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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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BuzzFeed News:
Republicans Now Say Trump Did What He Was Accused Of — They Just Don't Care — WASHINGTON — After days of arguments and questioning in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, many Republican senators have come to the same conclusion: The president did it, and they don't care.
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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 — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to directly dispute allegations reportedly contained in an unpublished manuscript …
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Phil Prazan / KXAN-TV:
In Austin, John Bolton voices support for officials called in impeachment hearing
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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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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Lamar Alexander's craven surrender to Trump leaves our country exposed
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
What Democrats must do when impeachment is over
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Washington Post:
Impeachment trial live updates: Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she will oppose witnesses …
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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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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Candidates brace for frenzied weekend of Iowa campaigning
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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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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Administration Adds Six More Countries to Travel Ban — President Trump adds Africa's biggest country, Nigeria, as well as Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan and Tanzania, to his restricted travel list. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday added six countries …
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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Washington Post:
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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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Amid Trump's Trial, Pompeo Visited Ukraine. Here's How It Went.
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Michele Kelemen / NPR:
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Has Retired From Foreign Service — Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until last spring when she was ousted following a disinformation campaign by the president's private lawyer, is retiring — not resigning.
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:
‘The center of the orbit’: Endangered Republicans go all-in on Trump — Many of the most endangered Republicans have concluded that fully embracing President Trump is their only credible path to victory in November, rallying to his side in the final days of the Senate impeachment fight …
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.
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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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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