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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Trump Administration Refusal to Comply with House Subpoenas — Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement when the White House asserted that the Administration will not comply with House Committee subpoenas as part of the impeachment inquiry …
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Nancy Pelosi Calls Trump's Bluff: ‘You Are Not Above The Law’ — The White House refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, calling it an “unconstitutional” effort to overturn the 2016 election. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) castigated President Donald Trump's refusal …
Gregg Re / Fox News:
GOP rep introduces resolution to expel Nancy Pelosi from House — A Louisiana Republican congressman introduced a resolution Tuesday to expel Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., from the House of Representatives, the latest sign that frustration in the GOP is building as Democrats continue their impeachment inquiry against President Trump.
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New York Times:
White House Declares War on Impeachment Inquiry, Claiming Effort to Undo Trump's Election — WASHINGTON — The White House declared war on the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, announcing that it would not cooperate with what it called an illegitimate effort “to overturn the results of the 2016 election” …
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Bloomberg:
Blindsided Trump Allies Urge Better Coordination on Impeachment
Blindsided Trump Allies Urge Better Coordination on Impeachment
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Former SC Rep. Trey Gowdy joins Trump legal team
The Latest: Former SC Rep. Trey Gowdy joins Trump legal team
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
All the President's Men, Ukraine Edition
All the President's Men, Ukraine Edition
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Washington Post:
Trump is betraying his oath of office. If Republicans don't step up, they will be, too.
Trump is betraying his oath of office. If Republicans don't step up, they will be, too.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House vows to block ‘illegitimate’ impeachment effort
White House vows to block ‘illegitimate’ impeachment effort
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Don't Let Up! — The rapid increase in public support …
Don't Let Up! — The rapid increase in public support …
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White House says it will not cooperate with House impeachment inquiry; Democrats subpoena State Dept. official
White House says it will not cooperate with House impeachment inquiry; Democrats subpoena State Dept. official
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump's Ukraine Call Was ‘Crazy’ and ‘Frightening,’ Official Told Whistle-Blower — The whistle-blower wrote a memo describing an official who heard the call as “visibly shaken” by it. — WASHINGTON — A White House official who listened to President Trump's July phone call …
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CNN:
Inside the White House's effort to contain Ukraine call fallout — (CNN)By the time President Donald Trump's line with Volodymyr Zelensky went quiet, the scramble began. — In the hours and days after the Ukrainian President signed-off — “Thank you Mr. President, bye-bye” …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House official told whistleblower Trump Ukraine call was ‘frightening’ — A White House official listening to President Donald Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine's president described the call as “crazy” and “frightening” and was “visibly shaken,” according to notes taken …
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Murray Waas / The New York Review of Books:
Ukraine Continued: How a Crucial Witness Escaped — A classified State Department assessment concluded in 2018 that Ukraine's former Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko—who is at the center of the impeachment inquiry of President Trump—had allowed a vital potential witness for Special Counsel Robert Mueller …
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Mueller was pursuing FBI director job when he met with Trump in 2017, administration officials say
Mueller was pursuing FBI director job when he met with Trump in 2017, administration officials say
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Fahrettin Altun / Washington Post:
The world must support Turkey's plan for northeastern Syria — Fahrettin Altun is Turkey's communications director. — During a phone call with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, President Trump agreed to transfer the leadership of the counter-Islamic State campaign to Turkey.
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Defense One:
'It Didn't Have to Be This Way': Just-Retired CENTCOM General — Trump's decision “threatens to undo five years' worth of fighting against ISIS and will severely damage American credibility and reliability,” writes Joseph Votel, who until March led America's forces in the Mideast.
