memeorandum: Sen. Kamala D. Harris is ending presidential bid (Chelsea Janes/Washington Post)

2:25 PM ET, December 3, 2019

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Kamala Harris / Medium:

I am suspending my campaign today — Eleven months ago at the launch of our campaign in Oakland I told you all: “I am not perfect. But I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect. I will lead with integrity. I will speak the truth.”

Brian Schwartz / CNBC:

Kamala Harris cancels big-money fundraiser at New York law firm amid reports of campaign turmoil — The event was canceled due to what was described by the campaign as a “personal matter,” according to people familiar with the situation. — An invitation shows that the fundraiser …

Discussion: The Federalist, Axios, TalkLeft, Mother Jones, The Hill, IJR, HotAir, The Gateway Pundit, PJ Media Home, The Daily Beast, The Guardian and Washington Monthly

Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:

Sen. Kamala D. Harris is ending presidential bid — Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California is ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to multiple people with knowledge of the campaign's plans. — Harris had qualified for the December debate but was in single digits in both national and early-state polls.

Discussion: ABC News, Associated Press, Little Green Footballs, The Root and Fox News

Elena Schneider / Politico:

Buttigieg blows up his strategy to win black voters — ALLENDALE, S.C. — When Pete Buttigieg goes to Iowa or New Hampshire, he's a Democratic presidential frontrunner who packs campaign venues. But when Buttigieg goes to South Carolina, he's far from the top — and his campaign is shaking …

Discussion: Axios, The Hill, Breitbart, KDFX-TV and Washington Post

Christopher Cadelago / Politico:

Kamala Harris drops out of presidential race — Kamala Harris dropped her presidential campaign on Tuesday after months of failing to lift her candidacy from the bottom of the field — a premature ending for a California senator once heralded as a top-tier contender for the nomination.

Discussion: The American Independent, The Daily Caller, Los Angeles Magazine, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Sean Hannity and New York Post

New York Times:
Kamala Harris Is Dropping Out of the 2020 Presidential Race

Discussion: National Review, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and The Stranger

CNN:
Kamala Harris ends 2020 presidential campaign

Discussion: Althouse, Patterico's Pontifications, Washington Blade and KDFX-TV

Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review: Good Riddance to Kamala Harris

Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Pro-Kamala Harris super PAC preps Iowa TV blitz

Discussion: HuffPost

CNBC:

Trump loses appeal to block Deutsche Bank, Capital One from handing his financial records to Congress — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Deutsche Bank and Capital One can hand over years of President Donald Trump's financial records in compliance with House Democrats' subpoenas.

Discussion: Associated Press, TalkLeft, Breitbart and Raw Story

David Enrich / New York Times:

Trump Loses Appeal on Deutsche Bank Subpoenas — A federal court ruling is a victory for House Democrats who are investigating President Trump's relationship with the German bank. — A federal appeals court said Tuesday that Deutsche Bank must turn over detailed documents …

Discussion: National Review, CNN and Gothamist

Axios: Appeals court orders Trump's banks to turn financial records over to Congress

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: A December curveball?

Discussion: Washington Post and Wall Street Journal

Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump loses appeal to block Deutsche Bank, Capital One from handing over his financial records to Congress

Discussion: The Underground Bunker

Washington Post:

Barr doesn't accept key inspector general finding about FBI's Russia investigation — Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department's inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report — that the FBI had enough information …

Washington Post:

The Mueller Report Illustrated: Chapter 1 — ‘This Russia thing is far from over’ The president fires the FBI director Mueller's arrival pushes Trump to the brink Trump turns to a loyal ally for help 'Maybe I'll have to get rid of him' The president goes after Mueller's witnesses

Washington Post:
Mueller Report Illustrated

Discussion: Sean Hannity

Rosalind Helderman / Washington Post:
How the Ukraine pressure campaign began as an effort to undercut the Mueller investigation

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CBS News, KyivPost and Raw Story

Cmte Intelligence (D) RSS Articles:

House Intelligence Committee Releases Draft Report As Part of Impeachment Inquiry — Report To Be Voted on This Evening — f t # e — Washington, DC - Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the draft report - “The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report” - to all Members and the public.

