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3:30 PM ET, November 14, 2019

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:

Rudy Giuliani says Trump will stay loyal to him but jokes that he has ‘insurance’ — Exclusive: The president's personal lawyer has emerged as a key figure in the impeachment inquiry, with speculation that Republicans will seek to paint him as a rogue actor

Discussion: The Hill, Political Wire, The Week, Mediaite, Raw Story and Hot Air

Associated Press:

AP source: 2nd US official heard Trump call with Sondland — WASHINGTON (AP) — A second U.S. embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a key cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing the need for Ukrainian officials to pursue “investigations,” The Associated Press has learned.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Law & Crime, Daily Kos, The Week, KTLA, The Intercept, Raw Story, CBS News and NBC News

Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:

Five Cellphones, Trump Straws, a Lot of Cash—What This Giuliani Crony Was Carrying When the FBI Arrested Him — Lev Parnas also had the business card of a top Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutor with whom Giuliani met this year. — BEAST INSIDE — When Rudy Giuliani crony Lev Parnas …

Discussion: Raw Story

Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
The president, not diplomats, sets ‘official foreign policy’

Discussion: HuffPost and Rolling Stone

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Why Democrats did much better than expected in the first hearing

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Reason

Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox Regular Claims George Soros ‘Controls a Very Large Part’ of the State Department

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Contemptor

William Saletan / Slate:
The Seven Ways Wednesday's Hearing Clarified Trump's Real Motives

Discussion: Raw Story, Breitbart and Law & Crime

Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
The 5 questions Gordon Sondland needs to answer

Discussion: Shareblue Media, The Hill and POLITICUSUSA

Matthias Williams / Reuters:
U.S. envoy Sondland did not link Biden probe to aid: Ukraine minister

Discussion: TheBlaze and Breitbart

Gianluca Mezzofiore / CNN:

Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change — (CNN)Veneto regional council, which is located on Venice's Grand Canal, was flooded for the first time in its history on Tuesday night — just after it rejected measures to combat climate change.

Discussion: Political Wire, NPR, WTKR-TV, The Verge, New York Times, CityLab, Common Dreams and Q13 FOX News

NBC Southern California:

At Least Three Victims in Shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita — Students with arms raised were escorted by deputies from the school about 40 miles north of Los Angeles — There are at least three victims in a shooting Thursday morning at a high school in Santa Clarita, where the search continues for the shooter.

Discussion: USA Today, The Hill, Breitbart, Law & Crime, The Guardian, Balloon Juice, The Daily Caller, New York Post, The Week and TMZ.com

Los Angeles Times:

Santa Clarita shooting: 2 teens killed; attack came on suspect's birthday, officials say — One person was killed and at least four others were injured in a shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita early Thursday, authorities said. — Two students were killed …

Discussion: NBC News, Talking Points Memo, KTLA, New York Post, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, WGNO, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV and Slate

Washington Post:
One dead, at least 4 injured in shooting at Los Angeles-area high school; suspect in custody

Discussion: TVNewser, fox8.com and Deadline

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.

Discussion: Fortune, The Boston Globe, NBC News, Politico, The Root, NPR, Fox Business, The Guardian, One America News Network, Washington Times, ABC News, Townhall, Bloomberg, The Week, Fox News and Axios

Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Deval Patrick Is Making A Late Bid For The Democratic Nomination

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, The Bulwark, CBS Boston, New York Times, The Hill, New York Post, CBS News and Althouse

Hannah Brown / Vox:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is running for president

Discussion: Politico, New York Times, CNN, Reuters and One America News Network

Marc Caputo / Politico:
How Deval Patrick could torpedo Joe Biden

Discussion: The Atlantic, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News and New York Times

Melissa Ratliff / WLEX:

Gov. Bevin concedes election following recanvass — FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — At a podium inside his office, Governor Matt Bevin conceded the election nine days after losing to Gov.-elect Andy Beshear. — The governor formally requested a recanvass following his loss to Attorney General Andy Beshear.

Discussion: Axios and Raw Story

Joe Sonka / Courier-Journal:
Kentucky governors race recanvass: Bevin says he won't contest election outcome

Discussion: electionlawblog.org and 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin concedes to Dem Andy Beshear in reelection bid

Discussion: The Hill

Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:

10 Takeaways From Day One of Impeachment — After weeks of Republican complaints about the secret “Soviet-style” hearings, there was something deliciously ironic about watching Devin Nunes pivoting to complain that Wednesday's public impeachment hearing was a “televised theatrical performance.”

