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4:50 PM ET, December 17, 2019

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Sen. Susan Collins during 1999 impeachment: ‘I need witnesses ... to get to the truth’  —  Now that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has flatly refused Democratic demands for witnesses to testify at President Trump's impeachment trial, it could create an uncomfortable situation …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Susan Collins and Joni Ernst reveal weakness of Trump defense  —  An overwhelming 71 percent of Americans believe President Trump should allow his top aides to testify at his impeachment trial, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.  That includes a whopping 72 percent of independents.
Discussion: CBS News, The Hill and CNN
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
McConnell Suggests Senate Will Move to Dismiss Impeachment After Opening Arguments
Discussion: Washington Post
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell on impeachment: 'I'm not impartial about this at all'
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Trump sends scorching letter to Pelosi ahead of House impeachment vote  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump sent a letter on Tuesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, excoriating the House Democrats' pursuit of an impeachment inquiry just a day before the full House is set to vote.
Discussion: KSLTV.com, KTLA and Raw Story
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Denounces ‘Partisan Impeachment Crusade’ on Eve of House Vote  —  In an irate, six-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Trump denounced the impeachment inquiry in scathing terms, asserting that he had done nothing wrong and that Democrats would pay a political price in 2020.
Discussion: Balkinization, The Root and Law & Crime
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Trump Writes Insane Letter to Pelosi Showing Why He's Unfit For Office
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump savages impeachment proceedings in letter to Pelosi
Discussion: The Daily Beast
New York Times:   Read Trump's Letter to Pelosi Protesting Impeachment
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump tells Pelosi in blistering letter that Dems have ‘cheapened the importance’ of impeachment
Discussion: The Root
New York Times:
We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated  —  The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.  —  The authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns.  —  Patriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Provides Details of What Trump Knew About Ambassador's Removal  —  Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview that he briefed the president “a couple of times” about Marie Yovanovitch, the envoy to Ukraine, setting her recall in motion.  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Monday …
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
“I forced her out”: Giuliani goes on Fox News and admits he's much more than Trump's lawyer
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US envoy in Ukraine set to leave after impeachment testimony
Discussion: Axios
Lara Jakes / New York Times:   William Taylor, Top Diplomat in Ukraine and Key Impeachment Witness, is Stepping Down
Reuters:
Associate of Rudy Giuliani received $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch -prosecutor  —  U.S. prosecutors said in court on Tuesday that Lev Parnas, an associate of U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, received a $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash.
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Erica Orden / CNN:   Judge won't jail indicted Giuliani associate pending trial
Reuters:   Giuliani associate received $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch's lawyer: prosecutor
NBC News:
Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas can stay free on bail after prosecutors argue he hid money
ABC News:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort hospitalized for cardiac event: Sources  —  Manafort is slated to be released from prison Christmas Day 2024.  —  President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been hospitalized for a cardiac event while serving …
BBC:
Trump says Armenia massacres were not genocide, directly contradicting Congress  —  President Trump has said he does not consider the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 to be a genocide, contradicting a unanimous vote by the US Senate.  —  The historic vote last week incensed Turkey …
Discussion: Twitchy
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Family emergency sidelines Jerry Nadler day before expected impeachment vote  —  Nadler is expected to return to Washington late Tuesday or early Wednesday.  —  House Judiciary Jerry Nadler on Friday.  Matt McClain/The Washington Post via AP, Pool  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler …
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Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Rep. Anthony Brindisi will vote to impeach President Trump (Exclusive)  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi says he plans to vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump after concluding the president abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress.
Heather Caygle / Politico:
House squabbles over impeachment vote rules
Discussion: Washington Post
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Adam Driver Walks Out of NPR ‘Fresh Air’ Interview Over ‘Marriage Story’ Clip  —  The star actor allegedly left after expressing displeasure with listening to a clip of his own acting—a fear Driver has repeatedly voiced in the past.  —  In the midst of promoting three of his latest starring turns …
Wall Street Journal:
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook's Internal Divisions on Politics  —  Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree  —  Facebook Inc. FB 1.96% 's senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company's effect …
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Jeff Van Drew Was ‘Almost Obsessively Anti-Trump’ Before He Considered Joining His Party  —  Democrats heard the New Jersey freshman call President Trump crazy and unfit to be commander-in-chief.  —  For months, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a freshman Democrat from New Jersey …
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Joan Walsh / The Nation:   Democrats Aren't Forcing Jeff Van Drew to Join the GOP
Washington Post:
Rick Gates sentenced to 45 days in jail, 3 years probation for conspiracy and lying to FBI in Mueller probe  —  BREAKING: Rick Gates was sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years probation for conspiracy and lying to the FBI.  The jail time can be served over weekends or on a schedule developed in agreement with federal officials.
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Washington Post:   The president goes after Mueller's witnesses
Devan Cole / CNN:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Trump's calls to stop impeachment: ‘The President is not a lawyer’  —  The reasons behind RBG's most recent hospitalizations  —  Washington (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday weighed in on President Donald Trump's assertion that the impeachment proceedings …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Maxine Wally / WWD:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks President Trump Impeachment, Women's Rights
Discussion: Althouse and Raw Story
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
‘Vile and disturbing’: Army unit marks Battle of the Bulge with picture of Nazi war criminal who massacred Americans  —  On the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's final major push in World War II, a U.S. Army unit shared a tribute to the “greatest battle in American history” …
Beatrice Peterson / ABC News:
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard calls for President Trump's censure  —  She remains undecided on impeachment on eve of House vote.  —  Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is calling for President Donald Trump's censure on the eve a full House vote Wednesday on the articles of impeachment.
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Secret FISA Court issues highly unusual public rebuke of FBI for mistakes  —  The criticism comes after a report by the DOJ inspector general that found “so many basic and fundamental errors.”  —  WASHINGTON — The secret court that approves orders to conduct surveillance on suspected foreign terrorists …
Maya Kosoff / GEN:
The Human Toll of the 2019 Media Apocalypse  —  More than 3,000 journalists lost their jobs this year.  These are some of their stories.  —  eing a journalist in 2019 meant working under the gun.  In January, over a thousand journalists lost their jobs as layoffs hit Gannett, BuzzFeed, AOL, and HuffPost.
 
 
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Biden campaign releases his medical history
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Stacy Fernández / The Texas Tribune:
Midland County officials just found a missing ballot box.  It may change the result of a $569 million bond election.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump's approval rating is more stable than any president in the history of polling
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Democrats repeat failed history with mad dash to impeach Donald Trump
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Corbyn, Sanders, and Warren: the Bogus Comparison
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Susan Collins to announce reelection plans this week
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
He was sexually abusing underage girls. Then, police said, one of them killed him.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump Will Be Impeached but Trumpism Will Fuck Us Forever
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Megh Wright / Vulture:
The True Story Behind the Viral ‘Moves Like Bloomberg’ Video
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
American democracy's Senate problem, explained
Discussion: Mother Jones
Kate Krader / Bloomberg:
Washington Is the Most Exciting Food City in America
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Laughing Through the Trump Era
Nathan Hodge / CNN:
Maria Butina, convicted of being a foreign agent in the US, will host Russian state-funded TV show
Discussion: New York Post
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Forever  —  The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.
Discussion: Raw Story
USA Today:
USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term