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5:55 PM ET, October 24, 2019

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Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
‘Powerful woman’ Kellyanne Conway mocks and threatens reporter for mentioning her husband (AUDIO)  —  Top White House aide Kellyanne Conway, describing herself as “a powerful woman,” aggressively and disparagingly told a female reporter that it was improper to write about her husband …
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Washington Examiner:
Transcript of telephone call between Kellyanne Conway and Caitlin Yilek  —  This is a transcript of the telephone conversation between Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president of the United States, and Caitlin Yilek, breaking news reporter at the Washington Examiner.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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Wichita Eagle:
‘Insane’ to question U.S. credibility after Trump's Kurdish crisis, Pompeo says
Discussion: CNN
Washington Post:
White House delayed Ukraine trade decision in August, a signal that U.S. suspension of cooperation extended beyond security funds  —  The White House's trade representative in late August withdrew a recommendation to restore some of Ukraine's trade privileges after John Bolton …
Discussion: Political Wire, The Hill and Salon
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Tell Federal Agencies to Cut New York Times, Washington Post Subscriptions  —  White House plans to direct government staffers to not renew orders with the newspapers, whose coverage he has disparaged as ‘fake’  —  WASHINGTON—The White House is planning to instruct federal agencies …
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Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
White House Press Secretary: Those ‘Against’ Trump Deserve to Be Called ‘Human Scum’  —  “The people who are against him, and who have been against him, and have been working against him since the day they took office are just that.”  —  White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:   Trump Cancels Subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Schiff's Secret Bombshells  —  If the testimony is so damning for Trump, why not make it public?  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Bombshell.  The walls are closing in.  Donald Trump's defense has collapsed.  The quid pro quo has been proven, the case for impeachment is obvious …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Allies Growing Desperate for Defenses of Ukraine Scandal
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why is GOP spin growing more pathetic and lawless? Because Trump's defenses are collapsing.
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Shocking photos of Congresswoman Katie Hill are revealed as she's seen NAKED showing off Nazi-era tattoo while smoking a bong, kissing her female staffer and posing nude on ‘wife sharing’ sites  — Katie Hill, 32, has been seen in a series of shocking photographs obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com
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Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Katie Hill admits her ‘throuple’ relationship was a bad idea
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Judge Napolitano Schools ‘Fox & Friends’ on Impeachment: Schiff Just ‘Following the Rules’ Written by GOP  —  Fox News' judicial analyst disappointed his colleagues by explaining there's nothing wrong with “secret” impeachment hearings.  —  After Republican members of the House literally stormed …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Lawyers for Ukrainian oligarch have another client: The columnist who pushed Biden corruption claims  —  Conservative lawyers Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, who this year took on as a client an oligarch at the center of the Ukraine scandal, also represent the conservative columnist …
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Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed News:
The Dark Heart Of The Impeachment Investigation Is A Powerful Oligarch — With Close Ties To Vladimir Putin
Discussion: Washington Monthly
BuzzFeed News:
This Prosecutor Set Giuliani Up With Key Ukrainians — And He Just Got A Promotion
Discussion: Washington Post
Just Security:
United States of America v. Rudolph W. Giuliani  —  Former U.S. Attorneys draft a “Mock Indictment” based on publicly available evidence of Giuliani's misconduct. … While the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel has issued legal opinions that a sitting president cannot be indicted …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Law & Crime, Raw Story and CNN
Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness  —  A. Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, calls the student-loan system ‘fundamentally broken’  —  WASHINGTON—A senior student-loan official in the Trump administration said he would resign Thursday …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Apprentice’ Contestant Says She Has Documents Corroborating Donald Trump Sexual Assault  —  Summer Zervos tells the court about calendar entries, old emails, correspondence with Fox News, and a polygraph test.  —  For the first time, season-five Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos has laid …
Discussion: Raw Story
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
How America's far-left could help re-elect Donald Trump  —  If America's Democrats could adopt a rule on how not to lose elections, it should be to impose a gag on Hillary Clinton.  As it is, Mrs Clinton may already have tweaked the course of the 2020 presidential race.
