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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Testimony: White House lawyer told Vindman not to discuss Ukraine call  —  The senior White House lawyer who placed a record of President Donald Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine's president in a top-secret system also instructed at least one official who heard the call not to tell anyone about it …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Isn't Ready for the Impeachment Hearings  —  He's always been more comfortable with chaos than teamwork and preparation.  —  After weeks of damaging testimony from current and former White House advisers and career diplomats, the House of Representatives voted on Thursday to publicly endorse …
Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
‘Fireside chat on live television’: Trump says he wants to read Ukraine call transcript to American people  —  A defiant President Trump signaled he will not cooperate with the Democratic Party's impeachment proceedings, insisting his telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP defense of Trump is getting more corrupt.  Here's what's next.  —  President Trump, who possesses supreme confidence in his mesmerizing charisma and powers of persuasion, is considering a plan to recite the text of his corrupt call with the Ukrainian president on live national television.
Meghann Myers / Military Times:
How the Army officer who testified against Trump could end up in a court-martial  —  When Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman appeared before members of Congress on Tuesday to discuss what he knew about President Trump's conversations with Ukraine's president, he was violating an order from his commander …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's allies want to focus the Ukraine scandal on the tree, so you miss the forest
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and Mediaite
Fox News:
Warren's $52T ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan revealed: Campaign still claims no middle-class tax hikes needed  —  EXCLUSIVE: Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's long-awaited “Medicare-for-all” funding plan projects the government-run health care system would cost a staggering sum of …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
The issue that Obama alums think could doom Elizabeth Warren  —  An Elizabeth Warren event is like the candidate herself: well-organized, precise, unpretentious.  The candidate, almost always clad in her campaign uniform of black sneakers, black pants and a black camisole covered …
Discussion: Fox News, Mediaite and YouTube
New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Proposes $20.5 Trillion Health Care Plan  —  Ms. Warren would impose huge tax increases on businesses and billionaires to pay for “Medicare for all,” but she said she would not raise taxes on the middle class.  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday proposed $20.5 trillion …
Sean McElwee / Memos:   Memo: Polling Medicare for All
Elizabeth Warren / Medium:
Ending the Stranglehold of Health Care Costs on American Families
Matt Bruenig / People's Policy Project:
Warren's Perpetual Medicare Head Tax Is Unworkable and Bad
Discussion: Washington Post
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Warren Leads Tight Iowa Race as Biden Fades, Poll Finds  —  Ms. Warren garnered 22 percent in a New York Times/Siena College poll, to 19 percent for Bernie Sanders.  Pete Buttigieg has surged, while Mr. Biden's travails have put the race in flux.  —  Which of these Democrats would be your first choice in the Iowa caucuses?
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Impeach Trump. Then Move On.
Bloomberg:
Warren Derides Biden as Running in ‘Wrong Presidential Primary’
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
As Trump moves to bully witnesses and derail impeachment, Democrats see obstruction  —  President Trump has sought to intimidate witnesses in the impeachment inquiry, attacking them as “Never Trumpers” and badgering an anonymous whistleblower.  He has directed the White House to withhold documents …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
Pelosi Expects Public Impeachment Hearings to Begin This Month
Bloomberg:
Pelosi Calls USMCA ‘Easiest Trade Deal,’ Could Get Vote in 2020
Discussion: The Truth About Cars
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Revealed: Trump wanted to build a megachurch  —  Of all the projects real estate mogul Donald Trump wanted to build, here's one that nobody saw.  —  According to his long-time personal pastor, Paula White-Cain, Trump, in 2006 was taking steps to build a glass cathedral.
ThinkNow:
Progressive Latino pollster: 98% of Latinos do not identify with “Latinx” label  —  One of the greatest challenges facing marketing departments and political campaigns today is the inability to discern signals from noise.  As a professional market researcher, I see this on a daily basis.
Discussion: The Federalist
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Americans divided 49% to 47% on impeachment, with criticism for both sides: POLL  —  Americans are split essentially even on impeaching Donald Trump and removing him from office, with criticism on both sides of the issue — toward Trump, for his response to the inquiry, and toward congressional Democrats …
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Washington Post:
Americans sharply divided over whether to impeach and remove Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Will This Time Be Different?
