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Two Foreign-Born Men Who Helped Giuliani on Ukraine Arrested on Campaign-Finance Charges — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman are expected to appear in federal court in Virginia later on Thursday — WASHINGTON—Two foreign-born donors to a pro- Trump fundraising committee who helped Rudy Giuliani's efforts …
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Two men with ties to Giuliani arrested on campaign finance charges
Two men with ties to Giuliani arrested on campaign finance charges
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Politico
Josh Chafetz / New York Times:
The House Can Play Hardball, Too. It Can Arrest Giuliani. — Two ways that Democrats in the House can match the White House's aggressive tactics. — Josh Chafetz is the author of “Congress's Constitution.” — In his letter to House leadership, the White House counsel, Pat Cipollone …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
‘What legal strategy?’: Trump relies on Trump to survive impeachment — For a president steeped in marketing and branding, impeachment offers new terrain on which to run the Trump playbook of defining an issue, waging war and then never backing down. — And the White House's new strategy …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
George Conway says White House advisers should step down — Conservative attorney George Conway encouraged President Donald Trump's closest aides in the West Wing to resign, specifically swiping at White House counsel Pat Cipollone for his response to House Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's Sweeping Case Against Impeachment Is a Political Strategy
Trump's Sweeping Case Against Impeachment Is a Political Strategy
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Washington Post, CNN and Politico
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The 'I'm rubber, you're glue' presidency: Trump turns to schoolyard taunts in impeachment battle
The 'I'm rubber, you're glue' presidency: Trump turns to schoolyard taunts in impeachment battle
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The Daily Caller and Law & Crime
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
As White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone Builds Case for Defiance on Impeachment
As White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone Builds Case for Defiance on Impeachment
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Political Wire, Hullabaloo, New Republic and Daily Kos
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
For Trump, an impeachment vote is a race against the clock. Not so for Pelosi.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Trump's resistance to the impeachment inquiry is a genuine constitutional crisis
Trump's resistance to the impeachment inquiry is a genuine constitutional crisis
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Washington Post and Reason
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Undeterred by White House Threat, Democrats Push Impeachment Inquiry Ahead
Undeterred by White House Threat, Democrats Push Impeachment Inquiry Ahead
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, CNN, Raw Story and The Federalist
New York Times:
Shells Fired Into Turkey as Syria Offensive Continues for 2nd Day — At least 16 Kurdish fighters were reported to have been killed as Turkish ground forces assaulted towns in northeastern Syria. Kurdish forces appeared to return fire across the border. — AKCAKALE, Turkey …
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Trump downplays U.S. alliance with Syrian Kurds, saying 'they didn't help us in the Second World War'
Trump downplays U.S. alliance with Syrian Kurds, saying 'they didn't help us in the Second World War'
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says potential ISIS escapees will ‘be escaping to Europe’
Trump says potential ISIS escapees will ‘be escaping to Europe’
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Politico, Outside the Beltway, ABC News and Townhall
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Military Leaders Fear They've Seen This Before. It Ended in the Iraq War.
Military Leaders Fear They've Seen This Before. It Ended in the Iraq War.
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Jewish Insider, Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Fox News:
Turkey's Syria invasion: Member of US Special Forces says, ‘I am ashamed for the first time in my career’
Turkey's Syria invasion: Member of US Special Forces says, ‘I am ashamed for the first time in my career’
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The Federalist
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Defying the World, Turkey Launches a War Against a U.S. Ally in Syria
Defying the World, Turkey Launches a War Against a U.S. Ally in Syria
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FDD's Long War Journal, Washington Post and Al Jazeera
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Trump adviser says China provided information about Hunter Biden — Michael Pillsbury, an informal White House adviser on China, said he received information about the business activities of Hunter Biden during a visit to Beijing in the same week Donald Trump urged China to probe the son of Joe Biden.
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Political Wire and The Other McCain
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RealClearInvestigations:
Here Are the Giuliani-Ukraine Notes Few Have Seen — Notes of Rudolph Giuliani's interviews with two former Ukrainian prosecutors include one's allegation that then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned him against investigating energy firm Burisma Holdings “as it was not in the interest of Joe and/or Hunter Biden.”