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Fox Business:   Tulsi Gabbard, amid Hillary Clinton tussle, hits Wall Street fat cat syndicate
Michael Wines / New York Times:
The Student Vote Is Surging.  So Are Efforts to Suppress It.  —  The share of college students casting ballots doubled from 2014 to 2018, a potential boon to Democrats.  But in Texas and elsewhere, Republicans are erecting roadblocks to the polls.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — At Austin Community College …
New York Times:
Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren?  New Polls Differ on Who's Leading 2020 Race  —  Surveys released this week show varying, and sometimes conflicting, races unfolding nationally and in early primary states.  —  Just over three months before Iowans caucus for Democratic presidential candidates …
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Iowa State University:
Buttigieg jumps to second in Iowa State University/Civiqs poll
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and Political Wire
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
N.J. seeks to revoke liquor license for one of Trump's golf clubs, triggered by a case in which a customer caused a fatal car crash  —  The state of New Jersey is seeking to revoke the liquor license for one of President Trump's golf clubs — a rare and potentially damaging punishment …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Political Wire
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Economists rush to help Sen. Elizabeth Warren solve Medicare-for-all tax puzzle  —  “She wants something airtight but easy to understand,” one outside adviser said of Warren's approach to finance huge health plan  —  Internal and external economic policy advisers are trying to help Sen. Elizabeth Warren …
Discussion: Mediaite
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
National Archives probes Wilbur Ross' use of private email  —  The National Archives and Records Administration has launched an investigation into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' use of private email for official business, according to a letter made public this week.
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Fantasy of Republicans Ditching Trump  —  Republican senators will soon be receiving an invitation to tear apart the Republican Party ahead of the 2020 elections, and they are going to decline to accept it.  —  It's a trope of pro-impeachment commentary that it should be simple …
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Voter Enthusiasm for 2020 Is Off the Charts — Especially for Trump Fans  —  It's a running joke among political junkies that the next presidential election is always the most important one ever.  But you could make a pretty good case that 2020 is, in the words of Joe Biden, a BFD.
Discussion: RedState
Robert Griffin / Democracy Fund Voter Study Group:
Early Signs Suggest Trouble for Trump in 2020 Election  —  With the 2020 Democratic primary season well under way, many political analysts — and not a few Democrats — have wondered which of the party's candidates is most electable.  But there's another candidate with an electability challenge: President Donald Trump.
Sakshi Venkatraman / Washington Square News:
Statement From WSN on Decision to Pull Pro-Nationalist Advertisement  —  Last week, conservative pundit Rich Lowry purchased a full-page advertisement to be printed on the back page of WSN's Monday, Oct. 21 issue.  The ad promoted his Thursday talk at the Silver Center …
Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
One-in-five U.S. newsroom employees live in New York, Los Angeles or D.C.  —  New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., are the financial, entertainment and political capitals of the United States - and that may help explain why they are home to a disproportionately large share of the nation's newsroom employees.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Jeff Zucker Says He's Interested in Hiring Former Fox News Host Shepard Smith  —  “When he's available, he is somebody who is very talented and I would be very open to talking to him,” the network president said.  —  CNN president Jeff Zucker suggested that he's interested …
NBC News:
Hunter Biden's legal work in Romania raises new questions about his overseas dealings  —  Hunter Biden provided legal advice to a Romanian charged with real estate fraud, at a time when his father was pushing corruption reforms in the country.  —  In the final year of the Obama administration …
Mona Zhang / Politico:
How Bernie Sanders would legalize marijuana  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his marijuana legalization plan on Thursday, taking aim at the “destructive war on drugs” and large cannabis corporations.  —  Marijuana legalization has long been part of Sanders' policy platform.
Noam Cohen / Wired:
Why Zuckerberg's Embrace of Mayor Pete Should Worry You  —  Some in Silicon Valley see the technocratic wonder boy from South Bend as a safe alternative to the big-tech crackdown promised by Elizabeth Warren.  —  We recently learned that Elizabeth Warren is the kind of presidential candidate …
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
Buttigieg May Face Subpoena  —  An attorney for the South Bend Common Council told The Young Turks he may subpoena witnesses — possibly including Mayor Pete Buttigieg — starting as early as next week, to testify about police issues including Buttigieg's demotion of Darryl Boykins, the city's first black police chief.
William Mattox / Wall Street Journal:
Impeachment Needs a Replay Booth  —  An acquittal should allow a president to run for a third term.  —  I know impeachment is supposed to be an extremely weighty matter that demands every citizen's attention, but part of me would like the never-ending histrionics to go away so that I can give my undivided attention to football.
Discussion: alicublog
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
House Dems Accuse Impeachment Witnesses of Coordinating Testimony  —  The evidence concerns two unnamed witnesses in particular, said Rep. Eric Swallwell.  —  Some Democrats involved in the impeachment inquiry are beginning to suspect that certain witnesses have coordinated with each …
 
 
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Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Political Wire
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