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CNN:
Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office — (CNN)A newly unearthed letter from 2016 shows that Republican senators pushed for reforms to Ukraine's prosecutor general's office and judiciary, echoing calls then-Vice President Joe Biden made at the time.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Pence: I Participated in the Ukraine Plot But Only As a Patsy — Vice-President Mike Pence is knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal. He is floating the absurd defense that, while he did participate in Trump's plan to extort Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, he was completely ignorant of what he was doing.
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Publicly Urges China to Investigate the Bidens — President Trump made a similar, but private, request of the president of Ukraine, an episode that sparked an impeachment inquiry. — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday publicly called on China to investigate a political rival …
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Law & Crime
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Trump publicly urges China, Ukraine to investigate Bidens amid impeachment inquiry — Trump has repeatedly accused Hunter Biden of using a 2013 trip on Air Force Two with his father to procure $1.5 billion from China for a fund he started. — Trump: Ukraine and China ‘should investigate’ the Bidens
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Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
CNN Refuses to Air Trump Ad Pushing Biden-Ukraine Claims and Bashing Network Anchors
CNN Refuses to Air Trump Ad Pushing Biden-Ukraine Claims and Bashing Network Anchors
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POLITICUSUSA, Political Wire and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Live updates: Trump calls for China to investigate Bidens; former Ukraine envoy testifies on Capitol Hill
Live updates: Trump calls for China to investigate Bidens; former Ukraine envoy testifies on Capitol Hill
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Bloomberg:
Ukraine's Ex-President Says Biden Never Asked to Close Cases
Ukraine's Ex-President Says Biden Never Asked to Close Cases
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Trump involved Pence in efforts to pressure Ukraine's leader, though officials say vice president …
Trump involved Pence in efforts to pressure Ukraine's leader, though officials say vice president …
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Elizabeth Thomas / ABC News:
Live updates: Trump says Ukraine, China should investigate Bidens as former envoy testifies
Live updates: Trump says Ukraine, China should investigate Bidens as former envoy testifies
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The Daily Beast:
Biden Dirt File Has Private Email Between John Solomon and Rudy Allies — The email was then included in part of a misinformation dossier that the State Department Inspector General delivered to Congress. — A controversial right-leaning reporter at the center of the Trump-Ukraine scandal …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
When the Story Is Written, the Whistleblower Will Just Be an Afterthought — How Much Does the Whistleblower Really Matter? — Here's an assessment sure to be unpopular: When the story of the impeachment effort against President Trump is written, the whistleblower will be an afterthought …
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Grace Segers / CBS News:
Trump suggests Ukraine and China should investigate the Bidens - live updates
Trump suggests Ukraine and China should investigate the Bidens - live updates
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New York Times:
Impeachment War Room? Trump Does It All Himself, and That Worries Republicans
Impeachment War Room? Trump Does It All Himself, and That Worries Republicans
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The Hill, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Associated Press, Raw Story and Fox News
Washington Post:
Pompeo is enabling the destruction of U.S. diplomacy
Pompeo is enabling the destruction of U.S. diplomacy
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CNN, Just Security, CNBC and Raw Story
CNN:
Kurt Volker: Diplomat never ‘fully on the Trump train’ set to appear as first witness in Ukraine probe
Kurt Volker: Diplomat never ‘fully on the Trump train’ set to appear as first witness in Ukraine probe
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
As impeachment war turns hot, Trump sounds partisan rallying cry
Susan Page / USA Today:
Perilous times for President Trump: By 45%-38%, Americans support impeaching him over allegations related to Ukraine, poll finds — From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been cloaked in controversy and shadowed by investigations.
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's impeachment defiance spooks key voting blocs — President Donald Trump was in trouble with women voters long before House Democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry against him last week. Since then, his standing has grown only worse. — Nearly a half-dozen polls conducted since …
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Raw Story
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Trump approval climbs to highest level of 2019 amid impeachment inquiry
Trump approval climbs to highest level of 2019 amid impeachment inquiry
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George T. Conway III / The Atlantic:
Unfit for Office — On a third-down play last season, the Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith stood in shotgun formation, five yards behind the line of scrimmage. As he called his signals, a Houston Texans cornerback, Kareem Jackson, suddenly sprinted forward from a position four yards behind the defensive line.
