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Trump Told Bolton to Help His Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Book Says — The president asked his national security adviser last spring in front of other senior advisers to pave the way for a meeting between Rudolph Giuliani and Ukraine's new leader. — WASHINGTON — More than two months …
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Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Trump's former chief of staff says Senate impeachment trial without witnesses is ‘a job only half done’ — WASHINGTON — A Senate vote to end President Donald Trump's impeachment proceedings without calling witnesses should be considered “half a trial,” the president's former chief of staff John Kelly said Friday.
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Senator Marco Rubio:
My Statement On The President's Impeachment Trial — Voting to find the President guilty would not just be a condemnation of his action. If I vote guilty, I will be voting to remove a President from office for the first time in the 243-year history of our Republic.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Senate Can Stop Pretending Now — Lamar Alexander and the end of Donald Trump's impeachment trial. — Just like that, at precisely 11 p.m. on Thursday, minutes after the end of the ninth day of the Senate trial of Donald John Trump, Senator Lamar Alexander ended it.
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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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ABC News:
Trump impeachment trial live updates: GOP rallies to stop witnesses amid new Bolton bombshell
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Lamar Alexander's craven surrender to Trump leaves our country exposed
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Washington Post:
Impeachment trial live updates: Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she will oppose witnesses …
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Politico:
Murkowski to vote against calling witnesses in impeachment trial
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Politico:
Trump's impeachment trial could extend into next week
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
GOP Sen. Murkowski says she will vote against witnesses, calls impeachment articles ‘rushed and flawed’
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Senator Susan Collins:
Senator Collins' Statement on Vote on Witnesses and Documents
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Lamar Alexander's yes-he-did-it statement on Trump, annotated
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Politico:
DNC overhauls debate requirements, opening door for Bloomberg — The Democratic National Committee is drastically revising its criteria to participate in primary debates after New Hampshire, doubling the polling threshold and eliminating the individual donor requirement …
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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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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
New DNC debate rules open door for Mike Bloomberg to make stage — For the Feb. 19 debate hosted by NBC News/MSNBC in Las Vegas, the party scrapped requirements that candidates have tens of thousands of individual donors.. — GRUNDY, Iowa — New Democratic National Committee debate qualification rules …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Bloomberg's campaign spent over $180 million during his first month in the 2020 race
Associated Press:
Bloomberg could qualify for debates under new party rules
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Sanders surges, Biden plateaus in latest NBC/WSJ poll of 2020 Democratic primary voters
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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
In Kyiv, Pompeo does not dispute allegations in Bolton's book — “We didn't get involved in the noise in Washington,” Pompeo said of his meeting. — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to directly dispute allegations reportedly contained in an unpublished manuscript …
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Giuliani discussed interests of a former Ukrainian client during summer meeting with top Zelensky aide — Rudolph W. Giuliani was huddled with a top Ukrainian official at a luxury Madrid hotel last August, on a mission to push for investigations sought by President Trump.
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BuzzFeed News:
Republicans Now Say Trump Did What He Was Accused Of — They Just Don't Care
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Amid Trump's Trial, Pompeo Visited Ukraine. Here's How It Went.
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Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Imposes New Travel Restrictions on Six Countries — Citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan won't be allowed to apply for visas to immigrate to U.S — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is banning immigration from Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation …
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Associated Press:
Trump curbs immigration for 6 nations in election-year push — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Friday that it was curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an election-year push to further restrict immigration.
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Bloomberg:
For $193, a Flight to New York With a Six-Hour Stopover in Wuhan — Bargain flights between Hong Kong and New York have emerged in the wake of the new coronavirus, as long as travelers are willing to stop in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, in just a few months.
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Victoria Bekiempis / Vulture:
Weinstein Accuser Says He Has No Testicles — Jessica Mann testified in a Manhattan courtroom Friday that Harvey Weinstein engaged in forced oral sex and raped her in early 2013 and alleged that she was in a twisted relationship with him because of her sexual inexperience.
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
McConnell, Schumer reach deal to wrap up trial on Wednesday — Sens. Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell told their members at their respective closed-door lunches that the two leaders have agreed to a proposal that would culminate in a Wednesday vote to acquit the president …
Washington Post:
Senate investigators interview IRS whistleblower about alleged interference with Trump or Pence audit — Senate investigators have conducted an extensive interview of a whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service who has alleged improper political interference in the audit of the president …
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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
Stacey Abrams Thinks She'll Be President By 2040 — Back in November, right before Thanksgiving, I traveled to Georgia to talk with Stacey Abrams as part of FiveThirtyEight's “When Women Run” project. The 46-year-old former minority leader of the Georgia House made waves in 2018 during …
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News — Jonah Goldberg, the conservative author and longtime fixture at National Review, used to have a go-to metaphor he'd deploy whenever he found himself defending one of his noisier compatriots in the right-wing media.
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
Get a Grip, Bernie Bed-Wetters: His Message and Media Machine Could Be Potent Against Trump — Socialist Schmocialist. Sanders has a set of political assets—celebrity, fundraising power, committed foot soldiers, media sophistication, relentless consistency—possessed by no one else in the race.
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Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Omar Paid Additional $215,000 From Campaign Coffers to Alleged Boyfriend's Firm — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) continues to push campaign cash to a firm run by her alleged boyfriend, filings show. — Omar's new committee filings submitted Friday morning show that between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 …
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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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