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8:25 AM ET, November 21, 2019

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Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
Lev Parnas Helped Rep. Devin Nunes' Investigations … The indicted Giuliani associate helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for the Republican congressman in 2018.  —  Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018 …
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CNN:
Former top Russia adviser to reject GOP claim that Ukraine meddled in US politics  —  (CNN)A former top White House official will offer on Thursday a full-throated rebuttal to the narrative pushed by President Donald Trump and his GOP allies about Ukraine's role meddling in American politics …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Sondland was devastating.  But Republicans don't care about the facts.  —  This column has been updated.  —  Former White House counsel John Dean's testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee beginning in June 1973 is widely seen as the beginning of the end of the Nixon presidency.
Noah Bookbinder / New York Times:
Gordon Sondland Leaves Us With No Other Option  —  The case is simple, and the evidence supporting impeachment is now crystal clear.  —  Mr. Bookbinder is the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.  —  History will remember Wednesday …
New York Times:
Pompeo Emerges as a Major Trump Enabler in Ukraine Affair  —  A top envoy's testimony places Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the center of the nation's biggest foreign policy controversy in nearly two decades.  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has for months deflected questions …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Ambassador Sondland's Revenge  —  America doesn't have a “Gordon problem.”  It has a Trump problem.  —  On Wednesday morning, an obscure millionaire from Portland who was such an amateur at international diplomacy that one of his colleagues compared him to a car careening down a mountain road without …
New York Times:
Sondland Has Implicated the President and His Top Men  —  Congress now needs to hear from more witnesses before an impeachment vote.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.
Politico:
Democrats say new Sondland leads won't slow impeachment drive  —  Gordon Sondland's blockbuster testimony Wednesday handed Democrats a road map that could yield a trove of damaging evidence in their impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.  —  But it won't change their impeachment timetable.
NBC News:
Fiona Hill to say partisan politics drove a ‘fictional’ narrative on Ukraine  —  The former White House official is expected to detail warning about the threat to U.S. democracy posed by Russia.  —  WASHINGTON — Former White House official Fiona Hill will tell Congress on Thursday …
HuffPost:
Sondland's Testimony Was A Bombshell.  Republicans Pretended It Was A Dud.  —  Figuring out there was a quid pro quo was “2+2,” the ambassador said.  —  WASHINGTON ― Gordon Sondland, the American ambassador to the European Union and the man at the center of the Ukraine controversy …
Discussion: The Hill, Vox and Associated Press
Washington Post:
Sondland's bombshell testimony leaves Trump's Republican allies scrambling
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:   Fiona Hill to criticize Republicans for pushing ‘fictional narrative’ on Ukraine
Andrew McCarthy / New York Post:   Gordon Sondland's testimony frees Team Trump to adopt the best defense: the truth
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
If Pompeo doesn't testify, he should be impeached
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Photographer captures Trump's handwritten talking points responding to Sondland
Discussion: The Root
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Gordon Sondland's Testimony Is Damning for Trump — and Himself
Discussion: Washington Post
NBC News:
Trump hosted Zuckerberg for undisclosed dinner at the White House in October  —  The meeting took place during Zuckerberg's most recent visit to Washington, where he testified before Congress about Facebook's new cryptocurrency Libra.  —  President Donald Trump hosted a previously undisclosed dinner …
NBC News:
Live Blog / Democratic Debate live updates: MSNBC/Washington Post host  —  Ten candidates take the stage for the fifth Democratic debate.  —  Follow NBC News' live blog for the latest coverage of the fifth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential election cycle, co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Buttigieg counterpunches as rivals take aim at his rising candidacy  —  Pete Buttigieg felt the pressure of being a frontrunner.  Elizabeth Warren stuck to her script.  Amy Klobuchar got a few lines in, as did Andrew Yang and Cory Booker.  And Joe Biden had the occasional flub.
John Bowden / The Hill:
Steyer, Gabbard and Yang shut out of early minutes of Democratic debate
Discussion: NBC News, Breitbart, Axios and Fox News
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris spar over heart of the Democratic Party
Discussion: Breitbart
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Warren dominates Democrats' fifth 2020 debate: Issue-by-issue recap
Discussion: The Hill
Frank E. Lockwood / Arkansas Online:
DNA test shows Hunter Biden is father of Arkansas woman's baby  —  DNA testing has established, “with scientific certainty,” that Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas baby, according to a motion filed Wednesday in Independence County on behalf of the child's mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts.
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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Vindman's Lawyer Asks Fox News to Retract Espionage Allegation  —  A guest on the Ingraham Angle, a Fox show, suggested that Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a key figure in the impeachment hearings, was guilty of spying.  —  Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman is hitting back at the smear campaign against him.
NBC News:
As Sondland testified, a misleading Ukraine story spread among conservatives on social media  —  The article offered conservatives and Trump loyalists a welcome alternative to the day's news.  —  A misleading claim about the head of the Ukrainian energy company at the heart …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and New York Times
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
How the Collapse of Local News Is Causing a ‘National Crisis’  —  The loss of local news coverage in much of the United States has frayed communities and left many Americans woefully uninformed, according to a new report.  —  School board and city council meetings are going uncovered.
Conrad Duncan / Yahoo News:
Mike Pompeo planning to resign because Trump ‘hurting his reputation’, report claims  —  Donald Trump's secretary of state has reportedly told three prominent  —  Republicans that he is planning to resign from the White House to run for a Senate seat.  —  Mike Pompeo had planned to stay …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Kamala Harris secures new CBC endorsement as she ramps up black voter outreach  —  Sen. Kamala Harris secured the endorsement of Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-N.Y.) before kicking off her Black Women Action weekend in South Carolina, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: That makes 11 endorsements …
Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
New Marquette Law School Poll finds shifts in Wisconsin public opinion favorable to President Trump on impeachment and presidential election preferences  —  MILWAUKEE - Even as hearings that could lead to President Donald Trump's impeachment heat up, a new Marquette University Law School poll …
 
 
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Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
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Discussion: Washington Post
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Nebraska Is 1st State To Share Driver's License Records With Census Bureau
Discussion: Slate
MSNBC:
‘Dishonest’ : Steve Schmidt presses Tulsi Gabbard on meeting Bashar al-Assad
Washington Post:
White House pick to lead NOAA withdraws nomination, citing health concerns
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump cozies up to GOP during impeachment — including Mitt Romney and Susan Collins
Katie Shepherd / Stars & Stripes:
Airman accused of spreading white-nationalist propaganda is demoted but remains in military
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge halts all scheduled federal executions
Discussion: Axios
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Booker to Biden on marijuana legalization: It's “already legal for privileged people”
Discussion: CBS News, Reason and Breitbart
ABC News:
Tim Cook describes his vision as Apple breaks ground on Texas facility
Discussion: Breitbart
Mark Hemingway / Real Clear Politics:
Wis. Elections Panel Sued for Not Cleaning Up Voter Rolls
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
PHOTO: Alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella shakes hands with Barack Obama in Oval Office
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
C-SPAN.org:
Impeachment Hearing with Laura Cooper and David Hale
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Bloomberg spending $15M-$20M to register half million voters
Discussion: Townhall, The Hill and Joe.My.God.