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7:25 PM ET, October 4, 2019

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NBC News:
CIA's top lawyer made criminal referral on whistleblower's complaint about Trump conduct  —  Experts are raising questions about why the Justice Department did not open an investigation.  —  WASHINGTON — Weeks before the whistleblower's complaint became public, the CIA's top lawyer …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump, in August Call With GOP Senator, Denied Official's Claim on Ukraine Aid  —  President Trump denied that he had linked military aid to Ukraine with a commitment by Kyiv to investigate the 2016 presidential elections when pressed on the matter by a Republican senator in August, according to the lawmaker.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Volker Gives New Details on Giuliani's Role in Ukraine Policy  —  WASHINGTON — The former State Department special envoy for Ukraine told congressional investigators that Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, insisted that Ukraine specifically commit to investigate involvement …
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BuzzFeed News:
The Former Special Envoy To Ukraine Told Congress That Trump's Biden Conspiracy “Has No Credibility To Me”  —  Former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker testified before members of Congress on Thursday.  While the meeting was private and a full transcript has not been released, his prepared remarks were obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Discussion: The Atlantic, HuffPost and Axios
Will Englund / Washington Post:
Ukraine's new chief prosecutor to ‘audit’ Biden case
Defense One:
U.S. Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport  —  Repeating “You write propaganda, right?”, officer held passport until he received an affirmative answer.  —  A passport screening official held a Defense One journalist's passport until he received an affirmative answer …
Lawrence K. Altman / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Had a Common Heart Procedure.  So Why the Mystery?  —  Mr. Sanders has not disclosed health details like whether blood and electrocardiogram tests showed he had a heart attack, nor allowed reporters to interview his doctors.  —  WASHINGTON — “None of us know when a medical emergency …
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders' health incident diagnosed as heart attack  —  The health issue that led to Sen. Bernie Sanders' hospitalization on Tuesday night in Las Vegas has been diagnosed as a heart attack.  —  Sanders, 78, said in a statement released on Friday that he “felt great” and was looking forward to resuming his campaign.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Had Heart Attack, His Doctors Say as He Leaves Hospital
Discussion: Axios and New York Post
Washington Post:
A heart attack caused Sen. Bernie Sanders to be hospitalized earlier this week, doctors say
Discussion: Political Wire
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Warren campaign fires senior staffer for ‘inappropriate behavior’  —  Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign has fired its national organizing director, Rich McDaniel, after an investigation into allegations of what it called “inappropriate behavior.”  —  “Over the past two weeks …
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Tom Burt / Microsoft on the Issues:
Recent cyberattacks require us all to be vigilant  —  Today we're sharing that we've recently seen significant cyber activity by a threat group we call Phosphorus, which we believe originates from Iran and is linked to the Iranian government.  We're sharing this for two reasons.
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New York Times:
Iranian Hackers Targeted Trump's Re-election Campaign  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Iranian hackers targeted President Trump's re-election campaign, two people with knowledge of the attacks said on Friday, in a sign of how cyberattacks could become a fixture of the 2020 presidential election.
Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
Rubio claims Trump suggested China launch investigation into Bidens to ‘provoke’ the media  —  Sen. Marco Rubio floated the possibility that President Trump called on China to investigate the Bidens for no other reason than to “provoke” the media.  —  “I don't know if that's a real request …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump's impeachment polling is historically unprecedented  —  Lemon and Cuomo debate if there's enough to impeach Trump  —  (CNN)The poll numbers are in on impeachment, and it's not good news for President Donald Trump.  A clear plurality of Americans approve of the House's impeachment inquiry into Trump …
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JM Rieger / Washington Post:
‘Coup’ talk is proliferating on Fox as impeachment inquiry ramps up  —  Considering removing a president from office via procedures outlined in the Constitution is not the same as a coup, defined as a violent overthrow of the government.  That hasn't stopped at least 15 Fox News personalities …
USA Today:
How Democrats should impeach Trump: A searing constitutional duty, a plan from 2 realists
Discussion: New Republic
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Treasury Inspector General to Review Handling of Trump's Tax Returns  —  WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department's inspector general is investigating how Treasury handled a congressional request for President Trump's tax returns, which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has refused to turn over.
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Treasury IG probing department's refusal to give Democrats Trump's tax returns
Discussion: Associated Press
Joseph Morton / Associated Press:
'Americans don't look to Chinese commies for the truth': Sasse decries Trump's call for probe  —  “If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that's a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps,” Sen. Ben Sasse told The World-Herald on Thursday.
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Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
Republicans Don't Want to Talk About It
Deadspin:
Inside TheMaven's Plan To Turn Sports Illustrated Into A Rickety Content Mill  —  Now that Sports Illustrated's three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven, have completed the callous layoff of half of Sports Illustrated's newsroom and finalized a deal that gives control …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Mike Pence Failed in His Most Important Duty  —  In the throes of Watergate, Vice President Spiro Agnew was caught up in an unrelated corruption scandal.  He pleaded guilty and resigned his office on October 10, 1973.  —  To that point, Agnew had served as a useful insurance policy for Richard Nixon …
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James LaPorta / Newsweek:
Ex-Marine who claimed sexual involvement with Elizabeth Warren lied about military service, Corps says  —  An ex-U.S. Marine infantryman, who claims to be a combat veteran of the Afghanistan war, is involved in a far-right plot to smear Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Jacob Wohl's Bogus Warren Accuser Exaggerated His Military Service Record
Discussion: The Bulwark, The Root and HuffPost
NBC News:
White House plans to spurn Democrats' request for documents in impeachment inquiry  —  Democrats have said the White House failure to produce the material, which was requested this week with a Friday deadline, would be used as evidence of obstruction in impeachment proceedings.
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
House Democrats subpoena White House for Ukraine documents
Discussion: New York Times
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached.  Give Him What He Wants — Immediately.  —  Remember that sultry July day during the 2016 campaign when Donald Trump went in front of the television cameras and asked the Russian government to intervene in the looming presidential election on his behalf?
Discussion: Althouse and ABC News
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Email Leak Exposes Trump Tower Russian's Dirty Lobbying Operations  —  According to leaked emails from Natalia Veselniskaya, Russia's disinformation campaign may have broken U.S. law and exposed details of a witness who later fell from a window.  —  LONDON—The identity of the U.S. government's star witness …
Discussion: Raw Story and CANNONFIRE
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Fake news’: Email reveals lapse by Fox News's Chris Wallace  —  Journalists commonly take leave of their senses when they communicate with sources via email.  They toss out insincere compliments, they make vague and unseemly promises, they disengage from all those refresher sessions on journalistic ethics.
Discussion: Mediaite
CNN:
Trump promised Xi US silence on Hong Kong democracy protests as trade talks stalled  —  (CNN)During a private phone call in June, President Donald Trump promised Chinese President Xi Jinping that the US would remain quiet on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong while trade talks continued, two sources familiar with the call tell CNN.
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Stephen Miller blamed impeachment on Deep State - Bannon says that's for ‘nut cases’  —  The former White House strategist, and a leading voice of the alt-right, was once key in the propagation of the conspiracy theory  —  Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller recently claimed …
 