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Washington Post:
Pentagon won't take over Islamic State prisons if U.S.-allied Kurdish forces withdraw, officials say
Pentagon won't take over Islamic State prisons if U.S.-allied Kurdish forces withdraw, officials say
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Elliot Ackerman / New York Times:
Trump Betrays an Ally at the Turkish Border
The Boston Globe:
Bernie Sanders' daughter-in-law dies at 46 after cancer diagnosis — Rainè Riggs, the daughter-in-law of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, died Saturday shortly after being diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sanders Says He Will ‘Change the Nature’ of His Campaign After Heart Attack — The Vermont senator also acknowledged that voters would take his health into account when deciding whether to support him. — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders, in a striking concession …
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QU Poll:
Release Detail — October 8, 2019 - Voters Remain Divided On Impeachment, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Warren And Biden Top Democratic Primary Field — After another week with impeachment in the news, registered voters nationwide are still divided on impeaching and removing President …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Whistleblower had tie to Democratic candidate — In an Aug. 26 letter, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, Michael Atkinson, wrote that the anonymous whistleblower who set off the Trump-Ukraine impeachment fight showed “some indicia of an arguable political bias ... in favor of a rival political candidate.”
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CNN:
First on CNN: Trump told Perry and State Department officials as early as May to talk to Giuliani about Ukraine — (CNN)President Donald Trump directed Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and two top State Department officials to deal with his private attorney Rudy Giuliani when the Ukrainian President sought …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Judge signals Dems may get to see Mueller's secrets — A federal judge signaled Tuesday that she might give House Democrats access to some of Robert Mueller's remaining secrets. — During a two-hour hearing, Beryl Howell, chief judge for the U.S. District Court, challenged the Justice Department …
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politics.theonion.com:
GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn — WASHINGTON—Opting to take more of a wait-and-see approach instead of rushing to pass judgment, Republican lawmakers reportedly looked on in silence Tuesday as President Trump worked his way through each …
Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
Internal Memo: ESPN Forbids Discussion Of Chinese Politics When Discussing Daryl Morey's Tweet About Chinese Politics — If you watched ESPN yesterday, you saw the network repeatedly attempt to grapple with the story of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey creating an international incident …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Unpaid bills pile up in Trump rallies' wake — Donald Trump has raised record amounts of money as a presidential candidate. But he's still left a slew of unpaid bills in his wake. — In city after city, across the nation, Trump has failed to pay local officials who provide thousands …
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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Dianne Feinstein endorses Joe Biden for president over Kamala Harris — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is making her 2020 presidential endorsement official, The Chronicle has learned: She's backing former Vice President Joe Biden over a field that includes her California colleague, Sen. Kamala Harris.
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Chrissy Stroop / Rewire.News:
Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn't Just a Sideshow — Satanic Temple Considers Legal Action Against School Censorship … Dinos and Demons and Swedes, oh my! In the span of just a few days last week, American evangelicals …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump's latest curious choice for a Presidential Medal of Freedom — It was nearly a year ago when Donald Trump decided to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to the wife of Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson. A Washington Post analysis noted …
San Francisco Chronicle:
PG&E says power outage could last as long as Tuesday for some customers — California's largest utility is taking its most extreme step yet to prevent another wildfire on Wednesday, when Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will cut power to about 800,000 of its customers throughout its service area.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
John Solomon foisted a bogus story on Fox News viewers. His punishment? A contract. — Fox News host Sean Hannity in late July presented a daring prediction about former FBI director James B. Comey. A then-ongoing investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general, roared Hannity …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Dems raise fresh quid-pro-quo questions about Ukraine missile sale — Democrats pursuing an impeachment inquiry of President Trump want to take a fresh look at whether the sale of anti-tank missiles to Kiev last year was in any way connected to Ukraine's decision to halt investigations into Trump's campaign chairman.
Tim Mak / NPR:
Senate Report: Russians Used Social Media Mostly To Target Race In 2016 — The Russian government's interference in the 2016 U.S. elections singled out African-Americans as a target, a new Senate committee report concludes. — Using Facebook pages, Instagram content and Twitter posts …
Wall Street Journal:
Impeachment in Secret — Closed hearings and selective leaks won't persuade the public. — By The Editorial Board — Democrats are moving fast toward what looks like an inevitable vote to impeach President Trump, so why aren't they doing more to persuade Americans who don't already agree with them?
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Impeaching President Trump Is Popular — In the first few days after House Democrats announced impeachment proceedings against President Trump, a series of anti-Trump conservatives published columns arguing that they were making a giant tactical error. Bret Stephens ("Pelosi's Bad Impeachment Call" …