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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Sondland Updates Impeachment Testimony, Describing Ukraine Quid Pro Quo  —  In a substantial update to his initial account, Gordon D. Sondland recounted how he told Ukrainian officials military aid was tied to their commitment to investigations President Trump wanted.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Sondland reverses himself on Ukraine, confirming quid pro quo  —  Gordon Sondland, a key witness in the impeachment inquiry, revealed that he told a top Ukrainian official that hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid would “likely” be held up unless the country's government announced investigations …
Alex Marquardt / CNN:
Pence aide likely to testify in impeachment inquiry  —  Washington (CNN)A senior adviser to Vice President Mike Pence is likely to comply with a request to testify on Thursday in front of the committees leading the impeachment inquiry, multiple sources say.  —  Jennifer Williams …
Greg Olear / Newsweek:
Mike Pence knew |  Opinion  —  The Zelensky call accomplished what the Mueller report could not.  Once again, the president abused his power and tried to cover it up.  This time, it will cost him.  As a consequence of the Ukraine scandal, the House will impeach Donald Trump, and the Senate will find ample cause to convict him.
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
‘It kept getting more insidious’: What Sondland and Volker told Trump impeachment investigators  —  House impeachment investigators on Tuesday released the transcripts of the hours-long testimony of two diplomats involved in carrying out an alleged shadow foreign policy campaign aimed …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The scope of Trump's corruption is mind-boggling.  New developments show how.  —  At this point, the broad contours of the Ukraine scandal are well understood.  President Trump appears to have used hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money appropriated as military aid to extort …
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Mulvaney Summoned to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry  —  House investigators asked President Trump's acting chief of staff to voluntarily appear on Capitol Hill for a deposition.  It's unlikely he'll comply.  —  WASHINGTON — Impeachment investigators on Tuesday asked President Trump's acting chief …
NBC News:
Sondland changes testimony, acknowledges delivering quid pro quo message to Ukraine
Discussion: MSNBC
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:   It Was a Corrupt Quid Pro Quo
NBC News:
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CNN:
Key diplomat changes testimony and admits quid pro quo with Ukraine
Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Gordon Sondland Admits He Told Ukraine Aid Was Tied to Biden Probe
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and Columbian
YouTube:
VIDEO: Leaked ABC News Insider Recording EXPOSES #EpsteinCoverup “We had Clinton, We had Everything” … • “I've Had This Story for Three Years...  (ABC) Would Not Put It on The Air” says Good Morning America Breaking News Anchor, and 20/20 Co-Anchor Amy Robach.
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Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
Inside Adam Schiff's Impeachment Game Plan  —  Democrats believe the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee could be the man to bring down President Trump.  This is how he's running his investigation.  —  'This president, he's like a planetary object," Adam Schiff said. “  He warps time.
