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7:25 AM ET, October 24, 2019

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TMZ.com:
Matt Gaetz Says Storming Impeachment Hearings was Like ‘300’  —  Congressman Matt Gaetz sure is feeling himself after leading the blitz of House Republicans into private impeachment hearings — delaying them for hours — and he's glowing about scoring brownie points with POTUS.
Discussion: UPI
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Here's why the Matt Gaetz sit-in stunt was particularly weird  —  Allies of President Trump are still trying to get their sea legs in response to the still-expanding scandal involving Trump's efforts to compel Ukraine to launch investigations helpful to him.
HuffPost:
Republicans Try To Storm Impeachment Room, Break Rules In Process  —  Lawmakers bumrushed a secure room while improperly carrying their cell phones.  —  WASHINGTON ― In the latest attempts to make a circus out of the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into President Donald Trump's dealings …
Addy Baird / BuzzFeed News:
Republicans Stormed Into The Impeachment Investigation's Secure Room, And It Was Absolute Madness
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
No. 2 GOP senator: ‘Picture coming out of’ diplomat's testimony ‘not a good one’
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
Ursula Perano / Axios:   13 Republicans involved in impeachment protest already have access to hearings
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:   House Republicans May Have Committed Some Light Treason
The Daily Beast:
House Republicans Literally Storm the Impeachment Hearings
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Republicans Grind Impeachment Inquiry to Halt as Picture Darkens for Trump
Discussion: Axios, Law & Crime and Breitbart
CNN:
Rudy Giuliani is looking for a defense attorney, sources say  —  (CNN)Rudy Giuliani has been approaching defense attorneys for possible representation, according to three sources familiar with the matter.  —  The move by Giuliani, who is President Donald Trump's personal attorney …
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Raw Story
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CNN:
How two businessmen hustled to profit from access to Rudy Giuliani and the Trump administration  —  Washington (CNN)Long before they burst onto the national scene with their high-profile arrests at Dulles International Airport earlier this month, Soviet-born businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman …
New York Times:
Indicted Giuliani Associate Ties Case to Trump  —  The connection was made as two associates of Rudolph W. Giuliani pleaded not guilty in federal court in Manhattan.  —  One of the two indicted associates of President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Wednesday tied the case …
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
U.S. ambassador to E.U. ‘does not recall’ threatening Ukraine over funding, attorney says  —  House Democrats say testimony provided Tuesday by William B. Taylor Jr., the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, could prove devastating to President Trump, showing he had his E.U. ambassador attempt to extort Ukraine using taxpayer money.
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Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Trump Pressed Ukraine's President to Act Out a Fake News Script, Live on CNN
Washington Post:
House Democrats look to take impeachment probe public as soon as mid-November
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
The President Has No Defense  —  It's hard to overstate …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and ABC News
New York Times:
Trump's War on the ‘Deep State’ Turns Against Him  —  The impeachment inquiry is in some ways the culmination of a battle between the president and the government institutions he distrusted and disparaged.  —  WASHINGTON — Nameless, faceless and voiceless, the C.I.A. officer who first triggered …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Cornyn: Not a bad idea to get U.S. troops out of the way if Turkey planned to ‘ethnically cleanse the Kurds’  —  The Texas Republican isn't happy about the abrupt U.S. withdrawal but lauded Trump's move, even if it left Kurdish allies unprotected.  —  WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. John Cornyn lauded …
Discussion: Contemptor and spiked
Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Rep. Katie Hill says she had ‘inappropriate’ relationship with campaign staffer and is under House investigation  —  Rep. Katie Hill (D-Santa Clarita) is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee after allegations that she engaged in an affair with a congressional aide were made public last week.
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
If Republicans don't stand by Trump, they risk losing their base forever  —  The Republican Party risks exile for longer than it has endured in the modern era if, in the absence of incontrovertible evidence of actual “high crimes and misdemeanors,” it deserts President Trump during the campaign to remove him from office.
