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New York Times:
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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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.
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Washington Post:
Impeachment trial live updates: Final verdict could be delayed to next week, after Iowa caucuses and Trump's State of the Union, officials say — The final verdict in President Trump's historic Senate impeachment trial could be delayed to as late as Wednesday — after the Iowa caucuses …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Senate Can Stop Pretending Now — Lamar Alexander and the end of Donald Trump's impeachment trial. — Just like that, at precisely 11 p.m. on Thursday, minutes after the end of the ninth day of the Senate trial of Donald John Trump, Senator Lamar Alexander ended it.
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Alexander vs. Trump — Lamar Alexander voted against witnesses. But did he also come out against Trump? — With his announcement that he will vote against witnesses, Lamar Alexander has finally come to the defense of Donald Trump. — Or has he? — It is certainly true that Alexander …
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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 …
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.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Lamar Alexander's craven surrender to Trump leaves our country exposed — It has been widely observed that each senator's response to President Trump's impeachment will figure heavily in their obituaries. If so, their stated justifications for their biggest trial votes will also help define their careers in service to the public.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Three ways the end of the impeachment trial could play out
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Lamar Alexander's yes-he-did-it statement on Trump, annotated
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The End of Impeachment? — On the menu today: With Tennessee …
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Politico:
Biden argued against witnesses in 1999 impeachment trial memo
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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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Kim Norvell / Des Moines Register:
Longtime Iowa Democrats Sue and Bob Dvorsky endorse Elizabeth Warren for president — Former Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky and her husband, former state Sen. Bob Dvorsky, are endorsing Elizabeth Warren for president. — The Dvorskys join a growing list of Iowa Democrats …
Amy Wang / Washington Post:
John Delaney says he's dropping out of presidential race
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Associated Press:
Delta, American Airlines suspend flights between US, China — NEW YORK (AP) — Delta Air Lines and American Airlines said Friday they will suspend all flights between the U.S. and China, making them the first U.S.-based airlines to do so and joining several international carriers …
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Bloomberg:
For $193, a Flight to New York With a Six-Hour Stopover in Wuhan — Bargain flights between Hong Kong and New York have emerged in the wake of the new coronavirus, as long as travelers are willing to stop in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, in just a few months.
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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 …
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Sanders surges, Biden plateaus in latest NBC/WSJ poll of 2020 Democratic primary voters
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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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USA Today:
Trump defender Alan Dershowitz is wrong. Impeachment doesn't require a crime.
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Harry Litman / Washington Post:
Dershowitz may have argued himself out of relevance
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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 …
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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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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News — Jonah Goldberg, the conservative author and longtime fixture at National Review, used to have a go-to metaphor he'd deploy whenever he found himself defending one of his noisier compatriots in the right-wing media.
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 …
Keith Hennessey:
On the impeachment of President Donald Trump — My layman's approach to the impeachment of President Trump is somewhat simplistic. — We American citizens have the right to choose our leaders by voting in elections. Exercising that right requires that our elections be fair, especially the one for president.
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.
Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
Stacey Abrams Thinks She'll Be President By 2040 — Back in November, right before Thanksgiving, I traveled to Georgia to talk with Stacey Abrams as part of FiveThirtyEight's “When Women Run” project. The 46-year-old former minority leader of the Georgia House made waves in 2018 during …
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Washington Post:
Senate investigators interview IRS whistleblower about alleged interference with Trump or Pence audit — Senate investigators have conducted an extensive interview of a whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service who has alleged improper political interference in the audit of the president …
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Jim Treacher / PJ Media Home:
CNN Calls Out U.S. Coronavirus Task Force for... Lack of Diversity? — The Coronavirus is making a lot of news these days, and it's tough to know how worried we should be. Is it something to sniffle at or not? That remains to be seen, but there's another illness that we know we must eradicate from our society: white people.
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P.J. Huffstutter / Reuters:
U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high: court data — CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. farm bankruptcy rates jumped 20% in 2019 - to an eight-year high - as financial woes in the U.S. agricultural economy continued in spite of massive federal bail-out funding, according to federal court data.
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Supreme Court sets argument date in Trump financial records cases — The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the landmark separation of powers fight over access to President Trump's financial records on March 31, the court announced Friday. — The dispute involves separate efforts …
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