memeorandum: The Liberal Media Totally Eats It With Their Fake News Coverage of VA's Pro-Gun Rights Rally (Matt Vespa/Townhall)

10:00 AM ET, January 21, 2020

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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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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.”

Discussion: Washington Monthly, National Review, NBC News, CNN, Politico, Sputnik News, Washington Times, Mediaite, Fox News, New York Times, The Hill, Twitchy, Townhall, Axios, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, The Guardian and Bern Notice

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Biden, Sanders, Social Security and Smears — Lying about a rival is bad, even if you don't like his past positions. — While the news media has been focused on the “spat” between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, something much more serious has been taking place between the Sanders campaign and Joe Biden.

Discussion: Politico and American Prospect

Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders: ‘Nobody Likes Him’

Discussion: CNN and The Hill

Aaron Blake / Washington Post: Hillary Clinton savages Bernie Sanders: ‘Nobody likes him’

Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sanders apologizes to Biden for supporter's op-ed alleging corruption

Discussion: Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, National Review and Mediaite

Nick Coltrain / Des Moines Register:
Bernie Sanders, sequestered to D.C. by President Trump's impeachment trial, asks supporters to carry campaign

Discussion: Politico

Washington Post:

Trump's lawyers, Senate GOP allies work privately to ensure Bolton does not testify publicly — President Trump's legal defense team and Senate GOP allies are quietly gaming out contingency plans should Democrats win enough votes to force witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial …

Discussion: CNN, Politico, The Week and Associated Press

David Morgan / CBS News:

Former GOP Senator Jeff Flake on impeachment: Republicans are on trial with Trump — Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, who declined to seek reelection over his disagreements with President Donald Trump, said Monday that the Republicans' “cult of personality” …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Hill and War Room

New York Times:

McConnell Unveils Rules for Trump Impeachment Trial — On Monday, the president's lawyers asserted he did nothing wrong and urged the Senate to “swiftly reject” the charges against him. — WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, unveiled ground rules on Monday …

Discussion: New Republic, NPR, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politico, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and New York Post

The Hill:

White House appoints GOP House members to advise Trump's impeachment team — The White House announced Monday that President Trump appointed several prominent Republican House members to advise his impeachment defense team ahead of the Senate trial set to begin this week.

Discussion: Redstate, Letters from an American, TheBlaze, Fox News, Townhall, Associated Press and Digby's Hullabaloo

Nicholas Fandos / New York Times: McConnell Impeachment Rules Modify Clinton Precedent

HuffPost: Mitch McConnell Proposes Quick Impeachment Trial With No Guaranteed Witnesses

Axios:
GAO report poses evidence test in Trump impeachment trial

Discussion: Washington Post and NBC News

CNN:
Impeachment resolution shortens trial's opening arguments to two days per side

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Alayna Treene / Axios:
McConnell lays out terms for Senate impeachment trial

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Politico:
Trump recruits House allies for his defense

Discussion: Breitbart and War Room

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post and New York Times

Kim Wehle / The Bulwark:
The New Evidence Against Trump Since He Was Impeached

Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times

Politico:
MAGA stops, TV and the pope: How Pence plans to sidestep impeachment

Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime

Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Don Jr. Admits Meeting Lev Parnas: ‘I Thought He Was Israeli’

Discussion: The Hill, Politico and Axios

Pan Pylas / Associated Press:

Thunberg slams Davos elites on climate as Trump takes stage — DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Young climate activists including Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg told business and political elites gathered Tuesday at the World Economic Forum that they aren't doing enough to tackle the climate emergency …

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 …

Discussion: The Week

Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:

Trump addresses World Economic Forum in Davos, touts trade deals, US economy — President Trump on Tuesday addressed the global business community in Davos while his adversaries back home prepared for his impeachment trial. — Trump praised his own policies for creating a historic unemployment level …

Discussion: Breitbart, The Hill, Politico, One America News Network and The Week

Washington Post: Trump takes a victory lap at Davos, crowing about the U.S. economy and ignoring impeachment

Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Trump calls impeachment trial a long-running ‘hoax’ at Davos Summit

Discussion: New York Post, One America News Network and MSNBC

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.

Discussion: NBC News, NB Blog, Twitchy and Dana Loesch

Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Richmond woman charged with wearing mask in public following gun-rights rally

Discussion: National Review, Washington Free Beacon, Big League Politics and Power Line

Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Virginia Second Amendment rally proves the media hate gun owners

Discussion: The Daily Caller, New York Post, Washington Post, NBC News and NB Blog

Caroline Kelly / CNN:

Dershowitz on impeachment reversal: ‘I am much more correct right now’ — Cooper presses Dershowitz over changing impeachment view — (CNN)Constitutional lawyer and Trump impeachment legal team member Alan Dershowitz said Monday that he is “much more correct right now” …

Discussion: ABC News and Axios

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
‘Constitutional Nonsense’: Trump's Impeachment Defense Defies Legal Consensus

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story, Mediaite and Lawfare

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 …

Discussion: Political Wire

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Justice Department backed Trump strongarm of House impeachment probe — The Justice Department secretly blessed President Donald Trump's decision to stonewall the Democratic-led House over impeachment last year, the president's legal team disclosed Monday. — The legal brief submitted …

Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Trump's Impeachment Brief Is a Howl of Rage

Discussion: Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: The Hill

CNN:

CNN poll: 51% say Senate should remove Trump from office — Schumer: We will force votes on witnesses and documents — (CNN)About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict President Donald Trump and remove him from office in the upcoming impeachment trial (51%) …

Discussion: Washington Post, NBC News, The Dispatch, Informed Comment, Politico, Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA, The Week and The Hill

Daniel Nichanian / The Appeal:

When New Jersey Next Redistricts, It Will Count Incarcerated People Where They Lived — A new law ends prison gerrymandering in legislative redistricting. New Jersey will continue to disenfranchise incarcerated people. — Most states draw political maps by counting incarcerated people …