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CNN:
Trump unhappy with Mulvaney's press briefing in which he acknowledged quid pro quo, source says — (CNN)President Donald Trump is not pleased with acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's press briefing and his acknowledgment on Thursday of a quid pro quo, according to a source close to the President.
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Washington Post:
Trump has awarded next year's G-7 summit of world leaders to his Miami-area resort, the White House said — President Trump has awarded the 2020 G-7 Summit of world leaders to his own private company, scheduling the summit for June at his Trump Doral golf resort outside Miami, the White House announced on Thursday.
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Washington Post:
Mulvaney confirms Ukraine aid withheld in part to force probe of Democrats — Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters Thursday that President Trump blocked nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine in part to force the government in Kyiv to secure …
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Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, Shareblue Media, The Mahablog, Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and The Week
The Daily Beast:
Mick Mulvaney Has Conservatives Asking: WTF Are You Doing? — The acting chief of staff had himself a day on Thursday and his critics say he's in over his head. — Over the course of about 40 minutes on Thursday, President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney …
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New York Times, The American Conservative and Defense One
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Forget Trump's “Meltdown”—Follow the Testimony — On a week of revelations in the House's impeachment inquiry. — In a series of tweets in late July, Donald Trump called Elijah Cummings, a Democratic representative from Baltimore and one of his chief congressional critics, a “brutal bully” …
New York Times:
Mulvaney Says, Then Denies, That Trump Held Back Ukraine Aid as Quid Pro Quo — At first the acting White House chief of staff undercut the president's denials, but late in the day he reversed himself. — WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff …
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New York Times, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Shareblue Media, VICE, Vox, Fox News and CNN
Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
‘Get over it’: Mulvaney's twin admissions put Trump at the center of emoluments and Ukraine controversies
‘Get over it’: Mulvaney's twin admissions put Trump at the center of emoluments and Ukraine controversies
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Hot Air, Associated Press, The Week, The Hill and NBC News
Wall Street Journal:
Mulvaney Says Holdup of Ukraine Aid Was Related to Trump's Demand for 2016 Election Probe
Mulvaney Says Holdup of Ukraine Aid Was Related to Trump's Demand for 2016 Election Probe
Washington Post:
Trump's hosting of the G-7 is deeply corrupt. Here's how Democrats can step up.
Trump's hosting of the G-7 is deeply corrupt. Here's how Democrats can step up.
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NPR, ABC News, New York Times, Slate and Hullabaloo
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sen. Mitt Romney raises a troubling theory about Trump and Turkey — Sen. Mitt Romney delivered perhaps the most thorough Republican rebuke of President Trump's Syria withdrawal Thursday, calling Trump's abandonment of the Kurds there “a bloodstain on the annals of American history.”
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Foreign Policy
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New York Times:
In ‘Cave-In,’ Trump Cease-Fire Cements Turkey's Gains in Syria — The agreement, announced by Vice President Mike Pence, may stop the killing in the Kurdish enclave in northern Syria. But the cost to American influence is expected to be high. — WASHINGTON — The cease-fire agreement reached …
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Common Dreams, Althouse and The Week
BBC:
Turkish president Erdogan 'threw Trump's Syria letter in bin'
Turkish president Erdogan 'threw Trump's Syria letter in bin'
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Washington Post, Axios, The Bulwark, New York Times, HuffPost, The Atlantic, Politico, PJ Media Home, The Week and Sputnik International
Washington Post:
ISIS eyes breakout opportunity as Turkish forces batter Kurds
ISIS eyes breakout opportunity as Turkish forces batter Kurds
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Wall Street Journal and HuffPost
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
‘Not a ceasefire’: Turkish leader says it's a ‘pause’ after Pence touts agreement
‘Not a ceasefire’: Turkish leader says it's a ‘pause’ after Pence touts agreement
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The Hill, Associated Press, Breitbart, Politico, The Gateway Pundit, One America News Network and The Federalist Papers
Associated Press:
The Latest: Turkey leader tweets back to Trump about Syria
The Latest: Turkey leader tweets back to Trump about Syria
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Middle East Eye, The Daily Beast, Hot Air and Patterico's Pontifications
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump's Capitulation to Erdogan Is Complete
Trump's Capitulation to Erdogan Is Complete
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New York Times, Iowa Starting Line and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Perry to Resign as Energy Secretary — Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas who has become enmeshed in the Ukraine scandal, said he would resign as secretary of energy. — Rick Perry, the energy secretary who has drawn scrutiny for his role in the controversy surrounding President Trump's efforts …
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Bloomberg:
Energy Chief Perry Tells Trump He Plans to Leave Post Soon
Energy Chief Perry Tells Trump He Plans to Leave Post Soon
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Vanity Fair, Breitbart, The Hill, CNN, The Daily Caller, New York Post, PJ Media Home and Wall Street Journal
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, 1 of the ‘3 amigos’ on Ukraine, tells Trump he plans to resign
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, 1 of the ‘3 amigos’ on Ukraine, tells Trump he plans to resign
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emptywheel, Politico, Vox, CNN, What The Fuck …, Washington Post and The Hill
The Daily Beast:
Nunes Tries to Use Steele Dossier to Defend Trump During Closed-Door Hearing — Ambassador Gordon Sondland appeared perplexed by Nunes' comments, according to one source, and the exchange was “awkward.” — During a closed-door impeachment meeting on Capitol Hill, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) …
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William H. McRaven / New York Times:
Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President — If President Trump doesn't demonstrate the leadership that America needs, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office. — Admiral McRaven is a former commander of the United States Special Operations Command.
