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2:00 PM ET, September 29, 2019

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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 …
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 …
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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
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ex-Trump adviser: The best way to self-impeach is to hire Rudy Giuliani  —  Former Trump homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said on ABC's “This Week” that the conspiracy theory that Ukraine hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016 has been “debunked,” and he condemned Rudy Giuliani …
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Vanity Fair
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Giuliani was not working alone in Biden Ukraine probe  —  Democrats allege Trump abused his power to solicit interference from a foreign government in the 2020 election  —  Rudy Giuliani was not the only attorney trying to get damaging information on Joe Biden from Ukrainian officials …
Washington Post:
The gas tycoon and the vice president's son: The story of Hunter Biden's foray into Ukraine  —  When then-Vice President Joe Biden's son joined the board of an obscure Ukrainian gas company half a decade ago, it was a stunning coup for its owner, a former Ukrainian minister working to remake …
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
New York Times:
How a Shadow Foreign Policy in Ukraine Prompted an Impeachment Inquiry
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Stephen Miller says Trump is ‘real whistleblower’ and calls complaint ‘partisan hit job’ in contentious interview
Discussion: Politico
Rishika Dugyala / Politico:
Giuliani says Trump ‘framed by the Democrats’
Discussion: Breitbart
CNN:
Volker plans to appear before congressional committees next week
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:
State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton's former aides  —  The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email …
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: New York Post and Common Dreams
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.”
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 …
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 …
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Will Voters Warm to Impeaching Trump, and Does It Matter?  —  Now that Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats have, as Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff put it, “crossed the Rubicon” to support impeachment proceedings against President Trump, the big questions are how public opinion might evolve …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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.
James Randerson / Politico:
UK Supreme Court ruling should lead to ‘consequences,’ says Boris Johnson  —  Top judges should be subjected to U.S.-style “accountability” Boris Johnson suggested following the decision by the U.K.'s Supreme Court to quash his decision to suspend parliament.
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
How Trump has made a political career out of sowing suspicion against enemies  —  President Trump's effort to paint Joe Biden as c0rrupt — debunked by fact checkers — fits a pattern for Trump attacks on enemies: Raise deeply serious questions, regardless of what the facts say; hammer on those questions; never, ever seek finality.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
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 …
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
‘A very bad blow’: The GOP lawmaker who turned on Nixon paid a price for it  —  On July 23, 1974, as an impeachment vote against President Richard M. Nixon loomed over Washington and the country, Maryland Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan — a Republican — purchased airtime on television networks across his state.
Discussion: CBS News
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 …
Discussion: The Last Refuge and ABC News
 
 
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
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Discussion: Instapundit
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Pelosi turns to Schiff to lead House Democrats' impeachment inquiry of Trump
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Bloomberg Law:
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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
GOP Leadership Memo Suggests Senate Cannot Block Trial If House Votes To Impeach Trump
Discussion: New York Post
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Impeachment Battle to Turn for First Time on a President's Ties to a Foreign Country
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Embarrassing Leaks Led to Clampdown on Trump's Phone Records
Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi's death made the Saudi crown prince a pariah.  Trump has helped rehabilitate him on the world stage.
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Mulvaney on shaky ground in wake of whistleblower fallout, sources say
Discussion: Palmer Report and Mediaite
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Collusion After the Fact  —  The Washington Post reported last night:
Discussion: Daily Kos, HuffPost and Slate