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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Hillary Clinton in Full: A Fiery New Documentary, Trump Regrets and Harsh Words for Bernie: “Nobody Likes Him” — With four-part Hulu series ‘Hillary’ set to premiere at Sundance, one of America's most groundbreaking (and polarizing) figures opens up about Monica Lewinsky, her marriage …
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Says ‘Nobody Likes’ Bernie Sanders and Declines to Commit to Backing Him — Mrs. Clinton sharply criticized her former primary rival in a forthcoming documentary series, and stood by her comments in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. — Hillary Clinton …
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Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Maybe Hillary Clinton shouldn't sound like a character from a Maureen Dowd column — This is . . . not helpful: … I can understand Clinton's bitterness, and her assessment of the worst of the Bernie Bros is of course correct, but saying you're withholding judgment on whether you'll support Sanders …
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Washington Post, The Federalist, Mother Jones and Balloon Juice
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him”
Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him”
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Cara Korte / CBS News:
Sanders apologizes to Biden for surrogate's op-ed alleging he has a “big corruption problem”
Sanders apologizes to Biden for surrogate's op-ed alleging he has a “big corruption problem”
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Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Hillary Clinton Pleads Ignorance About Harvey Weinstein Despite Multiple Warnings
Hillary Clinton Pleads Ignorance About Harvey Weinstein Despite Multiple Warnings
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Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Hillary Clinton Defends Harvey Weinstein Association: ‘How Could We Have Known?’
Hillary Clinton Defends Harvey Weinstein Association: ‘How Could We Have Known?’
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Twitchy
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil — Mr. Greenwald is accused of being part of a “criminal investigation” that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and public officials. — RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged the American journalist Glenn Greenwald …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A big tell in Trump's own legal brief exposes McConnell's coverup — Now that Mitch McConnell has rolled out the rules for President Trump's impeachment trial, the full dimensions of the Senate Majority Leader's efforts to cover up Trump's bottomless corruption are coming into view.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Mitch McConnell's Potemkin Trial — Everyone's going to hate the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. — The president, who would prefer that there is no trial at all, will hate that it's happening in the first place. Senators as a whole, who may have to sit—sans chatter or phones …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump and his Republican cronies have made three big mistakes — A Democratic aide working on impeachment scorned the 110-page brief President Trump's lawyers filed on Monday. “It's an 110-page tweet. ... Maybe the longest tweet in history,” the aide said.
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NBC News:
Why aren't Democrats making life miserable for vulnerable Republicans on impeachment? — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — It sure looks like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Vicky Prodeline / Polls:
Majority Support Allowing New Impeachment Evidence — But overall opinion of Trump and impeachment is virtually unchanged — West Long Branch, NJ - A majority of Americans say that House managers should be able to introduce new evidence in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Even in battleground states, support for removing Trump is higher than his job approval — But new polling on impeachment largely reveals an old divide — Ask Americans how they view a very specific facet of the Senate impeachment trial focused on President Trump, and they have an opinion.
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
How Voters Grade Trump, Three Years Into His Presidency
How Voters Grade Trump, Three Years Into His Presidency
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on McConnell Cover-Up Resolution — Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on Leader McConnell's resolution on rules for the impeachment trial of the President, which will operate on a greatly compressed schedule and rejects the need for witnesses and documents:
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
McConnell Impeachment Rules Modify Clinton Precedent
McConnell Impeachment Rules Modify Clinton Precedent
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Laura Olson / Morning Call:
Pat Toomey's Senate ‘candy desk’ may prevent hangry lawmakers during impeachment
Pat Toomey's Senate ‘candy desk’ may prevent hangry lawmakers during impeachment
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Sam Jones / Financial Times:
Swiss police suspect Davos plumbers of being Russian spies — Russian plumbers do not tend to summer in Davos. Even those with diplomatic passports. — Five months before world leaders began their pilgrimage to the annual World Economic Forum this week — among them US president Donald Trump …
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Pan Pylas / Associated Press:
Thunberg slams Davos elites on climate as Trump takes stage
Thunberg slams Davos elites on climate as Trump takes stage
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Rachel Elbaum / NBC News:
Trump, climate change icon Greta Thunberg lay out starkly different visions
Trump, climate change icon Greta Thunberg lay out starkly different visions
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Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Supreme Court won't fast-track Obamacare case — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Democrats' plea to consider a high-stakes legal challenge that could kill Obamacare, punting a resolution in the politically fraught case until after the presidential election.