Discussion: Raw Story, USA Today and Hot Air
CNN:
Videos show indicted Giuliani associate standing behind Trump at 2018 rally  —  (CNN)News footage from an October 20, 2018, midterm election rally in Nevada shows indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas standing behind President Donald Trump.  —  Parnas and his business partner …
Discussion: Raw Story and Contemptor
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CNN:   'I'm the best-paid interpreter in the world': Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas touted windfall …
Trent Spiner / Politico:
Kamala Harris shutters offices throughout New Hampshire  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Kamala Harris' campaign has almost completely shuttered its New Hampshire campaign, with no visible activity at any of her offices in the state.  —  The campaign confirmed it is largely abandoning New Hampshire …
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Ben Jacobs / Jewish Insider:
Harris laying off campaign staff in New Hampshire
Discussion: NBC News, Slate and Redstate
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
How Deadspin Imploded  —  The last meeting for many of Deadspin's journalists took place on Wednesday in a conference room adorned with fake black cobwebs, a large spider and bloody handprints beside the words: “HELP US.”  —  The plea, it seemed, went unanswered.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Adam Schiff once wanted to be a screenwriter.  Can he give the Trump presidency a Hollywood ending?  —  When Adam B. Schiff was a young assistant U.S. attorney living in Los Angeles, he did what everyone does when they move to Hollywood.  He wrote a screenplay.
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PBS NewsHour:
Schiff says House GOP hasn't taken advantage of depositions
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Washington Post:
K Street's newest star built business on dubious claims of Trump ties  —  Since President Trump took office, the lobbyist Michael Esposito has been wildly successful, turning a family business that once focused on municipal transportation issues into one of the fastest-growing lobbying firms in Washington.
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok - sources  —  NEW YORK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co's $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly …
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
In His Dealings with Ukraine, Did Donald Trump Commit a Crime?  —  It's long been clear that Presidents can be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors” that are not actual violations of federal criminal law.  In an oft-cited passage from Federalist No. 65, Alexander Hamilton wrote …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
GOP Lawmaker Head-Butts Camera Rather Than Answer A Question About Trump  —  Rep. Don Young really didn't want to answer this one.  —  Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) came up with a novel way to avoid a question about President Donald Trump on Thursday.  —  Instead of ignoring the activists …
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Zachary Evans / National Review:
GOP Rep Head-Butts Camera of Progressive Activist
Apple Podcasts:
Apple Podcasts Preview  —  The impeachment of Donald Trump is one of the biggest political stories of our lifetimes.  It's a test of whether accountability, election integrity, and the rules of our democracy can withstand the corrupt acts of powerful people.  It's also a story that's unfolding at such a break-neck pace, it's absurd.
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Texas voters evenly split on impeachment of Donald Trump, UT/TT Poll finds  —  Texas voters are divided on whether the president should be removed from office, but nearly half think impeachment investigations should proceed, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
2020 Meme Team, Assemble … A long time ago, on a different internet — where Photoshopped images of “God Emperor” Donald Trump riding atop a velociraptor were just a faint glimmer in a young meme lord's eye — the Republicans were in trouble.  Barack Obama's 2008 win over John McCain was heralded as a digital over an analog.
 
 
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
Florida GOP hired Marvel-linked security consultant for internal probe
Discussion: Florida Politics
Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
Trump refuses to defend Mick Mulvaney, heightening indications chief of staff on the way out
U.S. Department of Justice:
U.S. Navy Officer, His Wife, and Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle …
Adam Jentleson / GQ:
Trump Is Normalizing the Unthinkable—Booing Him Is a Civic Responsibility
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Why Low-Polling 2020 Democrats Still Have a Chance
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Inside MAGA Country's Hottest Club: The Trump-Pence 2020 Halloween Eve Witch-Hunt Party
Washington Post:
As Trump tackles vapes, African Americans feel stung by inaction on menthol cigarettes
 Earlier Items: 
GOP.com:
Internal RNC Polling: More Want Biden Investigated Than Trump
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump: The Soviet Witch Coup Has Found Me Innocent
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Mike Valerio / WUSA:
We now know that Russia specifically targeted Virginia elections in 2016
Charles Sykes / USA Today:
The Republican Party must choose between Donald Trump and the party's fundamental values
Discussion: R Street and Washington Post
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Police officer retires after far-right group ties revealed
Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
Professors, Beware. A ‘Student Information Officer’ Might Be Watching.
 

 
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