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9:35 AM ET, December 17, 2019

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CNN:
Disparate group of Republican senators worry White House and GOP leaders ahead of impeachment trial  —  (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's high-profile push for witnesses to testify in the Senate's expected impeachment trial of President Donald Trump shifted attention and political pressure …
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart, Raw Story and HuffPost
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:   McSally 'hasn't been convinced' Trump should be impeached
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   McConnell takes heat from all sides on impeachment
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:   Seth Meyers Goes Off on Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham for ‘Rigging’ Trump Impeachment Trial
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Seek Quick Acquittal for Trump. The President Wants More.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Centrist Democrats line up behind impeachment
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated  —  The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.  —  The authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns.  —  Patriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes …
Discussion: Axios, Daily Kos, IJR and Raw Story
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”
Discussion: The Hill
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
On Tuesday, March for Impeachment  —  The anti-Trump majority needs to make itself seen.  —  Brian Kilmeade — the dark-haired guy on “Fox & Friends,” Fox News's morning show — was surprised.  During the program on Monday, a correspondent reported that a Fox News poll showed that 50 percent …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Redstate, Raw Story and CNN
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CNN:
CNN Poll: The nation remains divided on impeachment as House vote approaches  —  (CNN)The American public is about evenly split over whether President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, with the House of Representatives poised …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Moderate Dems take a leap on impeachment
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and DNyuz
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Provides Details of What Trump Knew About Ambassador's Removal  —  Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview that he briefed the president “a couple of times” about Marie Yovanovitch, the envoy to Ukraine, setting her recall in motion.  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Monday …
Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Rep. Anthony Brindisi will vote to impeach President Trump (Exclusive)  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi says he plans to vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump after concluding the president abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress.
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump invokes Kavanaugh to fight impeachment
Discussion: Raw Story
Medium:
HISTORIANS' STATEMENT ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP  —  President Trump's numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president.  Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce …
USA Today:
USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term  —  Susan Page William Cummings Nicholas WuUSA TODAY  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads …
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs  —  Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects.  That story led me to delve into this strange world.  I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs …
Washington Post:
Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges  —  A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion …
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
The Tax Break for Children, Except the Ones Who Need It Most  —  The child tax credit, begun in 1997 as a tax cut, has become an anti-poverty program.  But more than a third of children don't receive it because their parents earn too little.  —  MONROE, La. — With two children and a third on the way …
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:   Lawmakers Reach Late and Narrow Tax-Break Deal
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
GOP State Senator Rebukes Trump, Declares ‘Republicans All Over the Country’ Want President Impeached  —  GOP Nebraska state Senator John McCollister this week fired back at President Donald Trump's assertion that the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry is a hoax by asserting that …
Discussion: The Hill
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Forever  —  The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.
Discussion: DCReport.org and Raw Story
Daria Ovide / Newsroom:
LMU Workers and Sodexo Reach Tentative Contract Agreement  —  PRESS CONTACT: Maria Hernandez (623)340-8047  —  Los Angeles, CA-Sodexo at Loyola Marymount University and their employees negotiated through Monday evening to secure a tentative contract agreement.
Discussion: Axios
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:   The fate of L.A.'s Democratic presidential debate hinges on a bargaining session
Washington Post:
Americans locked in partisan stalemate on removing Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds  —  As the House prepares to vote on two articles of impeachment against President Trump, Americans remain both deeply divided and locked into their positions over which course lawmakers should pursue, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Discussion: Hartford Courant
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Gary Langer / ABC News:   Most expect fair trial for Trump; 7 in 10 say let aides testify (POLL)
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times's political coverage has completely imploded at the worst possible time  —  The New York Times's three-year struggle to sustain its reporting algorithms, built for two political parties that have comparable relationships to reality, collapsed into sordid heap of nonsense over the weekend.
Wall Street Journal:
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook's Internal Divisions on Politics  —  Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree  —  Facebook Inc. FB 1.96% 's senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company's effect …
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
IG Report Undercuts Credibility of Impeachment Manager Nadler  —  Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman who has drawn up articles of impeachment accusing President Trump of abusing his power, last year falsely accused a Trump campaign aide of being a Russian spy …
New York Times:
Strict Vaccine Law Stumbles in N.J. Legislature  —  There were not enough votes in the State Senate to end religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for all students.  —  The New Jersey Legislature, seemingly on the verge of passing one of the strictest vaccine laws in the nation on Monday …
Discussion: New Jersey Online, The Hill and DNyuz
Charles Homans / New York Times:
How the Internet Came to Loathe Pete Buttigieg  —  Last month, after polls showed Pete Buttigieg vaulting unexpectedly to the lead in Iowa's Democratic caucus, he aired an ad introducing his plan for higher-education reform: a proposal to make public-college tuition free for households earning …
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Liquor Taxes Could Go Up 400%, Thanks to Congressional Dysfunction  —  A temporary cut in federal taxes on alcohol fueled the growth of American distilleries, but its expiration threatens their demise.  —  The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling.
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
Lessons From the Tory Landslide  —  A vindication for the Burkean idea that nationalism can advance liberalism.  —  Last week's U.K. general election revealed two political dynamics that the rest of the world should study closely.  —  The first is very old: Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Discussion: Financial Times
Tanya Snyder / Politico:
Chao's team helped McConnell's state win its largest DOT grant  —  Kentucky's largest transportation grant application under the Trump administration benefited from a process that the government's top watchdog said lacked “the assurance of fairness,” raising questions about whether the Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Vulnerable House Democrats Announce Support For Impeaching Trump  —  Dozens of Democrats who could be elected out have decided to vote later this week to impeach the president on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Democrat Ben McAdams stepped …
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
SC's U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham to vote in favor of impeaching Trump  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham said Monday he plans to vote in favor of both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, concluding after weeks of deliberation that Trump's conduct was “unacceptable.”
Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press:
Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland endorses Biden for president  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has endorsed Joe Biden for president, delivering important support from the state's industrial working class regions while highlighting some of the former vice president's potential challenges in the state.
Discussion: The Hill
Axios:
GOP monetizes impeachment as Dems try to change the subject  —  Republicans have embraced impeachment as a boost for fundraising and messaging more easily than Democrats, who are playing up a few impeachment “villains” to swing voters — but are also making it clear they'd rather talk about health care.
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
U.S. to send asylum seekers to Honduras, bypassing American asylum
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Sheriff who allowed Jeffrey Epstein liberal work release privileges pulls plug on program
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Stamford Advocate:
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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
'Don't threaten me': Court records show Elizabeth Warren turned down lucrative job after hearing from consumer group
New York Times:
There Are Economic Warning Signs for Trump in the Midwest
Vincent Wood / The Independent:
Erdogan threatens to recognise killings of Native Americans as genocide in response to Armenia resolution
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Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's sentencing set for Jan. 28 after judge rejects his attacks on the FBI, Justice Department
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