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8:25 PM ET, October 4, 2019

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NBC News:
CIA's top lawyer made criminal referral on whistleblower's complaint about Trump conduct  —  Experts are raising questions about why the Justice Department did not open an investigation.  —  WASHINGTON — Weeks before the whistleblower's complaint became public, the CIA's top lawyer …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump, in August Call With GOP Senator, Denied Official's Claim on Ukraine Aid  —  President Trump denied that he had linked military aid to Ukraine with a commitment by Kyiv to investigate the 2016 presidential elections when pressed on the matter by a Republican senator in August, according to the lawmaker.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Ron Johnson says he was blocked by President Trump from telling Ukraine foreign aid was coming  —  U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks with members of the media before meeting with the Middleton Chamber of Commerce at Serendipity Labs in Madison, Wis., Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019.
Lawrence K. Altman / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Had a Common Heart Procedure.  So Why the Mystery?  —  Mr. Sanders has not disclosed health details like whether blood and electrocardiogram tests showed he had a heart attack, nor allowed reporters to interview his doctors.  —  WASHINGTON — “None of us know when a medical emergency …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Had Heart Attack, His Doctors Say as He Leaves Hospital  —  Senator Bernie Sanders had a heart attack this week, his presidential campaign said on Friday as he left a Las Vegas hospital.  —  Mr. Sanders, 78, had entered the hospital on Tuesday night after experiencing chest pain …
Discussion: Axios, The Wrap and New York Post
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders' health incident diagnosed as heart attack  —  The health issue that led to Sen. Bernie Sanders' hospitalization on Tuesday night in Las Vegas has been diagnosed as a heart attack.  —  Sanders, 78, said in a statement released on Friday that he “felt great” and was looking forward to resuming his campaign.
Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:   Bernie Sanders had heart attack, his doctors say after release from hospital
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Bernie Sanders had a heart attack this week, campaign says
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
A heart attack caused Sen. Bernie Sanders to be hospitalized earlier this week, doctors say
Discussion: Political Wire
Defense One:
US Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport  —  Repeating “You write propaganda, right?”, officer held passport until he received an affirmative answer.  —  A U.S. passport screening official held a Defense One journalist's passport until he received an affirmative answer …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Volker Gives New Details on Giuliani's Role in Ukraine Policy  —  WASHINGTON — The former State Department special envoy for Ukraine told congressional investigators that Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, insisted that Ukraine specifically commit to investigate involvement …
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BuzzFeed News:
The Former Special Envoy To Ukraine Told Congress That Trump's Biden Conspiracy “Has No Credibility To Me”  —  Former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker testified before members of Congress on Thursday.  While the meeting was private and a full transcript has not been released, his prepared remarks were obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Warren campaign fires senior staffer for ‘inappropriate behavior’  —  Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign has fired its national organizing director, Rich McDaniel, after an investigation into allegations of what it called “inappropriate behavior.”  —  “Over the past two weeks …
Washington Post:
Trump's calls with foreign leaders have long worried aides, leaving some ‘genuinely horrified’  —  In one of his first calls with a head of state, President Trump fawned over Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling the man who ordered interference in America's 2016 election that he was a great leader …
Tom Burt / Microsoft on the Issues:
Recent cyberattacks require us all to be vigilant  —  Today we're sharing that we've recently seen significant cyber activity by a threat group we call Phosphorus, which we believe originates from Iran and is linked to the Iranian government.  We're sharing this for two reasons.
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New York Times:
Iranian Hackers Targeted Trump's Re-election Campaign  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Iranian hackers targeted President Trump's re-election campaign, two people with knowledge of the attacks said on Friday, in a sign of how cyberattacks could become a fixture of the 2020 presidential election.
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
‘Coup’ talk is proliferating on Fox as impeachment inquiry ramps up  —  Considering removing a president from office via procedures outlined in the Constitution is not the same as a coup, defined as a violent overthrow of the government.  That hasn't stopped at least 15 Fox News personalities …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump's impeachment polling is historically unprecedented
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Schiff's false claim his committee had not spoken to the whistleblower  —  “We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower, we would like to.”  —  We recently took Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to task for misleading reporters about the fact that he was a participant …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:   ‘Me! Me!’: An aggrieved Trump spins an alternate reality as impeachment probe escalates
Deadspin:
Inside TheMaven's Plan To Turn Sports Illustrated Into A Rickety Content Mill  —  Now that Sports Illustrated's three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven, have completed the callous layoff of half of Sports Illustrated's newsroom and finalized a deal that gives control …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden's ‘devastating’ fundraising haul a loud warning for once-unrivaled front-runner  —  First, he lost his clear lead in the polls over the rest of the record-setting field of Democratic presidential contenders.  —  Now, former Vice President Joe Biden has been eclipsed by three of his rivals …
