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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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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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Sondland reverses himself on Ukraine 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 to the beleaguered U.S. ally would “likely” be held up unless …
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Talking Points Memo, Lawyers, Guns & Money and NBC News
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 …
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NBC News:
Sondland changes testimony, acknowledges delivering quid pro quo message to Ukraine — Sondland provided additional testimony to House impeachment investigators this week that updates his deposition from last month. — Amb. Sondland confirmed delivering quid-pro-quo message to Ukraine, transcript shows
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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 …
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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 …
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Alternet.org, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice and Political Wire
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.
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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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
ABC News Anchor Caught on Mic Saying Network Quashed Jeffrey Epstein Story — ABC News anchor Amy Robach was caught on camera slamming her own network for allegedly sitting on the Jeffrey Epstein story three years ago. In a video clip released by right-wing group Project Veritas on Tuesday …
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Adam Schiff / USA Today:
Schiff: Trump betrayed America. Soon the public will hear from patriots who defended it. — The Ukraine call was one piece of a larger operation to redirect US foreign policy to benefit Trump's personal interests, not the national interest. — A little over one month has passed since …
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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.
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
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Daniel González / Arizona Republic:
Queen Creek woman says at least 10 relatives murdered in an ambush in Mexico
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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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Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
Warren's plan to finance Medicare-for-all pushes into dangerous and uncharted territory
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Redstate, Bloomberg, New York Times and The Week
Ryan Lizza / The Dispatch:
The French Press: Elizabeth Warren's Fantastical Potpourri of Absurd Assumptions and Outright Falsehoods
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Vox, New York Times and Reason
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.
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Slate, Roll Call, New York Times, The Week, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hullabaloo, Bloomberg and New York Magazine
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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.
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POLITICUSUSA and Mother Jones
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 …
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The Bulwark, The Daily Beast, New Yorker, Twitchy, POLITICUSUSA, National Review, The Federalist and Mediaite
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 …
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Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
Source for ‘Ukraine Collusion’ Allegations Met Devin Nunes
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Talking Points Memo, BuzzFeed News, Alternet.org and NBC News
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.
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.
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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 …
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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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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 …
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 …
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Washington Times, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller and The Hill
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.
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The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, Axios and Political Wire
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” …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
NBC needs a transparent, external investigation of its failure to air Ronan Farrow's #MeToo reporting — In recent weeks, NBC has made a loud and clear statement about its values: — Profits matter more than journalism, ratings more than truth. — The official words, of course, say something different.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: We've read the transcripts. Do they help Trump? — DRIVING THE DAY — ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION: Since the release of the first two transcripts from the impeachment inquiry Monday, have you seen a single stitch of information that helps President DONALD TRUMP?
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John Ismay / New York Times:
Victim of Milwaukee Acid Attack Says He Was Told to ‘Go Back to Your Country’ — Mahud Villalaz, a U.S. citizen who received second-degree burns to his face, recalled his attacker saying, “You came here to invade.” — The police in Milwaukee on Monday were investigating an attack …
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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 …
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