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John Bolton PAC:
STATEMENT OF JOHN R. BOLTON — During the present impeachment controversy, I have tried to meet my obligations both as a citizen and as former National Security Advisor. My colleague, Dr. Charles Kupperman, faced with a House committee subpoena on the one hand, and a Presidential directive …
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New York Times:
Bolton Is Willing to Testify in Trump's Impeachment Trial — The former national security adviser, who has complied with a White House directive not to cooperate in the inquiry, said he was willing to testify in the Senate trial if subpoenaed. — WASHINGTON — John R. Bolton …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Pelosi's strategy pays off: Now bring in Bolton — The Post reports: … Why Bolton would now decide to make himself available will be a matter of speculation. Perhaps he was prompted to give up his ludicrous excuse to avoid testifying by a federal judge's dismissal on Dec. 30 …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: John Bolton throws an impeachment curveball — JOHN BOLTON, who quit as national security adviser in September and did not testify in the House impeachment inquiry, said this in a new statement: “[I]f the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify.”
Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
Bolton willing to testify in Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran mess is getting worse. Here's Adam Schiff's idea on what to do about it. — The deliberations that went into President Trump's decision to assassinate Iranian general Qasem Soleimani are looking more slapdash and reckless by the hour. What we're now seeing will require House Democrats …
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Masih Alinejad / Washington Post:
Don't believe Iranian propaganda about the mourning for Soleimani — Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women's rights campaigner. — Over the next few days, it will be hard to escape footage of huge crowds gathering in Iranian cities to mourn the death of Qasem Soleimani …
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Aya Batrawy / Associated Press:
Iranian leader's tears a sign of respect for slain general — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a rare display of emotion from the typically reserved and measured supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cried openly Monday at the funeral of slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani …
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John Bellinger / Lawfare:
Attacking Iran's Cultural Sites Would Violate the Hague Cultural Property Convention — On Sunday, President Trump — as he is wont to do when criticized — doubled down on his threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites if Iran attacks the United States in response to the killing of Qassim Suleimani.
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Washington Post:
Live updates: U.S. military says it will reposition troops within Iraq in preparation for a possible withdrawal
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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Schiff calls for open hearings on Trump's Iran actions
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's One Foreign-Policy Idea Is to Make America More Like Its Enemies
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Donna Cassata / Washington Post:
Pelosi says House to vote this week on war powers resolution to limit Trump's action on Iran
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Foreign Policy:
Trump Administration Blocks Iran's Top Diplomat From Addressing the U.N. Security Council — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had sought to give a speech condemning the U.S. assassination of Qassem Suleimani. — The Trump administration is barring Iran's top diplomat from entering …
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Max Fisher / New York Times:
What Is Trump's Iran Strategy? Few Seem to Know — Friend and foe alike are left puzzled over what President Trump aimed to achieve by killing a top Iranian general, what he might do next or how Tehran could mollify him. — When the United States announced on Friday that it had killed …
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David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
One Year in Washington Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reshaped her party's agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders's campaign, and hardly has a friend in town. — The corridors of Capitol Hill are a marbled monotony, with Oxford heels clacking around corners indistinguishable from one another …
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New York Times:
Harvey Weinstein Is Charged With Rape in Los Angeles — The new case in California against the Hollywood producer was disclosed just as his sexual assault trial began in New York. — Prosecutors in Los Angeles charged the film producer Harvey Weinstein with rape and other sex crimes involving two women …
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Lorraine Ali / Los Angeles Times:
Review: Politics reigned at the Golden Globes. Too bad Ricky Gervais didn't notice — Forget the escapist magic of Hollywood. Nihilism was the name of the game when host Ricky Gervais opened the Golden Globes on Sunday night with a gloom-and-doom monologue so cynical it made the effervescent Tom Hanks scowl.
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Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
Ricky Gervais Made A Very Clever Golden Globes Maneuver
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Mark Moore / New York Post:
Qassem Soleimani's dead body flies coach back to Iran … The remains of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military commander killed in a US drone strike, were apparently placed in a cardboard box and flown out of Iraq across rows of passenger seats, new video shows.
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Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:
Mar-a-Lago in the firing line: Iranian presidential adviser posts list of Donald Trump's properties in chilling hint of an attack on his real estate empire - after Iran put an $80million bounty on his head — An adviser to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani last night dropped a chilling hint …
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Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Iran officials hint at possible attacks on Trump properties
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Richie Duchon / NBC News:
Trump doubles down on threat to Iranian cultural sites, demands Iraq pay for U.S. base — Asked about fears Iran might retaliate, the president told reporters: “If it happens, it happens. If they do anything, there will be major retaliation.” — Fmr. US-Iran negotiator …
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Pelosi moves to limit Trump's actions in Iran with War Powers Resolution vote
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James McGinnis / Bucks County Courier Times:
Former Bucks Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick dead at 56 — At age 31, Mike Fitzpatrick was appointed chair of the board of Bucks County commissioners. By 41, he was elected to the U.S. Congress. — Former U.S. Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, who rose from Bucks County commissioner to representing …
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The Guardian:
Sleepwalking into 2020: are the media who missed Trump's 2016 rise ready now? — Key figures from major US newspapers, news sites and TV describe their fears about covering this year's election - and ideas on how to get it right — In the weeks after the election of Donald Trump in 2016 …
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Politico:
Defense secretary's chief of staff to step down — Eric Chewning, chief of staff to Defense Secretary Mark Esper, is stepping down at the end of the month, the latest in a series of high-profile civilians to leave the Pentagon. — He'll be replaced by Jen Stewart, the top Republican staffer …
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David Siders / Politico:
The very real scenario of a protracted, ‘bizarro world’ Democratic primary — Democrats are now beginning to confront a very real scenario where the nomination — and the winnowing — will not be decided in states where campaigns have been plowing ground for more than a year …
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New York Times:
How Democrats Can Win Back Obama-Trump Defectors — They don't have to lose their souls to do it. Just the opposite. — The authors are political data experts. — In the aftermath of Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, analysts fiercely debated the role of the approximately six million voters …
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Inside the secretive Silicon Valley group that has funneled over $20 million to Democrats — Mind the Gap is run not by political operatives but by Stanford professors. David Madison/Getty Images — There's a reason you haven't heard of Mind the Gap: Its “raison d'être is stealth.”
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Obamaworld Hates Bernie—and Has No Idea How to Stop Him — The most striking response to an ascendant Sanders is the lack of one. — Former President Barack Obama's top lieutenants are eager to poke every conceivable hole in Bernie Sanders' resurgent bid for the Democratic nomination.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Here's What Americans Think About Trump's Iran Policy — A new poll shows the public is narrowly in favor of the airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, but has less faith in President Donald Trump's overall Iran strategy. — Americans split narrowly in favor of President Donald Trump's decision …
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Julián Castro Endorses Elizabeth Warren — The move came soon after Mr. Castro ended his own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, and gives a lift to Ms. Warren's campaign as it tries to reignite excitement. — Julián Castro, the former housing secretary whose …
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