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin voter purge ruling appealed to state Supreme Court
Wisconsin voter purge ruling appealed to state Supreme Court
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The Hill
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Doubles Down on Threats to Impose Tariffs on European Cars — U.S. president is attending World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — DAVOS, Switzerland—President Trump said Tuesday that he is serious about imposing tariffs on European automobiles if he can't strike a trade agreement with the European Union.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
House impeachment managers target top Trump defense attorney Cipollone, claim he is ‘material witness’ — House Democrats prosecuting the Trump impeachment case took aim Tuesday at White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, claiming in a stunning letter that the lead member of the president's defense team …
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Politico:
Democrats reject Trump's impeachment defense as ‘dangerous’
Democrats reject Trump's impeachment defense as ‘dangerous’
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
How Donald Trump's Unlikely Legal Team Will Try to Defend Him
How Donald Trump's Unlikely Legal Team Will Try to Defend Him
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The Nation and The Atlantic
Katherine Tully-McManus / Roll Call:
Senators bend the rules by wearing Apple Watches to Trump trial — The rules of decorum state that senators can't use phones or electronic devices in the chamber during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, but what about Apple Watches? — At least eight senators had them strapped …
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Redstate and New York Times
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Parnas Lawyer Shares Pence Video After Vice President Denies Knowing Him — DO YOU REMEMBER? — Lev Parnas' legal team has shared a video of his client socializing with Mike Pence and his wife after the vice president vehemently denied that he knows Parnas. Pence said during a CNN appearance last week: “I don't know the guy.”
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump Third Year Sets New Standard for Party Polarization — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eighty-two percentage points separated Republicans' (89%) and Democrats' (7%) average job approval ratings of President Donald Trump during his third year in office. This is the largest degree of political polarization …
Martin London / TIME:
John Roberts Has More Power Than Mitch McConnell Would Like You to Think. But Will He Use It? — London is a retired partner for the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and the author of The Client Decides; he was a principal lawyer for Vice President Spiro Agnew.
Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump spreads distortions at Davos — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump spread distorted information about the U.S. economy and his administration's involvement with historically black colleges in a preening performance Tuesday at the Davos economic conference in the Swiss Alps.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What the House impeachment response tells us — The House's response to President Trump's brief ahead of his impeachment trial is succinct and powerful. On the president's argument that abuse of power is not impeachable (despite previous articles of impeachment, the Constitution …
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Poll shows Marshall and Kobach in tight race for Kansas GOP Senate nomination — A new poll shows Rep. Roger Marshall has closed the gap with Republican rival Kris Kobach in Kansas' open seat Senate race, but also indicates the Kansas congressman remains largely unknown to many GOP primary voters.
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Patriots' Benjamin Watson Producing Abortion Documentary — The movie, budgeted at less than $1 million, features former presidential candidate Ben Carson and Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — Due to a Jan. 4 playoff loss to the Tennessee Titans …
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Matt Vespa / Townhall:
The Liberal Media Totally Eats It With Their Fake News Coverage of VA's Pro-Gun Rights Rally — Virginia Citizen's Defense League had their Lobby Day yesterday. Thousands attended. It was probably the best turnout in years. And that's the keyword here, folks: years.
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Max Read / New York Magazine:
Peter Thiel's Latest Venture Is the American Government — In mid-January, at the conclusion of a special meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, the venerable free-market organization, after appearances by Condoleezza Rice and Niall Ferguson, Peter Thiel was slated to give closing remarks on “Big Tech and the Question of Scale.”