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New York Times:
Trump Knew of Whistle-Blower Complaint When He Released Aid to Ukraine  —  White House lawyers briefed President Trump in late August about the complaint, people familiar with the matter said.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump had already been briefed on a whistle-blower's complaint …
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Denies Sending Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine for Biden Probe  — President discusses Giuliani in interview with Bill O'Reilly  — Giuliani has said he conducted Ukraine investigation for Trump  —  Donald Trump denied directing Rudy Giuliani to go to Ukraine to look for dirt on his political rivals …
Washington Post:
Two OMB officials resigned in part over concerns about Ukraine aid hold, official testifies  —  Mark Sandy, a career official at the White House Office of Management and Budget, revealed the resignations in testimony to impeachment investigators  —  Two officials at the White House Office …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Will Trump participate now?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WE HAVE SOME INTEL TO REPORT about the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, but we are going to do so with this caveat: Nailing down this White House is like trying to tack Jell-O to a wall.
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Why Trump (Probably) Won't Ditch Rudy  —  Over the past week, I asked multiple GOP officials when, if ever, they thought President Donald Trump would publicly distance himself from his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who is at the center of the House impeachment inquiry.
Discussion: The Week and HuffPost
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden leads nationally as Buttigieg rises  —  Panelist: Biden does best when he isn't in public  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the newly expanded field of contenders for the Democratic nomination for president, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts …
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QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  November 26, 2019 - Biden Retakes Lead As Warren Plunges, Buttigieg Rises, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Voters Not Swayed By Impeachment Hearings  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden has retaken the lead in the Democratic primary race for president …
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren loses her mojo in Iowa  —  Elizabeth Warren's star is starting to dim in Iowa.  —  In a state where fortunes can change on a dime, Pete Buttigieg has seized the momentum in recent weeks as Warren has slipped.  Top Iowa Democrats attribute the shift to the scrutiny Warren …
Discussion: Mediaite and Bloomberg
Page Six:
Hunter Biden suspected of smoking crack in DC strip club's VIP room  —  Hunter Biden was suspected of smoking crack inside a strip club where he dropped “thousands of dollars” during multiple visits — at the same time he held a seat on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural-gas company, The Post has learned.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
'There's something terribly wrong': Americans are dying young at alarming rates  —  Death rates from suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease and dozens of other causes have been rising over the past decade for young and middle-aged adults, driving down overall life expectancy in the United States …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Belligerents in the Persian Gulf are trying something new: diplomacy
Sacramento Bee:
Cows don't have fingers and can't insult Devin Nunes on Twitter, court filing says  —  A Democratic strategist is refusing to disclose communications that could reveal the identity of anonymous Twitter users who criticize Rep. Devin Nunes, arguing in a new court filing that the accounts …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
The Indispensable Tucker Carlson  —  Michael Blake, the vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, just paid Tucker Carlson a high compliment.  He's trying to defame, delegitimize, deplatform, and, ultimately, cancel him.  That's because the Fox News host is the most articulate spokesman …
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Michael Harriot / The Root:
Pete Buttigieg Called Me.  Here's What Happened  —  The first thing you should know about me is that I absolutely hate talking on the phone.  —  My friends, family and co-workers all know this about me.  It's not the talking that bothers me, it's the anticipation angst from waiting for a phone call.
Heather Vogell / ProPublica:
Trump Tax Records Reveal New Inconsistencies — This Time for Trump Tower  —  Documents show the president's company reported different numbers — higher ones to lenders, lower ones to tax officials — for Trump's signature building.  Last month, ProPublica revealed a similar pattern in two other Trump buildings.
Discussion: Political Wire
Garrett Haake / NBC News:
White House budget office formally held Ukraine aid on same day as Trump-Zelenskiy call  —  While the first letter to withhold Ukraine aid was signed by a career official, subsequent letters to freeze the money were signed by a political appointee, a summary of the OMB documents shows.
