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Washington Post:
Trump ordered hold on military aid days before calling Ukrainian president, officials say — President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured …
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Washington Post:
Seven freshman Democrats: These allegations are a threat to all we have sworn to protect — Reps. Gil Cisneros of California, Jason Crow of Colorado, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Elaine Luria of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia are all freshman Democrats.
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Michigan Advance, POLITICUSUSA, U.S. Political News …, Axios and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Pelosi quietly sounding out House Democrats about whether to impeach Trump, officials say — Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been quietly sounding out top allies and lawmakers about whether the time has come to impeach President Trump, according to multiple Democratic officials …
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The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, CNN, The Week, Raw Story, Vanity Fair and RedState
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column: The most noxious part of Ukraine-Biden whistleblower affair is Team Trump thinks we're all idiots — What offends me most about the whistleblower-Ukraine-Biden story isn't the obvious corruption of it all. It's the way members of Team Trump assume we're all idiots who won't notice they've abruptly shifted their narrative.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Trump Has Finally Forced the House to Impeach Him — The anticlimactic denouement of the Mueller report produced a mixture of relief and gloating for Republicans. For President Trump it also produced something else: An almost intoxicating sense of impunity, a realization that his attempts …
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Raw Story, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
New York Times:
Trump Said to Have Frozen Aid to Ukraine Before Call With Its Leader — The revelation came as leading congressional Democrats demanded that the administration turn over documentation about the matter and calls for impeachment grew. — President Trump personally ordered his staff to freeze …
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The Week, Los Angeles Times, Michigan Advance, U.S. Political News …, Vox and Hullabaloo
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Instead of ‘No Collusion!’ Trump Now Seems to Be Saying, So What if I Did? — WASHINGTON — The last time he was accused of collaborating with a foreign power to influence an election, he denied it and traveled the country practically chanting, “No collusion!” This time, he is saying, in effect, so what if I did?
David Vance / Common Cause:
DOJ & FEC Complaints Filed Against President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Others for Illegal Solicitation of Contribution from Ukrainian President … Today, Common Cause filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that President Donald Trump …
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U.S. Political News …, Spectator USA, CNSNews, Fox News, Common Dreams, FiveThirtyEight, CNBC and Washington Post
The Daily Beast:
Not Just Ukraine: Rudy and Bannon Try a Whole New Way to Slime Biden — The president and his allies, from Peter Schweizer to Frank Gaffney, want to open a new front on the former VP's son even as their Ukraine gambit appears to have backfired. — The president's personal attorney …
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The Guardian, Breitbart, Washington Post and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The intelligence watchdog at the center of Ukraine firestorm — The intelligence community's chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, is known to his peers and colleagues as a highly cautious “straight shooter” who tends to keep his head down. — So when he sounded the alarm to Congress earlier …
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Raw Story, U.S. Political News … and Balloon Juice
John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘Seismic change’: Democratic hold-outs rush toward impeachment — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and party leaders are ramping up their offensive against President Donald Trump for pressuring Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden — with a potential House vote on a resolution condemning Trump as the caucus edges toward impeachment.
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
‘The dam could break’ on impeachment this week — Analysis: Democrats had been holding back as they ready a slew of charges against President Donald Trump. The Ukraine affair may force them forward. — Impeachment is getting a jump-start. — Sure, some intervention — divine …
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Washington Post, U.S. Political News …, POLITICUSUSA, New York Times, NB Blog and The Federalist
The Daily Beast:
Trump Impeachment: House Dems Are Discussing a ‘Select Panel’ to Handle the Task — The idea is being pushed by some members. And it comes amid a more serious consideration of impeachment by party leadership. — As House Democrats find themselves once more navigating the tricky politics of impeachment …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
In Ukraine, Trump's allies are corrupt oligarchs and Russian stooges
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CNN, The Daily Beast, NBC News and KTLA
OpenSecrets.org:
Trump's Ukraine call raises questions about campaign finance rules on foreign interference
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Washington Post, New York Times and Bloomberg
David French / National Review:
The Ukraine Story Isn't a Story about the Media
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Hot Air, Washington Post, Mother Jones and The American Conservative
Philip Ewing / NPR:
Trump And The Ukraine Call — What Happened And What's Next?
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Vanity Fair, RedState, Townhall and The Week
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
On support for Ukraine, extra $140 million draws scrutiny
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The Atlantic and Washington Post
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Bill Weld suggests Trump could face execution over Ukraine phone call
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CNN, The Federalist, American Military News, U.S. Political News … and Althouse
Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Repeats Criticism of Biden in Impromptu U.N. Appearance
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Washington Post and Daily Kos
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
‘Inherent contempt’: How House Democrats could fine or even jail Trump officials who refuse to cooperate
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U.S. Political News …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Republicans Have Four Options on Trump and Ukraine. They're All Bad.
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Raw Story
Manu Raju / CNN:
House Democrats near ‘tipping point’ on impeachment as Pelosi faces crucial week
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The Hill, New York Times, KTLA, Daily Kos and Washington Post
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Pence Gave Ukraine the Message Too
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Hullabaloo, emptywheel and Occupy Democrats
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Blurts Out to Reporters That He Pressured Ukraine to Smear Biden
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World — In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society. — Mr. Sulzberger is the publisher of The New York Times. — [This Op-Ed was originally delivered as a talk at Brown University on Monday.]
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U.S. Political News … and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Richard Cohen Leaves the Washington Post — Seriously, this is the whole thing: … Cohen joined the Post in 1968 and became an opinion writer in 1984. He helped get the redesigned Post magazine off to an extremely rocky start only two years later with a piece that sympathized …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
This is my final column. I've been lucky. — I've been lucky. — In February 1968, I came down to Washington from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to do some research, stopped up at The Post and walked out with a job. A week later, for reasons I never understood, I got a raise.
John Howard / Capitol Weekly:
Warren takes California lead in new CA120 tracking poll — The latest monthly tracking poll for California's March 2020 Democratic primary election shows Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren increasing her share of the vote, for the first time pushing former Vice President Joe Biden down to third place among likely voters.
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Elizabeth Warren's choice: ‘Medicare for All’ purity or a path to beating Donald Trump?
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DemCast and Iowa Starting Line
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump Humiliates Himself At UN By Whining About Obama's Nobel Prize — Trump is using his time at the UN to whine that Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize and he has not. — Trump was asked about getting a Nobel Prize, and he answered, “I think I am going to get a Nobel prize for a lot of things.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Why Trump Will Survive Even This — Nobody is going to hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged Ukrainian shenanigans because—as we've seen in his career and the first 32 months of his presidency—he's too good at deflecting investigators, irate Democrats and pesky reporters.
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Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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Toby Eckert / Politico:
New York prosecutors reject Trump's immunity claim in tax returns case — President Donald Trump has no “sweeping immunity” from a criminal probe while he remains in office, New York prosecutors said in a court filing Monday urging a federal judge to reject Trump's effort to block a subpoena for his tax returns.
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
DNC raises threshold to make November debate stage — The Democratic National Committee has slightly raised the bar to qualify for the November primary debate in a move unlikely to significantly reduce the number of participating candidates. — Candidates will need to clear 3 percent …
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