 
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Revisits Abortion With Louisiana Case
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post and The Week
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / The Appeal:
Interim San Francisco D.A. Suzy Loftus is Running for Office as a Reformer. …
Alex Kotch / Sludge:
Twitter Declines to Explain Taking $1 Million From Anti-Immigrant Hate Group FAIR
Jonathan Guyer / American Prospect:
Washington's ‘Freedom Promoting’ Think Tanks That Ignore Jamal Khashoggi's Murder
Jack Crowe / National Review:
Chuck Schumer's ‘Windowless Basement’ Strategy for Winning Back the Senate
Obed Manuel / Dallas Morning News:
Is ICE trying to deport this U.S. citizen?  Francisco Galicia remains in limbo 2 months after release
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
New York Times Kavanaugh book bombs, just 3,120 sold, Amazon rank #6,795
Discussion: American Greatness and twitchy.com
Kate Irby / Fresno Bee:
How Devin Nunes is defending Trump on impeachment: Sowing doubt on Fox News
Discussion: Breitbart and New York Post
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Anti-Muslim Hate Group to Hold Gala at Mar-a-Lago
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
RBG: Historians will view today's political climate as “an aberration”
The Boston Globe:
PROVIDENCE — Former UN ambassador Samantha Power said Friday she would not rule out running …
Discussion: Politico
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Viral Video About Eating Babies at AOC Town Hall Was Staged by Pro-Trump Group
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Schiff's false claim his committee had not spoken to the whistleblower
 

 
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New York Times:
Sources: if Sony and Apollo acquire Paramount Global, they plan to sell off CBS, cable channels like MTV, and Paramount+, while keeping Paramount Pictures

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Disney and WBD announce a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max, with ad-supported and ad-free plans, beginning this summer in the US, with pricing to come

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD plans more cost cutting to hit financial targets for next year, including the possibility of more layoffs, and has decided to raise Max prices
 
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