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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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Fox News, Axios, NBC News and One America News Network
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 …
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National Review
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
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 — It may seem strange that former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is entering the presidential race, as he will reportedly announce on Thursday. It's really late. The field still has 16 “major” candidates.
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CNN:
Deval Patrick announces presidential campaign
Deval Patrick announces presidential campaign
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Q13 FOX News, Political Wire, The Guardian, HuffPost and The Hill
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
NBC News:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announces presidential bid
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announces presidential bid
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Los Angeles Times
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Deval Patrick jumps into Democratic presidential nomination race
Deval Patrick jumps into Democratic presidential nomination race
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Politico, NBC News, Townhall and One America News Network
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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Fox News
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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Los Angeles Times, New York Times and The Atlantic
John F. Harris / Politico:
Trump exposed: A brutal day for the president
Trump exposed: A brutal day for the president
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NBC News, Washington Post and The Hill
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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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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New York Times, Associated Press and The Week
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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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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
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.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Plurality in battleground states support Trump's impeachment: poll — A plurality of voters in key battleground states support impeaching and removing President Trump from office, according to new data from Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC. — Priorities USA surveyed 2,500 voters in Florida …
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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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