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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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The Week and The Daily Beast
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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NBC News and Washington Post
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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Althouse
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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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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell discounts quick dismissal of Trump impeachment articles: 'We'll have to have a trial' — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) brushed aside a question on Wednesday about trying to quickly dismiss the articles of impeachment against President Trump, noting the chamber would have to have a trial.
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National Review, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
McConnell suggests he will not cut short impeachment trial
McConnell suggests he will not cut short impeachment trial
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Political Wire
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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The Guardian, HuffPost, The Hill and FiveThirtyEight
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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CNN, The Stranger and New York Times
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump denies discussing Ukraine investigations with Sondland in July phone call
Trump denies discussing Ukraine investigations with Sondland in July phone call
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Political Wire
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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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: House committees request new testimony from U.S. official in Ukraine
Scoop: House committees request new testimony from U.S. official in Ukraine
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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 …
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Political Wire
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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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
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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Foreign Policy and Deseret News
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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National Review, Shareblue Media, The Resurgent, Bloomberg and Political Wire
Abbey Marshall / Politico:
Barr says watchdog report on Russia probe's origins is ‘imminent’ — Attorney General William Barr confirmed on Wednesday that an internal watchdog's report on the origins of the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia during the 2016 election is “imminent.”
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Law & Crime, The Daily Caller, The Week, Washington Post and The National Interest
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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New York Times:
News or ‘Trauma Porn’? Student Journalists Face Blowback on Campus — Incidents at Northwestern and Harvard reveal a growing tension between traditional journalistic practices and the demands of student activists. — EVANSTON, Ill. — Jeff Sessions, President Trump's former attorney general …
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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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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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Talking Points Memo
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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