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9:45 AM ET, January 19, 2022

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NY State Attorney General:
Attorney General James Takes Action to Force Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to Comply with Ongoing Investigation Into Trump Organization's Financial Dealings  —  Motion to Compel Filed After Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr.,  —  and Ivanka Trump Refuse to Provide Sworn Testimony
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New York Times:
N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business  —  The attorney general, Letitia James, released new details of her investigation into whether the company misrepresented the value of its assets, but her office did not file a lawsuit.
Washington Post:
N.Y. attorney general alleges Trump's business inflated property values, wealth statements  —  NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged on Tuesday that former president Donald Trump's business inflated the value of his properties and misstated his personal worth in representations …
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
NY AG says investigation into Trump and his business found ‘significant evidence’ suggesting fraud
CNN:
Exclusive: Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle's phone records subpoenaed by January 6 committee  —  Washington (CNN)The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Donald Trump's children …
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Politico:
Jan. 6 committee on verge of obtaining some records Trump has tried to shield  —  The Jan. 6 select committee is on the verge of obtaining several pages of Donald Trump's White House records that the former president has tried to shield from congressional investigators.
Politico:
Biden's favorite columnists revolt  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With Allie Bice.  —  Even JENNIFER RUBIN thinks JOE BIDEN is in trouble.  —  “Biden needs a reset.  Here's how he can do it,” …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, The Hill and IJR
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Washington Post:
The long slide: Inside Biden's declining popularity as he struggles with multiple crises  —  The second week of August began as a time for vacation for President Biden and some of his team.  Then Afghanistan imploded.  The reports out of Kabul were harrowing: Images of desperate Afghan nationals clinging …
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
How Biden's first year became a tale of two presidencies  —  One year ago, President Joe Biden stood in front of a U.S. Capitol that still bore the wounds of an insurrectionist siege, taking the oath of office at a time when the nation faced its greatest array of crises in nearly a century.
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Biden's report card: 1 year in, accomplishments and stalled priorities
Politico:
GOP takes a potent but risky new path: Hitting Biden on Covid
Discussion: New York Times
Doug Jones:
Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote  —  By Senators Tom Daschle (SD), Kent Conrad (ND), Byron Dorgan (ND), Bob Graham (FL), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Doug Jones (AL), Mary Landrieu (LA), Blanche Lincoln (AR), Mark Pryor (AR), Mark Udall (CO), and Mark Begich (AK).
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press
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Spencer / Declaration for American Democracy:   National Pro-Democracy Coalition Calls On Senate Democrats To Hold The Floor Until The Freedom To Vote Act: John R. Lewis Act Is Passed
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Senate Democrats will try to force ‘talking filibuster’ on two partisan election bills
Michael Lee / Fox News:
Schumer to propose talking filibuster in last-minute attempt to persuade Manchin, Sinema
Politico:
Manchin: Primary me if you want, I won't go ‘nuclear’
Henry Foy / Financial Times:
EU struggles to define a trigger for Russia sanctions  —  Some member states are wary of responding to any ‘hybrid’ attacks on Ukraine such as cyber warfare  —  Don't miss your essential guide to what matters in Europe today.  Delivered every weekday morning.
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
White House warns Russian invasion of Ukraine may be imminent
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Florida could shield whites from ‘discomfort’ of racist past  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees …
Politico:
Biden plans giveaway of 400M masks as Omicron surges  —  The Biden administration is planning to distribute hundreds of millions of free, high-quality masks through pharmacies and community health centers, a White House official said Wednesday.  —  The 400 million newly available masks …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Biden promises free masks in the ‘largest deployment’ of such equipment in U.S. history.  —  The Biden administration, facing calls from public health experts to distribute high-quality masks to the American public, will announce on Wednesday that it is making 400 million nonsurgical N95 masks available …
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Senate President Stuart Adams tested positive for COVID twice Tuesday before publicly announcing he was negative  —  Acknowledgment of positive tests came after Tribune inquiries, records request.  —  (Francisco Kjolseth |  The Salt Lake Tribune) Elder Gerrit W. Gong …
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Police said the male suspect (pictured) is believed to be homeless and fled through the back door before calming walking down an alley  —  The architectural design student from Pacific Palisades was alone in the Croft House store on La Brea Avenue in LA's upscale Fairfax neighborhood when a man entered around 1:50 p.m. and stabbed her.
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
How many people has Murdoch killed during pandemic?  —  We'll never know … Subscribe to PRESS RUN  —  After spending much of 2020 and the first half of 2021 raging against mask mandates and whining about how forcing workers to get vaccinated represented the trampling of individual liberties …
Discussion: Press Watch
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New York Times:   Why Trump and DeSantis Are Talking About Australia
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The curious case of the clerk and the racist texts  —  “Why is a prominent federal judge hiring a law clerk who said she hates Black people?” asked the headline on a column I wrote in October.  Now, the story has resurfaced, with a surprising, belated — and, in my view, ultimately unconvincing …
Discussion: The Daily Signal and Reason
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Vanessa Chalmers / New York Post:
Man's agonizing penis pain is found to be rare side effect of COVID  —  A man's agonizing penis pain was blamed on COVID infection, as docs warned of the rare side effect.  —  Writing in a medical journal, the Iranian team described how the virus led to blood clotting in the poor man's shaft.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Firearms, a drone and 30 days of supplies: New details of Oath Keepers Jan. 6 weapons cache  —  Oath Keepers planning to violently subvert the 2020 election stockpiled 30 days of supplies and a cache of rifles and ammunition just outside of Washington, D.C., prosecutors alleged in a late-night court filing.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
André Leon Talley, Editor and Fashion Industry Force, Dies at 73  —  Called “a creative genius,” he was the rare Black editor at the top of a field that was mostly white and notoriously elitist.  —  André Leon Talley, the larger-than-life fashion editor who shattered …
Matthew Yglesias / Grid News:
The case for a better way to poll  —  Issue polling makes America seem very liberal.  Combining party trust polling would help explain why Republicans win elections.  —  Editor-at-Large  —  In recent years, progressives have invested heavily in crafting a narrative which holds …
Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state  —  (CNN)Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year's elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups.
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Republican Parallel Universes Strategy  —  And how Democrats can break through it.  —  Shortly after the 2020 election I was chatting with a Republican strategist who'd done some work for several vulnerable-seeming GOP candidates who ultimately won their races, outperforming Donald Trump by several points.
 
 
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Political consultants pocket taxpayer cash
Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel:
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The Dworkin Report:
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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Biden Year One Approval Ratings Subpar, Extremely Polarized
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New York's governor becomes a ‘juggernaut’ in Cuomo's wake
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UnHerd:
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The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial
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