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12:50 PM ET, September 27, 2019

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Ukraine Phone Call, Alarmed Aides Saw Trouble  —  WASHINGTON — No one bothered to put special limits on the number of people allowed to sit in the “listening room” in the White House to monitor the phone call because it was expected to be routine.  By the time the call was over 30 minutes later …
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New York Times:
Trump Said Ukraine Envoy Would ‘Go Through Some Things.’ She Has Already.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's words about Marie L. Yovanovitch, his former ambassador to Ukraine, were ominous.  In a telephone conversation that has set off a political crisis for Mr. Trump, he told Volodymyr Zelensky …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Newsweek
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Four debunked talking points used to discredit the whistleblower complaint
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump, allies ramp up attacks over Ukraine call furor as Dems hit gas on impeachment
Discussion: Breitbart and Hullabaloo
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jane Rosenzweig / New York Times:
The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write
Tim Mak / NPR:
NRA Was ‘Foreign Asset’ To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals  —  The National Rifle Association acted as a “foreign asset” for Russia in the period leading up to the 2016 election, according to a new investigation unveiled Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon.
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NBC News:
Senate Democrats accuse NRA of promising access to U.S. officials in exchange for Russian business
Discussion: New York Times
Wall Street Journal:   NRA's Ties to Russian Nationals Detailed in New Report
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump, the TV president, finally meets a media story he can't control  —  Donald Trump's presidency would have been impossible without his reality-TV fame from NBC's “The Apprentice.”  —  And he is skilled at dominating the visual medium that still matters so much — even in our digital age …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA undercover officer, says ‘acting’ officials are part of the problem  —  Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.), a freshman congresswoman from a previously Republican district and a former CIA undercover officer, was among the seven moderate-to-conservative Democrats …
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion
Discussion: RedState
Bloomberg:   Kremlin Says It Hopes White House Doesn't Release Putin-Trump Calls
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:   The whistleblower alleged a Trump coverup. A former insider explains how it worked.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
More than 300 former officials call Trump's actions concerning Ukraine ‘profound national security concern’  —  More than 300 former U.S. national security and foreign policy officials have signed a statement warning that President Trump's actions regarding Ukraine are a “profound national security concern” …
Discussion: Task & Purpose and Raw Story
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How a conservative columnist helped push a flawed Ukraine narrative
David Harsanyi / New York Post:   Wherever Joe Biden went, son Hunter cashed in
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are taking a big impeachment risk.  It's not what you think.  —  House Democrats appear to be coalescing behind a strategy of narrowly focusing their impeachment inquiry on the latest explosive revelations involving President Trump's corrupt pressure on the Ukrainian president to interfere in a U.S. election on his behalf.
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo blames angry ‘leftists’ for impeachment of Trump and predicts ‘quote unquote inquiry’ will cause gridlock  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized “leftist” Democrats for pushing Congress into launching an impeachment inquiry of President Trump and predicted the probe would lead to government gridlock.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Seven important and awful signs for Trump  —  The whistleblower complaint is so damning President Trump and his minions tried to conceal it from Congress and the public.  It is so damning that a long list of Senate Republicans claimed not to have read it or refused comment.
Discussion: National Journal, NBC News and Fox News
Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Two Republican governors say they support impeachment inquiry of Trump
Associated Press:
Kremlin says it hopes U.S. would not release Trump-Putin calls, like it did with Ukraine  —  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “we would like to hope that it wouldn't come to that in our relations.”  —  MOSCOW — Russia has voiced hope that the U.S. administration …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia's Fingerprints Are All Over Trump's Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal
Carol Hunter / Des Moines Register:
We hear you.  You're angry.  Here's what we are doing about it.  —  We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers' trust.  —  CONNECT  —  The Des Moines Register staff has heard from hundreds of people in the past few days upset …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Inscrutable Mike Pence  —  PIETY AND POWER  —  Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House  —  After losing his first campaign for Congress, a penitent Mike Pence swore off the dark side of politics.  In a confessional essay in 1991, he wrote that “negative campaigning is wrong” and set out rules for himself for the future.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“It's Management Bedlam”: Madness at Fox News as Trump Faces Impeachment  —  A Trump identity crisis at Fox as Hannity frets, Lachlan Murdoch prepares for a post-Trump future, Paul Ryan whispers in Rupert's ear, and Shep Smith and Tucker Carlson trade blows. n public, Donald Trump's allies …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Impeach him, anyway  —  Protesters demanding the impeachment of Donald Trump in New York on June 7, 2018.  Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images  —  The case for impeachment, even if it can't oust Trump.  —  In Federalist 65, Alexander Hamilton considers the problem of impeachment.
Kyle Blaine / CNN:
October Democratic debate to take place on one night  —  (CNN)The CNN/New York Times Democratic presidential debate in October will occur on one night, the Democratic National Committee told campaigns Friday.  —  “To address several inquiries we have received we are writing to let you know that …
Discussion: Politico and Deadline
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Jeff Flake says ‘at least 35’ Republican senators would privately vote to impeach Trump  —  Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake made a bold claim on Thursday when he said “at least 35” GOP senators would privately vote for President Trump's impeachment.  —  Appearing at the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Will Impeachment Reshape the 2020 Race?  —  There are very few constants in life, but one thing we can count on these days is the consistency of Trump's approval ratings; they are the most stable in modern history.  At his lowest point, the president has never dipped below 35 percent …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Nancy Pelosi: An Extremely Stable Genius  —  When asked if it was possible that impeachment might backfire, the Speaker of the House insisted that politics has nothing to do with it.  “It doesn't matter,” she said.  “He has given us no choice.”  Before we begin to grapple with the gravity …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Bernie Sanders wants to eliminate rich people  —  One of Bernie Sanders' charms, according to his followers, is that he's an unapologetic advocate for his beliefs.  Never mind that most of the 20th century stands as a monument to the catastrophic dangers of his collectivist philosophy, Bernie's no phony!
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:   Biden advisers weigh new Wall Street tax as Warren, Sanders pitch aggressive levies on wealthy
 
 
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
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Trump Killed the Seriousness of Impeachment
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Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Pence Advised Against Releasing Rough Transcript of Ukraine Call
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