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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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post, Just Security, Outside the Beltway and Axios
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 …
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Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon - sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon, two U.S. officials said on Thursday, two days after the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri.
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Vindman's Identical Twin May Be Called to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Politico and Raw Story
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Trump thanks White House official for impeachment testimony, as he floats idea of ‘fireside chat’
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Washington Post, The Hill and Breitbart
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Impeachment inquiry focuses on 2 White House lawyers
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Political Wire, ABC News, Florida Politics and Associated Press
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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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Releases $20.5 Trillion Plan to Pay for ‘Medicare for All’ — Ms. Warren would impose huge tax increases on businesses and billionaires to provide free health coverage for all Americans, but she says she would not raise taxes on the middle class.
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Washington Free Beacon
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 …
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Ending the Stranglehold of Health Care Costs on American Families — My daddy's heart attack nearly sent our family skidding over a financial cliff. Today I think about all the kids this year who will face the double blow of nearly losing a parent and then watching their lives turn upside …
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Washington Examiner, Vox, UPI, Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
CNN:
Elizabeth Warren releases plan to fund Medicare for All, pledges no middle class tax hike — (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a plan Friday detailing how she would seek to pay for “Medicare for All” without raising taxes on the middle class “by one penny.”
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren proposes new taxes to fund Medicare-for-all but says middle class would be spared
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren says she would not raise middle class taxes for $52 trillion health care plan
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. — Stop distracting from the core issue, elite negligence and national decline. — Is it possible that more than 20 Republican senators will vote to convict Donald Trump of articles of impeachment? When you hang around Washington you get the sense that it could happen.
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Axios, Jewish Insider and Washington Post
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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Bloomberg, The Hill and Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Americans sharply divided over whether to impeach and remove Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds — As the House moves to a new, more public phase of its impeachment inquiry, the country is sharply divided along partisan lines over whether President Trump should be impeached and removed from office …
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CNN, The Hill and New York Times
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump, Lifelong New Yorker, Declares Himself a Resident of Florida — The president filed a “declaration of domicile” last month saying that his property in Palm Beach will be his permanent residence. — He came of age in Queens, built Trump Tower, starred in “The Apprentice,” …
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
‘Good riddance’: New York governor cheers Trump changing residency to Florida
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The Daily Caller, New York Times, Politico, Sputnik International and FOX6Now.com
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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Vox, The Week, Current Affairs, Mother Jones and Big League Politics, more at Mediagazer »
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
She was called the n-word and given instructions to slit her wrists. What did Facebook do? — (CNN)You can call someone the n-word and give her graphic instructions on how to kill herself, and you won't get kicked off Facebook. — Or you can tell a mother you hope her son gets raped …
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Raw Story
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.
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 …
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Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News:
Julián Castro's campaign exceeds $800K goal: 'We're not going anywhere' — “Time and time again this campaign has defied expectations,” says campaign manager Maya Rupert. — Talk of doom and a many pleas for donations paid off for the Julian Castro campaign which announced Friday it had reached its $800,000 fundraising goal.
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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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Talking Points Memo, National Review, Alaska Public Media, The Hill and Contemptor
Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
The Mavening of Sportswriting — Deadspin staffers resigned this week after a dispute with management. Like so many other publications, the future will bring an undead version of the site. — You've been waiting for it, haven't you? Wondering whether it'll turn up next to an old Drew Magary Funbag.
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New York Post, Breitbart, BizPac Review, New York Times and Variety, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Paula White, Trump's Personal Pastor, Joins the White House — Ms. White, a controversial figure even among evangelical Christians, will be overseeing a White House division that conducts outreach to key parts of the president's base. — Paula White, a televangelist based in Florida …
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Ghislaine Maxwell Was a Guest at Jeff Bezos's Secret Book Retreat — Motherboard has learned Jeffrey Epstein's alleged fixer attended the Amazon CEO's exclusive book retreat ‘Campfire’ last year. — Every fall, the elite of the literary world and Hollywood convene at a highly secretive …
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump abandons proposing ideas to curb gun violence after saying he would following mass shootings — President Trump has abandoned the idea of releasing proposals to combat gun violence that his White House debated for months following mass shootings in August, according to White House officials …
Owen Daugherty / The Hill:
Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota — The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports. — The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of crude oil …
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Washington Post, New York Times, Raw Story and Alternet.org
Caitlin Moscatello / Glamour:
The Women Changing Presidential Campaigns from the Inside — An unprecedented number of women have entered the 2020 presidential race—and not just on the ballot. Behind the scenes, veteran staffers are transforming electoral politics with their ideas, their ambitions, and...their pregnancies.
Thomas Pepinsky / Politico:
Why the Impeachment Fight Is Even Scarier Than You Think — For decades, Republicans and Democrats fought over the same things: whose values and policies work best for American democracy. But now, those age-old fights are changing. What was once run-of-the-mill partisan competition …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Can Still Seize the Center … President Trump is unpopular, but that doesn't mean defeating him is going to be easy. Democrats will have to tackle issues that may alienate — and even give offense to — progressives, women, Latinos and African-Americans.
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Washington Free Beacon
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Trump Is Committing ‘Felony Bribery’ by Giving Fundraising Cash to GOP Senators Ahead of Impeachment Trial: Ex-Bush Ethics Lawyer — Attorney Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, warned on Thursday that President Donald Trump appeared …
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Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
Professors, Beware. A ‘Student Information Officer’ Might Be Watching. — CHENGDU, China — With a neon-red backpack and white Adidas shoes, he looks like any other undergraduate on the campus of Sichuan University in southwestern China. — But Peng Wei, a 21-year-old chemistry major …
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
GOP Voters Are More Split On The Substance Of The Ukraine Scandal Than On Penalizing Trump For It — Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. — Polls of the week — Very few Republican voters favor the impeachment and removal of President Trump — only about 11 percent, according to our impeachment polls tracker.
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