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Law & Crime, Mediaite and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Odd markings, ellipses fuel doubts about the ‘rough transcript’ of Trump's Ukraine call — President Trump said Wednesday that his controversial July call with his Ukrainian counterpart was transcribed “word-for-word, comma-for-comma,” an assertion that fueled growing questions about the nature …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Just Committed More High Crimes on the White House Lawn
Trump Just Committed More High Crimes on the White House Lawn
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Washington Post and Political Wire
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump tweets overwhelm GOP impeachment defense
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Trump's video taken off Twitter after band Nickelback complains — US president receives copyright censure over video that took aim at political rival Joe Biden — A video posted by Donald Trump has been removed from Twitter following a copyright claim by the rock band Nickelback.
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Rick Noack / Washington Post:
‘Circus Trump’: What that White House news conference looked like to the Finns — Wednesday's roller coaster news conference with President Trump and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto elicited ridicule and some concern in Finland, where many celebrated their leader on Thursday for enduring …
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Politico
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Book Alleging Biden Corruption in Ukraine Lifted Passages From Wikipedia — In more than a dozen instances, Peter Schweizer's book “Secret Empires” appears to have copied complete sentences or large parts of them from other sources. — A book that has fueled corruption allegations …
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Bloomberg
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
For the last time, Trump's every move is brilliant and calculated — “There are different ways to bake the cake, depending on what sort of cake you want. Different flavoring, different temperatures, different ingredients yield different types of cake, and the president as the master baker …
BuzzFeed News:
The New Way To Hack Democracy: The Political Operatives Who Fake Voter Outrage With Millions Of Made-Up Comments — Sarah Reeves sat on her couch in Eugene, Oregon, staring at her laptop screen in furious disbelief. She was reading the website of a government agency, where her mother appeared …
Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's call with Ukraine president manifests criminal and impeachable behavior — The House of Representatives has begun to gather evidence in an effort to determine if President Trump has committed impeachable offenses. The Constitution defines an impeachable offense as …
Washington Post:
Giuliani consulted on Ukraine with imprisoned Paul Manafort via a lawyer — In his quest to rewrite the history of the 2016 election, President Trump's personal attorney has turned to an unusual source of information: Trump's imprisoned former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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Molly Ball / TIME:
Why Kamala Harris Is Struggling to Find Her Footing — Sometimes Kamala Harris wakes up in the middle of the night because there's something on her mind. Did anybody get back to so-and-so? How is my stepdaughter adjusting to her apartment in New York City?
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Kamala Harris Preps Her Pivot
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Matt Lieberman, son of former VP nominee, runs for Senate in Georgia — Matt Lieberman, an entrepreneur who is the son of former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, became the first Democrat to enter the race for retiring Republican Johnny Isakson's seat on Thursday with a promise to be a voice for frustrated Georgians.
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Going to Burn Down Everything and Everyone, and Republicans, That Means You — That press conference was terrifying. And congressional Republicans should be more afraid than anyone. Trump's going down and taking them with him. — BEAST INSIDE
Lee Drutman / FiveThirtyEight:
If Republicans Ever Turn On Trump, It'll Happen All At Once — In the House, Democrats are inching ever closer to impeaching President Trump. Some are even pushing for drafting articles of impeachment by Thanksgiving and, potentially, sending proceedings to the Senate by early next year.
Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Senate: Ratings Changes and the Shadow of Impeachment — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Nationalization is an increasingly important trend in American election outcomes. It's hard to think of a more nationalizing issue than a presidential impeachment.
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
I Support the President — I'll be honest, there are days I wish someone else were President. It is not easy to support the President. — I'll be honest, there are days I wish someone else were President. It is not easy to support the President. Many of my friends detest him.
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The American Conservative
Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
Facebook says Trump can lie in his Facebook ads — Last week, Facebook quietly changed the language of its advertising policies to make it easier for politicians to lie in ads. — On Tuesday, the Trump campaign launched a new ad on Facebook, which includes a claim that was ruled false by Facebook-approved third-party fact-checkers.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Whistleblower Executive — Every call with a foreign leader is now subject to congressional review. — By The Editorial Board — The impeachment process is barely underway and already some constitutional norms are being trampled without a note of media notice or political concern.