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John Bolton PAC:
STATEMENT OF JOHN R. BOLTON  —  During the present impeachment controversy, I have tried to meet my obligations both as a citizen and as former National Security Advisor.  My colleague, Dr. Charles Kupperman, faced with a House committee subpoena on the one hand, and a Presidential directive …
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New York Times:
Bolton Says He Is Willing to Testify in Impeachment Trial  —  The former national security adviser, who has complied with a White House directive not to cooperate in the inquiry, said he was willing to testify in the Senate trial if subpoenaed.  —  WASHINGTON — John R. Bolton …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Pelosi's strategy pays off: Now bring in Bolton  —  The Post reports: … Why Bolton would now decide to make himself available will be a matter of speculation.  Perhaps he was prompted to give up his ludicrous excuse to avoid testifying by a federal judge's dismissal on Dec. 30 …
Discussion: The Hill
Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
Bolton willing to testify in Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed  —  “I have concluded that, if the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify,” Bolton writes in a statement posted Monday.  —  WASHINGTON — Former national security adviser John Bolton …
Discussion: MSNBC
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Impeachment live updates: Bolton says he is prepared to testify in Senate trial if subpoenaed
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and Balloon Juice
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: John Bolton throws an impeachment curveball
Discussion: Bloomberg
Politico:
John Bolton willing to testify in Trump's impeachment trial
Axios:
Bolton says he will testify in impeachment trial if Senate issues subpoena
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Bolton ‘prepared to testify’ if subpoenaed in Senate trial
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
One Year in Washington Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reshaped her party's agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders's campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.  —  The corridors of Capitol Hill are a marbled monotony, with Oxford heels clacking around corners indistinguishable from one another …
Lorraine Ali / Los Angeles Times:
Review: Politics reigned at the Golden Globes.  Too bad Ricky Gervais didn't notice  —  Forget the escapist magic of Hollywood.  Nihilism was the name of the game when host Ricky Gervais opened the Golden Globes on Sunday night with a gloom-and-doom monologue so cynical it made the effervescent Tom Hanks scowl.
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Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:
Mar-a-Lago in the firing line: Iranian presidential adviser posts list of Donald Trump's properties in chilling hint of an attack on his real estate empire - after Iran put an $80million bounty on his head  —  An adviser to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani last night dropped a chilling hint …
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Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Iran officials hint at possible attacks on Trump properties  —  Senior Iranian officials are using Twitter to hint at threats against President Trump's properties — including his Mar-al-lago resort in Florida and Trump Tower in Manhattan — over the killing of Iran's top military commander.
Discussion: MSNBC, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Aya Batrawy / Associated Press:
An emotional Khamenei shows Iran general's death is personal  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a rare display of emotion from the typically reserved and measured supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cried openly Monday at the funeral of slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani …
John Bellinger / Lawfare:
Attacking Iran's Cultural Sites Would Violate the Hague Cultural Property Convention  —  On Sunday, President Trump — as he is wont to do when criticized — doubled down on his threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites if Iran attacks the United States in response to the killing of Qassim Suleimani.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran mess is getting worse.  Here's Adam Schiff's idea on what to do about it.  —  The deliberations that went into President Trump's decision to assassinate Iranian general Qasem Soleimani are looking more slapdash and reckless by the hour.  What we're now seeing will require House Democrats …
New York Times:
Harvey Weinstein Said to Be Indicted in Los Angeles on Sex Crimes Charges  —  The new case in California against the Hollywood producer was disclosed just as his sexual assault trial began in New York.  —  Prosecutors in Los Angeles have brought an indictment against the producer Harvey Weinstein …
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J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:   Harvey Weinstein Trial Judge Tells Defense to ‘Leave the Witnesses Alone’ in Public Statements
USA Today:   Harvey Weinstein, using a walker, arrives as sex crimes trial opens; jury selection to begin
Columbia Journalism Review:
Sleepwalking into 2020  —  This series was reported in partnership with Guardian US.  Sign up to be a Guardian Member, or follow Guardian US on Facebook or Twitter.  —  In the weeks after the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the American press realized it had failed.
