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Attorney General Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016 — Attorney General William P. Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes …
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Trump Pressed Australian Leader to Help Barr Investigate Mueller Inquiry's Origins — The discussion was another instance of the president using American diplomacy for potential personal gain. — WASHINGTON — President Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call …
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump may have lied to Mueller, House Democrats say — Lawyers for the House of Representatives revealed on Monday that they have reason to believe that the grand-jury redactions in special counsel Robert Mueller's report show that President Donald Trump lied about his knowledge of his campaign's contacts with WikiLeaks.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Floodgates Open on Trump — Shortly after eight this morning, the President of the United States, making maximal use of his “executive time,” wielded his smartphone to issue a legal threat against the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. It is worth reading the missive from @realDonaldTrump in full:
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Wall Street Journal:
Tense Relationship Between Barr and Giuliani Complicates Trump Impeachment Defense — The president's two highest-profile lawyers are struggling to get on the same page — WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr called President Trump in April with a question: What was Rudy Giuliani doing?
Casey Newton / The Verge:
In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook against critics and the US government — In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government. — July should have been a relief for Facebook.
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Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Zuckerberg talks Warren's “existential” breakup threat in leaked audio
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Intelligence Inspector General to GOP: You Know Nothing of My Work — Last Thursday, Sean Davis of the conservative news site The Federalist broke an explosive revelation. The Intelligence Community had secretly changed a requirement in its whistle-blower statute to allow whistle-blowers …
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fact check: Were whistleblower rules changed before Ukraine complaint?
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New York Times:
Democrats' Plans to Tax Wealth Would Reshape U.S. Economy — Proposals from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have raised concerns from economists and business leaders who fear the plans would sap economic growth. — WASHINGTON — Progressive Democrats are advocating the most dramatic shift …
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Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Bernie Sanders's Campaign Gets Summer Funding Boost
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Washington Post:
Sen. Bernie Sanders raised $25.3 million in third quarter, campaign says
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Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:
Sanders sets high bar with $25.3 million Q3 haul, Buttigieg falls short of his Q2
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Politico
John Harwood / CNBC:
GOP defenses for Trump's Ukraine call quickly collapse under scrutiny — Trump, his aides and select allies in Congress have feverishly sought to redirect a whistleblower's complaints toward Democratic adversaries. — Yet even cursory scrutiny of evidence that has emerged so far knocks …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
The GOP's Texas problem — The retirement of six House Republicans from Texas at the end of this term shows their pessimism about winning back the House majority in 2020, GOP strategists tell Axios — and foreshadows bigger Republican fears in the nation's second most populous state.
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WilmerHale:
Robert S. Mueller III and Other Special Counsel's Office Members Rejoin WilmerHale — Related Solutions — WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Robert S. Mueller III is rejoining the firm as a partner after serving as special counsel for the US Department of Justice.
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Joe, Hunter Biden seen golfing with Ukraine gas company exec back in 2014, photo shows — EXCLUSIVE: A photo obtained by Fox News' “Tucker Carlson Tonight” shows former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter golfing in the Hamptons with Devon Archer, who served on the board …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Who's Afraid of Rudy Giuliani?
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David Enrich / New York Times:
Me and My Whistleblower — Deutsche Bank. North Korea. The Intelligence Committee's investigation of the president. Again and again, one man has taken his trove of secret documents — and uncanny nose for scandal — to the center of the news. — One sunny Wednesday in February …
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Raw Story
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Trump's approval rating drops to low, but Americans still oppose impeachment, survey finds — The latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey found 47% opposing impeachment hearings and 44% approving. The difference is within the poll's 3.5% margin of error.
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Political Wire
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
There's another whistleblower complaint. It's about Trump's tax returns. — Hey, have you heard about this whistleblower complaint? — An unnamed civil servant is alleging serious interference in government business. If the allegations are true, they could be a game-changer.
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Kelsey Jukam / courthousenews.com:
Devin Nunes Sues Reporter, Hearst for Article About Family's Iowa Dairy — (CN) - California Representative Devin Nunes asked a federal court in Iowa Monday to award him $75 million in damages in a defamation and common law conspiracy suit against reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines.
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Law & Crime
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
This Is the Moment Rachel Maddow Has Been Waiting For — How the MSNBC host staked her show on Trump — and won the largest and most obsessive audience of her career. — Rachel Maddow was trying to get to work. She only had to get from the glass door of her doctor's office …
Miami Herald:
‘He conned us from day one’: Giuliani's Ukraine ally leaves trail of South Florida debts — Over the summer, Dianne and Michael Pues got an ominous phone call from the business partner of a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur who owes the couple more than $500,000 over a movie deal gone bad.
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Voter registration surges in Georgia ahead of 2020 elections — New voters have registered in droves in Georgia since last year's midterms, expanding the electorate ahead of the 2020 presidential election year when the state is expected to be a key political battleground.
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Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Mark Meadows and the Undisclosed Dinosaur Property — A fight among fossil hunters, a dubious documentary, and the conservative congressman from North Carolina. — Three years ago, the North Carolina congressman Mark Meadows sold a hundred-and-thirty-four-acre property in Dinosaur, Colorado.
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Favorite Democrat Will Not Budge on Impeachment — “It is not something to be taken lightly. You're disenfranchising voters, you're removing an executive from office,” Van Drew said. — In a U.S. Capitol hallway on the day that Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry …
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QU Poll, Washington Post and Axios
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Homeland Security Dept. Affirms Threat of White Supremacy After Years of Prodding — WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is beginning to address white supremacist terrorism as a primary security threat, beating back criticism that the agency has spent a decade playing down the issue …
Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance — If you want to understand how the peach emoji has come to represent both the potential impeachment of President Trump and a butt, you must first look to the ancient Sumerians. — Cuneiform, their early system of writing …
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice. — The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings “erode public trust,” critics said. — Public health officials for years have urged Americans …
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emptywheel:
Bill Barr's OLC Treated His Implication in the Whistleblower Complaint as Top Secret — Because I was on my epic road trip with June Bug the Terrorist Foster Dog, I'm just now reading some of the documents underlying the whistleblower complaint closely. Doing so makes it clear that Bill Barr's DOJ …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Hillary Clinton says staying in her marriage was ‘gutsiest’ thing she's ever done — The former secretary of state also said the gutsiest political thing she's done is run for president. — Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that she believes the “gutsiest” …
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Asma Khalid / NPR:
How White Liberals Became ‘Woke,’ Radically Changing Their Outlook On Race — Jeromy Brown, a 46-year-old teacher in Iowa, considers President Trump a white supremacist. — “If the shoe fits, then say it, and the shoe fits him,” Brown said, while waiting in a “selfie line” at an Elizabeth Warren rally in August.
New York Times:
House Subpoenas Giuliani, Trump's Lawyer, for Ukraine Records — Rudolph W. Giuliani is at the center of an alleged pressure campaign to enlist Ukraine's help in investigating the president's political rivals. — WASHINGTON — House Democrats investigating whether to impeach President Trump issued …
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