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Vicky Ward / CNN:
Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden — (CNN)A lawyer for an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani tells CNN that his client is willing to tell Congress about meetings the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee …
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Amanda Teuscher / American Oversight:
State Department Releases Ukraine Documents to American Oversight — On Friday evening, the State Department released nearly 100 pages of records in response to American Oversight's lawsuit seeking a range of documents related to the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine.
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Michael Wilner / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Records show contact between Pompeo and Giuliani ahead of Ukraine ambassador's ouster — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had several phone calls with President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, toward the end of March, weeks before U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch …
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Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: CEO of Ukraine State Gas Firm Preparing to Testify in Giuliani Probe — The CEO of Ukraine's state gas company, Naftogaz, is ready to give evidence in a U.S. federal investigation that is reportedly probing the business dealings of Rudy Giuliani, the CEO said in an exclusive interview on Friday.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Gatekeeper Put Rudy in Touch With Pompeo: Emails — Newly released documents tie the president even further to the disinformation campaign his personal lawyer was spearheading. — President Donald Trump's White House gatekeeper helped facilitate a phone conversation between Rudy Giuliani …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Devin Nunes to Sue CNN, Daily Beast over Fake News Attacks — House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) intends to file lawsuits against both CNN and the Daily Beast over fake hit pieces the outlets have published about him in recent days …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Senate Trial Could Put Trump's Use of Aggressive Defense Tactics to Their Biggest Test — The president's campaign against the Mueller report and its author is a road map of what is likely to lie ahead. — WASHINGTON — Over four decades in public life, President Trump has sought to bend business …
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Tom Vilsack / USA Today:
Joe Biden has stood the test of time. He should be the next president — A former Iowa governor says Joe Biden can help heal our nation and return a sense of normalcy and decency to the White House. — In one of the early episodes of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS Masterpiece Theatre presentation …
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Biden: Lindsey Graham will ‘regret his whole life’ doing Trump's bidding on Ukraine
Biden: Lindsey Graham will ‘regret his whole life’ doing Trump's bidding on Ukraine
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Path for Senate impeachment proceedings unclear as Trump says ‘I want a trial’
Path for Senate impeachment proceedings unclear as Trump says ‘I want a trial’
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Lindsey Graham Is a Coward, Exhibit 39204
Lindsey Graham Is a Coward, Exhibit 39204
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Steve Scherer / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Navy secretary backs SEAL's expulsion review, despite Trump objection — HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said on Friday a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct should face a board of peers weighing whether to oust him from the elite force …
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New York Times:
Russia Inquiry Review Is Said to Criticize F.B.I. but Rebuff Claims of Biased Acts — A watchdog report will portray the pursuit of a wiretap of an ex-Trump adviser as sloppy, but it also debunks some accusations by Trump allies of F.B.I. wrongdoing. — WASHINGTON — A highly anticipated report …
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Ryan Heath / Politico:
Hong Kong activists urge UK to give ex-colony's residents ‘real citizenship’ — Their current status does not allow them the ‘right of abode’ in Britain. — HALIFAX, Canada — A delegation of Hong Kong democracy activists has accused Britain's prime ministerial contenders of abandoning millions …
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Washington Post:
Trump opens up Camp David as an ‘adult playground’ to woo GOP lawmakers during impeachment — President Trump, partial to gold and marble elegance, never took a shine to rustic Camp David. So acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney pitched him on an unusual idea at the start of the House impeachment inquiry …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The United States Is Starting to Look Like Ukraine — Why the president must be impeached and removed. — Donald Trump ought to be impeached and removed from office. This isn't what I thought two months ago, when the impeachment inquiry began. I argued that the evidence fell short of the standards of a prosecutable criminal act.
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
How Facebook's Embed in the Trump Campaign Helped the President Win — James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office in 2020 — After the 2016 presidential election, Republican Party officials credited Facebook Inc. with helping Donald Trump win the White House.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Tuesday Afternoon Impeachment’ Is as Big as ‘Monday Night Football’ — TV's impeachment drama is drawing big ratings, but a Democratic debate on MSNBC sank to a viewership low. — On the third day that impeachment hearings blanketed American televisions, from morning talk shows to late-night monologues …
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Seth Cousins / Washington Post:
I was a juror in Roger Stone's trial. I am proud of how we came to our decision. — Seth Cousins was juror Number 3 in the Roger Stone trial. — During the first half of November, I traveled a brief journey with 14 fellow Americans, all of them strangers to me.
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
After a damaging week and a bizarre Fox rant, psychiatrists and GOP strategists are worried for Trump — 'He has terrible judgment, and if he had real lawyers they would've hit him with a cattle-prod before they let him do that interview' — For a man who craves the spotlight …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bolton Claims White House Blocked His Access to Twitter Account — President Trump denies allegation regarding former national security adviser's handle — WASHINGTON—Former National Security Adviser John Bolton broke his silence on Friday with a claim that the White House blocked access …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bolton Teases a City Eager to Hear His Story
Bolton Teases a City Eager to Hear His Story
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Washington Free Beacon:
Warren Confronted by School Choice Activist Over Sending Son to Private School — The Democratic presidential candidate elided the inconvenient fact that her son attended a tony private school — Confronted by a school-choice activist Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) …
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Andrew Pulver / The Guardian:
Sacha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads for ‘final solution’ — In wide-ranging speech, actor accuses tech giants of running the ‘greatest propaganda machine in history’ — Sacha Baron Cohen has denounced tech giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google as …
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New York Times:
Charges of Ukrainian Meddling? A Russian Operation, U.S. Intelligence Says — Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Pence on surprise Iraq trip to reassure Kurds, greet troops — 1 of 4 — ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday in the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of U.S. forces in Syria two months ago.