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7:50 PM ET, January 29, 2020

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Jake Tapper / CNN:
White House has issued formal threat to Bolton to keep him from publishing book  —  Washington (CNN)The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton to keep him from publishing his book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee:
Engel Statement on September 23, 2019 Call with John Bolton  —  Washington—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement:  —  “President Trump is wrong that John Bolton didn't say anything about the Trump-Ukraine Scandal at the time the President fired him.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What the New Bolton-Engel Breaking News Really Means, And Why It Matters  —  We've just had breaking news in an announcement from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel.  He says that on Sept. 23, he spoke to John Bolton and Bolton “suggest[ed] to me — unprompted …
ABC News:
Still silent, senators will begin submitting written questions in impeachment trial
Washington Post:
Bolton's lawyer contends his book does not contain classified material and asks White House …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
All the president's disloyal men: Trump demands fealty but inspires very little
Politico:
Senators pelt Trump's lawyers and impeachment managers with questions
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
BREAKING: Gardner says he doesn't want to hear from more impeachment witnesses  —  U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said Wednesday that he thinks the Senate has heard from enough witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, taking off the table a potential Republican vote to subpoena national security adviser John Bolton.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators believe they have the votes to block witnesses  —  It was clear to Senate Republicans on Wednesday after a morning meeting between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that the question of having additional witnesses is settled …
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
GOP Sen. Cory Gardner Just Lost His Seat By Saying No To Witnesses  —  Sen. Cory Gardner is already trailing his Democratic challenger John Hickenlooper, and he may have lost his seat when he came out against impeachment trial witnesses.  —  Colorado Politics reported on a statement that Gardner provided to them:
Discussion: Redstate and HuffPost
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dem Caucuses Could Be a Five-Way Contest  —  Nearly half remain open to switching support on caucus night  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and Elizabeth Warren continue to jostle for the top spot in the fifth and final Monmouth University Poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Andrew Yang Says Supporters May Go to Sanders in Iowa Caucus
Discussion: The Hill and NBC News
Nidhi Prakash / BuzzFeed News:
“I Would Vote For My Dead Cat Over Trump”: Even Moderate Democrats Say They'd Vote For Bernie Sanders …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Super PAC Attacks Sanders in an Ad.  Sanders Raises $1.3 Million in a Day.  —  As Bernie Sanders shows strength in the early-voting states, his opponents face a challenge: Attacking him can help fuel his campaign.  —  DES MOINES — A Democratic super PAC wanted to undermine Senator Bernie …
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:   ‘How good I feel’: Sanders setting high expectations in Iowa
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Lessons for Life: The Obituaries of Republicans Who Opposed Nixon's Impeachment  —  “Obituaries reflect what the present thinks of the past,” wrote journalism professor Kathleen McElroy.  —  What will the future think of President Donald Trump and two historic votes senators must take on his impeachment?
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Politico:
Senate and John Roberts face possibility of epic tie on witnesses  —  Ahead of a tight vote on whether to hear new witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, the Senate is preparing for the possibility that this crucial roll call has an asterisk in the history books: it ends in a tie.
Discussion: The Hill
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Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
WeWantWitnesses trends after report that Mitch McConnell doesn't have the votes to block witnesses …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Tom Chiarella / Esquire:
21 Hours With Alan Dershowitz  —  Over the course of one week, Tom Chiarella watched Donald Trump's TV-loving lawyer prepare for his biggest argument to date.  He still can't make sense of it.  —  He sits with his back half-turned to the window of his eighth-floor apartment in Miami Beach …
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Nikki Carvajal / CNN:   Alan Dershowitz argues presidential quid pro quos aimed at reelection are not impeachable
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Dershowitz says a quid pro quo in Trump's political interest is fine and not impeachable
Discussion: Axios
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump allies are handing out cash to black voters  —  Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.  —  The first giveaway took place last month in Cleveland …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Flynn's new legal team unleashes on his old lawyers in bid to withdraw guilty plea  —  The new legal team for former national security adviser Michael Flynn unleashed a withering assault Wednesday on Flynn's old lawyers, accusing them of a conflict of interest so severe that it merits allowing …
Discussion: ABC News, Associated Press and Fox News
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Michael Flynn: ‘I Regret Pleading Guilty’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
ABC News suspends correspondent over erroneous report on Kobe Bryant crash  —  ABC News has suspended the correspondent who speculated on-air that all four of Kobe Bryant's daughters were on board the helicopter that crashed and killed the NBA icon and eight others on Sunday.
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
What Will You Do When the Culture War Comes for You?  —  Newsrooms still aren't ready for the trolls.  —  Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large.  —  The culture war will come for us all.  —  On Sunday, it came for a Washington Post reporter, Felicia Sonmez.
Mark Hemingway / Real Clear Politics:
NeverTrump: Most Overrepresented Demographic in Media  —  Over the weekend, Washington Post columnist Max Boot had a novel take on President Trump's impeachment.  According to Boot, what Trump said on the phone call with Ukraine's president was in some ways worse than Andrew Jackson's forced relocation …
Discussion: The Hill and YouTube
Sunny Kim / CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading disinformation online  — Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.
KYMA-TV:
Portion of new border wall falls in Mexicali  —  MEXICALI, Baja California, Mexico - (KYMA, KECY) Mexicali police have confirmed with News 11 that a portion of the new border wall fell on the Mexico side of the border, landing on several trees.  —  Police said it happened a little before 12 p.m. local time.
Discussion: CNN
Brian Melley / Associated Press:
FBI raids Los Angeles church to make immigration fraud bust  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal agents raided a Philippines-based church in Los Angeles early Wednesday in a human trafficking investigation that led to arrests of two church leaders in what prosecutors said was a decades-long scheme …
Discussion: The Hill
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
DOD Identifies Air Force Casualties  —  The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two Airmen who were supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel.  They died January 27 in the crash of a Bombardier E-11A aircraft in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.  The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
The DNC Approved And Kept Private A Generous Exit Package For Tom Perez And Two Top Deputies  —  A group of Democratic National Committee officials approved and then withheld from their own leadership a proposal to carve out a generous exit package for the party chairman, Tom Perez …
 
 
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Lev Parnas' lawyer ties Lindsey Graham to corrupt Ukraine scheme
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Rahm Emanuel / Washington Post:
How impeachment could flip the Senate
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Reuters:
Kremlin confirms new title of SUPREME RULER for Vladimir Putin is being considered following …
Gwen Aviles / NBC News:
‘American Dirt’ book tour canceled by publisher because of safety concerns
Discussion: Vox, New York Times and The Daily Beast
Katie Pavlich / Townhall:
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New York Times:
As Other Democrats Feud, Bloomberg Hammers Trump on Health Care
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders is ‘insanely consistent.’ That's nothing to brag about.
Discussion: American Greatness and The Root
 Earlier Items: 
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EXCLUSIVE: The cyber attack the UN tried to keep under wraps
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Ben Smith on Leaving BuzzFeed News
Clint Fargeau / Redstate:
If Nadler Is Right and Trump Is a Dictator, Why Hasn't De Niro ‘Disappeared’?
MSNBC:
Trump trial lawyer admits abuse of power is impeachable, previews ‘temporary’ defense
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Giuliani, tries to attend Trump impeachment trial
Discussion: MSNBC, Fox News and Townhall
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
Anti-human-trafficking groups refuse to attend Ivanka Trump's White House summit
NBC News:
Dutch Trump superfan who claimed he surveilled Ambassador Yovanovitch told people he was DEA
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Democrats are already bracing for a ‘hostile’ Trump transition
Discussion: Raw Story