says It Hopes White House Doesn't Release Putin-Trump Calls
Discussion: Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:   The whistleblower alleged a Trump coverup. A former insider explains how it worked.
Axios:
Pelosi: Attorney General Bill Barr has “gone rogue”  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Friday that she believes Attorney General Bill Barr has “gone rogue” with his handling of the controversy regarding the Trump administration's interactions with Ukraine.
Discussion: Political Wire, CNN, Politico and Breitbart
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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: Hullabaloo
Jane Rosenzweig / New York Times:
The Whistle-Blower's Guide to Writing
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
‘Spies and Treason’: Read a Transcript of Trump's Remarks Related to the Whistle-Blower
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Tim Mak / NPR:
NRA Was ‘Foreign Asset’ To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals  —  The National Rifle Association acted as a “foreign asset” for Russia in the period leading up to the 2016 election, according to a new investigation unveiled Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon.
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 …
Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Two Republican governors say they support impeachment inquiry of Trump  —  For the first time, two Republican governors have publicly supported the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, a new development in an intensifying political fracas that has so far been largely partisan.
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New York Times:
Why the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Is the Only Option
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Daily Kos
Clifford Michel / The City:
Rep. Max Rose in Hot Seat as Holdout on Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Discussion: Detroit Free Press
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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John F. Harris / Politico:
Trump Killed the Seriousness of Impeachment
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sean Davis / New York Post:
The Trump-Ukraine whistleblower complaint looks just like ‘Steele Dossier 2.0’  —  An old adage holds that while history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.  Not so in the case of the latest manufactured anti-Trump “scandal.”  The anonymous whistleblower's allegations of corruption involving President Trump …
Discussion: Instapundit
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia's Fingerprints Are All Over Trump's Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
A Nonsense QAnon Conspiracy Theory Ended Up In Donald Trump's Call To the Ukrainian President …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Yes, Trump Is Guilty, but Impeachment Is a Mistake  —  This political brawl will leave Trump victorious.  —  Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense on that call with the Ukrainian president.  But that doesn't mean Democrats are right to start an impeachment process.
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:   Will Impeachment Reshape the 2020 Race?
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
How the Climate Kids Are Short-Circuiting Right-Wing Media  —  Young people like Greta Thunberg are participating in the culture wars while also managing to float above the fray.  —  Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large.  —  The kids aren't just all right — they're scrambling the brains of their political enemies.
Discussion: Vox, LifeSiteNews, New York Post and Axios
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:   'Everything You're Seeing Is Deception': How Right-Wing Media Talks About Impeachment
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Nancy Pelosi: An Extremely Stable Genius  —=-=-=- One evening in early September, the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., hosted a debate between Sohrab Ahmari, the op-ed editor of the New York *Post,* and David French, a constitutional lawyer and a staff writer for *National Review* …
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Jeff Flake says ‘at least 35’ Republican senators would privately vote to impeach Trump  —  Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake made a bold claim on Thursday when he said “at least 35” GOP senators would privately vote for President Trump's impeachment.  —  Appearing at the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival …
Discussion: Mediaite
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Republicans Face Impeachment Dilemma, Romney Is a Lonely Voice of Concern  —  With most Republicans rushing to defend President Trump against an impeachment push, a “deeply troubled” Mitt Romney stands apart.  —  WASHINGTON — As House Democrats push forward with an impeachment inquiry …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Rob Portman's chief of staff to head Google's D.C. office
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Impeach him, anyway  —  The case for impeachment, even if it can't oust Trump.
Discussion: Politico
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
What drives Donald Trump? Greed, and greed alone.
Yuichiro Kakutani / Washington Free Beacon:
Warren Invested in Private Prisons
Discussion: RedState
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Michael Weiss / The Daily Beast:
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Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Pence Advised Against Releasing Rough Transcript of Ukraine Call
Axios:
Ukraine controversy spotlights Joe Biden's family problem as the 2020 race heats up
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Breitbart
Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson: A Tale of Two Crises
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
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