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Washington Post:
At least four national security officials raised alarms about Ukraine policy before and after Trump call with Ukrainian president — At least four national security officials were so alarmed by the Trump administration's attempts to pressure Ukraine for political purposes that they raised concerns …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Senior adviser to Pompeo resigns — Michael McKinley, a career diplomat and senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has resigned his position amid rising dissatisfaction and plummeting morale inside the State Department over what is seen as Pompeo's failure to support personnel ensnared in the Ukraine controversy.
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NBC News:
Trump's former Russia aide set to give revealing testimony on Giuliani, Sondland — Fiona Hill's appearance next week before Congress has stoked fear among people close to the president. — WASHINGTON — Fiona Hill, who was until recently President Donald Trump's top aide on Russia and Europe …
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Boing Boing
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden worked with whistleblower when he was vice president, officials reveal — The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a “professional” tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. — Lawyers for the whistleblower …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The drama behind Trump's outreach to Trey Gowdy — DRIVING THE DAY — BREAKING OVERNIGHT ... AP/TEHRAN: “Iran says oil tanker struck by missiles off Saudi Arabia”: “Two missiles struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday …
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Associated Press:
Diplomat removed after upholding protocol, ex-official says — WASHINGTON (AP) — The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was removed from her post after insisting that Rudy Giuliani's requests to Ukrainian officials for investigations be relayed through official channels, according to a former diplomat who has spoken with her.
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The Daily Beast
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
‘Trey is a joke among us’: Gowdy is a divisive addition to Trump's legal team — WASHINGTON — The president's decision to bulk up his legal team with former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy amid a widening impeachment inquiry is drawing criticism from one of his high-profile supporters.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims ‘we have no soldiers in Syria’ — (CNN)President Donald Trump falsely claimed on Thursday that the United States has no troops in Syria. — Trump was defending his decision to remove American troops from a part of northern Syria that Turkey wanted to attack.
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Sputnik International, Defense One, Althouse and Reason
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Lindsey Graham dishes on Trump in hoax calls with Russians — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has in the last year become something of a congressional point man for President Donald Trump's negotiations with Turkey, leading discussions on everything from Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system …
The Dispatch:
The Morning Dispatch: Friday, October 11, 2019
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Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
‘Shame on Him’: Evangelicals Call Out Trump on Syria
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The Guardian, The Federalist, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Syria Fiasco Is Part of Putin's To-Do List
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CNBC and Washington Post
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump Says U.S. Troops Have Quit Syria, It's Not True
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Slate and Al Jazeera
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
The Mystery of Rudy Giuliani's Vienna Trip — Last night, when Rudy Giuliani told me he couldn't get together for an interview, his reason made sense: As with many nights of late, he was due to appear on Hannity. When I suggested this evening instead, his response was a bit more curious.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani's Ukraine Team: In Search of Influence, Dirt and Money — The president's lawyer was paid by Lev Parnas, who with Igor Fruman worked on behalf of President Trump in Ukraine. — WASHINGTON — When Rudolph W. Giuliani set out to dredge up damaging information on President Trump's rivals in Ukraine …
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Bloomberg:
Rudy Giuliani Draws Prosecutors' Scrutiny With Ukraine Allies' Arrest
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Raw Story
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Kevin McCarthy Is Donating the Cash He Took From Rudy Giuliani's Indicted Pals
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Politico, The Hill, Jewish Insider, Axios and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
Indicted Florida Pair Known for Flashy Style, Claim of Trump Ties
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CNN, RedState, The Atlantic, Esquire and The Week
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Dems Want to Know: Who Paid Rudy?
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Fortune, Associated Press and Chicago Sun-Times
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Prince's reps say Trump broke a promise by playing ‘Purple Rain’ at his latest rally. They have receipts. — As President Trump walked offstage from a campaign rally at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Thursday, thousands of supporters in Make America Great Again gear bobbed along …
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The Daily Caller, The FADER and The Wrap
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Stunning in ugliness & tone’: Trump denounced for attacking Somali refugees in Minnesota — For roughly six minutes Thursday night, President Trump predictably singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during his campaign rally in her home district of Minneapolis.
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Al Jazeera, Sputnik International and HuffPost
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Analysis: In impeachment fight, it's Trump vs. Constitution — NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has spent his time in office trying to bend the conventions of the American presidency to his will. Now he appears to be trying to override a core principle of democracy: that no one is above the law.
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Politico, Shareblue Media and Breitbart
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Pentagon officials deemed withholding of aid to Ukraine was illegal — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon was confused. Hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine had been appropriated in late 2018 by Congress, intended to help fend off aggression by neighboring Russia.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Republicans Trash Trump on Syria—but Not Ukraine
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The Atlantic
New York Times:
Barr Meets With Murdoch as Trump Steps Up His Criticism of Fox News — William P. Barr, the attorney general, met privately Wednesday evening with one of President Trump's frequent confidantes, Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul whose holdings includes Fox News, which has recently become more critical of the president.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump predicts senators will quash impeachment. His allies aren't so sure. — Donald Trump made a defiant prediction last week that Senate Republicans will be the bulwark to keep Democrats from ending his presidency. — But behind the scenes, Republicans and Trump's informal circle …
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The White House and Political Wire
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump's children take in millions overseas as president slams Biden's son — Eric Trump sounded shocked that Hunter Biden hadn't drawn more criticism for his lucrative business deals in Ukraine and China while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. — “Can you imagine if I took 3 cents from the Ukraine or 4 cents from China?”
Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
Bret Stephens Backs Out of Bedbug Debate — New York Times opinion columnist and man who thinks it's deeply important to engage in open debate Bret Stephens has backed out of an upcoming scheduled event at George Washington University, where he was set to discuss civil discourse online with professor Dave Karpf.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
New York Sun:
The Biden Boomerang — Boomerang. That's the word for news that Joe Biden is the 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA's so-called whistleblower had a “professional” tie. The ex-vice president had been holding himself and his son out as the wronged parties in this whole contretemps.
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Abbey Marshall / Politico:
Larry Hogan comes out in support of Trump impeachment inquiry — “I don't see any other way to get the facts,” the Maryland governor said. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. Scott Eisen/Getty Images — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan publicly expressed support for the impeachment inquiry …
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Political Wire
Joshua Herr / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Has Done Far More For Gay People Than The Stonewall Democrats — Stonewall Democrats don't want you to know gay Republicans exist. But we do, our ideas are better than theirs, and we're not going anywhere. — There is no easier way to make the left mad than being a gay Republican.
Wall Street Journal:
California's Dark Ages — Why the progressive paragon is living like it's 1899. — By The Editorial Board — Californians are learning to live like the Amish after investor-owned utility PG&E this week shut off power to two million or so residents to prevent wildfires amid heavy, dry winds.
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