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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Erdogan upends Oval meeting to play anti-Kurd film on iPad — An Oval Office meeting yesterday with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took a dark turn when Erdoğan pulled out his iPad and made the group watch a propaganda video that depicted Kurds as terrorists …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham blocks resolution recognizing Armenian genocide after Erdoğan meeting — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have formally recognized the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenian people. — Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM — Subscribe — ☕ Good Thursday morning. Today's Smart Brevity™ count: 1,198 words ... 4½ minutes. — 1 big thing ... Scoop: Erdoğan upends Oval meeting to play anti-Kurd film on iPad — An Oval Office meeting with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğ …
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
How Trump's ‘Green Light’ Moment in Syria Shook the World
How Trump's ‘Green Light’ Moment in Syria Shook the World
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NPR and The Intercept
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Ambassador's cellphone call to Trump from Kyiv restaurant was a stunning breach of security, former officials say — A U.S. ambassador's cellphone call to President Trump from a restaurant in the capital of Ukraine last summer was a stunning breach of security, exposing the conversation …
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Matthias Williams / Reuters:
U.S. envoy Sondland did not link Biden probe to aid: Ukraine minister
U.S. envoy Sondland did not link Biden probe to aid: Ukraine minister
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Crazy for Trump: On the G.O.P. Plan to Keep Impeachment Partisan — The hearings open with diplomatic gravitas—and nutty conspiracy theories. — It didn't take long for the crazy to start. Even before the first two witnesses in the public impeachment hearings of Donald Trump had been sworn …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox's prime time stars are telling Trump that the impeachment hearings are a ‘disaster’ for Democrats
Fox's prime time stars are telling Trump that the impeachment hearings are a ‘disaster’ for Democrats
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Just Security:
Highlights of Taylor-Kent Hearing and Connections to Other Witnesses
Highlights of Taylor-Kent Hearing and Connections to Other Witnesses
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Washington Post and CNN
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
New testimony ties Trump more directly to Ukraine pressure campaign
New testimony ties Trump more directly to Ukraine pressure campaign
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New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Atlantic
YouTube:
Deval Patrick Announcement Video — In a spirit of profound gratitude for all the country has given to me, with a determination to build a better, more sustainable, more inclusive American Dream for everyone: — I am today announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.
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Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Deval Patrick Is Making A Late Bid For The Democratic Nomination
Why Deval Patrick Is Making A Late Bid For The Democratic Nomination
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CNN:
Deval Patrick announces presidential campaign
Deval Patrick announces presidential campaign
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Deval Patrick jumps into Democratic presidential nomination race
Deval Patrick jumps into Democratic presidential nomination race
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
A New Candidate for Obama's Rightful Heir
A New Candidate for Obama's Rightful Heir
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New York Times and Hot Air
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
Impeachment Is Not a Fair Fight, and on Day One It Showed — If it looked like House Republicans were throwing a lot of mud at the wall to see what might stick during the first day of public impeachment hearings, that's because they had settled into a strategy many defense attorneys adopt …
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Aila Slisco / Newsweek:
Axios' Swan Says Trump Team, White House Thinks They Won First Day of Impeachment Hearings: ‘They Feel Great Today’ — President Donald Trump and his team “feel really great” about the first public impeachment hearing, according to Axios journalist Jonathan Swan.
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Mediaite
Reuters:
Consequential, but dull: Trump impeachment hearings begin without a bang
Consequential, but dull: Trump impeachment hearings begin without a bang
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NBC News, emptywheel and Mediaite
Andrew McCarthy / New York Post:
Dems trot out new charge as initial focus of impeachment hearings falls flat
Dems trot out new charge as initial focus of impeachment hearings falls flat
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Geller Report News
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What Democrats and Republicans are telling us about Wednesday's impeachment show — DRIVING THE DAY — DAY ONE IS OVER, and it's hard to encapsulate six hours of hearings in a single headline. We spent the evening in the Capitol chatting up lawmakers, aides and reporters …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Behind a Star Witness, Democrats Take Their Impeachment Case to the Public
Behind a Star Witness, Democrats Take Their Impeachment Case to the Public
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump's Best Defense on Impeachment Undermines His Case for Re-Election — Insubordinate bureaucrats may save him from being removed from office, but they also show him to be a weak president. — The best defense of President Donald Trump on the first day of the House's public impeachment hearings came …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Impeaching a president requires both a lens and a mirror
Impeaching a president requires both a lens and a mirror
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MSNBC and Deseret News
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
George Kent and the Bow Tie of History
George Kent and the Bow Tie of History
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PolitiFact, Vox and The Daily Beast
Ann Marimow / Washington Post:
Congress can seek eight years of Trump's tax records, appeals court rules — Congress can seek eight years of President Trump's tax records, according to a federal appeals court order Wednesday that moves the separation-of-powers conflict one step closer to the Supreme Court.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Rejects Trump's Appeal in Fight to Keep Financial Records From Congress
Court Rejects Trump's Appeal in Fight to Keep Financial Records From Congress
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Rush Limbaugh Mocks Bill Taylor, George Kent as ‘Self-Important Nerds’ Who ‘Believe in Their Own Superiority’ — As the impeachment hearing was underway today, Rush Limbaugh said that both Bill Taylor and George Kent are “self-important nerds” who are only upset because the president wouldn't do foreign policy their way.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump DC hotel sales pitch boasts of millions to be made from foreign governments — The hotel's biggest selling point though, according to a copy of the brochure seen by CNN, is the one thing that the Trump family insists it didn't take advantage of: profiting off foreign governments.
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The Hill
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren buys CNBC commercial time to blast billionaires in a fiery new campaign ad — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is firing back against a group of billionaires who have criticized her plans with a new TV ad set to air on CNBC later this week. — The ad takes aim at longtime investor …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Facebook fetes Kavanaugh — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has kept a relatively low-profile since the Senate narrowly confirmed him last year amidst serious allegations of sexual assault. That will change tonight when Kavanaugh is the keynote speaker at the annual convention …
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Washington Post
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Michael Bloomberg Has a History of Demeaning Comments About Women — As he prepares a presidential run, Mr. Bloomberg's crude remarks are likely to draw scrutiny. His team issued a statement saying that some of them were “disrespectful and wrong.” — It was a cheeky birthday gift …
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Associated Press
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC plunges into Louisiana gov's race amid signs of trouble — The Republican National Committee is pouring another $1 million into the Louisiana governor's race ahead of Saturday's runoff — a move that comes amid mounting GOP concerns about losing a second major election in a conservative state in as many weeks.
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Talking Points Memo
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Democrats call for Stephen Miller to resign after leak of xenophobic emails — The Southern Poverty Law Center released a cache of hundreds of emails Tuesday leaked by a former Breitbart writer who corresponded with Miller between 2015 and 2016. — Several prominent Democrats have called …
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Report Details How Stephen Miller Shared Theories Favored by White Nationalists
Report Details How Stephen Miller Shared Theories Favored by White Nationalists
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Fox News, The Week, The Guardian and Washington Post