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Evan Mandery / Politico:
One of Trump's Lawyers Called the Other Dangerous — Politics makes strange bedfellows, but perhaps none have ever been stranger than the two celebrity lawyers just announced as part of Donald Trump's impeachment defense team: Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz.
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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
As Democrats push for witnesses in Senate trial, Alan Dershowitz slams impeachment case — The Senate impeachment trial formally began on Thursday. — Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor emeritus who recently joined President Donald Trump's defense team, made the constitutional case …
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The Hill
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Trump, who wanted a TV legal team, is ‘distracted’ by impeachment trial, source says
Trump, who wanted a TV legal team, is ‘distracted’ by impeachment trial, source says
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Raw Story
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Even C-Span Is Piqued: Senate Puts Limits on Trial Coverage — The Senate will control the cameras during the impeachment trial, limiting what viewers see, and reporters will be confined to roped-off areas. — News coverage of President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate began last week …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Draft of McConnell's rules for trial still allows motion to dismiss — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is preparing a resolution that would leave room for President Trump's lawyers to move immediately to dismiss the impeachment charges if they so choose, according to Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.
Lloyd Green / The Guardian:
A Very Stable Genius review: dysfunction and disaster at the court of King Donald — In January 2018, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury made headlines as it depicted a president out of control and a White House that careened from crisis to crisis. Donald Trump threatened legal action against author and publisher.
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Political Wire, HuffPost and Raw Story
Sacramento Bee:
Who is Devin Nunes' aide caught up in Ukraine texts, and will they hurt his boss? — Derek Harvey was known as a retired Army colonel and respected military intelligence analyst — a Middle East expert who predicted the growing threat from al Qaeda. — He worked tirelessly with retired …
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Washington Post
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'Once this is over, we'll be kings': How Lev Parnas worked his way into Trump's world — and now is rattling it
'Once this is over, we'll be kings': How Lev Parnas worked his way into Trump's world — and now is rattling it
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emptywheel and Vanity Fair
Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire:
Newly Released Text Messages Between Nunes Aide And Lev Parnas Are A Big Nothingburger
Washington Post:
House Democrats say Senate ‘must eliminate the threat’ that the president poses to national security
House Democrats say Senate ‘must eliminate the threat’ that the president poses to national security
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Politico, New York Times, Slate, CNN, The Hill and Associated Press
Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News:
House managers cite ‘overwhelming’ evidence against Trump in their brief to Senate
Quad-City / Quad City Times:
Klobuchar is the one — Amy Klobuchar earned our endorsement. — She won it from an editorial board that, like much of the electorate just two weeks away from the Iowa caucuses, has struggled with how to assess the large field of candidates vying for the Democrats' 2020 presidential nomination.
Margaret Talev / Axios:
NSC official on leave pending investigation — Andrew Peek, the senior director for European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council, has been placed on administrative leave pending a security-related investigation, people familiar with the situation tell Axios.
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Raw Story
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Bloomberg:
Trump Loses Another Russia Adviser, Adding to NSC Turnover — Andrew Peek was top Russia hand on National Security Council — Peek's two predecessors testified in impeachment inquiry — The top Russia expert on President Donald Trump's National Security Council has left his post …
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New York Post and The Hill
Trent Spiner / Politico:
Bennet die-hards drawn to awkward, unusual New Hampshire campaign — The Colorado senator's supporters hope he can emulate Gary Hart's rise from back of the pack to New Hampshire winner. — Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet speaks to supporters in New Hampshire. Scott Eisen/Getty Images
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
Democrats Consume Themselves — Eventually, I am going to get around to saying something about CNN's hostility to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—evidenced, most recently, by its energetic exertions on behalf of the campaign to elect Elizabeth Warren at last Tuesday's Democratic debate.
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The Federalist, Fox News and Townhall
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Warren claims she is the only person running with executive experience
Warren claims she is the only person running with executive experience
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Althouse and The Gateway Pundit
Julie Pace / ABC News:
Facing Senate trial crunch, Dems blitzing Iowa, early states
Facing Senate trial crunch, Dems blitzing Iowa, early states
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Associated Press, Politico and Breitbart
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
‘Pretty nervy of you!’: Trump's Palm Beach billionaire spat — There were certainly other things for President Donald Trump to care about in early December. He was about to depart for the NATO summit in London. Impeachment hearings were dominating Washington.
Audrey McNamara / CBS News:
Puerto Rico governor fires emergency director after aid is found sitting in warehouse — Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fired the island's emergency management director on Saturday, after a video showing aid sitting unused in a warehouse went viral on social media.
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
With Biden, Will Democrats Be Both Safe and Sorry? — Since the moment he declared he was once again running for president—in fact since well before then—Joe Biden has floated near or at the top of the public opinion polls. He's the vice president of a very popular previous Democratic president.
Cat Schuknecht / NPR:
After A Fall At Baylor, Ken Starr Became A Fox Regular, And Then, A Trump Defender — On Friday, President Trump added former independent counsel Ken Starr to the legal team that will defend him in the Senate impeachment trial. — Starr is best known for leading an investigation …
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento / NPR:
Women's March Draws A Smaller, But Passionate Crowd — The fourth annual Women's March descended on the streets of Washington on Saturday. But unlike the first demonstration that brought hundreds of thousands to the capital on the day after President Trump's inauguration …
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Axios and New York Times