Discussion: Raw Story and CCN.com
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
A Sliver of the Electorate Could Decide 2020.  Here's What These Voters Want.  —  A demographically disparate group values both moderation and great change.  —  Figures are rounded.  —  Today's America is so deeply polarized that it can be hard to imagine there are people …
USA Today:
At least 10 members of Mormon family brutally killed in Mexico; about a dozen still missing  —  Daniel Gonzalez Adrianna RodriguezArizona Republic  —  MEXICO CITY — At least 10 members of a prominent Mormon family, three mothers and their young children, were killed in a shooting attack …
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New York Times:
9 Members of Mormon Family in Mexico Are Killed in Ambush
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Trump called woman who says he sexually assaulted her, phone records show  —  More than a decade ago, Donald Trump made phone calls from his cell phone to a former candidate on “The Apprentice” around the same time that she says he sexually assaulted her, according to phone records made public Tuesday.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and Vox
NBC News:
Roger Stone's food poisoning forces him to leave jury selection in his trial  —  Another man had to be stretchered out of the proceedings after appearing to suffer a seizure.  —  Jury selection in the trial of Roger Stone, the longtime confidant and adviser to President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Medical emergencies and Milo Yiannopoulos: Roger Stone's trial opens
Washington Post:
Trump trails Democratic rivals in national survey as independents move away  —  One year out from the 2020 election, President Trump trails some potential Democratic rivals in head-to-head matchups, with his national support level currently fixed at about 40 percent, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
“They Allowed It”: A Justice Department Employee Said She Was Raped By A Senior Official.  New Documents Show A Pattern Of Harassment At The Department.  —  WASHINGTON — In December 2018, the Justice Department's inspector general dropped a bombshell: Investigators had “substantiated” …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Allies Are Spreading Dirt About Bannon Behind the Scenes  —  Trump's former chief strategist is coming under attack from allies of the president's personal attorney, with one memo calling Bannon “THE FOX IN THE TRUMP HOUSE.”  —  Allies of President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Liberalism's Latinx Problem  —  Why is Elizabeth Warren describing Latinos with a term that few would use themselves?  —  Everyone remembers the image that demonstrated Donald Trump's cluelessness about Hispanic voters: the picture, from May 2016, showing him grinning like a fool over a tortilla bowl …
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW, NSA and SHAFR Sue Pompeo and State Department Over Recordkeeping Failure  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Washington - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Department of State broke the law by conducting an off-the-record shadow diplomacy in Ukraine, according to a lawsuit filed today …
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:   Officials Vent Impeachment, Transparency Frustrations at State Department Forum
Alex Roarty / Wichita Eagle:
Trump wants to win even more rural votes in 2020.  Democrats are scrambling to catch up  —  Corey Bauch is eager to explain why he regrets not voting for Donald Trump.  —  The 44-year old-agreed to meet with me last week in this rural Wisconsin town (population of 1,500), where he has lived most of his life.
Washington Post:
“The Mueller Report Illustrated” to be published by The Washington Post and Scribner  —  A graphic nonfiction book of the special counsel's obstruction investigation  —  Scribner and The Washington Post, which teamed together in April 2019 to produce the #1 bestselling book edition of The Mueller Report …
Martin Scorsese / New York Times:
I Said Marvel Movies Aren't Cinema.  Let Me Explain.  —  Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected.  In superhero movies, nothing is at risk, a director says.  —  Mr. Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning director, writer and producer.  —  When I was in England in early October, I gave an interview to Empire magazine.
Polls:
Partisan Opinion on Trump Digs in  —  Public support for impeachment inquiry, but few have a lot of trust in it  —  West Long Branch, NJ - President Donald Trump's approval rating remains stable as the impeachment inquiry intensifies, with evidence that both sides of public opinion are digging in.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The desperate search for the Ukraine scandal's Peter Strzok  —  There was no small amount of irony to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) standing next to President Trump at a rally in Kentucky on Monday evening and railing about the corrupting nature of family connections.
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump ally Alan Dershowitz and ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh are lobbying for an Israeli billionaire the US has accused of corruption  — Defense attorney Alan Dershowitz and former FBI Director Louis Freeh have registered to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of an Israeli businessman …
Washington Post:
Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses  —  Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.  —  The wildly popular short-video app TikTok has become one of the world's …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump's well-oiled campaign has everything planned — except Trump  —  President Donald Trump fiddled for months with a 2020 election message that would be ready for primetime.  His top two campaign aides — Jared Kushner and Brad Parscale — sought a message that would resonate …
Washington Post:
‘Who built this beautiful place?’  Despite Trump's visits to his properties, some of his businesses show new signs of financial decline.  —  “What a beautiful ballroom,” President Trump said as he walked into a campaign fundraiser recently at a hotel in downtown Chicago.  —  Donors laughed.
Discussion: Axios
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The State Of The Polls, 2019  —  Polls just had one of their best election cycles, ever — but challenges abound in the industry  —  Much maligned for their performance in the 2016 general election — and somewhat unfairly so, since the overall accuracy of the polls was only slightly below average …
 
 
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
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