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Whistle-Blower Is Said to Allege Concerns About White House Handling of Ukraine Call — New details have emerged about the intelligence officer who raised alarms about the president's pressure on Ukraine to open inquiries that could benefit him politically.
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Acting director of national intelligence threatened to resign if he couldn't speak freely before Congress — The acting Director of National Intelligence threatened to resign over concerns that the White House might attempt to force him to stonewall Congress when he testifies Thursday …
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Washington Post:
Seven days: Inside Trump's frenetic response to the whistleblower complaint and the battle over impeachment — After news broke that a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was at the center of an explosive whistleblower complaint, Trump was largely undaunted.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Ice in his veins’: McConnell steers GOP through Trump's Ukraine scandal
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cracks emerge among Senate Republicans over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. rejected investigation of Trump phone call just weeks after it began examining the matter
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Axios:
Democrats ‘disturbed’ after reviewing whistleblower complaint
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Sky Palma / Raw Story:
FLASHBACK: McGahn warned Trump he could be impeached if he asked law enforcement officials to investigate his rivals
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CNN:
Whistleblower tentatively agrees to testify, attorneys say, as long as they get appropriate clearances to attend hearing
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
White House mistakenly sends Trump-Ukraine talking points to Democrats
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
AP sources: Lawmakers, staff to view whistleblower complaint
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New York Times:
Phone Call Showed Only a Slice of Trump's Obsession With Ukraine — Since the 2016 campaign, the president has had an intense fixation on the country, which he believes is tied up in the origins of the special counsel's investigation. — WASHINGTON — It was not a country that would naturally …
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Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Ukrainians understood Biden probe was condition for Trump-Zelenskiy phone call: Ukrainian official — When Ukrainians voted to elect comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as their next president in the spring of 2019, the fledgling administration was eager to coordinate a phone call with Kyiv's …
Murray Waas / The New York Review of Books:
Trump, Giuliani, and Manafort: The Ukraine Scheme — The effort by President Trump to pressure the government of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son had its origins in an earlier endeavor to obtain information that might provide a pretext and political cover …
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New York Times:
Trump's Not-So-Excellent Day — WASHINGTON — President Trump's mood went from feisty to self-pitying to deflated on Wednesday as he fended off questions about a July phone call in which he urged the president of Ukraine to work with Attorney General William P. Barr on potential corruption …
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NBC News:
Trump allies voice concerns about Rudy Giuliani's involvement in Ukraine — Giuliani's role as the president's personal attorney and his claims that the State Department asked him to contact Ukrainian officials have Trump allies concerned. — WASHINGTON — Even as they publicly insist …
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Dems Worry Rudy Would Send Impeachment Hearing Off the Rails — Giuliani isn't really known for his staid public appearances these days, and that's exactly what gives some Democrats pause. — If Congress is to get to the bottom of President Trump's efforts to get the Ukrainian government …
Washington Post:
The Trump-Zelensky readout is a devastating indictment of our president — THE MEMORANDUM on President Trump's July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a devastating indictment of the U.S. president. In it, Mr. Trump presses the neophyte Ukrainian leader …
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NBC News:
Majority of House members now back some type of impeachment action against Trump
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The White House's Ukraine memo destroys Giuliani's attempts to frame the State Department
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David French / National Review:
The Trump-Ukraine Transcript Contains Evidence of a Quid Pro Quo
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Whistleblower complaint has been declassified and contains no ‘surprises,’ GOP lawmaker says
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Full Feed:
Ashton Kutcher Pushes For Trump Impeachment After Meeting Ukrainian President
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It's a Massive Plot.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Pre-Transcript Release, Chris Christie Argued Trump Was Only in Trouble If He Said Something Like ‘Do Me a Favor...’ — Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie proved prescient Wednesday morning on the set of Good Morning America. Just hours before the transcript of a phone call between …
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Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Fox News Civil War: Tucker Carlson Repeatedly Mocks ‘Daytime Host’ Shepard Smith in Jawdropping Segment — The war of words between Fox News personalities over Trump's actions on Ukraine ratcheted up another notch as primetime host Tucker Carlson repeatedly mocked Shepard Smith and parodied the latter's claim calling him “repugnant.”
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Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
The Pee Tape Is Real, but It's Fake — There's a video going around that no one's really talking about. What makes it most unreal is how believable it is. — There exists a video online that, considering the subject matter, astoundingly few people have seen.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Do Us a Favor”: The Forty-eight Hours That Sealed Trump's Impeachment — President Trump began Wednesday in a dark place. “There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have,” he lamented on Twitter, before 8 a.m. The night before …
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Representative Sharice Davids:
Rep. Sharice Davids Statement on House Impeachment Inquiry — Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement on the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump: — The people of Kansas' Third District elected me to represent our community and our values.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Majority of House supports impeachment inquiry
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Pavel Polityuk / Reuters:
Ukraine president thought only U.S. side of Trump call would be published — KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he thought that only U.S. President Donald Trump's side of their July phone call would be published. — According to a summary …
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Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
Trump Doesn't Need to Commit a Crime to Be Kicked Out of Office
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Barr is thrust back in harsh glare as Ukraine scandal grows
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
REPUBLICAN SOURCE: “[The whistleblower] paints a clear path to impeachment.” — Speaking on background to a Republican congressional source who has direct knowledge of the whistleblower report, he says it is really bad. He says the GOP can attack it as partisan because, in his words …
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Actually Has 2 Whistleblowers To Worry About — Don't forget the whistleblower alleging possible interference with the IRS audit of the president's tax returns. — WASHINGTON ― An intelligence community whistleblower has stunned Washington with possible evidence …
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Iowa reporter who found a viral star's racist tweets slammed when critics find his own offensive posts — On Sept. 14, an Iowa man named Carson King went viral after holding a sign on ESPN's “College GameDay” asking for donations on Venmo to pay for his “Busch Light Supply.”
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Aaron Calvin / Des Moines Register:
Meet Carson King, the ‘Iowa Legend’ who's raised more than $1 million for charity off of a sign asking for beer money
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Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Sen. David Perdue OKs Silicon Valley Takeover of College Graduate Job Market — Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) now supports Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) green card giveaway bill, which will allow investors to reward many more Indian graduates for taking middle-class jobs from American college graduates.
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David Welna / NPR:
Pentagon Letter Undercuts Trump Assertion On Delaying Aid To Ukraine Over Corruption — President Trump cited concerns about corruption as his rationale for blocking security assistance to Ukraine earlier this week. But in a letter sent to four congressional committees in May of this year …
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