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Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
‘Powerful woman’ Kellyanne Conway mocks and threatens reporter for mentioning her husband (AUDIO)  —  Top White House aide Kellyanne Conway, describing herself as “a powerful woman,” aggressively and disparagingly told a female reporter that it was improper to write about her husband …
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Washington Examiner:
Transcript of telephone call between Kellyanne Conway and Caitlin Yilek  —  This is a transcript of the telephone conversation between Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president of the United States, and Caitlin Yilek, breaking news reporter at the Washington Examiner.
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and Raw Story
Jonathan Shorman / Wichita Eagle:
‘Your question is insane.’ Full interview with Secretary of State Pompeo in Wichita  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday made his fourth trip to Kansas this year, this one to Wichita with Ivanka Trump.  The former Kansas congressman sat down with McClatchy's Wichita Eagle and Kansas City Star …
Washington Post:
White House delayed Ukraine trade decision in August, a signal that U.S. suspension of cooperation extended beyond security funds  —  The White House's trade representative in late August withdrew a recommendation to restore some of Ukraine's trade privileges after John Bolton …
Discussion: Political Wire, The Hill and Salon
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Tell Federal Agencies to Cut New York Times, Washington Post Subscriptions  —  White House plans to direct government staffers to not renew orders with the newspapers, whose coverage he has disparaged as ‘fake’  —  WASHINGTON—The White House is planning to instruct federal agencies …
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Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
White House Press Secretary: Those ‘Against’ Trump Deserve to Be Called ‘Human Scum’  —  “The people who are against him, and who have been against him, and have been working against him since the day they took office are just that.”  —  White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:   Trump Cancels Subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Schiff's Secret Bombshells  —  If the testimony is so damning for Trump, why not make it public?  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Bombshell.  The walls are closing in.  Donald Trump's defense has collapsed.  The quid pro quo has been proven, the case for impeachment is obvious …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Allies Growing Desperate for Defenses of Ukraine Scandal  —  Republicans have been complaining loudly over the lack of a “war room” in the White House to coordinate the party's impeachment message.  The basis for their concern is growing increasingly obvious.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why is GOP spin growing more pathetic and lawless? Because Trump's defenses are collapsing.
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Shocking photos of Congresswoman Katie Hill are revealed as she's seen NAKED showing off Nazi-era tattoo while smoking a bong, kissing her female staffer and posing nude on ‘wife sharing’ sites  — Katie Hill, 32, has been seen in a series of shocking photographs obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com
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Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Katie Hill admits her ‘throuple’ relationship was a bad idea
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Judge Napolitano Schools ‘Fox & Friends’ on Impeachment: Schiff Just ‘Following the Rules’ Written by GOP  —  Fox News' judicial analyst disappointed his colleagues by explaining there's nothing wrong with “secret” impeachment hearings.  —  After Republican members of the House literally stormed …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Lawyers for Ukrainian oligarch have another client: The columnist who pushed Biden corruption claims  —  Conservative lawyers Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, who this year took on as a client an oligarch at the center of the Ukraine scandal, also represent the conservative columnist …
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Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed News:
The Dark Heart Of The Impeachment Investigation Is A Powerful Oligarch — With Close Ties To Vladimir Putin
Discussion: Washington Monthly
BuzzFeed News:
This Prosecutor Set Giuliani Up With Key Ukrainians — And He Just Got A Promotion
Discussion: Washington Post
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Fantasy of Republicans Ditching Trump  —  Republican senators will soon be receiving an invitation to tear apart the Republican Party ahead of the 2020 elections, and they are going to decline to accept it.  —  It's a trope of pro-impeachment commentary that it should be simple …
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Just Security:
United States of America v. Rudolph W. Giuliani  —  Former U.S. Attorneys draft a “Mock Indictment” based on publicly available evidence of Giuliani's misconduct. … While the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel has issued legal opinions that a sitting president cannot be indicted …
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos, Raw Story and Law & Crime
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Apprentice’ Contestant Says She Has Documents Corroborating Donald Trump Sexual Assault  —  Summer Zervos tells the court about calendar entries, old emails, correspondence with Fox News, and a polygraph test.  —  For the first time, season-five Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos has laid …
Discussion: Raw Story
Madeleine Jacob / LifeSiteNews:
BREAKING: Judge rules dad will have say in gender ‘transition’ of 7-year-old  —  The judge presiding over the case of Jeffrey Younger, the father who is trying to protect his seven-year-old son, James, from chemical castration via a gender “transition,” ruled today that the parents …
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Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness  —  A. Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, calls the student-loan system ‘fundamentally broken’  —  WASHINGTON—A senior student-loan official in the Trump administration said he would resign Thursday …
Grace Sparks / CNN:
CNN Poll: Most Americans are concerned about Syria and think it's likely ISIS will reemerge  —  (CNN)Three-quarters of Americans are concerned about the situation in Syria and many see a reemergence of ISIS as likely following recent changes in US policy, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
