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9:50 AM ET, December 17, 2019

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CNN:
Disparate group of Republican senators worry White House and GOP leaders ahead of impeachment trial  —  (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's high-profile push for witnesses to testify in the Senate's expected impeachment trial of President Donald Trump shifted attention and political pressure …
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart, Raw Story and HuffPost
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   McConnell takes heat from all sides on impeachment
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Moderate Dems take a leap on impeachment
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and DNyuz
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:   McSally 'hasn't been convinced' Trump should be impeached
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:   Seth Meyers Goes Off on Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham for ‘Rigging’ Trump Impeachment Trial
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How far can the House go to stop a sham trial?
Discussion: Althouse, NBC News and The Mahablog
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Seek Quick Acquittal for Trump. The President Wants More.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Centrist Democrats line up behind impeachment
Discussion: The Week
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 …
Discussion: Axios, Daily Kos, IJR and Raw Story
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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.”
Discussion: The Hill
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
On Tuesday, March for Impeachment  —  The anti-Trump majority needs to make itself seen.  —  Brian Kilmeade — the dark-haired guy on “Fox & Friends,” Fox News's morning show — was surprised.  During the program on Monday, a correspondent reported that a Fox News poll showed that 50 percent …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Redstate, Raw Story and CNN
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CNN:
CNN Poll: The nation remains divided on impeachment as House vote approaches  —  (CNN)The American public is about evenly split over whether President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, with the House of Representatives poised …
Gary Langer / ABC News:   Most expect fair trial for Trump; 7 in 10 say let aides testify (POLL)
Washington Post:
Americans locked in partisan stalemate on removing Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds
Medium:
HISTORIANS' STATEMENT ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP  —  President Trump's numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president.  Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:   More Than 750 Historians Call For Donald Trump To Be Impeached
Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Post:   Trump in Palm Beach: President expected to be here for the holidays
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 …
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.
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Press Herald:
Our View: President Trump betrayed nation and should be impeached
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump invokes Kavanaugh to fight impeachment
Discussion: Raw Story
USA Today:
Yea or nay on impeachment: USA TODAY Opinion contributors take sides  —  Would you take a case to trial that you know you could never win?  That's what is on the table with Trump impeachment.  —  USA TODAY asked a diverse group of contributors to its Opinion section how they would vote on impeaching President Donald Trump.
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
IG Report Undercuts Credibility of Impeachment Manager Nadler  —  Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman who has drawn up articles of impeachment accusing President Trump of abusing his power, last year falsely accused a Trump campaign aide of being a Russian spy …
Axios:   GOP monetizes impeachment as Dems try to change the subject
Washington Post:
Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges  —  A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion …
USA Today:
USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term  —  Susan Page William Cummings Nicholas WuUSA TODAY  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads …
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs  —  Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects.  That story led me to delve into this strange world.  I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
GOP State Senator Rebukes Trump, Declares ‘Republicans All Over the Country’ Want President Impeached  —  GOP Nebraska state Senator John McCollister this week fired back at President Donald Trump's assertion that the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry is a hoax by asserting that …
Discussion: The Hill
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Forever  —  The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.
Discussion: DCReport.org and Raw Story
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times's political coverage has completely imploded at the worst possible time  —  The New York Times's three-year struggle to sustain its reporting algorithms, built for two political parties that have comparable relationships to reality, collapsed into sordid heap of nonsense over the weekend.
New York Times:
Strict Vaccine Law Stumbles in N.J. Legislature  —  There were not enough votes in the State Senate to end religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for all students.  —  The New Jersey Legislature, seemingly on the verge of passing one of the strictest vaccine laws in the nation on Monday …
Discussion: New Jersey Online, The Hill and DNyuz
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Liquor Taxes Could Go Up 400%, Thanks to Congressional Dysfunction  —  A temporary cut in federal taxes on alcohol fueled the growth of American distilleries, but its expiration threatens their demise.  —  The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling.
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge allows Georgia to purge 309K voter registrations overnight  —  About 309,000 names were set to be erased from Georgia's list of registered voters Monday night, a mass cancellation that a federal judge allowed to move forward.  —  A voting rights group, Fair Fight Action …
Charles Homans / New York Times:
How the Internet Came to Loathe Pete Buttigieg  —  Last month, after polls showed Pete Buttigieg vaulting unexpectedly to the lead in Iowa's Democratic caucus, he aired an ad introducing his plan for higher-education reform: a proposal to make public-college tuition free for households earning …
Daria Ovide / Newsroom:
LMU Workers and Sodexo Reach Tentative Contract Agreement  —  PRESS CONTACT: Maria Hernandez (623)340-8047  —  Los Angeles, CA-Sodexo at Loyola Marymount University and their employees negotiated through Monday evening to secure a tentative contract agreement.
Discussion: Axios
Tanya Snyder / Politico:
Chao's team helped McConnell's state win its largest DOT grant  —  Kentucky's largest transportation grant application under the Trump administration benefited from a process that the government's top watchdog said lacked “the assurance of fairness,” raising questions about whether the Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
The Tax Break for Children, Except the Ones Who Need It Most  —  The child tax credit, begun in 1997 as a tax cut, has become an anti-poverty program.  But more than a third of children don't receive it because their parents earn too little.  —  MONROE, La. — With two children and a third on the way …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Vulnerable House Democrats Announce Support For Impeaching Trump  —  Dozens of Democrats who could be elected out have decided to vote later this week to impeach the president on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Democrat Ben McAdams stepped …
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's sentencing set for Jan. 28 after judge rejects his attacks on the FBI, Justice Department
Discussion: The Week, Axios and Raw Story
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
SC's U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham to vote in favor of impeaching Trump