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12:40 AM ET, January 31, 2020

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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:
Republicans set to shut down Democrats' witness demands  —  In a dramatic, eleventh-hour move, Sen. Lamar Alexander announced he will vote against a motion to call witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.  And it nearly ends any hope that the Senate will consider new evidence …
ABC News:
New witnesses unlikely, Trump impeachment trial could end quickly: GOP sources
CNN:
Lamar Alexander says he will announce decision on witnesses vote Thursday night
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and UPI
Washington Post:   If Senate Republicans give Trump the coverup he wants, his acquittal will be worthless
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.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Dershowitz attempts to clarify controversial argument about presidential powers  —  Alan Dershowitz, an attorney for President Donald Trump, on Thursday claimed the media twisted his words when he made the controversial legal argument that a president could engage in a quid pro quo …
Washington Post:   Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone was a camera-shy Washington Everyman — until impeachment made him a star
The Daily Beast:   Dems Fed Up With GOP's Refusal to Budge on Impeachment: 'It's More Than Frustrating—It's Pathetic'
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump insists he isn't worried about impeachment: ‘This is a happy period’
Discussion: Breitbart
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The reasons not to call John Bolton are ridiculous
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
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Washington Post:
New recording shows access Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman had to Trump at Mar-a-Lago donor event
Yamiche Alcindor / PBS NewsHour:   Second video demonstrates Lev Parnas' access to Trump
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  —  There are nearly 9,700 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in China, with 213 deaths, Chinese health officials said.  —  The U.S. State Department on Thursday warned Americans not to travel to China amid …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
Live updates: World Health Organization declares coronavirus outbreak a ‘public health emergency’
Discussion: Breitbart, The Week and Task & Purpose
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
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Leada Gore / al.com:   Bernie Sanders praised Alabama segregationist governor George Wallace in 1972 article
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: Washington Post, Daily Kos and UPI
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: Vanity Fair, The Hill, Raw Story and VICE
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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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Trump, at Iowa rally, taunts Dems before caucuses: 'We're beating them all'
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic:
Democrats Never Found Their Hero  —  As the final sliver of daylight faded over the Capitol dome last night, it was clear that Democrats' long, frustrated quest for a deus to save them from Donald Trump would produce no machina after all.  Instead, there was only Representative Adam Schiff …
Discussion: Twitchy and The Gateway Pundit
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Politico:
Iowa Democrats fear losing first-in-the-nation status  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Bruised feelings from Julián Castro's criticism this fall that Iowa is too white and too unrepresentative of the Democratic Party to go first in the nominating process have been replaced by spreading fears here that critics could get their way in 2024.
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
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NBC News:
Trump slams Democrats in Iowa days before the caucuses
Discussion: Breitbart
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Atlantic made Rahm Emanuel a contributing editor.  Then, suddenly, he wasn't.  —  Last May, the Atlantic announced that Rahm Emanuel, who'd just left his post as Chicago mayor, would be joining the magazine as a contributing editor.  “The Atlantic will be the primary home for Emanuel's writing …
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 …
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:
Pence aide who testified in impeachment inquiry to leave VP's office  —  A national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence and key witness in the House's impeachment of President Donald Trump will be leaving her post in the vice president's office early to join Central Command, according to two people with knowledge of her plans.
Michael Balsamo / New Haven Register:
AP Exclusive: Barr names new U.S. attorney in DC  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr on Thursday named Timothy Shea, one of his closest advisers, to be the next top prosecutor in the nation's capital.  —  Shea will lead the largest United States attorney's office in the country …
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
White Nationalist State Department Official Still Active in Hate Movement  —  U.S. State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert has been steadily producing white nationalist propaganda in the nearly six months since he was suspended from his job, Hatewatch has learned.
CNN:
Leaked memo shows US border officers were directed to stop Iran-linked travelers  —  (CNN)An internal Customs and Border Protection memo obtained by CNN suggests that US border officers working at Canadian ports of entry were directed to detain and question travelers of Iranian descent …
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Is Still Sad About the Dodgers  —  And he knows how to nurse a grudge.  —  BURLINGTON, Iowa — The role was not an artistic stretch.  —  “My name is Rabbi Manny Shevitz,” Bernie Sanders began, acting in a little-seen 1999 comedy called “My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception.”
William Feuer / CNBC:
Facebook closes down 6%, wiping out more than $30 billion in market value  — Facebook stock closed Thursday down 6.1% after it reported fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday evening.  — The drop erased more than $30 billion from the social media giant's market cap.
Politico:
Senate floor fight breaks out over Trump lawyer claim on foreign dirt  —  Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said he has “no problem” with a White House lawyer's argument that American politicians can accept damaging information on their opponents from a foreign country …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Hill
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Southwest Flew Millions on Jets With Unconfirmed Maintenance Records, Government Report Says
Discussion: Politico
Hannah Bleau / Breitbart:
Elizabeth Warren Made Millions Helping Corporations Evade Their Pension and Healthcare Obligations
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
Wall Street Journal:
Senators Mount Final Bid to Sway Vote on Witnesses
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘C/O Mike Pompeo’: NPR stations see bump in donations following State Department controversy
Discussion: NPR, The Hill and Contemptor
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Ezra Levant tells them to stuff it
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
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Politico:
Trump expected to reveal travel ban expansion on Friday
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
David Pepper / Cincinnati.com:
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NBC News:
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
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Kayla Tausche / CNBC:
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