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Ambassador Kurt Volker / U.S. House of …:
Pompeo Subpoenaed for Ukraine Documents as House Committees Accelerate Impeachment Inquiry — Three Committees Schedule Multiple Depositions with Key State Department Officials Over Next Two Weeks — f t # e — “Pursuant to the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are taking a big impeachment risk. It's not what you think. — House Democrats appear to be coalescing behind a strategy of narrowly focusing their impeachment inquiry on the latest explosive revelations involving President Trump's corrupt pressure on the Ukrainian president to interfere in a U.S. election on his behalf.
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Democrats Have Trump on the Ropes. They Must Act on Impeachment Now. — House Democrats have a lot of choices to make about impeachment, from whether to focus only on the recent Ukraine controversy or loop in other issues such as obstruction of justice and potential violations of the Emoluments Clauses.
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New York Times:
House Democrats Issue First Subpoena in Impeachment Inquiry — Three committee chairmen issued the first subpoena in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, seeking documents and witnesses regarding his dealings with Ukraine. — WASHINGTON — House Democrats, kick-starting …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Now One Of Trump's Court Picks Is Tied Up In This Ukraine Scandal — Senate Democrats are asking judicial nominee Steven Menashi, a White House legal aide, what he's known about the bombshell whistleblower complaint. — WASHINGTON ― Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats subpoena Pompeo as part of impeachment inquiry
Democrats subpoena Pompeo as part of impeachment inquiry
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Giuliani, Barr likely to be called to testify in impeachment inquiry, House intel Dem says
Associated Press:
The Latest: McConnell: If House acts, Senate must have trial — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry (all times local): — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that if the House goes ahead and impeaches President Donald Trump …
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Trump Killed the Seriousness of Impeachment — Impeachment proceedings used to be news of unquestionable gravity. The week showed it's just more fodder for the ideological and culture wars. — John F. Harris is founding editor of POLITICO and author of “The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House.”
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Washington Post:
Giuliani set to make paid appearance next week at Kremlin-backed conference that includes Putin — Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose actions as President Trump's personal lawyer have helped set in motion an impeachment inquiry, is set to appear as a paid speaker at a Kremlin-backed conference …
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Associated Press:
Kremlin says it hopes U.S. would not release Trump-Putin calls, like it did with Ukraine — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “we would like to hope that it wouldn't come to that in our relations.” — MOSCOW — Russia has voiced hope that the U.S. administration …
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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.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Seven important and awful signs for Trump — The whistleblower complaint is so damning President Trump and his minions tried to conceal it from Congress and the public. It is so damning that a long list of Senate Republicans claimed not to have read it or refused comment.
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Four debunked talking points used to discredit the whistleblower complaint
Four debunked talking points used to discredit the whistleblower complaint
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge
Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Feinstein calls for ‘word-for-word’ transcript of Trump call at heart of impeachment inquiry
Feinstein calls for ‘word-for-word’ transcript of Trump call at heart of impeachment inquiry
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Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Joseph Wilson, Who Challenged Iraq War Narrative, Dies at 69 — He contradicted a statement in President George W. Bush's State of the Union address. A week later, his wife at the time, Valerie Plame, was outed as a C.I.A. agent. — Joseph C. Wilson, the long-serving American diplomat whose clash …
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New York Times:
Trump Meets With LaPierre to Discuss How N.R.A. Could Support Political Defense — President Trump met on Friday with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, to discuss how the N.R.A. could provide financial support for the president's defense as he faces political headwinds …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Inscrutable Mike Pence — PIETY AND POWER — Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House — After losing his first campaign for Congress, a penitent Mike Pence swore off the dark side of politics. In a confessional essay in 1991, he wrote that “negative campaigning is wrong” and set out rules for himself for the future.
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo blames angry ‘leftists’ for impeachment of Trump and predicts ‘quote unquote inquiry’ will cause gridlock — Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized “leftist” Democrats for pushing Congress into launching an impeachment inquiry of President Trump and predicted the probe would lead to government gridlock.
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Humberto Sanchez / The Nevada Independent:
Amodei on Trump impeachment inquiry: 'Let's put it through the process and see what happens'
Amodei on Trump impeachment inquiry: 'Let's put it through the process and see what happens'
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Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Two Republican governors say they support impeachment inquiry of Trump
Two Republican governors say they support impeachment inquiry of Trump
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Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: White House says lawyers directed moving Ukraine transcript to highly secure system — Washington (CNN)The White House is acknowledging for the first time that officials did direct the Ukraine call transcript be filed in a separate classified system.
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Mike Giglio / The Atlantic:
Revenge of the Intelligence Nerds
Revenge of the Intelligence Nerds
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Chris Wallace Clashes With Fox News Colleague Over Trump Defenders' ‘Deeply Misleading’ Spin on Ukraine — The ‘Fox News Sunday’ host clashed with colleague Sandra Smith after she echoed White House talking points on the whistleblower complaint. — The first question Fox News host Sandra Smith asked …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Impeach him, anyway — Protesters demanding the impeachment of Donald Trump in New York on June 7, 2018. Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images — The case for impeachment, even if it can't oust Trump. — In Federalist 65, Alexander Hamilton considers the problem of impeachment.
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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” …
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Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
Geraldo Rivera Says He'd Like to Beat Up ‘Rotten Snitch’ Whistleblower for Trump — Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera stated he'd like to beat up the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint helped kick-start an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Jessica Pels / Cosmopolitan:
Cosmo Asks Bernie Sanders the Questions Young Women Want Answered — It's a high-stakes election with a large pool of would-be presidents, and young women might just be the deciding vote on our future — To help you choose—and to get the candidates to address what matters most to YOU—
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Calls For Formal Impeachment Inquiry Into Brett Kavanaugh — The presidential hopeful wrote that we must “get to work holding our leaders accountable” in the wake of a new sexual misconduct claim against the Supreme Court justice. — Presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Nancy Pelosi: An Extremely Stable Genius — When asked if it was possible that impeachment might backfire, the Speaker of the House insisted that politics has nothing to do with it. “It doesn't matter,” she said. “He has given us no choice.” Before we begin to grapple with the gravity …
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Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Audio of private meeting shows oil industry ripping into Trump administration — At a closed-door meeting this summer, oil and gas industry lawyers criticized the Trump administration's failure to recruit enough qualified people to secure policy victories that would outlast this presidency, according to a recording of the gathering.
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from detaining migrant children for indefinite periods — A federal judge in Los Angeles has blocked the Trump administration from activating new regulations that would have dramatically expanded its ability to detain migrant children with their parents …
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
We're Getting Ripped Off — In 2019, the average price of health insurance rose above $20,000 for families that obtain their coverage through work. That's according to the latest survey of employer benefits from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which found that premiums increased by 5 percent for the second year in a row.
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Congress forces a Trump veto with rebuke on border wall funding — The House on Friday voted to once again overturn President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to build a border wall, sending the legislation to Trump who is sure to veto it. — Eleven Republicans …
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