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1:15 PM ET, February 1, 2020

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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump administration reveals it's blocking dozens of emails about Ukraine aid freeze, including President's role  —  See the moment Senate makes historic vote  —  Washington (CNN)The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing late Friday that it has two dozen emails related …
Discussion: Raw Story
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New York Times:
A Dishonorable Senate  —  Republican legislators abdicated their duty by refusing to seek the truth.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The two Senate trials  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  IN CASE YOU'RE ON THE MARKET ... THE STATE DEPARTMENT is hiring for a “Senior Anticorruption Advisor” in Kyiv, Ukraine.  The listing  —  BREAKING ... REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-Calif.) raised a stunning $2.5 MILLION in the fourth quarter of 2019, a new filing showed.
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Bless Trump's Crimes: He Did It, Get Over It  —  The senator says there's no need for witnesses since voters, not senators, should judge Trump—but the overwhelming majority of voters wanted senators to call witnesses.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  In 1967, Lamar Alexander came …
Wall Street Journal:   How Republicans Scotched the Idea of Witnesses in Trump's Impeachment Trial
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Senate impeachment trial was rigged!
Discussion: HuffPost and Althouse
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Once Skeptical, Senate Republicans Are All In on Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Washington Post:
The cringing abdication of Senate Republicans
Politico:
Why four key Republicans split — and the witness vote tanked
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
GOP senators seek to acquit Trump without condoning conduct
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
In Trump impeachment trial, Senate right to block new witness testimony
Discussion: New Republic, Vox and Breitbart
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Bernie backers unleash their anger at a folk concert in Iowa  —  COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — On Friday afternoon, Pete Buttigieg, the frontrunner in Iowa in November and December, made his closing pitch here to about 100 voters.  Buttigieg has sunk 6 points to third place over the course of January.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Major union flips support from Sanders to Biden  —  Joe Biden scored the endorsement Saturday of a major transit union that officially backed Bernie Sanders in 2016.  —  “Joe has been very supportive of the labor movement for the last 40 years.  He stands for working families.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders for Not Working to Unite Democrats in 2016  —  In a podcast interview on Friday, Mrs. Clinton also described the caucuses in Iowa, where Mr. Sanders leads in some polls, as “undemocratic.”  —  DES MOINES — Hillary Clinton said on Friday in a podcast interview …
New York Times:
Bloomberg Proposes $5 Trillion in Taxes on the Rich and Corporations  —  Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire presidential hopeful, is including more new taxes in his plan than his moderate rival Joe Biden but less than Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.  —  WASHINGTON — Former Mayor …
David Siders / Politico:
DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention
Bret Stephens / New York Times:   Bernie's Angry Bros
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Rashida Tlaib boos Hillary Clinton at Bernie Sanders event in Iowa
Discussion: The Hill
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
How the House lost the witness battle along with impeachment  —  NBC host Chuck Todd recently asked guests if supporters of President Trump just want to be lied to.  It is a question that many in the media would never ask about Democrats, even in the face of overtly false claims.  This week is an example.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:   When the impeachment trial ends, the Senate's reputation will be hopelessly in tatters
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘A permanent asterisk’: Acquittal at hand, Democrats sow doubt about Trump trial
Discussion: The Hill
The Daily Beast:
U.S. Officials Warn of ‘Real Security Consequences’ if Trump's Acquitted  —  Crimes, conspiracies, and off-the-book ops—that's just a taste of what an impeachment acquittal could usher in, U.S. officials and Senate Democrats fear.  —  Late into Wednesday's session of the Senate impeachment trial …
Discussion: Raw Story
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The Quiet Significance of NeverTrump  —  The hashtag isn't important.  But the voters are.  —  Speak to enough voters who oppose Trump—which is, per polling, slightly more than half the country—and you will hear a strange resignation to the feeling that no matter what happens, President Trump is probably going to win re-election.
Washington Post:
FBI investigating border wall gun battle that left two wounded at California job site  —  A shootout at a border wall construction site near San Diego that wounded two Mexican security guards last summer is now under FBI investigation, according to private contractors and government documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Discussion: The Hill
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
A Pro-Trump Blog Doxed A Chinese Scientist It Falsely Accused Of Creating The Coronavirus As A Bioweapon  —  A popular pro-Trump website has released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan, China, falsely accusing them of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon …
James B. Comey / Washington Post:
Trump won't be removed.  But we'll be fine.  —  James B. Comey is a former director of the FBI and deputy attorney general.  —  When I was a little kid, the United States seemed to be coming apart.  The president was murdered in public.  The first lady had his blood on her pink suit.
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Althouse
Ian McEwan / The Guardian:
Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country's history, is done  —  The magic dust of populism has blinded reason, and damage and diminishment lie ahead  —  It's done.  A triumph of dogged negotiation by May then, briefly, Johnson, has fulfilled the most pointless …
Washington Post:
New emails show how President Trump roiled NOAA during Hurricane Dorian  —  A trove of documents released on Friday evening provide the clearest glimpse yet into how President Trump's inaccurate statements, altered forecast map and tweets regarding Hurricane Dorian's forecast path rattled top officials along …
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Impeachment Is Virtually Over.  What Did it Change?  —  Lasting marks are set to include deeper polarization, an ever-more powerful executive and a Republican Party inextricably joined to the president  —  No experience as searing as a presidential impeachment trial—dramatic …
 
 
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Forty percent of Ilhan Omar's campaign spending went to alleged boyfriend's firm
Nadeen Ebrahim / Reuters:
Egypt's population nears 100 million, putting pressure on resources and jobs
Benjamin Wood / Salt Lake Tribune:
Bill regulating fetal remains approved by Utah legislative panel
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Polling: Americans dissatisfied with the state of the union
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Border Patrol Detains Iranian-Born American Soldier at the Border, Seizes Their Phone
CBS New York:
Arrests Made, No Injuries Amid Chaotic Protests In Grand Central, Subways
Discussion: Breitbart
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Dare we overturn the will of the voters by holding another election?
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Hotel Patrons Relish Impeachment Finale
Miami Herald:
Opera singer danced on an SUV, then crashed through Mar-a-Lago barricades. Cops opened fire
Discussion: Redstate
Andrea Bernstein / The New York Review of Books:
Corruption with No Consequences, from Bridgegate to Impeachment
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The extreme measure one House Republican is taking to win over Donald Trump
 

 
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