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4:10 PM ET, October 11, 2019

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Washington Post:
Ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells Congress Trump pressured State Dept. to remove her  —  The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine whose abrupt ouster in May has become a topic of interest for House impeachment investigators said Friday that her departure came as a direct result …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Senior adviser to Pompeo resigns  —  Michael McKinley, a career diplomat and senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has resigned his position amid rising dissatisfaction and plummeting morale inside the State Department over what is seen as Pompeo's failure to support personnel ensnared in the Ukraine controversy.
Associated Press:   Former Ambassador To Ukraine Says Trump Pressured State Department To Fire Her
Michael Calderone / Politico:   Reporters call out the State Department for ‘lockdown’ on Ukraine
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Ex-Ukraine ambassador to Congress: Trump told State Department to remove her
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Newsweek:
Exclusive: Turkey bombs US special forces in Syria attack, apparently by mistake  —  A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.  —  Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official …
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Samuel Osborne / The Independent:
Isis militants break out of prison in Syria after bombing by Turkey  —  Escape comes after Trump cleared way for Erdogan to launch offensive on Kurds  —  Five Isis militants have broken out of a prison in northern Syria after Turkish shelling nearby, a spokesman in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has said.
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Lara Seligman / Foreign Policy:
'Some of the Most Noble People I'd Ever Met'
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani's relationship with arrested men is subject of criminal investigation: Sources  —  The business relationship between President Donald Trump's private lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the men charged Thursday in a campaign finance scheme is a subject of the ongoing criminal investigation …
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Aram Roston / Reuters:
Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash  —  Aram Roston, Karen Freifeld, Polina Ivanova  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden …
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani's Ukraine Team: In Search of Influence, Dirt and Money
The Daily Beast:
More Potential Whistleblowers Are Contacting Congress  —  The first two officials who came forward about the president's pressure campaign on Ukraine seem to be just the beginning, according to Hill sources.  —  New potential whistleblowers are coming forward to the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Kim Wehle / The Bulwark:
The ‘No Collusion’ Song Goes Silent
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Federal appeals court upholds House subpoena for Trump's financial records  — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld a subpoena for President Donald Trump's financial records from the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
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Axios:
Appeals court upholds House subpoena for Trump's financial records
Discussion: Fox News
Rich McHugh / Vanity Fair:
“YOU ARE TO STAND DOWN”: RONAN FARROW'S PRODUCER ON HOW NBC KILLED ITS WEINSTEIN STORY  —  Rich McHugh recounts how top NBC brass, including news chairman Andrew Lack and news president Noah Oppenheim, bowed to Harvey Weinstein to quash the truth.  —  One year ago, I resigned from NBC News …
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
How Trump-Country Democrat Rep. Max Rose Got to Impeachment  —  Because this is a story about Max Rose, it has to at some point find him at Jody's Club Forest, a Staten Island bar he famously frequents, drinking pitchers of Bud Light.  And because Max Rose is who he is …
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Bill Barr, Trump's Hatchet Man, Is About to Become His Scapegoat  —  Trump's DOJ is arguing that Congress should never have heard Nixon's “smoking gun” tape and should be barred from reviewing any further evidence of Trump's criminality.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Since William Barr became …
Discussion: gen.medium.com and Raw Story
Rosie McCall / Newsweek:
Greta Thunberg snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize by committee run by Norway, one of the world's biggest oil and natural gas exporters  —  The Nobel Committee has surprised oddsmakers by not picking 16-year-old Greta Thunberg to win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.  —  The five-member Norwegian panel …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and twitchy.com
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
2020 Presidential debate sites announced for general election  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Belmont University in Nashville will host the 2020 presidential debates ahead of next November's general election.
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and Axios
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Commission on Presidential Debates:
Commission on Presidential Debates Announces Sites and Dates for 2020 General Election Debates …
Discussion: Townhall, The Wrap and Michigan Advance
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Stunning in ugliness & tone’: Trump denounced for attacking Somali refugees in Minnesota  —  For roughly six minutes Thursday night, President Trump predictably singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during his campaign rally in her home district of Minneapolis.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump predicts senators will quash impeachment.  His allies aren't so sure.  —  Donald Trump made a defiant prediction last week that Senate Republicans will be the bulwark to keep Democrats from ending his presidency.  —  But behind the scenes, Republicans and Trump's informal circle …
Discussion: The White House
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Republicans stumbling over question at heart of impeachment
Discussion: CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump Policy That Favors Wealthy Immigrants  —  An injunction prevents the administration from withholding green cards to immigrants who receive federal assistance like Medicaid, pending further legal review.  —  A federal judge in New York issued a nationwide injunction …
Elizabeth Ralph / Politico:
“You spent a f—ing week on pneumonia-gate”  —  The news of Senator Bernie Sanders' heart attack has made headlines, sure.  But compared to the relentless media reports about Hillary Clinton's near fainting-spell in 2016, brought on by pneumonia, the coverage of Sanders' health problems has been light.
Los Angeles Times:
Trump's children take in millions overseas as president slams Biden's son  —  Eric Trump sounded shocked that Hunter Biden hadn't drawn more criticism for his lucrative business deals in Ukraine and China while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president.  —  “Can you imagine if I took 3 cents from the Ukraine or 4 cents from China?”
Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed News:
A Group Of Students Burned A Latina Author's Book Because They Felt Attacked For Being White  —  Jennine Capó Crucet spoke about “white privilege” at Georgia Southern University.  The freshman audience said she attacked them for being white and privileged.
Rich Miller / Capitol Fax.com:
Sanguinetti bows out of congressional race  —  * From Evelyn Sanguinetti via a campaign spokesperson...  It is with deep regret that I must announce that I have officially decided to end my campaign for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Congress for the 6th Congressional District of Illinois.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Bad polls for Trump shake GOP  —  President Trump's troubles are deepening, according to several recent opinion polls that show rising public support for impeachment.  —  Those polls include one released Wednesday from Fox News that sent shock waves through Washington.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Bored by His Own Speech, Just Wants to Talk About TV Shows  —  Roughly half an hour into his rally in Minneapolis last night, President Trump was reciting his prepared remarks about the evil political establishment shipping jobs overseas and flooding your communities with drugs and immigrants.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
McSally allies plead for air cover as Democratic groups pummel the Arizona senator  —  Sen. Martha McSally had incurred weeks of unchecked attacks from Democratic groups, and the Arizona Republican's allies are pleading for help.  —  Since early September, Advancing Arizona has targeted McSally …
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Rand Paul Goes Down in Flames on ‘The View’: 'Don't Mansplain!'  —  The Republican senator's flailing performance did not win over anyone on “The View” Friday morning.  —  Meghan McCain skipped out on Rand Paul's appearance on The View Friday morning—citing “personal reasons” …
Bloomberg:
Trump's Immigrant Wealth Test Blocked, Called ‘Repugnant’ Policy  — NY federal judge says rule is counter to the ‘American dream’  — New rule would make it harder for migrants to get green cards  —  A new U.S. Homeland Security rule to screen out immigrants who are at risk …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Elana Schor / Associated Press:
Religious right sticks by Trump as political heat rises
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