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9:20 AM ET, December 4, 2019

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Associated Press:
NATO leaders appear to gossip about Trump in unguarded chat  —  In this grab taken from video on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, France's President Emmanuel Macro, centre right, gestures as he speaks during a NATO reception.  While NATO leaders are professing unity as they gather for a summit near London …
Discussion: Axios and New York Post
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Jon Sharman / The Independent:
Trump calls Trudeau ‘two-faced’, cancels press conference and leaves Nato summit early after video of world leaders making fun of him  —  'I called him out on the fact he's not paying 2 per cent, and I guess he's not very happy about it,' says US president  —  Donald Trump has reacted furiously …
NBC News:
NATO summit braces for friction after bruising first day
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and The Daily Beast
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump calls Trudeau ‘two-faced’ after hot mic catches NATO leaders speaking candidly
Discussion: Townhall
Emilio Casalicchio / Politico:
Boris Johnson holds late-night chat with Donald Trump
Nicholas Burns / The Atlantic:   Trump Violates Diplomacy's Golden Rule
Mark Hannah / Politico:
It's Not Just Trump. The American People Are Skeptical of NATO, Too.
New York Times:
A Mysterious ‘-1’ and Other Call Records Show How Giuliani Pressured Ukraine  —  House Democrats' impeachment report showed the president's personal lawyer executing an irregular foreign policy.  —  WASHINGTON — In the two days before President Trump forced out the American ambassador to Ukraine in April …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Report Reveals Call Records Between Giuliani, White House and Nunes  —  Draft impeachment report shows president's lawyer and top Republican lawmaker in frequent contact  —  WASHINGTON—Call records obtained by impeachment investigators revealed new details about Rudy Giuliani's interactions …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and Law & Crime
Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:
Adam Schiff Has Crossed a Line: He's Obtained Phone Records of Devin Nunes, Nunes' Aide, Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon  —  As promised, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff released the Democrats' report on the Trump impeachment inquiry on Tuesday.  If anyone is so inclined, the report can be viewed here.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The Intelligence Committee's report is a triumph
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Nunes sues CNN over ‘demonstrably false’ Ukraine report
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Devin Nunes slaps CNN with $435 million defamation lawsuit
Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
William Barr Says Those Who Don't Show More Respect To Cops May Not Get Police Protection  —  The remarks are the latest example of the U.S. attorney general's “tough on crime” approach that President Donald Trump has adopted.  —  U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday …
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
William Barr says ‘communities’ that protest cops could lose ‘the police protection they need’  —  Speaking to a roomful of police officers and prosecutors on Tuesday, Attorney General William P. Barr drew a parallel between protests against soldiers during the Vietnam War and demonstrations against law enforcement today.
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
'I'm not going to take any sh—': Nadler girds for battle  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler had a blunt message as he privately addressed Democrats the day before his panel assumes a starring role in the impeachment inquiry.  —  “I'm not going to take any shit,” …
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Emma Dumain / The State:
Top House Democrat wants Mueller findings in impeachment articles against Trump
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump makes at least 21 false claims at NATO meetings
Discussion: FactCheck.org
NBC News:
Live Blog / Impeachment hearing: Live updates from the Judiciary Committee
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Brakkton Booker / NPR:
Rep. Adam Schiff: ‘The Uncontested Facts Show This President Solicited A Bribe’
CNN:
Former official says Trump often refused to believe his intelligence briefings  —  (CNN)One of President Donald Trump's most common responses to intelligence briefings is to doubt what he's being told, former Deputy Director of Intelligence Susan Gordon said Tuesday.
U.S. Department of Justice:
California CEO and Seven Others Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Conduit Campaign Contribution Case  —  Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed against the CEO of an online payment processing company, and seven others, charging them with conspiring to make and conceal conduit …
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Key Mueller witness, major Clinton and Trump donor charged with funneling $3.5 million …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
Sen. John Kennedy's full-Trump mode is just his latest stage persona  —  Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, now all over the news after a volatile verbal exchange with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, is a habitual shape-shifter.  Pundits disappointed that the Oxford-educated media hound …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Folksy John Kennedy gets serious pushback on Ukraine mess
Discussion: The Hill and NBC News
Washington Post:
GOP embraces a debunked Ukraine conspiracy to defend Trump from impeachment
Discussion: Politico and HuffPost
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden struts as his rivals bite the dust  —  MASON CITY, Iowa — Joe Biden's feeling awfully confident these days.  —  The former vice president thinks he doesn't need Barack Obama to win the primary.  He seemed to mock the ideas that there's enthusiasm for Elizabeth Warren or that Pete Buttigieg came up with his own plans.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Kamala Harris's Long Road to an Early Exit Inside her promising rise and painful fall.
Discussion: Breitbart and Los Angeles Times
The Keyword:
A letter from Larry and Sergey  —  Our very first founders' letter in our 2004 S-1 began: … We believe those central tenets are still true today.  The company is not conventional and continues to make ambitious bets on new technology, especially with our Alphabet structure.
Ian MacDougall / New York Times:
How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Carry Out Its Immigration Policies  —  Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find “detention savings opportunities” — including measures the agency's staff sometimes viewed as too harsh on immigrants.
Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration to Stiffen Food-Stamp Work Requirement  —  Rule limiting state discretion could make hundreds of thousands ineligible for assistance  —  The Trump administration is set to tighten work requirements for recipients of federal food aid, potentially rendering hundreds …
Discussion: Axios and Disrn
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Liel Leibovitz / New York Post:
Iran in flames and ‘experts’ didn't foresee it due to Trump-hate blindness  —  The Iranian regime faces the most serious popular challenge to its tyranny in 40 years.  Sparked by a 50 percent hike in fuel prices last month, the uprising has spread to the whole country.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Iran is brutally suppressing popular dissent. The world is watching.
Discussion: Associated Press
Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins tangled in voter fraud, perjury allegations for listing UPS store as residence  —  U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins' decision to sign a Kansas voter registration form and two other election documents that asserted his residential address was a United Parcel Service store in Topeka …
Discussion: Raw Story
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Liberal Veterans' Group Endorses Pete Buttigieg in 2020 Race  —  VoteVets is the first major organization to endorse the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who served in Afghanistan with the Navy.  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — VoteVets, the political action committee that backs liberal veterans running for office …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Approval Rating Should Worry Republicans  —  If the president remains this unpopular, it's hard to see him helping his party in the 2020 elections.  —  It's still early to project how next year's congressional elections will go.  But the folks at Inside Elections have updated …
Discussion: USA Today
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Was Pissed”: Rudy Given Fox Time-Out After “Insurance” Diss  —  Giuliani's loopy sound bites and Ukraine business ambitions have gotten under Trump's skin; the Haley-for-V.P. campaign seems to have fizzled.  —  For more than a year, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have been part …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Gabriel Winant / New Republic:
Life Under the Algorithm  —  Henry Noll was one of the most famous workers in American history, though not by his own choice and not under his own name.  Employed at Bethlehem Steel for $1.15 a day, and known among workmates for his physical vigor and thriftiness, Noll was …
 
