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Washington Post:
Trump ordered hold on military aid days before calling Ukrainian president, officials say  —  President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured …
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column: The most noxious part of Ukraine-Biden whistleblower affair is Team Trump thinks we're all idiots  —  What offends me most about the whistleblower-Ukraine-Biden story isn't the obvious corruption of it all.  It's the way members of Team Trump assume we're all idiots who won't notice they've abruptly shifted their narrative.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
David Vance / Common Cause:
DOJ & FEC Complaints Filed Against President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Others for Illegal Solicitation of Contribution from Ukrainian President … Today, Common Cause filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that President Donald Trump …
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
‘The dam could break’ on impeachment this week  —  Analysis: Democrats had been holding back as they ready a slew of charges against President Donald Trump.  The Ukraine affair may force them forward.  —  Impeachment is getting a jump-start.  —  Sure, some intervention — divine …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Blurts Out to Reporters That He Pressured Ukraine to Smear Biden  —  Over the past two days, President Trump has drained most of the remaining mystery from the world's least mysterious crime drama.  In a series of comments to the media, the president casually revealed that yes …
Discussion: Splinter, Vanity Fair and Mediaite
OpenSecrets.org:
Trump's Ukraine call raises questions about campaign finance rules on foreign interference  —  President Donald Trump acknowledged this weekend that he discussed former Vice President Joe Biden and his son during a July phone call with Ukraine's president, leading critics to question whether Trump …
Washington Post:
In Ukraine, Trump's allies are corrupt oligarchs and Russian stooges  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP is right about Ukraine in one respect: For many years, the country's politics have been dominated by a complex and ugly struggle over corruption.  The short version is this: An underdog movement …
The Daily Beast:
Rudy and Bannon Are Going After Hunter Biden on China
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and The Week
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Pence Gave Ukraine the Message Too
Washington Post:
Trump uses U.N. meeting to wage domestic political attack on Biden
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
On support for Ukraine, extra $140 million draws scrutiny
Washington Post:
Senate Republicans dodge questions on Trump-Ukraine whistleblower complaint
Discussion: CNN, NPR and Los Angeles Times
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What Trump's Interloping with Ukraine Means for the Future of the Presidency
Discussion: Vox, CNN, The Federalist and Power Line
Washington Post:
Seven freshman Democrats: These allegations are a threat to all we have sworn to protect  —  Reps. Gil Cisneros of California, Jason Crow of Colorado, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Elaine Luria of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia are all freshman Democrats.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
Pelosi quietly sounding out House Democrats about whether to impeach Trump, officials say  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been quietly sounding out top allies and lawmakers about whether the time has come to impeach President Trump, according to multiple Democratic officials …
Discussion: Raw Story, Vanity Fair and RedState
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How we'll know if the impeachment dam starts to break  —  Politico reports that the latest revelations about President Trump, Ukraine and the whistleblower are so bad that even House Democrats in difficult districts are now seriously thinking about backing an impeachment inquiry:
Discussion: The Week
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The intelligence watchdog at the center of Ukraine firestorm  —  The intelligence community's chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, is known to his peers and colleagues as a highly cautious “straight shooter” who tends to keep his head down.  —  So when he sounded the alarm to Congress earlier …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:   Democratic all-stars line up to back Trump impeachment
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
‘Inherent contempt’: How House Democrats could fine or even jail Trump officials who refuse to cooperate
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Consequence of No Consequences
Discussion: CNN, VICE and Common Dreams
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Dems moving to formally condemn Trump as impeachment fever grows
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Why Trump Will Survive Even This  —  Nobody is going to hold …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Howard / Capitol Weekly:
Warren takes California lead in new CA120 tracking poll  —  The latest monthly tracking poll for California's March 2020 Democratic primary election shows Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren increasing her share of the vote, for the first time pushing former Vice President Joe Biden down to third place among likely voters.
Discussion: Breitbart and Political Wire
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Elizabeth Warren's choice: ‘Medicare for All’ purity or a path to beating Donald Trump?
Discussion: DemCast and Iowa Starting Line
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats are stuck in a doom loop of premature polling
Discussion: Breitbart and archive.is
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’
Discussion: Politico and Common Dreams
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump Humiliates Himself At UN By Whining About Obama's Nobel Prize  —  Trump is using his time at the UN to whine that Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize and he has not.  —  Trump was asked about getting a Nobel Prize, and he answered, “I think I am going to get a Nobel prize for a lot of things.
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:   Trump claims Nobel Peace Prize is rigged against him
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he is worthy of a Nobel Prize ‘for a lot of things’ — but isn't treated fairly
Discussion: Breitbart, The New Neo and The Week
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World  —  In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.  —  Mr. Sulzberger is the publisher of The New York Times.  —  [This Op-Ed was originally delivered as a talk at Brown University on Monday.]
Toby Eckert / Politico:
New York prosecutors reject Trump's immunity claim in tax returns case  —  President Donald Trump has no “sweeping immunity” from a criminal probe while he remains in office, New York prosecutors said in a court filing Monday urging a federal judge to reject Trump's effort to block a subpoena for his tax returns.
Discussion: The Week
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NBC News:   Manhattan DA asks judge to toss Trump bid to keep tax returns secret
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Richard Cohen Leaves the Washington Post  —  Seriously, this is the whole thing: … Cohen joined the Post in 1968 and became an opinion writer in 1984.  He helped get the redesigned Post magazine off to an extremely rocky start only two years later with a piece that sympathized …
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
DNC raises threshold to make November debate stage  —  The Democratic National Committee has slightly raised the bar to qualify for the November primary debate in a move unlikely to significantly reduce the number of participating candidates.  —  Candidates will need to clear 3 percent …
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Megan Sheets / Daily Mail:
Conservative commentator and climate change denier Dinesh D'Souza compares teen eco-warrior Greta Thunberg to an Aryan poster girl used by the NAZIS  — ‘Children—notably Nordic white girls with braids and red cheeks—were often used in Nazi propaganda,’ the far-right filmmaker wrote
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Ben Jacobs / Jewish Insider:
Pete Buttigieg: College football is ‘problematic’  —  The Notre Dame fan and presidential hopeful thinks the amateur model 'isn't fair anymore'  —  ELKADER, IOWA — Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said he had moral qualms about being a college football fan and found it “problematic” on Monday.
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Boris Johnson Faces a New Scandal, and ‘People See Blood in the Water’  —  LONDON — On Prime Minister Boris Johnson's turbulent path to Downing Street, serial philandering and ethical sloppiness became part of his schtick, blots on a career so chaotic and beguiling that the British public always seemed to forgive the mistakes.
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Boris Johnson: Trump is the “one guy” to broker new Iran nuclear deal
 
 
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Republicans Have Four Options on Trump and Ukraine. They're All Bad.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Republican National Committee paid over $160,000 to law firm defending Corey Lewandowski a month …
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