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The Guardian:
Sleepwalking into 2020: are the media who missed Trump's 2016 rise ready now?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on Introduction of War Powers  —  Last week, the Trump Administration conducted a provocative and disproportionate military airstrike targeting high-level Iranian military officials.  This action endangered our servicemembers, diplomats and others by risking a serious escalation of tensions with Iran.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Pelosi announces war powers resolution as tensions with Iran escalate
David Siders / Politico:
The very real scenario of a protracted, ‘bizarro world’ Democratic primary  —  Democrats are now beginning to confront a very real scenario where the nomination — and the winnowing — will not be decided in states where campaigns have been plowing ground for more than a year …
Discussion: NBC News
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Qassem Soleimani's dead body flies coach back to Iran … The remains of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military commander killed in a US drone strike, were apparently placed in a cardboard box and flown out of Iraq across rows of passenger seats, new video shows.
James McGinnis / Bucks County Courier Times:
Former Bucks Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick dead at 56  —  At age 31, Mike Fitzpatrick was appointed chair of the board of Bucks County commissioners.  By 41, he was elected to the U.S. Congress.  —  Former U.S. Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, who rose from Bucks County commissioner to representing …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Mike Fitzpatrick, a former Republican congressman from the Philadelphia suburbs, has died at 56
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Julián Castro Endorses Elizabeth Warren  —  The move came soon after Mr. Castro ended his own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, and gives a lift to Ms. Warren's campaign as it tries to reignite excitement.  —  Julián Castro, the former housing secretary whose …
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Photos Aired on ‘60 Minutes’ Raises Questions About His Death, Former NYC Medical Examiner Says  —  A former New York City medical examiner has claimed photos of Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy raise questions about the disgraced financier's death—and indicate murder rather than suicide.
Discussion: CBS News
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Politico:
Defense secretary's chief of staff to step down  —  Eric Chewning, chief of staff to Defense Secretary Mark Esper, is stepping down at the end of the month, the latest in a series of high-profile civilians to leave the Pentagon.  —  He'll be replaced by Jen Stewart, the top Republican staffer …
New York Times:
How Democrats Can Win Back Obama-Trump Defectors  —  They don't have to lose their souls to do it.  Just the opposite.  —  The authors are political data experts.  —  In the aftermath of Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, analysts fiercely debated the role of the approximately six million voters …
South China Morning Post:
Indonesian man, Britain's worst rapist, jailed for life for raping 48 men  —  Reynhard Sinaga, 36, targeted drunk men in bars and offered them a place to stay at his flat, where he filmed many of the forced sexual encounters Authorities said evidence against Sinaga indicated he had a lot more victims …
Washington Post:
Prospect of gun control in Virginia draws threats, promise of armed protest  —  RICHMOND — Gun rights advocates and militia members from around the country are urging thousands of armed protesters to descend on Virginia's capital later this month to stop newly empowered Democrats from passing gun-control bills.
Paul Joseph Watson / Summit News:
Nearly 200 People Arrested Across Australia For Deliberately Starting Bushfires  —  Authorities in Australia have arrested close to 200 people for deliberately starting the bushfires that have devastated the country, yet the media and celebrities continue to blame “climate change” for the disaster.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's One Foreign-Policy Idea Is to Make America More Like Its Enemies  —  President Trump's risky escalation of the conflict with Iran has confused many people who took him, if not for a dove exactly, then for a skeptic of wars, especially in the Middle East.
Andrea Bernstein / New Yorker:
Who Is Jared Kushner?  —  The Kushner family history—from lying on immigration forms to becoming major Democratic donors—often seems at odds with the initiatives Jared supports in his father-in-law's Administration.  —  On December 13, 2016, Donald J. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner …
Politico:
Trump's German envoy blasts Europe over Iran  —  BERLIN — U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell took aim at European governments for failing to condemn Tehran over attacks it orchestrated over the past few months, as he justified America's assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Will Begin Deporting Asylum-Seekers From Mexico To Guatemala  —  The Trump administration will now deport Mexican nationals — including families — who come to the US southern border seeking asylum to Guatemala, an expansion of a controversial program …
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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