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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.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump rages at Bolton, says former adviser would have caused ‘World War Six’  —  The president's latest attack on his ex-national security adviser comes as the Senate is weighing calling him as a witness.  —  President Donald Trump berated his former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hannity's ugly meltdown at Romney: Wanting the truth is ‘Trump hatred’  —  It was inevitable that the Cult of Trump would ultimately settle here.  Any Republican who dares to acknowledge the relevance of facts outside the disinformation bubble that President Trump and his propagandists …
ABC News:
Still silent, senators will begin submitting written questions in impeachment trial  —  Senators can pose questions to both House managers and Trump's defense team.  —  LIVE NOW  —  In unpredictable new phase, senators begin up to 16 hours of questions to House managers, Trump defense team
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 …
Igor Derysh / Raw Story:
Trump's lawyers gave thousands to Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz before the impeachment trial began
Discussion: USA Today
Politico:
Senators pelt Trump's lawyers and impeachment managers with questions
Discussion: Washington Post
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Attacks John Bolton As Desperate Loser Who Nearly Destroyed the Planet
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Vox and IJR
Barbara McQuade / NBC News:   Trump's impeachment trial defense hinges on six arguments. They can all be rebutted.
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  — Yang spoke to reporters at roundtable before Iowa votes  — Sanders surging campaign could be strengthened by Yang support  —  Andrew Yang said he won't be surprised if his voters end up supporting Bernie Sanders …
Discussion: The Hill
Nidhi Prakash / BuzzFeed News:   “I Would Vote For My Dead Cat Over Trump”: Even Moderate Democrats Say They'd Vote For Bernie Sanders …
New York Times:
What Are 2020 Democrats Saying to Iowans in Facebook Ads?
Discussion: NBC News
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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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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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
'It's asking a lot': Never Trump Republicans draw the line at Bernie Sanders  —  The rise of socialist Bernie Sanders is frustrating Never Trump Republicans who are hoping the Democratic Party nominates a consensus, center-left presidential candidate they are comfortable supporting in November.
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 …
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?
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.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Dershowitz says a quid pro quo in Trump's political interest is fine and not impeachable  —  Alan Dershowitz argued that a quid pro quo involving a president's political benefit was fine because all presidents believe their elections are in the public's interest.
Discussion: Axios
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Nikki Carvajal / CNN:   Alan Dershowitz argues presidential quid pro quos aimed at reelection are not impeachable
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
Anti-human-trafficking groups refuse to attend Ivanka Trump's White House summit  —  On Friday, President Trump is expected to attend a White House summit organized by his daughter Ivanka on human trafficking, an issue he frequently invokes as a top priority.
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
One year inside Trump's monumental Facebook campaign  —  A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign's sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters  —  As the Democratic candidates for president spent 2019 battling each other in early voting states …
NBC News:
Dutch Trump superfan who claimed he surveilled Ambassador Yovanovitch told people he was DEA  —  Interviews with a half-dozen people who know Anthony de Caluwe and documents obtained by NBC News show that the Trump superfan has a shadowy past.  —  WASHINGTON — The Dutch man who claimed …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Ryan Heath / Politico:
Say hello to invisible Brexit  —  BRUSSELS — Britain is leaving the European Union this weekend with a whimper.  —  It took one referendum, two national elections, three prime ministers and four years of continentwide political anguish for the United Kingdom to achieve Brexit …
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Rafael Behr / The Guardian:
What having a heart attack taught me about Brexit
Discussion: Bloomberg
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Ben Smith on Leaving BuzzFeed News  —  On Tuesday, the New York Times announced that its new media columnist, a job most famously held by the late David Carr, will be Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.  Smith, who was previously a political reporter for the New York Observer …
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Flynn's new legal team unleashes on his old lawyers in bid to withdraw guilty plea
Discussion: Fox News
Ben Parker / The New Humanitarian:
EXCLUSIVE: The cyber attack the UN tried to keep under wraps
Clint Fargeau / Redstate:
If Nadler Is Right and Trump Is a Dictator, Why Hasn't De Niro ‘Disappeared’?
CNN:
UN report warns ISIS is reasserting under new leader believed to be behind Yazidi genocide
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: Fox News, Townhall and MSNBC
Kyle Smith / National Review:
Inside the Hillary Bubble
Jesse Singal / UnHerd:
Journalism is being eaten alive by opinion
 Earlier Items: 
Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
Trump shuns Democrats as he signs bipartisan USMCA
Edward Archer / The James G. Martin Center …:
The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research
Discussion: National Review
Sharyl Attkisson / American Thinker:
The Department of Justice Coverup of its Spying on Me Continues
The Daily Beast:
Parnas Lawyer: Giuliani Delivered Graham Letter Calling for Sanctions on Ukrainian Officials
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Democrats are already bracing for a ‘hostile’ Trump transition
Discussion: Raw Story