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Rich Schapiro / NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter, heard discussing need for cash and trashing Bidens — “The problem is we need some money,” Giuliani says to unidentified man during accidental call to NBC News writer. — Late in the evening on Oct. 16, Rudy Giuliani made a phone call to this reporter.
CNN:
Feds blow door off safe, issue subpoenas as probe into Giuliani associates escalates — (CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York have subpoenaed the brother of one of the recently indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani, according to two people familiar with the matter, as they escalate their investigation in the campaign-finance case.
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ProPublica:
How a Veteran Reporter Worked with Giuliani's Associates to Launch the Ukraine Conspiracy — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Giuliani probe snowballs — Rudy Giuliani's problems keep piling up. — His responsibilities are shrinking as Donald Trump's TV-friendly personal attorney. His efforts to dig up dirt on the president's political opponents have landed his highest-profile client in a congressional impeachment investigation.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge rules DOJ must turn over Mueller grand jury material to House Democrats — A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Justice Department must turn over former special counsel Robert Mueller's grand jury evidence to the House Judiciary Committee, a groundbreaking victory for Democrats …
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CNBC:
Judge calls Trump impeachment probe legal, says House must get Mueller grand jury information — A federal judge on Friday said that the U.S. Justice Deparment must turn over to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee normally secret grand jury material collected as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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NBC News:
Federal judge orders Justice Department to turn over Mueller grand jury material — The judge also determined, despite arguments to the contrary from the White House, that the House had launched “an official impeachment inquiry” — A federal court judge on Friday ordered the Department …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
NSC official plans to testify in impeachment probe even if White House tries to block him — Tim Morrison, a National Security Council official who has been identified as a witness to one of the most explosive pieces of evidence unearthed by House impeachment investigators …
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CNN:
A mystery that's baffling investigators: What changed Trump's mind on $400 million in Ukraine aid? — How Trump jeopardized Ukraine's national security — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was already under fire for freezing aid to Ukraine when a Republican senator set off another alarm bell …
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Matthew Kelly / The Sunflower:
Pompeo offers reserved vote of confidence in top Ukrainian diplomat … In a sit-down interview with The Sunflower Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo maintained that he is in “full accord” with acting ambassador Bill Taylor on Ukrainian policy. — Asked to comment on his confidence …
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Kansas City Star:
Mike Pompeo, either quit and run for U.S. Senate in Kansas or focus on your day job
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CNN:
Bolton lawyers in talks about possible impeachment deposition
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Q&A: Explaining the fast-moving impeachment inquiry
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Craig Karmin / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization Exploring Sale of Marquee Washington Hotel — Move is motivated partly by ethical criticisms concerning profiting on the property — The Trump Organization is exploring a sale of the rights to the company's opulent Washington, D.C., hotel, a move it says is motivated partly …
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Cummings pallbearer skips McConnell handshake at memorial — A pallbearer at Rep. Elijah Cummings's (D-Md.) memorial on Thursday shook hands with all top congressional leaders except Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). — Video captured the pallbearer, who has been identified …
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Bobby Gehlen / ABC News:
Barack Obama, Clintons, family honor Elijah Cummings at funeral
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Washington Post:
The U.S. deficit hit $984 billion in 2019, soaring during Trump era — Spending increases, tax cuts, and political apathy fueled surge, and interest payments now near $400 billion — The U.S. government's budget deficit ballooned to nearly $1 trillion in 2019, a $205 billion increase from a year earlier …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Trump and Barr's big counterattack: Actually, they're still covering up the Russia conspiracy — Trump couldn't extort Ukraine into backing his vapid conspiracy theories. Now he's got Barr doing the dirty work — During his otherwise subdued testimony before Congress this summer …
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry Into Its Own Russia Investigation
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Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
All The Russia Collusion Clues Are Beginning To Point Back To John Brennan
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Washington Post:
We represent the whistleblower. Their identity is no longer relevant. — The public now knows more about the call with Ukraine than what was in the complaint. — Our client's whistleblower complaint about President Trump's efforts to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. election …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: The West Wing's impeachment war room — Top Trump officials have quietly created a de facto impeachment war room, with a chief goal of policing and solidifying Republican Senate support for acquittal. — What's happening: Most senior officials in the White House recognized quickly …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump dismisses need for impeachment team: 'I'm the team'
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Facebook:
Introducing Facebook News — Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy. When news is deeply-reported and well-sourced it gives people information they can rely on. When it's not, we lose an essential tool for making good decisions.
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
DNC raises thresholds for December debate — The halfway mark of the Democratic debate calendar is coming up, and the sixth debate will likely feature the smallest stage yet. — New thresholds announced by the Democratic National Committee for the sixth debate — which will be hosted …
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Gabbard Skips Iowa Forum, Appears On Fox News Instead — Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's bizarre week in American politics continued Thursday night, when she skipped an appearance at LULAC's Latino town hall in Des Moines, appearing that evening instead on Sean Hannity's Fox News show.
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Clinton ally Blumenthal sought to stop publication of Russia probe book: source
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: “Anonymous” to expose private Trump conversations — The anonymous “senior Trump administration official” who will release a tell-all book, “A Warning,” next month was a frequent participant in meetings with President Trump and plans to recount specific conversations, sources tell me.
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Watchdog Council Says Justice Department Erred in Blocking Whistleblower Complaint — Memo saying matter wasn't urgent was wrong, Council of Inspectors General concludes — A U.S. watchdog council has faulted a Justice Department legal memo that initially blocked the Ukraine whistleblower's complaint …
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Sen. Rand Paul / Breitbart:
Rand Paul: Is Quid Pro Quo the Status Quo? — Isn't all foreign aid supposed to be quid pro quo? — We give you this aid — on the expectation that you will not steal any of it for personal use, that you will spend it as we instruct, and on the understanding that if you don't spend the money …
CNN:
Maria Butina released from federal prison, expected to be deported to Russia — (CNN)Russian gun rights enthusiast Maria Butina was released from the Tallahassee Federal Correction Institution on Friday after having served more than 15 months behind bars, according to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons …
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Russian agent Butina freed from U.S. prison, set to be deported
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The Economist:
Elizabeth Warren wants to remake American capitalism — As it stands, the Democratic front-runner's programme has too little time for markets or business — ELIZABETH WARREN is remarkable. Born into a struggling family in Oklahoma, she worked her way up to become a star law professor at Harvard.
Matt Bonesteel / Washington Post:
José Andrés, a Trump critic, to throw first pitch at World Series game Trump is expected to attend — The Nationals announced Friday that D.C. restaurateur and humanitarian José Andrés will throw out the first pitch ahead of World Series Game 5 on Sunday, should the series extend that long.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump should be very worried about Senate Republicans — Think of Senate Republicans' current antics protesting “secret” House hearings on impeachment — in which Republicans sit on the relevant committees — as not simply spurious (recall that Benghazi depositions were held by the House in private) …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
FBI agents manipulated Flynn file, as Clapper allegedly urged ‘kill shot’: court filing — An explosive new court filing from Michael Flynn's legal team alleges that FBI agents manipulated official records of the former national security adviser's 2017 interview that led to him being charged with lying to investigators.
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