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NBC News:
GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, key impeachment vote, to reveal decision on witnesses tonight  —  Alexander is one of a handful of Republican senators who may vote to hear from witnesses during the Senate impeachment trial.  —  Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a key impeachment swing vote …
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United States Senator Lamar Alexander:
Alexander Statement on Impeachment Witness Vote  —  “I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the United States Constitution's high bar …
Politico:
Biden argued against witnesses in 1999 impeachment trial memo  —  In January 1999, then-Sen. Joe Biden argued strongly against the need to depose additional witnesses or seek new evidence in a memo sent to fellow Democrats ahead of President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.
Senator Susan Collins:
Senator Collins' Statement on Vote on Witnesses and Documents  —  Washington, D.C.—U.S. Senator Susan Collins issued the following statement on the next stage of the impeachment trial process:  —  “We have heard the cases argued and the questions answered.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Alexander narrows the path to witnesses  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  “IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to encourage that investigation.  When elected officials inappropriately interfere …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Washington Post:
Sen. Alexander calls Trump's actions ‘inappropriate’ but rejects witnesses in impeachment trial
Discussion: Political Wire and Balloon Juice
CNN:
John Roberts stares down another possible legacy moment
Discussion: Raw Story
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump headed for fast acquittal
Discussion: Redstate and Disrn
CNN:
Lamar Alexander says he will announce decision on witnesses vote Thursday night
Discussion: The Week and UPI
John Delaney for President:
John Delaney Announces Decision to Withdraw From 2020 Race  —  DES MOINES, IA - Today, 2020 Presidential candidate John Delaney announces his decision to withdraw from the 2020 race.  This decision is informed by internal analyses indicating John's support is not sufficient to meet …
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Amy Wang / Washington Post:
John Delaney says he's dropping out of presidential race  —  John Delaney, a businessman and former Maryland congressman who launched a bid for the presidency nearly three years ago, has dropped out of the race, saying in a statement that he doesn't want to take support away from other moderate candidates in Monday's Iowa caucuses.
NBC News:
Trump slams Democrats in Iowa days before the caucuses
Phil Prazan / KXAN-TV:
In Austin, John Bolton voices support for officials called in impeachment hearing  —  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Speaking at a private event in Austin Thursday, Former National Security Advisor John Bolton defended government officials who testified in front of the U.S. House impeachment inquiry.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republican Cover-up Will Backfire.  The House Can Keep Investigating Trump.  —  Toward the end, the impeachment trial's strategic purpose narrowed into an obsessive quest to produce evidence.  Democrats have defined victory not as removal, but as winning a procedural vote to allow more testimony, especially by John Bolton.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump insists he isn't worried about impeachment: ‘This is a happy period’
Discussion: Breitbart
Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone:
The God President  —  Impeachment is a tool of accountability …
Discussion: Washington Post
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Bloomberg surges past Warren into third place in new national poll  —  Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg surged past Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in the latest nationwide Hill-HarrisX poll, putting him in third place in the field of Democratic presidential candidates.
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Sanders, Biden are neck-and-neck in new NBC/WSJ national poll  —  The two Democratic presidential contenders are statistically tied but Sanders has an edge in loyalty of his supporters.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Just days before the first votes are counted in the Democratic primary …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Hill and Jacobin
Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Bernie Sanders praised George Wallace as ‘sensitive’ in 1972  —  Seven years after Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to George Wallace as “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today,” a young Bernie Sanders praised the segregationist Alabama governor.
Discussion: Washington Post and Balloon Juice
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James Kirchick / Tablet Magazine:   Weekend at Bernie's  —  “I am very proud to be Jewish …
Leada Gore / al.com:   Bernie Sanders praised Alabama segregationist governor George Wallace in 1972 article
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump's border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months  —  NACO, Ariz. — President Trump's border wall likely will require the installation of hundreds of storm gates to prevent flash floods from undermining or knocking it over, gates that must be left open …
Discussion: Slate, The Hill, Vanity Fair, Raw Story and VICE
George Conway / Washington Post:
Don't let the defense fool you.  This impeachment is all about corruption.  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  —  The president's lawyers this week floated their catch-all impeachment defense, one tailor-made for President Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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Washington Post:   Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone was a camera-shy Washington Everyman — until impeachment made him a star
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump: Coronavirus will have ‘a very good ending for us’  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to assure Americans about the spread of a new coronavirus, saying it would have “a very good ending for us ... that I can assure you,” hours after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global emergency.
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
State Department warns against travel to China amid coronavirus outbreak
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
Paul Manafort and Rudy's Indicted Associate Igor Fruman Go Way, Way Back  —  The relationship — stretching from New York to London to Kyiv — long predated Rudy Giuliani's attempts to discredit the evidence that played a key role in Manafort's downfall.  —  The web of connections between …
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Yamiche Alcindor / PBS NewsHour:   Second video demonstrates Lev Parnas' access to Trump
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
Dershowitz's Dangerous Game  —  His defense of Trump threatens the checks and balances at the heart of Congress's impeachment power.  —  I will not try to convince you how to vote in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.  I won't even lecture you about the need for witnesses …
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Adam J. White / The Bulwark:
High Crimes and Misdirection
Discussion: HuffPost
Daniel Boffey / The Guardian:
Trump will insist NHS pays more for drugs in trade deal, says ambassador  —  Exclusive: President will put US firms first in UK trade talks, says Kim Darroch  —  Donald Trump will put the interests of corporate America first and demand that the NHS pays higher prices for US drugs …
Discussion: Politico
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Sam Knight / New Yorker:   What Will Brexit Britain Be Like?  —  At 11 p.m. on Friday …
CBS News:
Most feel good about the economy but not the state of the country - CBS News poll  —  Ahead of President Trump's State of the Union address, more Americans feel positive about the state of the economy than they do about the state of the country overall.  As Mr. Trump gets record high approval ratings …
Steve Beynon / Stars & Stripes:
64 US troops suffered traumatic brain injuries from Iranian missile attack, as casualty total continues to balloon  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced Thursday that 64 American troops sustained mild traumatic brain injuries as a result of the Iranian missile strikes on two military bases in Iraq …
Discussion: VICE
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Woman who says Trump raped her seeks his DNA  —  NEW YORK — Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Washington Post and UPI
 
 
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Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
I never said a president could do anything to get reelected
Discussion: The Bulwark and Washington Post
Dara Lind / ProPublica:
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
If there are no witnesses in the Senate trial, it's a miscarriage of justice, Kamala Harris says
Discussion: Breitbart
Politico:
Bloomberg and Biden barrel toward Super Tuesday collision
Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
Trump lawyer blurs lines between charity and profit
Discussion: Mother Jones
 Earlier Items: 
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
‘A Shameful Episode in Our History’: Carl Bernstein Scorches Senate for ‘Cover-up’ …
Discussion: HuffPost
Washington Post:
A controversial Trump legal opinion weakened a law to protect birds.  Now it might be made permanent.
Discussion: NPR
Ryan Goodman / Politico:
Today's Senators Could Be Remembered for a Single Vote
Discussion: NB Blog
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
White Nationalist State Department Official Still Active in Hate Movement
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Atlantic made Rahm Emanuel a contributing editor. Then, suddenly, he wasn't.
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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