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Trump Told Bolton to Help His Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Book Says — The president asked his national security adviser last spring in front of other senior advisers to pave the way for a meeting between Rudolph Giuliani and Ukraine's new leader. — WASHINGTON — More than two months …
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Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Trump's former chief of staff says Senate impeachment trial without witnesses is ‘a job only half done’ — WASHINGTON — A Senate vote to end President Donald Trump's impeachment proceedings without calling witnesses should be considered “half a trial,” the president's former chief of staff John Kelly said Friday.
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Washington Post:
The cringing abdication of Senate Republicans — REPUBLICAN SENATORS who voted Friday to suppress known but unexamined evidence of President Trump's wrongdoing at his Senate trial must have calculated that the wrath of a vindictive president is more dangerous than the sensible judgment …
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Senator Marco Rubio:
My Statement On The President's Impeachment Trial — Voting to find the President guilty would not just be a condemnation of his action. If I vote guilty, I will be voting to remove a President from office for the first time in the 243-year history of our Republic.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
What Democrats must do when impeachment is over
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David Siders / Politico:
DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention — DES MOINES, Iowa — A small group of Democratic National Committee members has privately begun gauging support for a plan to potentially weaken Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign and head off a brokered convention.
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Politico:
DNC overhauls debate requirements, opening door for Bloomberg — The Democratic National Committee is drastically revising its criteria to participate in primary debates after New Hampshire, doubling the polling threshold and eliminating the individual donor requirement …
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Washington Post:
‘The center of the orbit’: Endangered Republicans go all-in on Trump — Many of the most endangered Republicans have concluded that fully embracing President Trump is their only credible path to victory in November, rallying to his side in the final days of the Senate impeachment fight …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
New DNC debate rules open door for Mike Bloomberg to make stage
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Candidates brace for frenzied weekend of Iowa campaigning
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New York Times:
Alexander Says Convicting Trump Would ‘Pour Gasoline on Cultural Fires’ — Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, explained why he would cast a pivotal vote against having witnesses at President Trump's impeachment trial, ensuring a quick acquittal.
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Wall Street Journal:
How Republicans Scotched the Idea of Witnesses in Trump's Impeachment Trial — White House, Senate GOP leaders swung into a good-cop, bad-cop routine to keep lawmakers in the fold after Bolton book leak — WASHINGTON—At the White House on Sunday evening, as the phones started ringing nonstop …
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Romney not welcome at CPAC after impeachment witness vote
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Michele Kelemen / NPR:
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Has Retired From Foreign Service — Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until last spring when she was ousted following a disinformation campaign by the president's private lawyer, is retiring — not resigning.
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Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Key Figure In Impeachment Trial, Retires — The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who accused the Trump administration of a “smear” campaign against her, has retired from the foreign service, NPR has learned.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders for Not Working to Unite Democrats in 2016 — In a podcast interview on Friday, Mrs. Clinton also described the caucuses in Iowa, where Mr. Sanders leads in some polls, as “undemocratic.” — DES MOINES — Hillary Clinton said on Friday in a podcast interview …
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Victoria Bekiempis / Vulture:
Weinstein Accuser Says He Has No Testicles — Jessica Mann testified in a Manhattan courtroom Friday that Harvey Weinstein engaged in forced oral sex and raped her in early 2013 and alleged that she was in a twisted relationship with him because of her sexual inexperience.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Administration Adds Six Countries to Travel Ban — President Trump added Africa's biggest country, Nigeria, as well as Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan and Tanzania, to his restricted travel list. — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday added six countries to his list …
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Ted Hesson / Reuters:
Trump's expanded travel ban targets Nigeria, five other countries
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Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Imposes New Travel Restrictions on Six Countries
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America's Voice, Politico, Disrn and ImmigrationProf Blog
James B. Comey / Washington Post:
Trump won't be removed. But we'll be fine. — James B. Comey is a former director of the FBI and deputy attorney general. — When I was a little kid, the United States seemed to be coming apart. The president was murdered in public. The first lady had his blood on her pink suit.
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
A Pro-Trump Blog Doxed A Chinese Scientist It Falsely Accused Of Creating The Coronavirus As A Bioweapon — A popular pro-Trump website has released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan, China, falsely accusing them of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon …
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CNN:
White House officials not thrilled but resigned to new vote timeline in impeachment trial — (CNN)White House officials have resigned themselves to the idea that President Donald Trump will not walk into the House chamber next Tuesday evening as an acquitted President.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘A permanent asterisk’: Acquittal at hand, Democrats sow doubt about Trump trial
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
McConnell, Schumer reach deal to wrap up trial on Wednesday
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Delta, United and American Airlines Suspend Flights to China — The suspensions came after the State Department issued a travel advisory on Thursday night telling Americans not to go to China. — RIGHT NOW The United States government has imposed a quarantine …
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Author Mary Higgins Clark, ‘Queen of Suspense,’ dead at 92 — NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning “Queen of Suspense” whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world's most popular writers, died Friday at age 92.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Senate Vote to Block Witnesses and Documents — Washington, D.C. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement after Senate Republicans voted against calling witnesses and compelling documents in the impeachment proceedings: — “The Senate Republicans' vote …
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Andrea Bernstein / The New York Review of Books:
Corruption with No Consequences, from Bridgegate to Impeachment — Two days before he was sworn in to preside over the US Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts conducted a hearing on a different case entirely …
The White House:
Remarks by President Trump at the White House Summit on Human Trafficking: The 20th Anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 — THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. Please. Thank you. (Applause.) And I want to thank you all for being here as we mark …
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