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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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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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Axios, Raw Story and Mother Jones, more at Mediagazer »
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 and The Atlantic
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats subpoena Pompeo as part of impeachment inquiry
Democrats subpoena Pompeo as part of impeachment inquiry
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Fox News, Political Wire, Mediaite and Breitbart
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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Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Splinter
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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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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The Cook Political Report and Fox News
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Congress forces a Trump veto with rebuke on border wall funding
Congress forces a Trump veto with rebuke on border wall funding
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Splinter, Fox News and The Daily Caller
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Politics of Impeachment Now Favor Democrats
Politics of Impeachment Now Favor Democrats
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New York Times, Vox, Washington Post and Breitbart
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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Politico, Splinter, Palmer Report and Daily Kos
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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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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Political Wire
Mike Giglio / The Atlantic:
Revenge of the Intelligence Nerds — Trump has long worried that America's intelligence professionals would try to undermine him from the shadows. All they had to do was play by the rules. — On his first day in office, in January 2017, Donald Trump paid a visit to the CIA.
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Fortune, New York Times and Common Dreams, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Slate
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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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
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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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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Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: White House says lawyers directed moving Ukraine transcript to highly secure system
First on CNN: White House says lawyers directed moving Ukraine transcript to highly secure system
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New York Times:
Clinton's White House Faced Impeachment With Discipline. Trump's Approach Is Different.
Clinton's White House Faced Impeachment With Discipline. Trump's Approach Is Different.
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The Atlantic, Hullabaloo and Salon
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Giuliani, Barr likely to be called to testify in impeachment inquiry, House intel Dem says
Giuliani, Barr likely to be called to testify in impeachment inquiry, House intel Dem says
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Fort Smith/Fayetteville News and KFOR-TV
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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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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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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ELLE, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Now One Of Trump's Court Picks Is Tied Up In This Ukraine Scandal
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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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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Politico, Daily Kos and Washington Post
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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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Washington Post, Raw Story, CANNONFIRE and Politico
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—
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.
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.
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.
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 …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Impeachment Will Take Trump to a New Frontier of Haterdom — As the most dire political crisis of his presidency unfolded this week, Donald Trump seemed to wallow even more than usual in his own victimhood. — On Twitter—the premier platform for presidential wallowing—he ranted (again …
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