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James LaPorta / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Official Who Heard Call Says Trump Got ‘Rolled’ By Turkey and ‘Has No Spine’  —  Donald Trump got “rolled” by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a National Security Council source with direct knowledge of the discussions told Newsweek.  —  In a scheduled phone call …
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NBC News:
Chaos in Syria, Washington after Trump call with Erdogan unleashed Turkish military  —  U.S. forces in Syria got an urgent alert Monday morning to pull back.  “They were told, 'We're departing the field,'” senior U.S. defense officials said.  —  WASHINGTON — American forces …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Pat Robertson ‘Appalled’ By Trump: He ‘Allowed Khashoggi to Be Cut in Pieces,’ May Lose ‘The Mandate of Heaven’ Over Syria  —  Televangelist Pat Robertson has joined the chorus of conservative critics lambasting President Donald Trump's decision to pull U.S. forces out of Northern Syria — endangering America's Kurdish allies.
David French / TIME:
Trump's Retreat in Syria Is Dishonorable and Will Cost American Lives  —  French is a TIME columnist.  A lawyer and senior fellow at the National Review Institute, he is a best-selling author whose next book will be The Great American Divorce.  —  Late Sunday night, the Trump administration announced …
NBC News:
Top Kurdish general: Watching over ISIS prisoners now a ‘second priority’
Discussion: The Week
Washington Post:
Republicans deliver rare rebuke of Trump, slamming his Syria withdrawal decision
CBS News:
Warren stands by account of being pushed out of her first teaching job because of pregnancy  —  On the campaign trail, Elizabeth Warren often tells the story of how she was fired from her first teaching job in 1971 because she was pregnant, a pivotal moment that ultimately put her on a path to Harvard …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Breitbart
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Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
County Records Contradict Warren's Claim She Was Fired Over Pregnancy  —  RIVERDALE, N.J.—The Riverdale Board of Education approved a second-year teaching contract for a young Elizabeth Warren, documents show, contradicting the Democratic presidential candidate's repeated claims that she was asked …
New York Times:
Witness in Trump-Ukraine Matter Ordered Not to Speak in Impeachment Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration directed a top American diplomat involved in its pressure campaign on Ukraine not to appear Tuesday morning for a scheduled interview in the House's impeachment inquiry.
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Washington Post:   Demoralized State Department personnel question Pompeo's role in Ukraine crisis
Wall Street Journal:   House Lawyers to Ask Sondland About Efforts to Sway Ukrainians
The Daily Beast:
RealClear Media Has a Secret Facebook Page to Push Far-Right Memes  —  RealClearPolitics has carefully cultivated a non-partisan image—while in the shadows its parent company pushes images of killer Clintons and a freedom-loving Kremlin.  —  The company behind the non-partisan news site RealClearPolitics …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Romney Is the Pressure Point in the Impeachment Process”: Mitt Won't Primary Trump—But He's Trying to Bring Him Down  —  Trump's favorite punching bag is reaching out to fellow Republicans to raise the temperature on impeachment.  “Romney is the one guy who could bring along Susan Collins …
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
The World's Wokest Sports League Bows to China  —  The N.B.A. apologizes on behalf of Daryl Morey, a general manager who voiced support for democracy.  —  Ms. Weiss is an Opinion staff writer and editor and the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.”  —  The national editor of this newspaper …
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New York Times:
When It Comes to China, Silence Is Golden
Discussion: Washington Post
Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter:
‘South Park’ Scrubbed From Chinese Internet After Critical Episode
John Harwood / CNBC:
Polls begin to signal rising impeachment threat to Trump  — Despite last week's hailstorm of bad news, President Trump's job approval rating stood virtually unchanged.  — Except for Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and a few others, GOP members of the House and Senate have either defended …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Poll: Majority of Americans say they endorse opening of House impeachment inquiry of Trump  —  A majority of Americans say they endorse the decision by House Democrats to begin an impeachment inquiry of President Trump, and nearly half of all adults also say the House should take the additional step …
Charles Sykes / Politico:
The Humiliation of Lindsey Graham  —  It was a cri de cœur from Lindsey Graham, the lament of the sycophant scorned.  —  President Donald Trump's decision to abandon our Kurdish allies in Syria by leaving them undefended against a Turkish invasion was, Graham tweeted, “a disaster” and a “nightmare.”
Discussion: Axios
Douglas Hanks / Miami Herald:
Jerry Falwell Jr. settles Miami court case over South Beach ‘pool boy’ venture  —  Jerry Falwell Jr. has settled the Miami court case that laid out many of the details behind the South Beach real estate venture his family launched in 2013 with a former Fontainebleau pool attendant …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside Trump's obsession with polygraphs  —  President Donald Trump has compared White House leakers to spies and mused obliquely to other officials about executing them.  He's attacked individual reporters by name.  He rails frequently against press accounts of his administration, dismissing them as “fake news.”
