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GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, key impeachment vote, to reveal decision on witnesses tonight — Alexander is one of a handful of Republican senators who may vote to hear from witnesses during the Senate impeachment trial. — Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a key impeachment swing vote …
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United States Senator Lamar Alexander:
Alexander Statement on Impeachment Witness Vote — “I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the United States Constitution's high bar …
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Politico:
Biden argued against witnesses in 1999 impeachment trial memo — In January 1999, then-Sen. Joe Biden argued strongly against the need to depose additional witnesses or seek new evidence in a memo sent to fellow Democrats ahead of President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.
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Senator Susan Collins:
Senator Collins' Statement on Vote on Witnesses and Documents — Washington, D.C.—U.S. Senator Susan Collins issued the following statement on the next stage of the impeachment trial process: — “We have heard the cases argued and the questions answered.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Alexander narrows the path to witnesses — DRIVING THE DAY — “IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to encourage that investigation. When elected officials inappropriately interfere …
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Politico:
Republicans set to shut down Democrats' witness demands
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Sanders, Biden are neck-and-neck in new NBC/WSJ national poll — The two Democratic presidential contenders are statistically tied but Sanders has an edge in loyalty of his supporters. — DES MOINES, Iowa — Just days before the first votes are counted in the Democratic primary …
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Amy Wang / Washington Post:
John Delaney says he's dropping out of presidential race — John Delaney, a businessman and former Maryland congressman who launched a bid for the presidency nearly three years ago, has dropped out of the race, saying in a statement that he doesn't want to take support away from other moderate candidates in Monday's Iowa caucuses.
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Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Bloomberg surges past Warren into third place in new national poll — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg surged past Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in the latest nationwide Hill-HarrisX poll, putting him in third place in the field of Democratic presidential candidates.
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Trump, at Iowa rally, taunts Dems before caucuses: 'We're beating them all'
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Phil Prazan / KXAN-TV:
In Austin, John Bolton voices support for officials called in impeachment hearing — AUSTIN (KXAN) — Speaking at a private event in Austin Thursday, Former National Security Advisor John Bolton defended government officials who testified in front of the U.S. House impeachment inquiry.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republican Cover-up Will Backfire. The House Can Keep Investigating Trump. — Toward the end, the impeachment trial's strategic purpose narrowed into an obsessive quest to produce evidence. Democrats have defined victory not as removal, but as winning a procedural vote to allow more testimony, especially by John Bolton.
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The Daily Beast:
Dems Fed Up With GOP's Refusal to Budge on Impeachment: 'It's More Than Frustrating—It's Pathetic'
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump insists he isn't worried about impeachment: ‘This is a happy period’
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Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone:
The God President — Impeachment is a tool of accountability …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Dershowitz attempts to clarify controversial argument about presidential powers
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George Conway / Washington Post:
Don't let the defense fool you. This impeachment is all about corruption. — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC. — The president's lawyers this week floated their catch-all impeachment defense, one tailor-made for President Trump.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
Dershowitz's Dangerous Game — His defense of Trump threatens the checks and balances at the heart of Congress's impeachment power. — I will not try to convince you how to vote in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. I won't even lecture you about the need for witnesses …
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump: Coronavirus will have ‘a very good ending for us’ — President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to assure Americans about the spread of a new coronavirus, saying it would have “a very good ending for us ... that I can assure you,” hours after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global emergency.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump's border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months — NACO, Ariz. — President Trump's border wall likely will require the installation of hundreds of storm gates to prevent flash floods from undermining or knocking it over, gates that must be left open …
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Bernie Sanders praised George Wallace as ‘sensitive’ in 1972 — Seven years after Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to George Wallace as “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today,” a young Bernie Sanders praised the segregationist Alabama governor.
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Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
Paul Manafort and Rudy's Indicted Associate Igor Fruman Go Way, Way Back — The relationship — stretching from New York to London to Kyiv — long predated Rudy Giuliani's attempts to discredit the evidence that played a key role in Manafort's downfall. — The web of connections between …
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Politico:
Iowa Democrats fear losing first-in-the-nation status — DES MOINES, Iowa — Bruised feelings from Julián Castro's criticism this fall that Iowa is too white and too unrepresentative of the Democratic Party to go first in the nominating process have been replaced by spreading fears here that critics could get their way in 2024.
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Sam Knight / New Yorker:
What Will Brexit Britain Be Like? — At 11 p.m. on Friday, Britain will leave the European Union. Big Ben will not bong—it's too expensive—but the United Kingdom will secede from its defining economic and political relationship of the past fifty years. In Parliament Square …
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Daniel Boffey / The Guardian:
Trump will insist NHS pays more for drugs in trade deal, says ambassador
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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Woman who says Trump raped her seeks his DNA — NEW YORK — Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.
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Steve Beynon / Stars & Stripes:
64 US troops suffered traumatic brain injuries from Iranian missile attack, as casualty total continues to balloon — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced Thursday that 64 American troops sustained mild traumatic brain injuries as a result of the Iranian missile strikes on two military bases in Iraq …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Atlantic made Rahm Emanuel a contributing editor. Then, suddenly, he wasn't. — Last May, the Atlantic announced that Rahm Emanuel, who'd just left his post as Chicago mayor, would be joining the magazine as a contributing editor. “The Atlantic will be the primary home for Emanuel's writing …
CNN:
John Roberts stares down another possible legacy moment — Warren's question takes aim at Chief Justice — Washington (CNN)Over two weeks, Chief Justice John Roberts has served as a careful steward of Senate procedures and ensured that the impeachment trial did not descend into nastiness …
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Dara Lind / ProPublica:
“Women to One Side, Men to the Other”: How the Border Patrol's New Powers and Old Carelessness Separated a Family — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
White Nationalist State Department Official Still Active in Hate Movement — U.S. State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert has been steadily producing white nationalist propaganda in the nearly six months since he was suspended from his job, Hatewatch has learned.
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