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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Fiona Hill's extraordinary answer distills what impeachment is about  —  Washington (CNN)Fiona Hill's extraordinary answer about her relationship with the American ambassador to the European Union was ultimately a finely distilled description of what the impeachment hearings are all about …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Political Wire
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Fiona Hill: Impeachment Queen  —  She's not the hero we deserve.  She's the hero we need.  —  I spent a decade watching impeachment hearings this week.  Hours upon hours of puffed-up pols posturing and patronizing and waging war on our psyche through parliamentary procedure.
Axios:
“Could I actually say something?”:  Fiona Hill fires back at House Republicans  —  In a stunning moment at Thursday's impeachment hearing, former top White House Russia adviser Fiona Hill asked whether she may respond to Republican attacks, after three GOP congressman in a row used …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP defense of Trump is in slow-motion collapse.  It's about to get worse.  —  We know this to be true: Approximately one week passed between President Trump's decision in mid-July to freeze hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, and a phone call on July 26 …
Discussion: Vox, The Mahablog, TheBlaze, Axios and Slate
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Graham launches probe of Bidens, Burisma and Ukraine
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Fiona Hill: It is “not credible” Sondland didn't make Biden-Burisma connection
Washington Post:
Fiona Hill shreds the Republicans' false narrative about Ukraine
Discussion: Slate
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The huge Gordon Sondland revelation almost everyone missed
Discussion: Raw Story
David Harsanyi / National Review:   The Impeachment Hearings Have Been Useless
ABC News:
Trump impeachment hearings live updates: Fiona Hill and David Holmes testify
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
White House backs full Senate trial if House impeaches Trump  —  Top White House officials and Senate Republicans on Thursday agreed that a full trial should be conducted if the House impeaches President Donald Trump, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
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Washington Post:
White House and Republicans discuss limiting impeachment trial to two weeks  —  A group of Republican senators and senior White House officials met privately Thursday to map out a strategy for a potential impeachment trial of President Trump, including proceedings in the Senate that could be limited …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump cozies up to GOP during impeachment — including Mitt Romney and Susan Collins
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Trump signs short-term spending bill just ahead of shutdown deadline
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
What Joe Biden Can't Bring Himself to Say  —  His eyes fall to the floor when I ask him to describe it.  We've been tiptoeing toward it for 45 minutes, and so far, every time he seems close, he backs away, or leads us in a new direction.  There are competing theories in the press, but Joe Biden has kept mum on the subject.
Discussion: National Review and Balloon Juice
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
Trump Reverses Navy Decision to Oust Edward Gallagher From SEALs  —  The president said Chief Gallagher, who has been at center of a high-profile war crime case, would not lose his membership in the elite commando force.  —  President Trump on Thursday reversed a decision by the Navy seeking …
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Washington Post:
‘Insurgents’ lobbied Trump for war crimes pardons with little Pentagon involvement, officials say  —  President Trump took to the phone in the Oval Office last week after days of speculation.  In succession, he notified three U.S. service members accused of war crimes that he was intervening on their behalf …
Reuters:
Trump vows U.S. Navy will not oust commando who posed with corpse from SEALs
Discussion: Law & Crime and Washington Times
Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Gov. Kemp Resists Pressure from Trump on Senate Appointment  —  President is pressing for Rep. Doug Collins to be named interim senator, but the governor is leaning toward a woman or minority for the post  —  ATLANTA—Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is resisting pressure …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg Is in Bad Shape With Black Democrats.  Here's How Bad.  —  No Democrat in modern times has won the party's nomination without claiming majorities of black voters, the most crucial voting bloc in South Carolina and an array of delegate-rich states.
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John McCormack / National Review:
Notes on the November Democratic Debate Dud
Discussion: The Bulwark and Fox News
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:   In DNC Debate, Race Played a Starring Role
Bryan Anderson / Sacramento Bee:
California can't force Donald Trump to release tax returns, state Supreme Court rules  —  President Donald Trump won't have to release his tax returns to get on California's 2020 primary ballot following a unanimous ruling from the state Supreme Court on Thursday that invalidated a new state law.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:   Supreme Court precedents do not shield Trump financial records, House, prosecutors argue
Ursula Perano / Axios:   California strikes down law requiring presidential tax returns to appear on ballot
Peter Elkind / ProPublica:
Prosecutors Investigating the Trump Organization Zero In on Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg  —  Weisselberg is one of the Trump Organization's longest tenured employees and is now co-running the business.  He escaped federal prosecution for the Stormy Daniels payments but is now a focus of an investigation by Manhattan's district attorney.
Discussion: Law & Crime and POLITICUSUSA
Anti-Defamation League:
Sacha Baron Cohen's Keynote Address at ADL's 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate  —  Remarks by Sacha Baron Cohen, Recipient of ADL's International Leadership Award  —  Thank you, Jonathan, for your very kind words.  Thank you, ADL, for this recognition and your work in fighting racism, hate and bigotry.
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
A Former Fox News Executive Divides Americans Using Russian Tactics  —  An investigation found that several sites owned by Ken LaCorte push inflammatory items — stories, petitions and the occasional conspiracy theory — to the public.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — At first glance …
Politico:
Democratic establishment reaches boiling point with Tulsi Gabbard  —  Tulsi Gabbard trashed the Democratic Party as “not the party that is of, by and for the people,” accused Kamala Harris of trafficking in “lies and smears and innuendo” and attacked Pete Buttigieg as naive.
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Breitbart and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Kentucky governor's stay at Trump hotel could carry legal implications for president  —  Gov. Matt Bevin's 2018 visit to Trump's D.C. hotel likely to become fodder for plaintiffs in cases against Trump.  —  When Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin came to Washington in January for two nights …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Will Bunch / staff:
Impeachment's hidden messages about immigration and what it means to be American  —  Gordon Sondland was in trouble.  In the vernacular of the Trump impeachment inquiry that riveted at least part of the nation this week, he had “a Gordon problem” — that is, himself.
Discussion: Salon, Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Lawyer for impeachment witness Lt. Col Vindman demands Fox News retract ‘false and defamatory’ segment  —  New York (CNN Business)A lawyer representing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council's Ukraine expert who testified publicly this week in the impeachment hearings …
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Loren DeJonge Schulman / Washington Post:
The military needs immigrants. The Trump administration wants to keep them out.
Discussion: Daily Kos and BizPac Review
 
 
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