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1:35 PM ET, December 1, 2019

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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:

Chuck Todd to GOP Senator: You're Selling the Same Argument as Putin! — Chuck Todd was left gobsmacked by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) when the GOP lawmaker said the ex-Ukrainian president “actively worked” for Hillary Clinton. — A week after claiming that he didn't know whether Russia …

Discussion: Axios and The Hill

Heather Caygle / Politico:

Intelligence Committee to begin circulating draft Ukraine report Monday — Members of the House Intelligence Committee will begin reviewing a report Monday on the panel's investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to press Ukraine to investigate his Democratic adversaries …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Breitbart, UPI, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, Townhall and Raw Story

Jacob Knutson / Axios:

Top Judiciary Republican demands Schiff testify in impeachment hearing — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that the first witness Republicans will attempt to call in the upcoming impeachment hearing is House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

Discussion: ABC News

Adia Robinson / ABC News:

President, lawyers should participate in impeachment hearing: Demings, McClintock — Reps. Val Demings, D-Fla., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., said on ABC's “This Week” that they think having President Donald Trump or his lawyers participate in Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, Contemptor and The Daily Caller

Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Committee to meet Tuesday to approve release of Ukraine report

Discussion: The Hill, The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart

Mike Allen / Axios:

Why the Democratic nominee might ultimately be chosen at the July convention — Democrats say a very realistic scenario now calls for Pete Buttigieg to win Iowa, Elizabeth Warren to win New Hampshire, Joe Biden to win South Carolina and Bernie Sanders to win Nevada.

Discussion: NBC News, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, Fox News and Washington Post

Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Joe Biden munches wife Jill's finger at Iowa campaign stop

Discussion: Twitchy

Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Case for Bernie — The Democrats need a unifier.

Discussion: Fox News and Outside the Beltway

Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:

Revealed: Six of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan's fellow Stock Exhange bomb plotters have also been freed from prison since 2012 — Six of the eight terrorist plotters who were jailed along with London Bridge attacker Usman Khan in 2012 have also been freed from prison, it has emerged.

Discussion: Power Line and The Sun

Reuters: UK Labour's Corbyn: Convicted terrorists should ‘not necessarily’ serve full sentences

Laura Italiano / New York Post:
London Bridge stabber belonged to jihadist group that admired Hitler

Discussion: The Guardian, WTVR-TV, KTVZ-TV and Jihad Watch

Dan Coles / Mirror.co.uk:
London Bridge terrorist ‘preached with ISIS flags after being bullied at school’

Discussion: Jihad Watch

Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:

Ron DeSantis isn't on Donald Trump's TV anymore. That's on purpose. — Once the president's top defender on Fox News, Florida's governor has disappeared from Trump's favorite network. — There was a time when President Donald Trump could turn on Fox News at any given hour …

Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:

In America, the law is the law* (*if you're poor, undocumented or nonwhite) — You raise your child to grow up to be a man like Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma. The Honduran native — married, raising a 10-year-old son in New Orleans — supported his family by working construction.

Discussion: Washington Post and UPI

New York Times:

Trump's Intervention in SEALs Case Tests Pentagon's Tolerance — Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher's case pits a Pentagon hierarchy committed to enforcing longstanding rules of combat against a commander in chief with no military experience but a finely honed sense of grievance against authority.

Discussion: Axios, Redstate, DownWithTyranny! and Raw Story

New York Times:

How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion — Miscalculations, and an unexpected victory by President Trump, have put abortion access at its most vulnerable point in decades, and the left on the defensive. Now it is trying to recover. — ATLANTA — The pin was small, and rusted on the back.

Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:

Justice's election-year conundrum: How to probe team Trump — The Justice Department is in another election-season jam — faced with politically loaded decisions over how aggressively to investigate President Donald Trump and his allies in the heat of the 2020 campaign.

Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime

Jon Stone / The Independent:

Google bans eight different Tory election adverts as disinformation concerns mount — Conservatives accused of using ‘fake news’ and disinformation to win election — Google has banned eight different adverts paid for by the Conservatives over the last month because they broke its rules, The Independent can reveal.

Discussion: Raw Story

Raphael Minder / New York Times:

Assange to Testify on Being Recorded in Embassy in London — Recordings have emerged of private conversations that Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, had while living in the Ecuadorean Embassy. He and a Spanish prosecutor blame the United States. — MADRID — This much has become clear …

Ryan Fahey / Daily Mail:

Jeremy Corbyn's most loyal supporters are more likely to be anti-Semitic than those of other party leaders, YouGov poll reveals — Loyal supporters of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are more likely to agree with statements deemed to be anti-Semitic than supporters of other political leaders, a poll has revealed.

News Agency UNIAN:

Putin, Lukashenka agree on single parliament, govt - envoy — By December 8, 2019, just a day before the Normandy Summit in Paris, the authorities of Belarus and Russia are expected to sign a new agreement on deepening integration. — Belarus President Alyaksandr Lukashenka …