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10:20 AM ET, December 15, 2019

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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
South Jersey Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew, impeachment foe, expected to become a Republican  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Jeff Van Drew, the conservative South Jersey Democrat who has vocally opposed impeaching President Donald Trump, is expected to switch parties in the coming days …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Washington Post:
Trump urges Rep. Van Drew, anti-impeachment Democrat, to switch parties
Nikita Biryukov / New Jersey Globe:
Van Drew party switch imminent
Discussion: Breitbart and NBC News
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump job approval ticks up, views on impeachment steady  —  Weeks of congressional hearings and debate have failed to move the electorate on impeachment, according to the latest Fox News Poll.  At the same time, approval of President Trump's job performance has climbed three points.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The get-it-over-with impeachment
Discussion: Twitchy
John Fritze / USA Today:
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani spotted at White House amid House Judiciary impeachment vote
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Burgess Everett / Politico:   Lindsey Graham invites Rudy Giuliani to Judiciary panel to discuss recent Ukraine visit
The Bulwark:
How A Small Group of Senators Can Shape the Impeachment Trial and Vindicate the Constitutional Order  —  Should President Donald J. Trump be impeached by the House of Representatives?  If he is, should he then be removed from office by the Senate?  There's room for disagreement on both of these questions.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:   Republicans aim to avoid war with White House over impeachment strategy
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
'I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here': Graham predicts Trump impeachment will ‘die quickly’ in Senate
Douglas MacKinnon / The Hill:
Is a trap being set for Trump in the Senate trial?
Nick Coltrain / Des Moines Register:
In Iowa, Bernie Sanders calls Pete Buttigieg's health care plan ‘a failed idea’  —  BURLINGTON, Ia.  — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Saturday that South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's “Medicare for all who want it” health care hybrid would be “unfair” to working families.
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Elena Schneider / Politico:   Mayor Pete's bestie is also helping craft the Warren agenda
Dan Balz / Greenwich Time:   Amid adversity and missteps, Joe Biden's resilience has been one theme of 2019
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Is Pete Buttigieg Just Too Young to Be President?
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
New York Times:
U.S. Secretly Expelled Chinese Officials Suspected of Spying After Breach of Military Base  —  Chinese Embassy officials trespassed onto a Virginia base that is home to Special Operations forces.  Their expulsions added to tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Discussion: CNN
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Comey admits error in defense of FBI's FISA process after IG report: ‘He was right, I was wrong’  —  Former FBI Director James Comey admitted on “Fox News Sunday” that the recently released Justice Department Inspector General's report on the launch of the FBI's Russia investigation and their use …
Discussion: Disrn
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:   Ex-Trump campaign aide Carter Page notches victory after inspector general hammers FBI for surveillance missteps
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Booker leads other 2020 Dems in petition urging DNC to change debate qualifications  —  Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) led several of his fellow 2020 contenders in sending a petition asking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to change its debate qualifications.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Cory Booker Leads the Charge to Change Debate Rules That Excluded Him
Discussion: NBC News and Axios
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
The Top Democratic Candidates Are Urging The DNC To Change Its Debate Rules
Discussion: The Guardian
Alan Rusbridger / The Guardian:
The election in the media: against evasion and lies, good journalism is all we have  —  Political manipulators in the UK proved they have learnt from the US how to blur truth, but one local paper points to the antidote  —  In his first 1,000 days in office Donald Trump made 13,435 false …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Ex-Trump Aide Is Expected to Return to White House  —  The aide, John McEntee, had been dismissed in 2018 on the orders of the chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly.  —  A close aide to President Trump who was dismissed last year by the White House chief of staff at the time is expected …
Discussion: The Hill
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
What Does Tucker Carlson Believe?  —  Tucker Carlson does not think he is an “especially” good person.  He knows he can “get mad” and “make a mistake,” that he can “overstate” things as a result of getting “caught up” in his own rhetoric.  He also knows he can sometimes get “self-righteous …
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
Her death, our fears and our city: How reactions to the killing of Tessa Majors echo 30 years ago, even as the times do not  —  What has happened to our City over the past ten years?  What has happened to law and order, to the neighborhood cop who we all trusted to safeguard our homes and families …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
NBC News:
Trump admin intends to announce withdrawal of about 4,000 troops from Afghanistan  —  Trump had made clear to his advisers earlier this year that he wanted to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by the November 2020 election.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration intends to announce …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Iran hawks win a key concession from Trump administration  —  Late last week, the State Department agreed to release a portion of an internal legal opinion that says the U.S. has the right to demand that all U.N. sanctions on Iran be reinstated, despite President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out of the nuclear deal.
Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
West Point, Annapolis Officials Investigating Possible ‘White Power’ Hand Sign  —  Army and Navy officials try to determine meaning of hand signs that service academy personnel appeared to use on national TV during Army-Navy football game  —  West Point and Annapolis officials are trying …
Associated Press:
Longest UN climate talks end with no deal on carbon markets  —  MADRID (AP) — Marathon international climate talks ended Sunday with negotiators postponing until next year a key decision on how to regulate global carbon markets.  —  After two weeks of negotiations in Madrid on tackling global warming …
Discussion: DNyuz
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Conservative groups target their impeachment ‘Dirty 30’  —  Residents in 31 congressional districts are about to be inundated with millions of dollars' worth of TV spots, Facebook ads, texts and tweets blaring that the “radical left” is trying to remove the president after a “witch hunt” …
Discussion: Redstate
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
Scuffles break out in Glendale as Rep. Adam Schiff speaks at town hall
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
What's Different About This Impeachment
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg's spending spree: $8 billion in philanthropy and tens of millions to political causes
Carolyn Lange / dglobe.com:
Barring new information, Peterson will not vote for impeachment
Discussion: Breitbart and Redstate
Reed Galen / NBC News:
Trump's impeachment vote will be depressingly partisan. But his removal shouldn't be.
Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Beverly Hills police investigate vandalism at Nessah Synagogue as a hate crime
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GOP sees a political edge in talking about impeachment. Democrats want to discuss anything else.
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