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4:45 PM ET, November 13, 2019

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Rep. Devin Nunes / The Permanent Select Committee …:
Nunes Opening Statement for Kent and Taylor Hearing on Impeachment  —  f t # e  —  Opening Statement for Kent and Taylor Hearing on Impeachment  —  In a July open hearing of this committee following publication of the Mueller report, the Democrats engaged in a last-ditch effort to convince …
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Associated Press:
Takeaways so far from House public impeachment hearings  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The start of public impeachment hearings unfolding in Congress marks the first time the American public can watch and listen to the witnesses at the heart of the matter.  —  In several hours of testimony …
ABC News:
Testimony at 1st impeachment hearing: Trump asked about Ukraine ‘investigations’  —  The historic first public impeachment hearing ended Wednesday with Democrats hoping to have made their case to millions of Americans watching on television that President Donald Trump's conduct has been so serious he deserves to be removed from office.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Week
CBS News:
Diplomat says aide heard Trump ask about “investigations” day after Ukraine call — live updates  —  Latest updates on the impeachment hearings  — The House is holding the first public hearings of the impeachment probe, with two key diplomatic officials testifying before the Intelligence Committee.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Kremlin weighs in on Trump impeachment hearings
Discussion: The Week
Bonchie / Redstate:
Impeachment Updates: Devin Nunes Comes Hard in His Opening Statement, Adam Schiff Makes a Ridiculous Claim
Discussion: NBC News and The Week
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
LIVE Watch Live And Read Our Analysis: The Trump Impeachment Hearings Hide, Video
Discussion: Althouse
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Trump: I'm ‘too busy’ to watch impeachment hearings
Discussion: Mediaite, Fox News and Spectator USA
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Deval Patrick Tells Democrats He Will Run in 2020 Presidential Race  —  Mr. Patrick, the former two-term governor of Massachusetts, called several leading Democrats and allies to say that he would announce a 2020 presidential bid later this week.  —  NEW ORLEANS — Former Gov. Deval Patrick …
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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Deval Patrick tells allies he's running for president  —  (CNN)Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is telling friends and allies in phone calls on Wednesday that he has made a decision to run for president, two people familiar with the matter say.  —  Plans for the timing …
Discussion: The Hill and FiveThirtyEight
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: We know how the impeachment show ends, but we're still watching  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE HOUSE'S IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS KIND OF LIKE WATCHING the newest season of “Jack Ryan” on Amazon Prime Video.  Sure, the twists and turns are exciting.
John F. Harris / Politico:
What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP  —  On December 19, 1998, the day House Republicans impeached President Bill Clinton, he recorded his highest-ever score in Gallup's presidential approval poll: 73 percent favorable.  —  That was 24 percentage points higher than Clinton's …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Axios:
House Republicans might throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus to save Trump during impeachment  —  Top House Republican sources tell Axios that one impeachment survival strategy will be to try to distance President Trump from any Ukraine quid pro quo, with Rudy Giuliani potentially going under the bus.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell discounts quick dismissal of Trump impeachment articles: 'We'll have to have a trial'
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The impossibility of separating Giuliani from Trump  —  There's a concept in pop culture called “retconning,” short for retroactive continuity.  The idea is that people working on continuations of existing stories — such as the people making a new “Star Wars” film, for example …
Discussion: Lawfare, PBS NewsHour, The Hill and CNN
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Rudy Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
The Case for the Impeachment Defense
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
New testimony ties Trump more directly to Ukraine pressure campaign
Discussion: The Stranger and New York Times
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
University of Florida's student president faces impeachment after bringing Donald Trump Jr. to campus for $50,000  —  After the University of Florida's student body president helped bring Donald Trump Jr. and Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle to campus last month to the tune of $50,000 …
Discussion: Washington Times, IJR and Raw Story
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Megan Reeves / Tampa Bay Times:
UF student president faces impeachment over Trump Jr. visit
Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
Plague Is Diagnosed in China, Prompting Fears of an Outbreak  —  Two cases of pneumonic plague, a fatal and highly infectious illness related to bubonic plague, were diagnosed in Beijing.  —  阅读.体中 文.閱讀.體 中文.
