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4:40 PM ET, September 29, 2019

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The Daily Beast:
Biden Campaign Demands TV News Execs Stop Booking Giuliani  —  In a Sunday letter, the former vice president's aides say that it is editorially irresponsible to book the president's personal lawyer.  —  Joe Biden's presidential campaign made an extraordinary request to executives …
Discussion: Axios, Politico and Mediaite
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Trump-Supporting Lawyers diGenova and Toensing Teamed Up With Giuliani to Dig Up Ukraine Dirt on Biden: Report  —  According to a top U.S. official, all three were working off the books apart from the administration, Fox News reported on Sunday morning.  —  In a bombshell report Sunday morning …
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani fires back at former White House aide who accused him of spreading ‘completely false’ theory  —  Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, defended himself Sunday on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” from accusations lodged by a former White House official …
Los Angeles Times:
Former Ukraine prosecutor says he saw no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden  —  Ukraine's top law enforcement official repeatedly rebuffed President Trump's personal lawyer's demands to investigate Joe Biden and his son, insisting he had seen no evidence of wrongdoing that he could pursue despite Trump's allegations.
Kat Tenbarge / Business Insider:
Trump reportedly worked with 2 ‘off the books’ lawyers to pressure Ukraine for damaging information about Joe Biden, in addition to Giuliani  — Fox News' Chris Wallace reported Sunday morning that President Donald Trump has worked with two personal lawyers, in addition to former …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Chris Francescani / ABC News:
President Trump's former national security advisor ‘deeply disturbed’ by Ukraine scandal: ‘Whole world is watching’  —  President Donald Trump's first Homeland Security and counterterrorism advisor, who resigned after a year in the office, said on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff says House Intel has reached agreement for whistleblower testimony  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on ABC's “This Week” that he's reached an agreement with the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower to come before the committee as soon as the acting director …
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Former Trump Security Adviser Says He's ‘Deeply Disturbed’ by Ukraine Call  —  Thomas P. Bossert, the president's first homeland security adviser, also said part of the president's request to Ukraine was based on a “completely debunked” conspiracy theory.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's …
Discussion: Politico
Rishika Dugyala / Politico:
Giuliani says Trump ‘framed by the Democrats’
Discussion: Breitbart
Zachary Basu / Axios:   Ex-Trump adviser: The best way to self-impeach is to hire Rudy Giuliani
Allan Smith / NBC News:   ‘Enough’: Trump's ex-homeland security adviser ‘disturbed,’ …
CBS News:
CBS News poll: Majority of Americans and Democrats approve of Trump impeachment inquiry  —  More than half of Americans — and an overwhelming number of Democrats — say they approve of the fact that Congress has opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Only 17% of Americans surprised by Trump's actions tied to Ukraine: POLL  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe President Donald Trump's encouragement of a foreign leader to investigate Trump's political rival and his family is a serious problem, but only 17% said they were surprised …
Chris Jackson / Ipsos:   Ipsos - News & Polls : News - Americans believe Trump's Ukraine Call Is A Serious Issue …
Andrea Jefferson / Political Flare:
How Melania Obtained Her ‘Einstein Visa’ Under Scrutiny After She Lied About Having University Degree  —  Back in 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Without evidence, Stephen Miller claims whistleblower is a “deep-state operative”  —  White House senior adviser Stephen Miller claimed on “Fox News Sunday” that the whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Trump's interactions with Ukraine is a “deep state operative” …
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Iran, Burisma and Hunter Biden: The Democrats' terrible decision to go all in on impeachment  —  When Britain, Germany and France issued a joint statement blaming Iran for the attack on the Saudi Arabian oil refinery this week, it represented a major shift in the world's approach to the rogue regime in Tehran.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Washington Post:
The gas tycoon and the vice president's son: The story of Hunter Biden's foray into Ukraine
Discussion: New York Post and Politico
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
'Out here, it's just me': In the medical desert of rural America, one doctor for 11,000 square miles  —  VAN HORN, Tex. — He woke up to the sound of an ambulance's siren, knowing that the ambulance would soon be delivering another patient to him.  Ed Garner, 68, changed into medical scrubs and walked out to his truck.
Elizabeth Vaughn / RedState:
Nancy Pelosi's December 2018 Rule Changes Block Republicans From Participating In Impeachment Process  —  In December 2018, the soon-to-be Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was busy making changes in the House rules for the incoming 116th Congress.  She was actually setting the stage …
Gregory W. Meeks / Washington Post:
Dear anonymous op-ed writer: Your plan didn't work  —  Gregory W. Meeks, a Democrat, represents New York's 5th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.  —  Dear anonymous:  —  This month marks a year since you published an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that within …
New York Times:
The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse.  What Went Wrong?  —  Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology.  Tech companies, the government and the authorities are no match.  —  Last year, tech companies reported …
USA Today:
Is Donald Trump's Justice Department part of the Ukraine scandal cover-up?  —  A campaign finance violation isn't the only federal crime suggested by what we know.  Why would Justice walk away with so much left on the table?  —  CONNECT  —  Despite compelling evidence implicating President Donald Trump …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
A cold call from someone she never met changed Elizabeth Warren's life.  It was Harry Reid.  —  The ex-Senate majority leader boosted the 2020 contender's career at key points.  Even she's not quite sure why.  —  WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren was a professor at Harvard Law School …
Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
History will be cruel to many who saw Trump treachery and DIDN'T become whistle-blowers  —  There's been a lot of failure in American politics these last four years, but has there been any more miserable and embarrassing than the alleged and, we now know, probably mythical “Resistance Inside The Trump Administration”?
CNN:
CNN Poll: Democrats knotted in Nevada while Biden leads South Carolina  —  Washington (CNN)Joe Biden holds a wide lead in South Carolina, while the former vice president, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are knotted up in Nevada, according to new CNN polls conducted …
Discussion: Common Dreams and New York Post
 
 
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Coleman Hughes / Quillette:
The Case for Black Optimism
CBS Chicago:
Bond Denied For Javier Garcia, 22, Charged With Terrorism In Woodfield Mall Incident
Samy Magdy / Associated Press:
Amid crackdown, leading Egyptian rights activist is arrested
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Carson King has created a blueprint for resisting cancel culture
Discussion: Instapundit
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
‘A very bad blow’: The GOP lawmaker who turned on Nixon paid a price for it
Discussion: CBS News
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Ahead of 2020, Facebook Falls Short on Plan to Share Data on Disinformation
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Behind the Texas firewall, suburban shifts leave Trump vulnerable. Can strongholds save him?
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Will Voters Warm to Impeaching Trump, and Does It Matter?
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
 Earlier Items: 
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
How Trump has made a political career out of sowing suspicion against enemies
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Julian Lee / Bloomberg:
Why Vladimir Putin Suddenly Believes in Global Warming
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
The Little Engine That Couldn't  —  Those whom the gods would destroy …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Pelosi turns to Schiff to lead House Democrats' impeachment inquiry of Trump
Bloomberg Law:
The Federalist Hit With Labor Complaint Over Founder's Tweets
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
GOP Leadership Memo Suggests Senate Cannot Block Trial If House Votes To Impeach Trump
Discussion: New York Post
Washington Post:
State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton's former aides
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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