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Axios:
2 budget officials allegedly resigned over handling of Ukraine aid freeze
Discussion: The Hill
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Taxpayers Have Now Paid for Trump to Visit Mar-a-Lago 100 Times  —  President Trump hit an important milestone as he returned to Florida over the Thanksgiving holiday: 100 visits to Mar-a-Lago.  In 1,040 days as president, he has prioritized visiting his properties over the course of his presidency …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Buttigieg returns donations from lawyers who represented Brett Kavanaugh  —  Following Guardian queries, 2020 hopeful says Kavanaugh should never have been placed on supreme court  —  Pete Buttigieg's 2020 campaign is returning thousands of dollars in donations from two top Washington lawyers …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:   Pete Buttigieg's PAC Was Supposed To Help Elect Democrats. It Mostly Touted Him.
Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
Impeachment fight leaves voters cold in contested Wisconsin  —  1 of 10  —  RACINE, Wis. (AP) — There's not a lot that Republicans and Democrats in this political battlefield agree on, but the impeachment probe into President Donald Trump may have surfaced one: The public hearings aren't moving the needle.
Discussion: Redstate
Washington Post:
Don't want to discuss Trump or impeachment at Thanksgiving?  Try this instead.  —  Dazzle (or distract) the table with what else has been happening while they weren't looking.  —  Afraid that any discussion of impeachment will set off arguments between your Fox News-watching uncle and your woke cousins?
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
At Florida ‘Homecoming’ Rally, Trump Rails Against Familiar Targets  —  The president took on the impeachment inquiry, Democrats and the news media in his first return to the state as a formal resident.  —  SUNRISE, Fla. — President Trump on Tuesday raged against the Democrats' impeachment inquiry …
Discussion: NB Blog and Associated Press
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Pompeo says Trump's debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory is worth looking into  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that a debunked conspiracy theory pursued by President Trump accusing Ukraine, not Russia, of interfering in the 2016 presidential election by hacking the network …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, NPR and Axios
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Pompeo just flirted with Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory. This isn't normal, folks.
Discussion: Wired and POLITICUSUSA
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Here's why Bloomberg insists he's not crazy  —  Yes, say the political strategists around former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, the notion of him becoming the Democratic presidential nominee requires many unprecedented and highly speculative factors falling into place just so.
David Samuels / Washington Post:
Would Republican senators ever vote to convict Trump?  Here's what we can learn from the rest of the world.  —  Sure, parties dump their prime ministers — but they rarely throw out ‘their’ presidents.  Here's why.  —  The House may well vote to impeach President Trump.
Ashleigh Furlong / Politico:
Labour: Dossier indicates NHS ‘up for sale’ in US trade deal  —  The U.K.'s Labour Party has obtained unredacted documents detailing talks between the U.S. and U.K. that indicate the National Health Service is on the table in trade talks with Washington, party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Wednesday.
Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
Texas Republicans Mistakenly Email 2020 Strategy to Democrats, Seek to Reduce ‘Polarizing Nature’ of Trump  —  POLITICS TEXAS REPUBLICANS EMAIL 2020  —  Texas Republicans blamed a “staffer” Monday after their blueprint for winning 2020 elections and plans to mitigate President Donald Trump's …
Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
Good Boy?  Good Girl?  Experts Weigh In on Conan the Dog's Genitals.  —  For over 24 hours, the nation has been reeling as our country's military and White House officials appear unable to agree on the biological sex of Conan the dog, the four-legged commando praised for participating …
Reuters:
Trump says U.S. will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Tuesday that he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists over their role in drug and human trafficking.
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Biden, Burisma and the Obama Administration  —  Why didn't White House lawyers manage the Ukraine conflict of interest?  —  A few readers are wondering why there was no institutional check on Hunter Biden accepting lucrative assignments for which he appeared unqualified in countries where his father was leading U.S. policy.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Dems see one last chance to boost public support for impeachment  —  House Democrats have one final shot to drive up public support for impeachment, with a slate of hearings in the House Judiciary Committee beginning next week.  —  But even Democratic lawmakers acknowledge public sentiment might …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
More than 70 million watched TV coverage of Trump impeachment inquiry  —  More than 70 million viewers watched some portion of the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment inquiry into President Trump, according to Nielsen data.  —  The hearings on whether Trump withheld military aid …
New York Times:
They Voted Democratic.  Now They Support Trump.  —  Two-thirds of battleground state voters who chose Trump in 2016 but selected Democrats in the midterms say they will return to the president next year.  —  Midterm victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin gave Democrats hope …
 
 
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