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11:50 AM ET, September 12, 2023

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9/12/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  THE TOP … McCarthy and the House Republican leadership scheduled a closed-door session for Thursday morning so that members could get an update on the investigations led by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chair Jamie Comer (R-Ky.).
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CNN:
GOP lawmaker faces blowback from Republicans over anti-impeachment stance  —  Conservative Rep. Ken Buck is just one of several House Republicans standing in the way of the right's push to impeach President Joe Biden.  —  But his high-profile seat on the key House Judiciary Committee …
Politico:
Playbook: The clash that will set the tone for September  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  JUST POSTED — WaPo's Ben Terris takes a deep dive into Sen. TIM SCOTT's love life, a subject that has become something of a thing for the 57-year-old bachelor …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Tim Scott's girlfriend … In June, as Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) began to get a little momentum in the presidential primary, a person working on behalf of one of Scott's Republican opponents messaged me, asking to chat.  —  “Have you seen the video,” he asked over the phone, conspiratorially, “where he says he has a girlfriend?”
Discussion: Insider, HuffPost and The Bulwark
Andrew Solender / Axios:
How Democrats could save Kevin McCarthy  —  As Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) publicly floats a plan to team up with Democrats in an effort to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), some House Democrats say they're not interested. … - McCarthy's allies say he can likely count on most of the Republican conference to support him.
Punchbowl News:
McCarthy will endorse impeachment inquiry this week  —  THE TOP … McCarthy and the House Republican leadership scheduled a closed-door session for Thursday morning so that members could get an update on the investigations led by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) …
Bloomberg:
McCarthy Launches Impeachment Probe Into President Joe Biden
CNN:
House GOP's government shutdown threat set to collide with demands for Biden impeachment
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Va. Dem.  House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips  —  Susanna Gibson is running in a competitive district with control of the House at stake.  —  RICHMOND — A Democrat running for a crucial seat in Virginia's House of Delegates performed sex acts with her husband …
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips: report
Discussion: Twitchy
Associated Press:
Trump lawyers seek recusal of judge in DC presiding over federal election subversion case  —  Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case in Washington to recuse herself, saying her past public statements about the former president …
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Trump files motions to dismiss charges against him in Georgia election case
Discussion: New York Times and Above the Law
CBS News:
Trump asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself in Jan. 6 case
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Trump Seeks Recusal of Judge in Federal Elections Case
Discussion: HuffPost and Bloomberg
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump faces another 14th Amendment candidacy challenge, this time in Minnesota  —  A liberal group filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in Minnesota, the second major lawsuit in two weeks that hopes to invoke the 14th Amendment's arcane “insurrectionist ban.”
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Elon Musk shouldn't be calling the shots on how Ukraine fights  —  I can't feel sympathy for Elon Musk, given the cesspool of antisemitism, hate speech and authoritarian bombast he is creating at X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.  But if he prevented Ukrainian forces …
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Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg:
Putin Praises ‘Outstanding’ Musk While Vowing More Moon Missions
Discussion: CNBC
Tami Luhby / CNN:
Poverty rate jumps in 2022 after end of enhanced child tax credit  —  The share of Americans, particularly children, in poverty rose significantly last year, in large part because Congress did not renew a Covid-19 pandemic enhancement to the child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday.
Discussion: New York Times, Reuters, NPR and The Hill
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Iranian president says Tehran will spend $6 billion released in prisoner exchange ‘wherever we need it’  —  Biden administration officials have said that the funds, the proceeds of Iranian oil sales to South Korea, can only be spent for humanitarian purposes.  —  Iranian president talks prisoner swap, $6 billion deal with US
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
The US moves to advance a prisoner swap deal with Iran and release $6 billion in frozen funds
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Iowa 2024: Biden and Trump Remain Frontrunners In Caucuses, But Both Losing Ground  —  Home Polls Iowa 2024: Biden and Trump Remain Frontrunners In Caucuses, But Both Losing Ground  —  Neither Party with Clear Alternatives to Frontrunners  —  A new Emerson College Polling survey …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘I just had another one’: How McConnell scrambled to protect his job after two freeze-ups  —  The GOP leader emerged from a tumultuous 10 days with his internal strength intact, according to interviews with more than a dozen senators.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's apparent health problems …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Wisconsin Republicans' nuclear option  —  In April, Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court with more than one million votes, defeating her conservative opponent by a wide margin.  Her victory tipped the balance of the court, and the new liberal majority will soon review a case …
Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Senile Joe Biden rambles about pony soldiers, Vietnam and lies about 9/11  —  In April 1968, after he had run through five draft deferments, a medical board determined Joe Biden was unfit to go to Vietnam.  —  Unfortunately, nobody stopped him this time.  —  The president …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Ross Douthat's Theories of Persuasion  —  At a time of distrust and polarization, the conservative Times columnist seeks to bridge the worlds of the Christian right and the secular left.  —  This summer, Ross Douthat, liberal America's favorite conservative commentator …
Discussion: Althouse
Caitlin O'Kane / CBS News:
River of red wine flows through Portuguese village after storage units burst  —  A river of red wine flowed through the streets of a small town in Portugal this week after an incident at a local distillery.  Video from Anadia, Portugal, shows the wine rushing in the gutters and turning the streets purple.
Stuart Lau / Politico:
‘Spying’ scandal shocks Westminster's China circle  —  Decoding transatlantic relations with Beijing.  —  with PHELIM KINE  —  WELCOME TO CHINA WATCHER.  This is Stuart Lau, reporting from Westminster, where a major China spy scandal has erupted over the past 48 hours or so …
 
 
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
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Georgia Republicans mount ‘Fulton Defense Fund’ for GOP electors
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
The music industry is entering a cycle of consolidation, driven by a slowdown at the major labels, the growing market for independents, and the rapacity of PE

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