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Giuliani Associate Says He Gave Demand for Biden Inquiry to Ukrainians — The claim by the associate, Lev Parnas, is being vigorously disputed. — Not long before the Ukrainian president was inaugurated in May, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani's journeyed to Kiev to deliver a warning …
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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Who is Rudy Giuliani's friend “Charles”? An accidental text may have outed his identity — Rudy Giuliani's new fixer seems to connect a lot of dots — At the end of September, a journalist friend gave me Rudy Giuliani's phone number. When I called, he picked up on the second ring …
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New York Times:
What Joe Biden Actually Did in Ukraine — When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2014, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. pressed President Barack Obama to take decisive action, and fast, to make Moscow “pay in blood and money” for its aggression. The president, a Biden aide recalled, was having none of it.
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Nikki Haley claims top aides tried to recruit her to ‘save the country’ by undermining Trump — NEW YORK — Two of President Trump's senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to “save the country,” former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir.
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CBS News:
Nikki Haley: I was asked by Cabinet members to take sides against the president — Nikki Haley, the one-time Republican governor of South Carolina and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is no longer in public life. But if a recent visit to a high school near her hometown is any indication, the public isn't done with her.
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
National Sec Adviser: Top Impeachment Probe Witness Will Be Removed From WH Council — On Sunday, National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who gave a bombshell testimony in the House impeachment investigation last month on President Donald Trump's Ukraine scheme …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
John Bolton, a prolific note taker, is the impeachment inquiry's biggest wildcard — John Bolton is the impeachment inquiry's biggest wildcard. People around the president say they are worried about what notes Trump's former national security adviser has kept and when he might divulge them.
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Washington Post:
Mulvaney's move to join impeachment testimony lawsuit rankles Bolton allies — White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's last-minute effort to join a lawsuit that could determine whether senior administration officials testify in the impeachment inquiry was an unwelcome surprise …
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Raw Story and Bangor Daily News
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Contributor Causes Scene When She Names Alleged Whistleblower on Air — Host Howard Kurtz, clearly startled, immediately shot back that he didn't know if that person was actually the whistleblower. — Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway caused a scene on Sunday morning …
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Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
OK Bloomberg: What panicked billionaires don't get about a nation that made them so rich — On a dark and drizzly autumn evening almost exactly eight years ago, Michael Bloomberg revealed his true colors to the world. It was Oct. 1, 2011 and the then-New York City mayor …
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Bloomberg Is Top Choice for 4% of Democratic Primary Voters
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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Bolivian Leader Evo Morales Steps Down — A leftist who had served longer than any other current head of state in Latin America, Mr. Morales lost his grip on power amid violent protests set off by a disputed election. — President Evo Morales of Bolivia, who came to power more than a decade ago …
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Lindsey Graham Suggests Senate Can Declare House Impeachment ‘Invalid’ If It Doesn't Expose Whistleblower — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) argued that he will consider any impeachment “invalid” unless it exposes the identity of the whistleblower who outed Donald Trump's extortion of Ukraine. — Views:
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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Graham on the impeachment inquiry: 'I made my mind up. There's nothing there'
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Divided on Defense of Trump Over Ukraine — Divergence shows party's challenges to mount a unified front ahead of public impeachment hearings this week — WASHINGTON—Top Republicans on Sunday offered sharply divergent views of President Trump's interactions with Ukraine …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Rand Paul: Trump has “every right” to use quid pro quo with Ukraine
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Politico, Washington Monthly, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Swalwell says House Intel has evidence of Trump-Ukraine “extortion scheme”
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One America News Network
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Media beware: Impeachment hearings will be the trickiest test of covering Trump — The national media's shortcomings have been all too obvious in recent years as Donald Trump has gleefully thrown the norms of traditional journalism into a tizzy. — They've trafficked in false equivalence.
Madeline Osburn / The Federalist:
Schiff's Committee Published Name Of Alleged Whistleblower Last Week — Last Wednesday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, published the unredacted name of a man alleged to be the so-called whistleblower who helped launch …
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Breitbart, Townhall and Big League Politics
Susanne Rust / Los Angeles Times:
How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster — Graphics and design by LORENA IÑIGUEZ ELEBEE and SEAN GREENE — REPORTING FROM MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Five thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north of the equator …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
What the Hell Happened to Hugh Hewitt? — “He's lost his f*cking mind,” a senior MSNBC colleague told The Daily Beast, lamenting how the conservative intellectual has morphed into a Lou Dobbs-like booster of the president. — When Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016 wanted to reach conservative voters …
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Ahead of public impeachment hearings, Trump tweets 82 times in one day — President Trump tweeted or retweeted 82 times on Twitter on Saturday while flying to and from a collegiate football game in Alabama. — Why it matters: Many of the president's tweets were fighting …
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Deadline
William Thornton / al.com:
‘Baby Trump’ balloon slashed at Alabama-LSU game, Hoyt Hutchinson charged — A protest against the president at Tuscaloosa's Monnish Park ended abruptly after a man slashed a large “Baby Trump” balloon. — Witnesses said the incident happened shortly before kickoff of the Alabama-LSU game.
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Stephanie Taylor / Tuscaloosa News:
Suspect accused of stabbing Baby Trump balloon
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Miles Parks / NPR:
Skeptics Urge Bevin To Show Proof Of Fraud Claims, Warning Of Corrosive Effects — Trailing in the vote tally for Kentucky's governorship by about 5,000 votes, incumbent Gov. Matt Bevin decided last week to play what's becoming a familiar card: He questioned the election's legitimacy.
Sonia Elks / Reuters:
Hillary Clinton says abuse of female politicians on social media is ‘viral’ — LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female politicians are facing a backlash over women's rights which has been fueled by social media that rewards abusive posts and conspiracy theories, former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Sunday.
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
How the Senate can stop a purely partisan impeachment — My last column triggered an avalanche of negative comments unlike any previous column has prompted. Consider this the sequel. — A short summary of column one: There is nothing yet revealed by the Ukraine investigation that supports a …
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