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Arden Farhi / CBS News:
Read the whistleblower's memo about Trump's Ukraine call, as described to CBS News
Read the whistleblower's memo about Trump's Ukraine call, as described to CBS News
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Raw Story, Political Wire and Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
Ukraine president: ‘No blackmail’ in conversation with Trump
Ukraine president: ‘No blackmail’ in conversation with Trump
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Talking Points Memo
Greg Wilson / Fox News:
Ukraine president says ‘no blackmail’ in phone call with Trump
Ukraine president says ‘no blackmail’ in phone call with Trump
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, TheBlaze, The Rush Limbaugh Show and The New Neo
Wall Street Journal:
White House Shifted Authority Over Ukraine Aid Amid Legal Concerns — House Democrats are investigating why a political appointee was given control of dispensing military aid after career budget staff questioned the legality of delaying the funds — WASHINGTON—The White House gave …
Bloomberg:
Trump Urged Top Aide to Help Giuliani Client Facing DOJ Charges — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson refused to interfere in case — 2017 episode bears hallmarks of Trump approach to Ukraine call — President Donald Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Record support for Trump impeachment — Just over half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a Fox News Poll released Wednesday. — A new high of 51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office, another 4 percent want him impeached …
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Fox News Poll results October 6-8, 2019
Fox News Poll results October 6-8, 2019
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Vox, Roll Call, Breitbart, Contemptor, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
White House aides try disappearing act amid impeachment talk — WASHINGTON (AP) — They've skipped the high-profile Sunday TV shows and avoided driveway chat sessions with reporters. Few who are typically eager to defend the president have appeared at all on television this month.
YouTube:
Tulsi Considers Boycotting Debate … I want to thank you all very much for your support. I need to share something with you. It is very important. — There are so many of you who I've met in Iowa and New Hampshire who have expressed to me how frustrated you are that the DNC …
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National Review
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
George Conway and other prominent conservatives call for ‘expeditious’ impeachment probe — More than a dozen prominent conservative lawyers, including George T. Conway III, offered their legal reasoning for an “expeditious” impeachment probe into President Trump, creating a document they hope …
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Breitbart, Axios, Reason and Political Wire
Axios:
Impeached and re-elected — It's looking more likely by the day that President Trump will be impeached by the House for his dealings with Ukraine. But if he is acquitted by the Senate — and then goes on to win a second term — Democrats will face a predicament neither party has confronted in U.S. history.
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Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans bemoaning the fate of the Kurds have no one to blame but themselves — Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) put out a written statement on Wednesday declaring, “On Monday, I said that President Trump's decision to abandon the Kurds, our major ally in the fight against ISIS, was terribly unwise.
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The Atlantic, Axios and Shareblue Media
Alex Swoyer / Washington Times:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spends $300 on hairdo at Last Tangle Salon in Washington, D.C. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has allowed life in Washington to go to her head — literally. — The self-declared socialist, who regularly rails against the rich and complains about the cost …
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CNN:
Trump warns McConnell about disloyal Republicans — Washington (CNN)Even as the White House appears to settle on the legal tactics to stave off Democrats' impeachment demands, uncertainty and unease over Trump's messaging approach remains high among his Republican allies, who see the ever-growing inquiry consuming the White House.
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire
Keith E. Whittington / Lawfare:
Must the House Vote to Authorize an Impeachment Inquiry? — Since taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm election of 2018, the Democrats have been exploring how it might be possible to pursue an impeachment inquiry while retaining some plausible deniability about whether they are actually doing so.
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Robert Tracinski / The Bulwark:
Dear Republicans, Is This the Idol to Whom You Have Sold Your Souls? — In the past few weeks, Donald Trump has gone from saying that no, he didn't collude with a foreign dictatorship to interfere with the U.S. election, to doing it on live TV, asking the government of China to investigate Joe Biden and his son, for no clear reason.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Why are Republicans who voted to impeach Clinton so unmoved by Trump's actions? — This is a column about two impeachments and the boundless human capacity for rationalization and self-delusion. — The first time I wrote about the prospect of a president being impeached was on Jan. 21, 1998.
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Sanders says he ‘misspoke’ about scaling back rallies after heart attack, vows ‘vigorous’ 2020 campaign — Sanders also pushed back at criticism that his campaign was not transparent about his health, saying it “acted appropriately” before disclosing he had a heart attack.
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Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:
Trump is in free fall. We need insights on his fitness from Mattis, Kelly and others. Now. — With the future of our constitutional order in the balance, don't they have an obligation to speak the truth and inform the public about Trump? — CONNECT — The president of the United States …
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Balloon Juice
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Voting Rights Act's Days May Be Numbered — A vital tool in the battle against voter suppression is in serious legal jeopardy. — Abolishing voter protections because they've successfully stopped discrimination, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in 2013 …