Anna Momigliano / New York Times:
Italy Did Not Fuel U.S. Suspicion of Russian Meddling, Prime Minister Says  —  Casting holes in a Trump conspiracy theory, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte revealed details of two visits to Rome by Attorney General William P. Barr.  —  ROME — Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB looking into longtime umpire Rob Drake's tweet  —  Longtime major league umpire Rob Drake tweeted that he planned to buy an assault rifle “because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL WAR!!!  #MAGA2020”, according to a copy of the tweet obtained by ESPN.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
State Dept. ordered to turn over Ukraine documents  —  WASHINGTON — In what could prove a highly consequential ruling, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to start turning over documents regarding potentially improper White House influence on diplomacy in Ukraine.
Discussion: RedState
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The Daily Beast:
Pompeo Gets Drawn Deeper—Way Deeper—Into the Ukraine Scandal
Discussion: Associated Press and Axios
Melissa Leon / Fox News:
Judge orders State Department to produce Ukraine documents
Discussion: Occupy Democrats, UPI and ABC News
Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
UN expert: Iran continues to execute children, has 90 on death row  —  Javaid Rehman says 7 minors were put to death last year and 2 so far this year; killings come despite human rights law prohibiting death penalty for anyone under age 18  —  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran executed seven child offenders …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Watch AOC ask Mark Zuckerberg if she can run fake Facebook ads, too  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came prepared with questions for Mark Zuckerberg when he appeared on Capitol Hill on October 23, 2019.  Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images  —  Zuckerberg's answer on whether Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
MSNBC announces four all-star female moderators for November debate  —  The two-hour Democratic face off will take place on Nov. 20 in Georgia.  —  The fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Georgia will have four moderators, MSNBC announced on Wednesday — and all of them are women.
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Exclusive: Trump Wants To Pick Cuccinelli For DHS, But Worries Senate Would Balk  —  President Trump has told Republican allies in the Senate that he would like to nominate immigration hard-liner Ken Cuccinelli as his next Homeland Security secretary, but has said he does not believe Republican Senate leaders …
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Spain Is Exhuming Franco After Long and Bitter Battle  —  The removal of the dictator's remains from a basilica near Madrid, weeks before a national election, was denounced by some for stirring painful memories.  —  MADRID — The Spanish government on Thursday began exhuming the remains …
Daniel Tovrov / Columbia Journalism Review:
Dropshipping journalism  —  No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists  —  On March 20, Nancy Cooper, the editor in chief of Newsweek, sent an email to her editorial staff.  The subject was “What is a Newsweek story?”—an odd question at an eighty-six-year-old newsmagazine once considered …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: Cyber memo warns of new risks to White House network  —  An internal memo on cybersecurity, obtained by Axios, warns that “the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.”  —  The state of play: That's after at least a dozen top- or high-level officials …
CNN:
Biden allies intensify push for super PAC after lackluster fundraising quarter  —  Washington (CNN)A coalition of top Democratic strategists and donors are intensifying conversations about setting up an outside group to bolster Joe Biden's presidential candidacy, people familiar with the matter tell CNN …
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg and RedState
 
 
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In Steve Bannon's Basement, a Rogue ‘War Room’ to Fight Impeachment
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
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Discussion: HuffPost, KTLA, Breitbart and Deutch, Ted
Newsweek:
Exclusive: U.S. Has Plan to Send Tanks and Troops to ‘Secure’ Syria Oil Fields Amid Withdrawal
Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
Maryland AG sues Kushner apartment company, alleging thousands of violations while renting rodent-infested units
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Trump Threatens to Veto Bill on Foreign Influence in Elections
Chelsey Cox / CNN:
Republican lawmaker says it's ‘beneath the office of the presidency’ for Trump to call critics ‘human scum’
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Hot Air and The Hill
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Meet the Fox reporter who is bedeviling Trump on Syria
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump lawyer: Trump can't be prosecuted for shooting someone