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump changes the subject  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THINK ABOUT what's transpired in the last few days. ...  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has reoriented the United States' policy in the Middle East.  He's officially changed the Washington conversation from impeachment to a unified …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Report Shows FBI's Top Press Official During Clinton And Trump Probes Accepted Baseball Tix From CNN Reporter  — An FBI senior official who resigned under mysterious circumstances last year accepted baseball game tickets from a CNN reporter in 2016 and lied about it to investigators …
Washington Post:
House Democrats consider masking identity of whistleblower from Trump's GOP allies in Congress  —  House Democrats are weighing extraordinary steps to secure testimony from a whistleblower whose complaint prompted their impeachment inquiry, masking his identity to prevent President Trump's congressional allies …
Washington Post:
Trump's 2016 campaign was run on a shoestring.  His reelection machine is huge — and armed with consultants.  —  Since 2017, nearly $92 million has flowed to dozens of firms providing political consulting services to Trump's 2020 reelection machine.  —  Donald Trump's presidential campaign …
Wall Street Journal:
Friction Between U.S., European Regulators Could Delay 737 MAX Return to Service  —  European air-safety regulator has indicated it wants more testing on proposed revisions to flight-control computers  —  Boeing Co. BA 0.22% 's delay-prone effort to return 737 MAX jets to service has hit a new snag …
Jonathan Chait / New York Times:
Two Candidates, Two Investigations, One Deeply Flawed Agency  —  Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law  —  During the 2016 presidential election, one of the two major candidates labored under the shadow of a criminal investigation by the F.B.I. That candidate was Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Raw Story
email.gpeflow.com:
Leftist Minneapolis Mayor Uses Target Center to Stomp 1st Amendment Rights of Over 1.3 Million Trump Supporters  —  The radical leftist mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is abusing the power of his office and attempting to extort President Trump's re-election campaign by conjuring a phony …
David Siders / Politico:
Sanders heart attack casts cloud over his candidacy  —  Bernie Sanders has been sidelined for nearly a week — after failing for almost three days to disclose that he had a heart attack.  It's unclear when the 78-year-old senator will return to the stump.  His campaign has yet to divulge the severity of his heart attack.
Discussion: HuffPost
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Trump's focus on his base may not help him with impeachment inquiry  —  Voters in critical swing state on impeachment  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump may have more room to fall in public attitudes toward his possible removal from office, detailed results from several new polls suggest.
Jon Huntsman / Wall Street Journal:
America Needs Dialogue With Moscow  —  Sanctions have their place, but some of them are undermining trust without serving their purpose.  —  When I served as U.S. ambassador to Russia, the embassy in Moscow held a regular safety exercise called the “duck and cover drill.”
Discussion: Reuters
Darrel Rowland / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman: Trump wrong to seek help from Ukraine, China  —  While he still says impeachment is too extreme, Sen. Rob Portman readily acknowledged today that President Donald Trump should not have asked the Ukraine or China for help investigating former Vice President Joe Biden.
Veronique de Rugy / New York Times:
These Trade Claims Made by Trump?  They're All Wrong  —  The president and his advisers have been deluded about what big tariff hikes and aggressive negotiating tactics will achieve.  —  Ms. de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Martha Mendoza / Associated Press:
Company making Costco pajamas flagged for forced labor  —  The Trump Administration is blocking shipments from a Chinese company making baby pajamas sold at Costco warehouses, after the foreign manufacturer was accused of forcing ethnic minorities locked in an internment camp to sew clothes against their will.
Mark Bowden / The Atlantic:
Top Military Officers Unload on Trump  —  For most of the past two decades, American troops have been deployed all over the world—to about 150 countries.  During that time, hundreds of thousands of young men and women have experienced combat, and a generation of officers have come of age dealing with the practical realities of war.
 
 
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
‘An avoidable, unforced error’: Trump's Ukraine trap starts worrying allies
New York Times:
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Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump seems unfazed by her husband's possible impeachment
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
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IG could not explain 18-day window between Ukraine call and whistleblower complaint: sources
David Smiley / Miami Herald:
Rubio warns the divided flow of information is threatening democracy in the U.S.
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Overwhelming Confirmation of Whistleblower Complaint: An Annotation
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Book: Trump raged against refugees from Somalia in private meeting
Discussion: New York Times
Doug Palmer / Politico:
Trump administration blacklists Chinese firms linked to surveillance of Uighur minority
Discussion: ABC News
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Kamala Harris forced to address alleged sex assault at husband's law firm
Ken Frydman / New York Times:
What Happened to Rudy Giuliani?
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story