Discussion: Foreign Policy, Deseret News and Slate
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Chad Wolf sworn in as acting Department of Homeland Security chief, fifth under Trump  —  Chad Wolf was sworn in Wednesday as the new acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, becoming the fifth person to hold the top job under President Trump, a period of unusually high leadership turnover …
Discussion: Axios and Wall Street Journal
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CNN:
Cuccinelli expected to be elevated to acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security
Discussion: Vox, The Hill and Axios
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
Profiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous  —  By Anonymous.  Twelve.  259 pp.  $30  —  There is a good reason the anonymous Trump administration official who published an opinion essay in the New York Times last year describing an internal resistance to the president has managed to remain anonymous.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
NBC News:
Drag queen sashays into Trump impeachment hearings  —  Pissi Myles made an unexpected, and quite noticeable, appearance at Wednesday's impeachment hearings.  —  Spotted towering over the gray and blue suits packed into the first day of President Donald Trump's impeachment hearing …
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad  —  Hanks is playing Mister Rogers in a new movie and is just as nice as you think he is.  Please read this article anyway.  —  Here is a list of stories about Tom Hanks I've heard over the last few miserable months, as it appeared that politeness …
Discussion: Page Six
David Brown / Politico:
Trump says U.S. left troops in Syria ‘only for the oil,’ appearing to contradict Pentagon  —  President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the U.S. mission in Syria is focused solely on protecting oil fields, which appears to contradict the Pentagon's contention that fighting ISIS is the priority.
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CNN:
Trump invites GOP senators for unusual meeting with Erdoğan to ‘clear the air’
Discussion: New York Post
Dan Cobb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC POLL: Trump faces tough re-election fight in Georgia  —  A majority of Georgians disapprove of President Donald Trump's performance in the White House and he appears to be facing a hard fight against each of the five top Democratic candidates seeking to replace him, according to an exclusive Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Trump-Ukraine impeachment made simple: Smear Biden and you'll get your military aid  —  Public servants are protecting us, but don't invest much hope in Republicans — even those who have already blown the canopy to eject from the burning GOP.  —  As Congress moves into the public phase …
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
The impeachment calculus Democrats don't want to talk about  —  Sen. Brian Schatz, the Democrat from Hawaii, is well-known for a jokey Twitter feed popular with the #Resistance.  When I talked to him last night as he was walking into the Senate on the eve of the first impeachment hearings in 21 years, he was in a more serious mood.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Democrats' impeachment lawyer cut his teeth prosecuting mobsters, Wall Street cheats  —  The Democrats' lead impeachment hearing lawyer made his bones as a prosecutor by sending mobsters, stock swindlers and a multimillion-dollar inside trader to prison, cases in which colleagues said he mixed brains and “swagger” to win convictions.
Discussion: Slate
Abbey Marshall / Politico:
Barr says watchdog report on Russia probe's origins is ‘imminent’  —  Attorney General William Barr confirmed on Wednesday that an internal watchdog's report on the origins of the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia during the 2016 election is “imminent.”
 
 
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
'I don't remember' Trump asking for news conference clearing him of wrongdoing in Ukraine call, Barr says
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
CNN:
My third impeachment is really different from the others
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After Heart Attack, Bernie Sanders Takes Long Walks and Eats Salads
Katia Dmitrieva / Bloomberg:
U.S. October Budget Gap Widens to $134.5 Billion From Year Ago
Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Filing Suggests No McCabe Prosecution Imminent
Discussion: Political Wire
Warren P. Strobel / Wall Street Journal:
Turkey Gathered Information in the U.S. Against Its Critics
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 Earlier Items: 
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Rep. Peter King's Exit Highlights the G.O.P.'s Suburban Problem
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump prepared for impeachment hearings with an epic Fox News binge
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Frustrated Trump allies urge him to stop talking about himself
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Devan Cole / CNN:
Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan endorses Joe Biden
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Lawsuit could deactivate 234,000 voters in Wisconsin
Discussion: The Hill