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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Rudy Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump is Pressuring Ukraine to Smear Clinton and Biden  —  In 2016, Donald Trump's campaign learned Russia was working to help him win, and many of its members actively sought to exploit that assistance.  In 2020, now possessing the powers of the Executive Branch, it's pressuring …
Discussion: Fox News
NBC News:
Team Trump wants another foreign government's help for 2020  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — In 2016, the Trump campaign gladly accepted Russia's help to defeat Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Just Security, USA Today and Politico
New York Times:
A Strategy Emerges to Counter House Democrats: Dare Them to Impeach  —  WASHINGTON — As the White House and Congress escalate their constitutional showdown, President Trump and his team are essentially trying to call what they see as the Democrats' bluff.  The message: Put up or shut up.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
If This Is a Constitutional Crisis, Act Like It  —  Democrats in Congress need to deploy all their powers, including impeachment.  —  In their best-selling 2018 book “How Democracies Die,” the Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt wrote about the concept of “constitutional hardball …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Nadler Really Wants  —  His strategy clearly aims …
Discussion: Power Line, Fox News and The Hill
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Here's why Democrats may rethink impeaching Trump
Discussion: Informed Comment
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   Is This the Official Trump Constitutional Crisis?
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Petitions with 10 million signatures to impeach Trump delivered to Congress
Discussion: TheBlaze and Axios
New York Times:
Allies of Trump's Son Declare War on G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel After Subpoena  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr.'s political allies launched an all-out war against the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee, turning several Republican senators Thursday against the panel's chairman amid news …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Donald Trump Jr.'s endgame  —  A single senator criticizing a fellow senator of the same party, especially a committee chair, is rare enough, but six Republican senators criticized the decision by Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. about the Russia investigation.
Discussion: RedState, Raw Story, Jezebel and Mediaite
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Trump shouldn't worry about Trump Jr. subpoena
Discussion: Political Wire
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: McConnell holds reins in GOP's Don Jr. fight
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff considers fining Trump officials held in contempt $25,000 a day  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told Axios' Mike Allen Friday that the House is considering reviving its “inherent contempt” power, which would allow Congress to enforce subpoenas through coercive measures like fines.
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Americans' support for impeaching Trump rises: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, The Hill and TheBlaze
Axios:
Trump's new impeachment trap
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Exclusive: Presidential hopeful Biden looking for ‘middle ground’ climate policy  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is crafting a climate change policy he hopes will appeal to both environmentalists and the blue-collar voters that elected Donald Trump …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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Ben Geman / Axios:   The state of the Green New Deal
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Ocasio-Cortez ‘entertaining’ idea of endorsing 2020 Democratic candidate, possibly Sanders or Warren
Discussion: Politico and Townhall
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Experts see Russia fingerprints on North Korea's new missile  —  TOKYO (AP) — The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian military …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Trump misses Bob Mueller
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
US hikes tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing vows retaliation  —  BEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump's latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China's technology ambitions and other trade tensions.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Associated Press:
US B-52 bombers land in Qatar over unspecified Iran threat  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged Friday.
Politico:
House Intel Republicans offer rare praise for Adam Schiff  —  Republicans once called for Schiff's resignation.  Now they credit him with bringing the committee together.  —  President Donald Trump and Republicans have harangued House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sean Illing / Vox:
How golf explains Trump.  Seriously.  —  “This guy cheats like a mafia accountant.”  —  Have you ever won a tournament you never competed in?  Have you ever stolen the ball from a child to gain a competitive advantage?  —  If the answer to either or both of those questions is no, then you're not cheating at the highest level.
Discussion: Common Dreams
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
HUD says 55,000 children could be displaced under Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants  —  The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children, all of whom are legal U.S. residents or citizens.
Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted  —  The FBI has opened a public corruption investigation into Republican donor and South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, focusing on whether she illegally funneled money from China …
It's Going Down:
“We're Gonna Run the Country!  White Power!  F**k N*****s!":  Turning Point USA Leader Gives Alt-Right Hand Sign While Caught on Racist Rant  —  A video sent to It's Going Down and already going viral on various Facebook pages, shows the leader of the Las Vegas chapter of Turning Point USA …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Beto's Long History of Failing Upward  —  AMES, Iowa—The presidential run of Beto O'Rourke is a profoundly personality-driven exercise, his charisma and Kennedy-esque demeanor the topic of one profile after another, so it's surprising to listen to his speeches on the stump in which he doesn't talk a whole lot about himself.
Discussion: The Resurgent and Mother Jones
Tim Mak / NPR:
Exclusive: Documents Detail Meetings Of Russians With Treasury, Federal Reserve  —  Newly obtained documents describe what happened when two now-infamous Russians took their outreach campaign into the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve in 2015.  —  Alexander Torshin …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Baker / Lawfare:
Why I Do Not Hate Donald Trump  —  Many people would probably believe me justified in hating Donald Trump.  —  While I was general counsel of the FBI, I watched the president fire my boss and friend, Jim Comey.  I've read and heard the many false statements that the president and his supporters have made about him.
Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
Alabama Lt. Governor Admits State Abortion Ban Is Direct Attempt To End Roe v. Wade  —  Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth also gave credit to President Trump for adding conservative judges who could make the path to overturning the landmark ruling easier.  —  After the Alabama Senate erupted …
Discussion: VICE, NBC News and Talking Points Memo
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Three Production Companies Say They Won't Film in Georgia Over Abortion Law  —  David Simon's Blown Deadline Productions, Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon and Mark Duplass pledged to no longer shoot in the state as long as the law exists.  —  Georgia, no stranger to threats of boycotts due …
Charles Leerhsen / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen  —  On Tuesday, the New York Times scooped the world on the news that from 1985 to 1994, Donald Trump incurred the biggest business losses of any single taxpayer in American history.
Kamala Harris / ELLE:
Sen. Kamala Harris on Being ‘Momala’  —  California Senator Kamala Harris announced in January that she would be running for president.  But aside from being a United States Senator and a 2020 presidential candidate, she's also a stepmom to her husband Doug's children, Cole and Ella.
Discussion: Shakesville
 
 
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Grace Segers / CBS News:
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Herbert G. McCann / Associated Press:
Farrakhan says he doesn't hate Jewish people
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Looking at the Mueller report from a mental health perspective
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It turns out Trump's business success was a media-made myth
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
‘Things were often a bit not normal’: Rosenstein gets fond, jokey send-off from Justice Dept.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge fast-tracks fight over congressional subpoena of Trump financial records
Discussion: New York Times and Law & Crime
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA
 

 
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