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10:35 AM ET, October 12, 2019

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New York Times:
Giuliani Is Said to Be Under Investigation for Ukraine Work  —  Prosecutors are investigating whether the president's lawyer broke laws meant to prevent covert foreign influence on the government.  —  WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether President Trump's …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
‘Stop talking’: Trump advisers want Giuliani dumped  —  For weeks, prominent Republican advisers have been privately imploring President Donald Trump to sideline Rudy Giuliani after a barrage of inconsistent, combative and occasionally cringe-inducing media interviews, according to three people familiar with the conversations.
Discussion: Raw Story
Aram Roston / Reuters:
Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash  —  Aram Roston, Karen Freifeld, Polina Ivanova  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden …
Discussion: New York Post
NBC News:   Lutsenko is unnamed Ukrainian who led plot to oust Yovanovitch, says official
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Indicted Giuliani associate attended private '16 election night party for ‘friend’ Trump
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Who's the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani's Pals? We Found Some Clues.
Discussion: Raw Story
CBS San Francisco:   Ukrainian Andrey Kukushkin, Linked To Giuliani Associates, Arrested In San Francisco On Campaign Finance Violations
New York Times:
Kevin McAleenan Is Out as Acting Homeland Security Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Friday the departure of Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary for the Department of Homeland Security who spent his six-month tenure trying to curb a surge of asylum seekers …
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
Why Trump's Fourth Secretary of Homeland Security Just Resigned  —  When Kevin McAleenan became the acting Secretary of Homeland Security, in April, a D.H.S. official, who knew McAleenan personally, told me, “I'm not sure how he can finesse things with this Administration.”
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Washington Post:
Trump says he is replacing McAleenan as acting homeland security secretary
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Goodbye, America.  Goodbye, Freedom Man.  —  Under Trump, the U.S. becomes the world's fair-weather friend.  —  The time is the early 1980s.  The place is the South China Sea.  A sailor aboard the U.S.S. Midway, an aircraft carrier, spots a leaky boat jammed with people fleeing tyranny in Indochina.
Discussion: Althouse and Politico
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Newsweek:
Exclusive: Turkey bombs US special forces in Syria attack, apparently by mistake  —  A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.  —  Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official …
Reuters:
Iran offers to mediate between Syrian Kurds, Turkey  —  DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran offered on Saturday to engage Syrian Kurds, Syria's government and Turkey in talks to establish security along the Turkish-Syrian border following Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria to fight Kurdish forces.
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:   Bloodied clothes and body bags: Kurds mourn dead in Syria
Associated Press:   The Latest: Pentagon says US came under fire from Turks
Foreign Policy:
Pompeo's State Department Reels as Impeachment Inquiry Sinks Morale  —  As the investigation grows, so, too, does the foreign service officers' legal defense fund.  —  The fast-moving impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump has dragged the State Department into the center …
Discussion: The Guardian and NBC News
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New York Times:
Ukraine Envoy Says She Was Told Trump Wanted Her Out Over Lack of Trust  —  Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine after a long campaign against her by Rudolph Giuliani and his allies.  Her boss told her she had “done nothing wrong.”  —  WASHINGTON — The State Department's …
The Hill:
White House accidentally sends Ukraine talking points to Democrats again
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Warren's same-sex marriage quip captures what some find exciting — and others distressing — about her  —  About 90 minutes into Thursday's forum on LGBTQ issues in Los Angeles, a gay rights leader posed a question to Sen. Elizabeth Warren: How would she respond if a voter approached her and said …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
James Comey Would Like to Help  —  The former F.B.I. director wants an end to the Trump presidency.  And yes, he knows you might think he caused it.  —  James Comey slumps strategically in restaurants — all 6-foot-8 of him, drooping faux-furtively with his back to the room …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Why Shep Smith finally walked out of Fox News for good  —  New York (CNN Buiness)Last month Shep Smith decided that he had simply had enough.  —  With President Trump actively distorting the truth and many of his own colleagues helping him do it, the Fox News star prided himself on anchoring …
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Nancy Amons / WSMV-TV:
News4 talks one-on-one with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo  —  NASHVILLE (WSMV) - The US Secretary of State visited Nashville on Friday and sat down for a one-on-one interview with News4 where he spoke about several issues, but there was one question he refused to answer.
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Andrea Mitchell / MSNBC:
Pompeo refuses to say if he met with Giuliani on February Warsaw trip
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Boing Boing
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?  —  As she injects chaos into the 2020 Democratic primary by accusing her own party of “rigging” the election, an array of alt-right internet stars, white nationalists and Russians have praised her.  —  WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon …
Mathias Döpfner / Politico:
Never again ‘never again’  —  One certainly cannot accuse Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of Germany's governing CDU party, of speaking in overly drastic terms.  She sees Wednesday's attack in the city of Halle as a “wake-up call.”  It is alarm clocks that send out wake-up calls.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chris Wallace: For All the GOP Criticisms of Whistleblower, ‘The Basic Allegation Has Been Largely Confirmed’  —  Fox News' Chris Wallace spoke with Shepard Smith this afternoon and said that for all the Republican criticisms of the intel whistleblower, the basic allegation has been largely corroborated.
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Newt Gingrich's Hypocrisy on Trump Impeachment: 'I Think I Remember …
Discussion: HuffPost
BuzzFeed News:
Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China  —  We thought trade would bring Western values to China.  Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple.  —  “Chinese netizens hail Apple's removal of app that aids HK rioters.”  —  That was how the Global Times …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Favorite Impeachment Lawyer Is ...Trump Himself  —  President Donald Trump has slowly but surely bent the Office of the White House Counsel to his will.  —  On Tuesday, the Office of the White House Counsel delivered an eight-page letter to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Hot Air
 
 
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Harry Reid warns Democrats: Trump is a ‘very, very smart man’ who won't be easily beaten in 2020
Discussion: Washington Times
Annalisa Quinn / NPR:
In ‘Catch And Kill,’ Ronan Farrow Offers A Damning Portrait Of A Conflicted NBC
Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
It is wrong — and corrosive — to conflate ‘unfavorable news’ and ‘fake news’
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump announces partial trade deal with China, lifting hopes that tensions could ease
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Raw, angry, uncensored: Welcome to Trump's impeachment-era campaign
Discussion: New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle:
SF man indicted with Ukrainian associates of Giuliani wanted to open a huge marijuana ranch in Livermore
Politico:
UK ‘softens Brexit position’ in final push for deal
Ed Whelan / National Review:
D.C. Circuit Ruling on Subpoena of Trump Financial Records
Discussion: New York Sun
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New York Times:
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
The Free Beacon Fired A Top Reporter For A “Financial Transaction” With Someone He Frequently Covered
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and Pence plan 11th-hour mission to save Kentucky governor
Discussion: Associated Press
David Priess / Washington Post:
The Senate is likelier to remove Trump after impeachment than you think
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
New York Times:
Trump Taxes: Justice Dept. Asks Judges to Block Subpoena
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Kamala's Fake Lover: Jacob Wohl Told Me It Was for a Spike TV Show
Discussion: HuffPost
 

 
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