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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
McConnell Rejects Calling Mulvaney or Bolton for Impeachment Trial  —  Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, had sought testimony from four witnesses the White House had blocked, including Mick Mulvaney and John Bolton.  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader …
Discussion: Slate, Reason and The Mahablog
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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, HuffPost and Raw Story
Zachary Basu / Axios:
McConnell rejects Schumer's call for new witnesses in Senate trial  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) dismissed Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) call to have four White House witnesses testify in the Senate's likely impeachment trial, arguing that it's the House's …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell takes heat from all sides on impeachment
Discussion: National Review
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:   Seth Meyers Goes Off on Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham for ‘Rigging’ Trump Impeachment Trial
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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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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USA Today:   Yea or nay on impeachment: USA TODAY Opinion contributors take sides
Washington Post:
Americans locked in partisan stalemate on removing Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds
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 …
Axios:
Rick Gates sentenced to 45 days in jail after Mueller cooperation  —  Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates was sentenced to 45 days in jail — to be served on weekends — on Tuesday in a Washington, D.C. federal court.  —  Why it matters: His sentencing wraps up one of the final outstanding portions …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Week
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Washington Post:   The president goes after Mueller's witnesses
Washington Post:
Rick Gates sentenced to 45 days in jail, 3 years probation for conspiracy and lying to FBI in Mueller probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Rick Gates, Ex-Trump Aide and Key Witness for Mueller, Is Sentenced to 45 Days in Jail
Discussion: National Review
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
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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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
More than 700 scholars pen letter urging House to impeach Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
Lee Moran / HuffPost:   More Than 750 Historians Call For Donald Trump To Be Impeached
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Forever  —  The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.  —  The level of loyalty Donald Trump commands from elected Republicans seems qualitatively different from that offered to previous Republican presidents.  —  For instance: Republicans told President Nixon to resign his office.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
GOP State Senator Rebukes Trump, Declares ‘Republicans All Over the Country’ Want President Impeached
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
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 …
Nathan Hodge / CNN:
Maria Butina, convicted of being a foreign agent in the US, will host Russian state-funded TV show  —  London (CNN Business)Russian gun-rights enthusiast Maria Butina, recently released from a US prison, will become the host of an online video program, Russia's state owned network RT announced Tuesday.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Russian disinformation network said to have helped spread smear of U.S. ambassador to Ukraine  —  The web analysis firm Graphika has linked posts to a ‘known Russian operation’  —  The story that appeared on The Hill website on March 20 was startling.  —  Marie Yovanovitch …
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 …
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: Raw Story, Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Redstate and CNN
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.
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Most expect fair trial for Trump; 7 in 10 say let aides testify (POLL)  —  Seven in 10 say Trump should let his aides testify in a Senate trial.  —  Seven in 10 Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say President Donald Trump should allow his top aides to testify in a Senate trial …
Discussion: CNN, The Guardian and The Hill
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FISA Report Was So Bad That FBI's Top Lawyer During Russia Probe Felt ‘Distressed’ After Reading It
Discussion: BizPac Review
 
 
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