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Wichita Eagle:
‘Insane’ to question U.S. credibility after Trump's Kurdish crisis, Pompeo says
Discussion: CNN
Fox Business:
Tulsi Gabbard, amid Hillary Clinton tussle, hits Wall Street fat cat syndicate  —  Tulsi Gabbard, fresh off her nasty tussle with former first lady, secretary of state, and 2016 Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, was given a hero's welcome at a meeting with Wall Street executives …
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:   How America's far-left could help re-elect Donald Trump
Michael Wines / New York Times:
The Student Vote Is Surging.  So Are Efforts to Suppress It.  —  The share of college students casting ballots doubled from 2014 to 2018, a potential boon to Democrats.  But in Texas and elsewhere, Republicans are erecting roadblocks to the polls.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — At Austin Community College …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Economists rush to help Sen. Elizabeth Warren solve Medicare-for-all tax puzzle  —  “She wants something airtight but easy to understand,” one outside adviser said of Warren's approach to finance huge health plan  —  Internal and external economic policy advisers are trying to help Sen. Elizabeth Warren …
Discussion: Mediaite
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
N.J. seeks to revoke liquor license for one of Trump's golf clubs, triggered by a case in which a customer caused a fatal car crash  —  The state of New Jersey is seeking to revoke the liquor license for one of President Trump's golf clubs — a rare and potentially damaging punishment …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Political Wire
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Read the Trump Administration's Warning Letter to Laura Cooper  —  The No. 2 Pentagon official told Ms. Cooper, the military's Russia-Ukraine expert, not to talk to Congress.  She did anyway.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has declared that the executive branch will not cooperate …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
National Archives probes Wilbur Ross' use of private email  —  The National Archives and Records Administration has launched an investigation into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' use of private email for official business, according to a letter made public this week.
Sakshi Venkatraman / Washington Square News:
Statement From WSN on Decision to Pull Pro-Nationalist Advertisement  —  Last week, conservative pundit Rich Lowry purchased a full-page advertisement to be printed on the back page of WSN's Monday, Oct. 21 issue.  The ad promoted his Thursday talk at the Silver Center …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Robert Griffin / Democracy Fund Voter Study Group:
Early Signs Suggest Trouble for Trump in 2020 Election  —  With the 2020 Democratic primary season well under way, many political analysts — and not a few Democrats — have wondered which of the party's candidates is most electable.  But there's another candidate with an electability challenge: President Donald Trump.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Jeff Zucker Says He's Interested in Hiring Former Fox News Host Shepard Smith  —  “When he's available, he is somebody who is very talented and I would be very open to talking to him,” the network president said.  —  CNN president Jeff Zucker suggested that he's interested …
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Voter Enthusiasm for 2020 Is Off the Charts — Especially for Trump Fans  —  It's a running joke among political junkies that the next presidential election is always the most important one ever.  But you could make a pretty good case that 2020 is, in the words of Joe Biden, a BFD.
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren?  New Polls Differ on Who's Leading 2020 Race  —  Surveys released this week show varying, and sometimes conflicting, races unfolding nationally and in early primary states.  —  Just over three months before Iowans caucus for Democratic presidential candidates …
Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
One-in-five U.S. newsroom employees live in New York, Los Angeles or D.C.  —  New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., are the financial, entertainment and political capitals of the United States - and that may help explain why they are home to a disproportionately large share of the nation's newsroom employees.
William Mattox / Wall Street Journal:
Impeachment Needs a Replay Booth  —  An acquittal should allow a president to run for a third term.  —  I know impeachment is supposed to be an extremely weighty matter that demands every citizen's attention, but part of me would like the never-ending histrionics to go away so that I can give my undivided attention to football.
Discussion: alicublog
Noam Cohen / Wired:
Why Zuckerberg's Embrace of Mayor Pete Should Worry You  —  Some in Silicon Valley see the technocratic wonder boy from South Bend as a safe alternative to the big-tech crackdown promised by Elizabeth Warren.  —  We recently learned that Elizabeth Warren is the kind of presidential candidate …
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
Buttigieg May Face Subpoena  —  An attorney for the South Bend Common Council told The Young Turks he may subpoena witnesses — possibly including Mayor Pete Buttigieg — starting as early as next week, to testify about police issues including Buttigieg's demotion of Darryl Boykins, the city's first black police chief.
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
House Dems Accuse Impeachment Witnesses of Coordinating Testimony  —  The evidence concerns two unnamed witnesses in particular, said Rep. Eric Swallwell.  —  Some Democrats involved in the impeachment inquiry are beginning to suspect that certain witnesses have coordinated with each …
 
 
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Fake News Echo Chamber: New York Times Prints Lies by Adam Schiff Witness Made in Secret Testimony
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
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ProPublica:
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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
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Ben Geman / Axios:
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Discussion: New York Times, Breitbart and ABC News
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