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CNN, The Guardian, Raw Story and Mediaite
Marina Pitofsky / The Hill:
Mattis responds to Trump criticism: 'I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals' — Former Defense secretary James Mattis responded to the President Trump calling him “the world's most overrated general” during a meeting with Congressional leaders Wednesday. — “I'm not just an overrated general.
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Anna North / Vox:
Trump's “Nervous Nancy” tweet shows his problem with powerful women
Trump's “Nervous Nancy” tweet shows his problem with powerful women
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's latest ‘very serious meltdown’ matters
Why Trump's latest ‘very serious meltdown’ matters
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NBC News, RealClearPolitics, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Blair Miller / TheDenverChannel.com:
New poll shows majority of Coloradans support impeachment inquiry, Hickenlooper leads Gardner — Keating Research-OnSight Public Affairs-Martin Campaigns poll conducted Oct. 10-14 — <p>WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) listens during a Commission On Security …
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Political Wire
Vladimir Soldatkin / Reuters:
Russia says it is starting to resume U.S. cyber cooperation: TASS — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States are gradually starting to resume cooperation on cyber security, TASS news agency cited the head of Russia's FSB Federal Security Service as saying on Thursday.
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Pew Research Center:
In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace — An update on America's changing religious landscape — The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019 …
Sherrilyn Ifill / Washington Post:
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't know his civil rights history — Sherrilyn Ifill is the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. — In a speech Thursday at Georgetown University, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg invoked Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. …
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in interview he fears ‘erosion of truth’ …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in interview he fears ‘erosion of truth’ …
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The Daily Caller, National Review, Engadget and Althouse
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
Impeachment Could Mean Most Presidential Candidates Can't Leave Washington, Or Talk. Sorry, Those Are (Really) The Rules. — WASHINGTON — An impeachment trial in the Senate would be a massive threat to President Trump, but it could also cripple — or boost — the campaigns of a half dozen Democrats vying to beat him.
Joe Uchill / Axios:
Cozy Bear didn't hibernate as previously thought — Cozy Bear, the less-discussed of the two Russian hacker groups that breached the Democratic National Committee in 2016, had been thought to be scaling back operations since that election, but a new report finds the group instead became more covert.
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WeLiveSecurity, Mother Jones and MIT Technology Review
Logan Wroge / madison.com:
Outrage grows in firing of Madison West High School security guard over use of N-word — Outrage was growing among members of Madison's black community Thursday, a day after a black West High School security guard was fired for what he said was explicitly telling a student not to call …
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TheBlaze and twitchy.com
David Stavrou / Haaretz:
A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside — Rape, torture and human experiments. Sayragul Sauytbay offers firsthand testimony from a Xinjiang ‘reeducation’ camp — Send me email alerts — Zen Subscribe now
Nick Arama / RedState:
CNN Video: Hopefully, Trump Dies Soon — We brought you the story about how Project Veritas had videos from Cary Poarch, a man who was a contract employee with CNN. He took some pretty eye-opening video because he says he was upset about how CNN approached the news and he wanted people …
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Project Veritas, Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
U.S. Representative Jerry Nadler:
Chairman Nadler Statement on Trump Hosting G7 at His Doral Resort in Miami — f t # e — Washington, D.C.- Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump's decision to hold the 2020 G7 Summit at Trump National Doral Miami …
David Brooks / New York Times:
If It's Trump vs. Warren, Then What? — A hard but necessary choice to save the country. — This is a memo for the politically homeless. It's a memo to those of us who could never support Donald Trump but think the Bernie-Squad-Warren Democratic Party is sprinting too far left.
Pew Research Center:
Modest Changes in Views of Impeachment Proceedings Since Early September — 54% approve of House decision to conduct inquiry — Most Americans have not changed their views on whether the House should conduct impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump since early September …
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The Boston Globe, The Hill, Bloomberg and Axios
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
‘Fun Times In Beijing’: Hunter Biden Received $700,000 From Company That Held Stake In Chinese Investment Firm — Numerous news reports have asserted Hunter Biden received $50,000 a month from the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma, but available records do not support that claim.
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Axios