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Slate, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News and Tangle

Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox's prime time stars are telling Trump that the impeachment hearings are a ‘disaster’ for Democrats

Discussion: The Atlantic and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »

Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Crazy for Trump: On the G.O.P. Plan to Keep Impeachment Partisan

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Yahoo News, The Hill, Mother Jones, New York Times and Washington Post

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.

Discussion: The Hill, The Guardian and Raw Story

Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:

Warren's ‘Billionaire Tears’ Mug Is Sold Through A Billionaire-Run Company — A billionaire stands to benefit financially from the sales of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new “Billionaire Tears” mug. — The $25 mug, which Warren's presidential campaign introduced Wednesday …

Discussion: Forbes

Quint Forgey / Politico:
Ex-Goldman Sachs chief slams Warren over new campaign ad

Discussion: Vox and Occupy Democrats

Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Warren Wealth Tax Could Slow Economy, Early Analysis Finds

Discussion: PJ Media Home, The Guardian, HuffPost, TheStreet and CNBC

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 …

Discussion: Politico, Fox News, BBC, The Hill, The Daily Caller, New York Post, TheBlaze, CNN, VICE, Hot Air, The Week, Defense One, National Review, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Mediaite and Wall Street Journal

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Rand Paul may force vote to bring Hunter Biden as witness in impeachment trial — Sen. Rand Paul could force a vote on the Senate floor that would bring Hunter Biden or other White House-favored impeachment witnesses to an impeachment trial. — Paul said on Thursday he's considering forcing votes …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

Bloomberg's Team Calls His Crude Remarks on Women ‘Wrong’ — As Michael Bloomberg prepares a presidential run, his history of crude remarks is likely to draw scrutiny. His team said some were “disrespectful.” — It was a cheeky birthday gift for a hard-charging boss …

Discussion: National Review, IJR, The Hill, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Associated Press

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 …

Discussion: Common Dreams, The Verge, Washington Post and Twitchy

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Trump lawyers poised to take tax returns fight to Supreme Court — The fight over access to President Donald Trump's tax returns is expected to reach the Supreme Court on Thursday via one of two fast-track requests the president plans in a last-ditch bid to keep his financial records secret …

Discussion: National Review and Slate

Walter Olson / Cato Institute:
Supreme Court Won't Intervene In Connecticut Gunmaker Case, For Now

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Reason

Washington Post:

Live updates: A second State Department official overheard Trump's call with E.U. envoy discussing Ukraine and ‘investigations’ — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that testimony presented by two career diplomats during Wednesday's open impeachment hearing …

Discussion: Political Wire

Megan Cassella / Politico:
Pelosi: USMCA deal is ‘imminent’

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Balloon Juice, ABC News, The Hill, The Week and Breitbart

ProPublica:

A Trump Tax Break To Help The Poor Went To a Rich GOP Donor's Superyacht Marina — Wealthy donors Wayne Huizenga Jr. and Jeff Vinik lobbied then-Gov. Rick Scott for the lucrative tax break — and won it. Poorer communities lost out. … The Rybovich superyacht marina lies on the West Palm Beach …

Discussion: Orlando Sentinel, Florida Politics and Boing Boing

Associated Press:

AP-NORC/USA Facts poll: Americans struggle to ID true facts — WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sharply divided country, here's something many Americans agree on: It's hard to know what's a true and honest fact. — A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research …

Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Hill

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

RNC plunges into Louisiana gov's race amid signs of trouble — The Republican National Committee is pouring another $1 million into the Louisiana governor's race ahead of Saturday's runoff — a move that comes amid mounting GOP concerns about losing a second major election in a conservative state in as many weeks.

Discussion: Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball, The Hill, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo

Bill Oakley / Washington Post:

One of the defenses of Trump is — literally — a TV-cartoon joke — A former ‘Simpsons’ writer on the ‘Sideshow Bob defense.’ … — Sideshow Bob, “The Simpsons,” Season Six, Episode Five, 1994 — This rhetorical absurdity, originally intended as joke on a TV cartoon, is now being trotted out in all seriousness by the GOP.

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and CNN

Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:

On Facebook, fears of parasites push people to post pictures of feces and pursue dangerous remedies — While these groups have been under pressure from authorities, they have so far been successful in sidestepping Facebook's broader crackdown on health misinformation.

Kate Cox / Ars Technica:

Google will offer checking accounts, says it won't sell the data — Checking accounts would be rich data trove Google says it will keep to itself. — The Google empire is enormous and ubiquitous, covering basically the entire Internet in one way or another.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Observer and CBS San Francisco