 
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Marina Pitofsky / The Hill:
Poll: 51 percent of Florida voters disapprove of Trump
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Fox News personalities continue to stump for GOP candidates
Discussion: Mediaite
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Biden to Target Tax-Avoiding Companies With Minimum Federal Levy
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
Climate Change Is Accelerating: ‘Things Are Getting Worse’
Discussion: Forbes, Sputnik International and UPI
Brad Plumer / New York Times:
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit a Record in 2019, Even as Coal Fades
Discussion: HuffPost, The Atlantic and TechCrunch
Katie Thomas / New York Times:
Labor Unions Team Up With Drug Makers to Defeat Drug-Price Proposals
Discussion: Axios
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Biden and Buttigieg say you can keep your health-care plan. They're lying — just like Obama.
 Earlier Items: 
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Yang campaign contacts FBI over death threats in New Hampshire
Discussion: NBC News and HuffPost
Wall Street Journal:
Watchdog Report Details Problems Between FBI and Justice Department
Luisana Pérez Fernández / Sun-Sentinel:
I left Venezuela fleeing from a dictator, only to find another one in America
Benjamin Preston / Road & Track:
These Guys Just Drove an E63 AMG Across America in a Record 27 Hours 25 Minutes
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: Senate could pass partisan rules package for impeachment trial
Discussion: Townhall, UPI, Vanity Fair and Politico
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
‘We should hang’ Ilhan Omar, Florida congressional candidate writes in fundraising letter
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Republicans To Confirm Lifetime Federal Judge Opposed To Fertility Treatments
Discussion: The Hill
 

 
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