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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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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 …
Andrew McCarthy / New York Post:
Dems trot out new charge as initial focus of impeachment hearings falls flat — Wednesday's first impeachment hearings showed Democrats have shifted the focus to bribery. There is a strategy here. — Most of the debate over President Trump's dealings with the Ukrainian government …
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Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
George Kent and the Bow Tie of History — As the impeachment hearings began, the first witness made an unexpected fashion statement — and everyone noticed. — Amid all the debate and various through-the-mirror interpretations of Day 1 of the public impeachment inquiry, all the grandstanding …
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
The Impeachment Hearings Get Off to a Subdued Start — “It's not as outlandish as it could be.” Ambassador Bill Taylor's description of the Trump administration's backchannels to the Ukraine could have just as easily applied to the first day of the impeachment hearings itself.
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Highlights of Taylor-Kent Hearing and Connections to Other Witnesses — House Democrats kicked off public impeachment hearings on Wednesday with the testimony of Bill Taylor, the current top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, the current deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department.
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Washington Post:
George Kent, top State Department Ukraine expert, helps Democrats debunk GOP theories — George Kent, the State Department's foremost expert on Ukraine, seemed destined for a supporting role in Wednesday's impeachment hearings — more memorable for his matching blue-and-yellow bow tie and pocket square than any newsworthy moments.
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Schiff cuts off GOP congresswoman who brings up his ‘parody’ of Trump-Zelensky call
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Trump impeachment inquiry spurs shadow disinformation war
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
President Trump calls public impeachment testimony a ‘joke’
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The GOP Ukraine defense asks us to believe Trump cared deeply about things he rarely discussed
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
5 things we learned from George Kent and Bill Taylor's impeachment testimony
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Takeaways so far from House public impeachment hearings
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
At hearing, Republicans carry forward Trump's effort to make lies into truths
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump denies discussing Ukraine investigations with Sondland in July phone call
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CBS News:
Official who heard Trump ask about Ukraine “investigations” set to appear before committees
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Kremlin weighs in on Trump impeachment hearings
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Bonchie / Redstate:
Impeachment Updates: Devin Nunes Comes Hard in His Opening Statement, Adam Schiff Makes a Ridiculous Claim
Rep. Devin Nunes / The Permanent Select Committee …:
Nunes Opening Statement for Kent and Taylor Hearing on Impeachment
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
New testimony ties Trump more directly to Ukraine pressure campaign
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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 — The decision almost certainly paves the way for a major Supreme Court case over President Trump's stonewalling of congressional oversight efforts. — WASHINGTON — A full federal appeals court on Wednesday …
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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 …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Deval Patrick Will Enter 2020 Presidential Race on Thursday — Mr. Patrick, the former two-term governor of Massachusetts, called several leading Democrats and allies to say that he would announce his bid for the White House. — NEW ORLEANS — Former Gov. Deval Patrick …
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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Deval Patrick tells allies he's running for president
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Washington Post:
Republicans discuss a longer Senate impeachment trial to scramble Democratic primaries — Some Republican senators and their advisers are privately discussing whether to pressure GOP leaders to stage a lengthy impeachment trial beginning in January to scramble the Democratic presidential race …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senator: Republicans don't have votes to dismiss impeachment articles
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
McConnell suggests he will not cut short impeachment trial
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
For dignity's sake, Jim Jordan, put on a jacket — Of course Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) took his seat Wednesday morning, at the opening of the public impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill, wearing nothing but his shirtsleeves. No suit jacket. That's how Jordan dresses. It's his power move.
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump aides retaliated against State staffer of Iranian descent, probe finds — President Donald Trump's political appointees inappropriately retaliated against a career civil servant at the State Department in part because of her ethnic background, her perceived political views …
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utahpolicy.com:
Jon Huntsman will announce his entry into the 2020 Utah governor's race on Thursday — Former Utah GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman is set to formally announce Thursday he's running for governor next year, UtahPolicy.com learned Wednesday night. — Huntsman, 59, will make a swing through Southern Utah …
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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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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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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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