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Jake Tapper / CNN:
White House has issued formal threat to Bolton to keep him from publishing book  —  Washington (CNN)The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton to keep him from publishing his book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee:
Engel Statement on September 23, 2019 Call with John Bolton  —  Washington—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement:  —  “President Trump is wrong that John Bolton didn't say anything about the Trump-Ukraine Scandal at the time the President fired him.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump rages at Bolton, says former adviser would have caused ‘World War Six’  —  The president's latest attack on his ex-national security adviser comes as the Senate is weighing calling him as a witness.  —  President Donald Trump berated his former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What the New Bolton-Engel Breaking News Really Means, And Why It Matters  —  We've just had breaking news in an announcement from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel.  He says that on Sept. 23, he spoke to John Bolton and Bolton “suggest[ed] to me — unprompted …
ABC News:
Still silent, senators will begin submitting written questions in impeachment trial  —  Senators can pose questions to both House managers and Trump's defense team.  —  LIVE NOW  —  In unpredictable new phase, senators begin up to 16 hours of questions to House managers, Trump defense team
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
WeWantWitnesses trends after report that Mitch McConnell doesn't have the votes to block witnesses …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
BREAKING: Gardner says he doesn't want to hear from more impeachment witnesses  —  U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said Wednesday that he thinks the Senate has heard from enough witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, taking off the table a potential Republican vote to subpoena national security adviser John Bolton.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators believe they have the votes to block witnesses  —  It was clear to Senate Republicans on Wednesday after a morning meeting between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that the question of having additional witnesses is settled …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hannity's ugly meltdown at Romney: Wanting the truth is ‘Trump hatred’  —  It was inevitable that the Cult of Trump would ultimately settle here.  Any Republican who dares to acknowledge the relevance of facts outside the disinformation bubble that President Trump and his propagandists …
Politico:
Senators pelt Trump's lawyers and impeachment managers with questions
Discussion: Washington Post
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:   GOP Sen. Cory Gardner Just Lost His Seat By Saying No To Witnesses
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dem Caucuses Could Be a Five-Way Contest  —  Nearly half remain open to switching support on caucus night  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and Elizabeth Warren continue to jostle for the top spot in the fifth and final Monmouth University Poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Andrew Yang Says Supporters May Go to Sanders in Iowa Caucus  — Yang spoke to reporters at roundtable before Iowa votes  — Sanders surging campaign could be strengthened by Yang support  —  Andrew Yang said he won't be surprised if his voters end up supporting Bernie Sanders …
Discussion: The Hill
Nidhi Prakash / BuzzFeed News:
“I Would Vote For My Dead Cat Over Trump”: Even Moderate Democrats Say They'd Vote For Bernie Sanders …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Super PAC Attacks Sanders in an Ad.  Sanders Raises $1.3 Million in a Day.  —  As Bernie Sanders shows strength in the early-voting states, his opponents face a challenge: Attacking him can help fuel his campaign.  —  DES MOINES — A Democratic super PAC wanted to undermine Senator Bernie …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
'It's asking a lot': Never Trump Republicans draw the line at Bernie Sanders  —  The rise of socialist Bernie Sanders is frustrating Never Trump Republicans who are hoping the Democratic Party nominates a consensus, center-left presidential candidate they are comfortable supporting in November.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump allies are handing out cash to black voters  —  Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.  —  The first giveaway took place last month in Cleveland …
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Lessons for Life: The Obituaries of Republicans Who Opposed Nixon's Impeachment  —  “Obituaries reflect what the present thinks of the past,” wrote journalism professor Kathleen McElroy.  —  What will the future think of President Donald Trump and two historic votes senators must take on his impeachment?
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Sunny Kim / CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading disinformation online  — Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Dershowitz says a quid pro quo in Trump's political interest is fine and not impeachable  —  Alan Dershowitz argued that a quid pro quo involving a president's political benefit was fine because all presidents believe their elections are in the public's interest.
Discussion: Axios
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Nikki Carvajal / CNN:   Alan Dershowitz argues presidential quid pro quos aimed at reelection are not impeachable
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
Anti-human-trafficking groups refuse to attend Ivanka Trump's White House summit  —  On Friday, President Trump is expected to attend a White House summit organized by his daughter Ivanka on human trafficking, an issue he frequently invokes as a top priority.
NBC News:
Dutch Trump superfan who claimed he surveilled Ambassador Yovanovitch told people he was DEA  —  Interviews with a half-dozen people who know Anthony de Caluwe and documents obtained by NBC News show that the Trump superfan has a shadowy past.  —  WASHINGTON — The Dutch man who claimed …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
One year inside Trump's monumental Facebook campaign  —  A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign's sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters  —  As the Democratic candidates for president spent 2019 battling each other in early voting states …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders is ‘insanely consistent.’ That's nothing to brag about.  —  One of the toughest questions I received during my book tour for “The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right” came from a high school student who asked how she could trust anything I said now that I had disavowed my previous beliefs.
Discussion: American Greatness and The Root
Ben Parker / The New Humanitarian:
EXCLUSIVE: The cyber attack the UN tried to keep under wraps … About this investigation: … GENEVA  —  The UN did not publicly disclose a major hacking attack into its IT systems in Europe - a decision that potentially put staff, other organisations, and individuals at risk, according to data protection advocates.
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Democrats are already bracing for a ‘hostile’ Trump transition  —  Democrats are bracing for the possibility that if President Donald Trump loses the 2020 election, he and his aides will bungle a smooth handover of power — and maybe even try to outright sabotage the transition.
Discussion: Raw Story
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Ben Smith on Leaving BuzzFeed News  —  On Tuesday, the New York Times announced that its new media columnist, a job most famously held by the late David Carr, will be Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.  Smith, who was previously a political reporter for the New York Observer …
Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
Trump shuns Democrats as he signs bipartisan USMCA  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed his signature trade deal with Mexico and Canada into law, sealing a big bipartisan win for him during his heavily partisan impeachment trial.  —  But the celebration on Wednesday was far from bipartisan …
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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CNN:
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MSNBC:
Trump trial lawyer admits abuse of power is impeachable, previews ‘temporary’ defense
 Earlier Items: 
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Giuliani, tries to attend Trump impeachment trial
Discussion: Fox News, Townhall and MSNBC
Kyle Smith / National Review:
Inside the Hillary Bubble
Edward Archer / The James G. Martin Center …:
The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research
Discussion: National Review
Igor Derysh / Raw Story:
Trump's lawyers gave thousands to Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz before the impeachment trial began
Discussion: USA Today
The Daily Beast:
Parnas Lawyer: Giuliani Delivered Graham Letter Calling for Sanctions on Ukrainian Officials
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UnHerd:
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