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Rep. Devin Nunes / The Permanent Select Committee …:
Nunes Opening Statement for Kent and Taylor Hearing on Impeachment — f t # e — Opening Statement for Kent and Taylor Hearing on Impeachment — In a July open hearing of this committee following publication of the Mueller report, the Democrats engaged in a last-ditch effort to convince …
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Associated Press:
Takeaways so far from House public impeachment hearings — WASHINGTON (AP) — The start of public impeachment hearings unfolding in Congress marks the first time the American public can watch and listen to the witnesses at the heart of the matter. — In several hours of testimony …
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CBS News:
Diplomat says aide heard Trump ask about “investigations” day after Ukraine call — live updates
Diplomat says aide heard Trump ask about “investigations” day after Ukraine call — live updates
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ABC News:
Testimony at 1st impeachment hearing: Trump asked about Ukraine ‘investigations’
Testimony at 1st impeachment hearing: Trump asked about Ukraine ‘investigations’
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NBC News:
Taylor says staffer overheard Trump ask Sondland about ‘the investigations’
Taylor says staffer overheard Trump ask Sondland about ‘the investigations’
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Talking Points Memo, Redstate and Mother Jones
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Key Moments From the First Public Impeachment Hearing
Key Moments From the First Public Impeachment Hearing
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Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, The National Interest, The Stranger and Raw Story
Bonchie / Redstate:
Impeachment Updates: Devin Nunes Comes Hard in His Opening Statement, Adam Schiff Makes a Ridiculous Claim
Impeachment Updates: Devin Nunes Comes Hard in His Opening Statement, Adam Schiff Makes a Ridiculous Claim
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Trump: I'm ‘too busy’ to watch impeachment hearings
Trump: I'm ‘too busy’ to watch impeachment hearings
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Mediaite, Fox News and Spectator USA
Alayna Treene / Axios:
What to expect from impeachment
What to expect from impeachment
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Politico, One America News Network, The Hill, The Week, The Guardian and Hot Air
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Deval Patrick Tells Democrats He Will Run in 2020 Presidential Race — Mr. Patrick, the former two-term governor of Massachusetts, called several leading Democrats and allies to say that he would announce a 2020 presidential bid later this week. — NEW ORLEANS — Former Gov. Deval Patrick …
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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Deval Patrick tells allies he's running for president — (CNN)Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is telling friends and allies in phone calls on Wednesday that he has made a decision to run for president, two people familiar with the matter say. — Plans for the timing …
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John F. Harris / Politico:
What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP — On December 19, 1998, the day House Republicans impeached President Bill Clinton, he recorded his highest-ever score in Gallup's presidential approval poll: 73 percent favorable. — That was 24 percentage points higher than Clinton's …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senator: Republicans don't have votes to dismiss impeachment articles — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to the Senate Republican leadership, says there are not enough votes in the Senate to immediately dismiss any articles of impeachment passed by the House against President Trump.
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Axios:
House Republicans might throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus to save Trump during impeachment
House Republicans might throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus to save Trump during impeachment
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell discounts quick dismissal of Trump impeachment articles: 'We'll have to have a trial'
McConnell discounts quick dismissal of Trump impeachment articles: 'We'll have to have a trial'
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National Review and The Daily Caller
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The impossibility of separating Giuliani from Trump — There's a concept in pop culture called “retconning,” short for retroactive continuity. The idea is that people working on continuations of existing stories — such as the people making a new “Star Wars” film, for example …
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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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NBC News:
The impeachment hearings could turn out to be more unpredictable than you think
The impeachment hearings could turn out to be more unpredictable than you think
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
LIVE Watch Live And Read Our Analysis: The Trump Impeachment Hearings Hide, Video
LIVE Watch Live And Read Our Analysis: The Trump Impeachment Hearings Hide, Video
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Rudy Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
The Case for the Impeachment Defense
The Case for the Impeachment Defense
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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 …
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
Profiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous — By Anonymous. Twelve. 259 pp. $30 — There is a good reason the anonymous Trump administration official who published an opinion essay in the New York Times last year describing an internal resistance to the president has managed to remain anonymous.
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Talking Points Memo
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
John Durham interviewed Australian diplomat whose tip prompted Trump-Russia investigation — U.S. Attorney John Durham reportedly interviewed the Australian diplomat whose tip about George Papadopoulos effectively started the counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's campaign in July 2016.
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
University of Florida's student president faces impeachment after bringing Donald Trump Jr. to campus for $50,000 — After the University of Florida's student body president helped bring Donald Trump Jr. and Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle to campus last month to the tune of $50,000 …
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Megan Reeves / Tampa Bay Times:
UF student president faces impeachment over Trump Jr. visit
UF student president faces impeachment over Trump Jr. visit
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The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
Plague Is Diagnosed in China, Prompting Fears of an Outbreak — Two cases of pneumonic plague, a fatal and highly infectious illness related to bubonic plague, were diagnosed in Beijing. — 阅读.体中 文.閱讀.體 中文.
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Dan Cobb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC POLL: Trump faces tough re-election fight in Georgia — A majority of Georgians disapprove of President Donald Trump's performance in the White House and he appears to be facing a hard fight against each of the five top Democratic candidates seeking to replace him, according to an exclusive Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.
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NBC News:
Drag queen sashays into Trump impeachment hearings — Pissi Myles made an unexpected, and quite noticeable, appearance at Wednesday's impeachment hearings. — Spotted towering over the gray and blue suits packed into the first day of President Donald Trump's impeachment hearing …
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad — Hanks is playing Mister Rogers in a new movie and is just as nice as you think he is. Please read this article anyway. — Here is a list of stories about Tom Hanks I've heard over the last few miserable months, as it appeared that politeness …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Chad Wolf sworn in as acting Department of Homeland Security chief, fifth under Trump — Chad Wolf was sworn in Wednesday as the new acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, becoming the fifth person to hold the top job under President Trump, a period of unusually high leadership turnover …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
'I don't remember' Trump asking for news conference clearing him of wrongdoing in Ukraine call, Barr says — Attorney General William P. Barr said Wednesday that he did not remember President Trump ever asking him to hold a news conference declaring the commander in chief broke no laws …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
The impeachment calculus Democrats don't want to talk about — Sen. Brian Schatz, the Democrat from Hawaii, is well-known for a jokey Twitter feed popular with the #Resistance. When I talked to him last night as he was walking into the Senate on the eve of the first impeachment hearings in 21 years, he was in a more serious mood.
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Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Trump-Ukraine impeachment made simple: Smear Biden and you'll get your military aid — Public servants are protecting us, but don't invest much hope in Republicans — even those who have already blown the canopy to eject from the burning GOP. — As Congress moves into the public phase …
Celeste Sloman—Redux / TIME:
TIME 100 Next — Elise Stefanik is a builder—no easy feat in an age when so much of politics is about tearing people down. Elise has built a record as an authentic, respected voice for ideas and common sense. And she has built an organization to recruit more women to run for office in a party that needs more inclusivity.
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