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7:35 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 …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
All the president's disloyal men: Trump demands fealty but inspires very little
Washington Post:
Bolton's lawyer contends his book does not contain classified material and asks White House …
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
ABC News:
Still silent, senators will begin submitting written questions in impeachment trial
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
WeWantWitnesses trends after report that Mitch McConnell doesn't have the votes to block witnesses …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Politico:
Senators pelt Trump's lawyers and impeachment managers with questions
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
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 and Raw Story
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 …
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.
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.
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
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
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
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 …
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.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Giuliani, tries to attend Trump impeachment trial  —  He is all but certain to be denied entry because he is wearing an electronic monitoring device on his ankle.  —  Parnas: ‘Trumpworld is like a cult, and a lot of these senators are in the cult’
Discussion: MSNBC, Fox News and Townhall
 
 
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Discussion: UPI, KTLA, The Hill and National Review
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