Kerry Picket / Washington Examiner:
Schiff hired former NSC colleague of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella the day after Trump-Ukraine call

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Twitchy

ABC News:
Trump says Pompeo, Mulvaney could testify in a Senate impeachment trial

Discussion: Fox News

Associated Press:
Trump calls Democrats impeachment push “unpatriotic”

Discussion: IJR, The Hill and KyivPost

Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post:

Trump says he doesn't know Britain's Prince Andrew. They had a breakfast meeting in June. — LONDON — President Trump said at a news conference on Tuesday that he “doesn't know” Britain's Prince Andrew, despite photos of the two taking a walk side by side in June, smiling at Westminster Abbey during …

Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:

Trump Denies Knowing Prince Andrew, Despite Numerous Photos of Them Together — KISS OF DEATH — Donald Trump has denied knowing Prince Andrew, despite multiple photos of the two together, including several of them meeting in June this year. The president, who is in the United Kingdom for a NATO summit …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, VICE and Political Wire

Iliana Magra / New York Times:
'I Don't Know Prince Andrew,' Trump Says. Photos Say Otherwise.

Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Laughable new GOP report: Yes, Trump did it. But his motives were pure! — Boiled down to its essence, the Ukraine scandal is really a tale about a president who has subverted the interests of the nation to his own by putting our foreign policy at the disposal of his naked personal and political needs.

Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story

David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans embrace Ukrainian 2016 interference allegation in defense of Trump

Discussion: National Review, CNN, Law & Crime, The Editorial Board, The American Independent, Fox News, The Hill, Washington Post and Politico

Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:

Ukraine Knew of Aid Freeze in July, Says Ex-Top Official in Kyiv — Ukraine's government learned of the military aid freeze during the Trump administration's pressure campaign — and tried to keep that knowledge from going public, says an ex-deputy foreign minister.

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Axios, National Review, The Hill, KyivPost, FactCheck.org, Law & Crime, Hullabaloo, HuffPost, Reason and PJ Media Home

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How both parties are thinking about impeachment's next phase

Discussion: BuzzFeed News, Esquire, Breitbart and Talking Points Memo

San Diego Union-Tribune:

Rep. Hunter enters plea in federal campaign finance case, telling judge, ‘Guilty’ — Admission comes after East County Republican accused prosecutors of engaging in political witch hunt — Rep. Duncan Hunter, the Republican congressman and former U.S. Marine who with his namesake father …

Associated Press:
The Latest: California's Hunter pleads guilty, faces 5 years

Discussion: One America News Network

New York Times:

China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West — Beijing's pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent. — TUMXUK, China — In a dusty city in the Xinjiang region on China's western frontier, the authorities are testing the rules of science.

Discussion: Foreign Policy, The Stranger and National Review, more at Techmeme »

Washington Post:

Trump calls French president's criticism of NATO ‘nasty’ and ‘disrespectful’ — LONDON — President Trump on Tuesday slammed as “very, very nasty” and “very disrespectful” recent comments by his French counterpart about the diminished state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance.

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Fox News

Politico:
Allies unite to defend NATO — against Macron

Discussion: Associated Press

Julia Ioffe / GQ:

Trump Is Waging War on America's Diplomats — And the impeachment inquiry is only making things worse. With new figures and fresh horror stories, Julia Ioffe reports on how the president is politicizing our embassies, alienating our allies, and decimating the ranks of the foreign service.

Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story

Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:

Laura Ingraham Still Charging Fans for a Podcast That Apparently No Longer Exists — The Fox News star left radio for a podcast. And now that's quietly been ditched as well. But fans can still pay $49.95 per year for commercial-free access to it. — Before hosting a Fox News primetime show …

Discussion: Raw Story

Derek Hunter / Townhall:

What Happened To Drudge? — It's one of the questions you're not supposed to ask in public but everyone talks about in private: What's going on with Matt Drudge? — For conservatives, the Drudge Report was a one-stop shop for news on the Internet starting in the late 1990s.

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

America's Red State Death Trip — Why does falling life expectancy track political orientation? — “E pluribus unum” — out of many, one — is one of America's traditional mottos. And you might think it would be reflected in reality. We aren't, after all, just united politically.

Politico:

‘Incapable of being gracious’: De Blasio fumes over Bloomberg bid — After failing in his own 2020 campaign, the New York City mayor aims to sink his predecessor. — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has an adversarial relationship with his predecessor. Kena Betancur/Getty Images

Discussion: The Hill, Althouse and ABC News

Chloe Taylor / CNBC:

Silicon Valley giants accused of avoiding over $100 billion in taxes over the last decade — The logos for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, on smartphone and tablet devices — Six of Silicon Valley's biggest companies had a combined “tax gap” of more than $100 billion this decade, according to a new analysis.

Discussion: Breitbart