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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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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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Reuters:
Consequential, but dull: Trump impeachment hearings begin without a bang
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
New testimony ties Trump more directly to Ukraine pressure campaign
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Plenty of substance but little drama on first day of impeachment hearings
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
At hearing, Republicans carry forward Trump's effort to make lies into truths
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The GOP Ukraine defense asks us to believe Trump cared deeply about things he rarely discussed
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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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Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
George Kent and the Bow Tie of History
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Diplomats who look and sound the part provide vivid testimony about Trump and Ukraine
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Washington Post:
George Kent, top State Department Ukraine expert, helps Democrats debunk GOP theories
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
5 things we learned from George Kent and Bill Taylor's impeachment testimony
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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 …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
A New Candidate for Obama's Rightful Heir — Joe Biden rarely goes anywhere without mentioning “my friend Barack.” Pete Buttigieg has a line in his stump speech about how he first went to Iowa to campaign for another “young man with a funny name.” Even though Barack Obama will not endorse …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Deval Patrick Will Enter 2020 Presidential Race on Thursday
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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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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
McConnell suggests he will not cut short impeachment trial
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senator: Republicans don't have votes to dismiss impeachment articles
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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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Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Nixon WH Lawyer John Dean: First Day of Trump Hearings Yielded More Damning Testimony Than All of Watergate
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
President Trump calls public impeachment testimony a ‘joke’
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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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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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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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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Schiff cuts off GOP congresswoman who brings up his ‘parody’ of Trump-Zelensky call
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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.
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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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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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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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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BuzzFeed News:
An Italian Newspaper Has Published An Audio Recording From Someone Claiming To Be Joseph Mifsud — An Italian newspaper has received an audio recording from someone who claims to be Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor who allegedly delivered word of Hillary Clinton's stolen emails to Donald Trump's campaign.
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
John Durham interviewed Australian diplomat whose tip prompted Trump-Russia investigation
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