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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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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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Reuters:
Consequential, but dull: Trump impeachment hearings begin without a bang
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Mediaite
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Plenty of substance but little drama on first day of impeachment hearings
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
New testimony ties Trump more directly to Ukraine pressure campaign
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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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Just Security:
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 and CNN
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Rush Limbaugh Mocks Bill Taylor, George Kent as ‘Self-Important Nerds’ Who ‘Believe in Their Own Superiority’
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
George Kent and the Bow Tie of History
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PolitiFact, Vox and The Daily Beast
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Diplomats who look and sound the part provide vivid testimony about Trump and Ukraine
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Washington Blade
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Behind a Star Witness, Democrats Take Their Impeachment Case to the Public
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PunditFact, Washington Examiner, The Atlantic, CNN and Talking Points Memo
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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Deval Patrick announces presidential campaign
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Deval Patrick jumps into Democratic presidential nomination race
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Politico
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Deval Patrick Is Making A Late Bid For The Democratic Nomination
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CNN, New York Post, New York Times and CBS Boston
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 …
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
How Trump's ‘Green Light’ Moment in Syria Shook the World
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NPR, Defense One and The Intercept
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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NBC News:
White House looks both to be in the impeachment fray — and appear above it — President Donald Trump, who spent Wednesday in meetings with visiting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was scheduled to address supporters at a campaign rally Thursday night.
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The Bulwark and The Guardian
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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’
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Mediaite
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Nixon WH Lawyer John Dean: First Day of Trump Hearings Yielded More Damning Testimony Than All of Watergate
John F. Harris / Politico:
Trump exposed: A brutal day for the president
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Washington Post, NBC News, Breitbart and 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 …
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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Politico
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Schiff cuts off GOP congresswoman who brings up his ‘parody’ of Trump-Zelensky call
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Associated Press
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.
New York Times:
He Invited Donald Trump Jr. to Campus. Now He's Facing Impeachment. — The student body president of the University of Florida is under fire for using student fees to host one of President Trump's sons. — A sitting president is facing impeachment, accused of collusion and abusing his power.
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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 …
The Daily Beast:
Probe: State Department Punished Staffer Over Iranian Heritage, Politics — That's the conclusion of the much-delayed Office of the Inspector General's inquiry into claims of political retaliation against State Department officials. — A long-awaited State Department watchdog report …
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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
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 …
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
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