Discussion: Politico
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Will Englund / Washington Post:
Ukraine's new chief prosecutor to ‘audit’ Biden case
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Treasury Inspector General to Review Handling of Trump's Tax Returns  —  WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department's inspector general is investigating how Treasury handled a congressional request for President Trump's tax returns, which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has refused to turn over.
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Treasury IG probing department's refusal to give Democrats Trump's tax returns
Discussion: Associated Press
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Mike Pence Failed in His Most Important Duty  —  In the throes of Watergate, Vice President Spiro Agnew was caught up in an unrelated corruption scandal.  He pleaded guilty and resigned his office on October 10, 1973.  —  To that point, Agnew had served as a useful insurance policy for Richard Nixon …
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Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
Rubio claims Trump suggested China launch investigation into Bidens to ‘provoke’ the media  —  Sen. Marco Rubio floated the possibility that President Trump called on China to investigate the Bidens for no other reason than to “provoke” the media.  —  “I don't know if that's a real request …
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Why Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should resign  —  He's been an unmitigated disaster at everything except catering to President Trump  —  Mike Pompeo came into the secretary of state position with a relatively simple assignment: be better than the most incompetent secretary of state in history.
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James LaPorta / Newsweek:
Ex-Marine who claimed sexual involvement with Elizabeth Warren lied about military service, Corps says  —  An ex-U.S. Marine infantryman, who claims to be a combat veteran of the Afghanistan war, is involved in a far-right plot to smear Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Jacob Wohl's Bogus Warren Accuser Exaggerated His Military Service Record
Discussion: The Bulwark, The Root and HuffPost
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached.  Give Him What He Wants — Immediately.  —  Remember that sultry July day during the 2016 campaign when Donald Trump went in front of the television cameras and asked the Russian government to intervene in the looming presidential election on his behalf?
Discussion: Althouse
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
How Gordon Sondland, a wealthy hotelier turned ambassador, became the latest key player in the Ukraine inquiry  —  Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, had barely been on the job for a year when he found himself knee-deep in negotiations with the Ukrainian president …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine  —  How a conservative dark-money group that targeted Hillary Clinton in 2016 spread the discredited story that may lead to Donald Trump's impeachment.  —  For nearly two years, conservative operatives have been trying to weaponize …
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Email Leak Exposes Trump Tower Russian's Dirty Lobbying Operations  —  According to leaked emails from Natalia Veselniskaya, Russia's disinformation campaign may have broken U.S. law and exposed details of a witness who later fell from a window.  —  LONDON—The identity of the U.S. government's star witness …
Discussion: Raw Story and CANNONFIRE
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Fake news’: Email reveals lapse by Fox News's Chris Wallace  —  Journalists commonly take leave of their senses when they communicate with sources via email.  They toss out insincere compliments, they make vague and unseemly promises, they disengage from all those refresher sessions on journalistic ethics.
Discussion: Mediaite
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Stephen Miller blamed impeachment on Deep State - Bannon says that's for ‘nut cases’  —  The former White House strategist, and a leading voice of the alt-right, was once key in the propagation of the conspiracy theory  —  Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller recently claimed …
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
It's Time For Everyone To Join The Impeachment Fight  —  The idea behind the push for impeachment was that forcing Republicans to vote on the propriety of President Trump's conduct, after a sustained airing of his abuses of power, would be a political nightmare for them …
 
 
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Lola Fadulu / New York Times:
Trump Administration Unveils More Cuts to Food Stamp Program
Matthew Brown / Deseret News:
Rep. Ben McAdams says he supports Trump impeachment inquiry
Discussion: NRCC
A. G. Hamilton / National Review:
Bloomberg Law Owes Readers an Explanation of Its Attempt to Smear Leif Olson
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Revisits Abortion With Louisiana Case
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post and The Week
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Interim San Francisco D.A. Suzy Loftus is Running for Office as a Reformer. …
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Obed Manuel / Dallas Morning News:
Is ICE trying to deport this U.S. citizen?  Francisco Galicia remains in limbo 2 months after release
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
Republicans Don't Want to Talk About It
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
New York Times Kavanaugh book bombs, just 3,120 sold, Amazon rank #6,795
Discussion: American Greatness and twitchy.com
Kate Irby / Fresno Bee:
How Devin Nunes is defending Trump on impeachment: Sowing doubt on Fox News
Discussion: New York Post
The Boston Globe:
PROVIDENCE — Former UN ambassador Samantha Power said Friday she would not rule out running …
Discussion: Politico
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion
 
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