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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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Cara Korte / CBS News:
Sanders apologizes to Biden for surrogate's op-ed alleging he has a “big corruption problem” — Des Moines, Iowa — Senator Bernie Sanders apologized to former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday for an op-ed written by one of his campaign surrogates that claimed Biden has a “big corruption problem.”
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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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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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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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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 — The Senate Republican leader proposed impeachment trial rules that push the 1999 precedent toward President Trump's preferences. — WASHINGTON — For weeks, Senator Mitch McConnell sought to deflect charges that he was trying to stack …
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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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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Mitch McConnell's Potemkin Trial
Mitch McConnell's Potemkin Trial
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Axios:
GAO report poses evidence test in Trump impeachment trial
GAO report poses evidence test in Trump impeachment trial
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Impeachment trial rules seem written in the White House, not the Senate, Schumer says
Impeachment trial rules seem written in the White House, not the Senate, Schumer says
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David Morgan / CBS News:
Former GOP Senator Jeff Flake on impeachment: Republicans are on trial with Trump
Former GOP Senator Jeff Flake on impeachment: Republicans are on trial with Trump
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump and his Republican cronies have made three big mistakes
Trump and his Republican cronies have made three big mistakes
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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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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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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
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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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.”
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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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Virginia Second Amendment rally proves the media hate gun owners
Virginia Second Amendment rally proves the media hate gun owners
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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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Sacramento Bee:
Devin Nunes' Ukraine lies are a betrayal. Voters in his district deserve better — Kiev, Ukraine, is nearly 6,200 miles from Tulare, Calif. That's a long way from home for Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, who now faces explosive allegations that he and his staff contacted shadowy Ukrainian figures …
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Kim Wehle / The Bulwark:
The New Evidence Against Trump Since He Was Impeached
The New Evidence Against Trump Since He Was Impeached
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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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Will Weissert / ABC News:
Warren wants task force to investigate Trump administration — Elizabeth Warren says she'll create a federal task force to investigate corruption during the Trump administration if she's elected president — WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren says she'll create a federal task force …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Biden, Sanders, Social Security and Smears
Biden, Sanders, Social Security and Smears
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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 …
The Boston Globe:
Sanders, Biden lead tight pack of front-runners in Suffolk/Globe New Hampshire poll — Senator Bernie Sanders has the slimmest of leads among a knot of four top presidential contenders, with Senator Elizabeth Warren dropping to the rear of the top tier amid significantly weaker support among men …
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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.
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.
Brett Neely / NPR:
NPR Poll: Majority Of Americans Believe Trump Encourages Election Interference — Weeks before the first votes of the 2020 presidential election, Americans report a high level of concern about how secure that election will be and worry about the perils of disinformation, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll.
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
How Voters Grade Trump, Three Years Into His Presidency — Overall marks have stayed about the same since Trump's first year, but he's getting more A's on jobs, economy — President Donald Trump speaks during a Jan. 16 event in the Oval Office. A new poll found voters are grading …
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