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7:45 AM ET, February 1, 2020

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New York Times:
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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New York Times:
A Dishonorable Senate  —  Republican legislators abdicated their duty by refusing to seek the truth.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.
Wall Street Journal:
How Republicans Scotched the Idea of Witnesses in Trump's Impeachment Trial  —  White House, Senate GOP leaders swung into a good-cop, bad-cop routine to keep lawmakers in the fold after Bolton book leak  —  WASHINGTON—At the White House on Sunday evening, as the phones started ringing nonstop …
New York Times:
Alexander Says Convicting Trump Would ‘Pour Gasoline on Cultural Fires’  —  Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, explained why he would cast a pivotal vote against having witnesses at President Trump's impeachment trial, ensuring a quick acquittal.
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.
Washington Post:
The cringing abdication of Senate Republicans  —  REPUBLICAN SENATORS who voted Friday to suppress known but unexamined evidence of President Trump's wrongdoing at his Senate trial must have calculated that the wrath of a vindictive president is more dangerous than the sensible judgment …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Senate impeachment trial was rigged!  —  In the end, they didn't even pretend to take their oaths seriously.  —  Senators were instructed “to be in attendance at all times” during President Trump's impeachment trial.  But as the Democratic House managers made their last …
Discussion: HuffPost and Althouse
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:   GOP senators seek to acquit Trump without condoning conduct
CNN:
White House officials not thrilled but resigned to new vote timeline in impeachment trial
Discussion: HuffPost and Mother Jones
Senator Marco Rubio / Medium:
My Statement on the President's Impeachment Trial
Washington Post:
Bolton faces potential legal battles in standoff with White House over his book
Discussion: Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Politico
Politico:
Republicans defeat Democratic bids to hear witnesses in Trump trial
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders for Not Working to Unite Democrats in 2016  —  In a podcast interview on Friday, Mrs. Clinton also described the caucuses in Iowa, where Mr. Sanders leads in some polls, as “undemocratic.”  —  DES MOINES — Hillary Clinton said on Friday in a podcast interview …
Discussion: Michigan Advance
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Discussion: Fox News, HuffPost and The Hill
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Bernie's Angry Bros
Discussion: VICE and Common Dreams
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Tlaib boos Clinton at Sanders event, says ‘haters will shut up on Monday when we win’ Iowa
Discussion: IJR and BON IVER IN IOWA
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Rashida Tlaib boos Hillary Clinton at Bernie Sanders event in Iowa
Discussion: The Hill
David Siders / Politico:
DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — A small group of Democratic National Committee members has privately begun gauging support for a plan to potentially weaken Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign and head off a brokered convention.
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite and Axios
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Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Key Figure In Impeachment Trial, Retires  —  The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who accused the Trump administration of a “smear” campaign against her, has retired from the foreign service, NPR has learned.
CNN:
Marie Yovanovitch, diplomat at center of impeachment drama, retires
Discussion: The Hill
James B. Comey / Washington Post:
Trump won't be removed.  But we'll be fine.  —  James B. Comey is a former director of the FBI and deputy attorney general.  —  When I was a little kid, the United States seemed to be coming apart.  The president was murdered in public.  The first lady had his blood on her pink suit.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Consequence of Sound and Slate
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Page Six:
Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann tells court his genitalia looked ‘like a vagina’
Associated Press:   Woman says Weinstein yelled, ‘You owe me!’ before raping her
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
A Pro-Trump Blog Doxed A Chinese Scientist It Falsely Accused Of Creating The Coronavirus As A Bioweapon  —  A popular pro-Trump website has released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan, China, falsely accusing them of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon …
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Administration Adds Six Countries to Travel Ban  —  President Trump added Africa's biggest country, Nigeria, as well as Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan and Tanzania, to his restricted travel list.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday added six countries to his list …
Discussion: Masayet, The Week and Vox
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Ted Hesson / Reuters:
Trump's expanded travel ban targets Nigeria, five other countries
Discussion: United We Dream
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Author Mary Higgins Clark, ‘Queen of Suspense,’ dead at 92  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning “Queen of Suspense” whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world's most popular writers, died Friday at age 92.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Senate Vote to Block Witnesses and Documents  —  Washington, D.C. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement after Senate Republicans voted against calling witnesses and compelling documents in the impeachment proceedings:  —  “The Senate Republicans' vote …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Andrea Bernstein / The New York Review of Books:
Corruption with No Consequences, from Bridgegate to Impeachment  —  Two days before he was sworn in to preside over the US Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts conducted a hearing on a different case entirely …
Miami Herald:
Opera singer danced on an SUV, then crashed through Mar-a-Lago barricades.  Cops opened fire  —  A Connecticut woman chastised for dancing on her car at a Palm Beach hotel late Friday morning ended up driving away and crashing her vehicle through two security barricades outside Mar-a-Lago …
 
 
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘A permanent asterisk’: Acquittal at hand, Democrats sow doubt about Trump trial
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Joe Scarborough: Trump's So-Called Great Economy is WORSE than Jimmy Carter's ‘Year of Malaise’
Discussion: Breitbart
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Romney not welcome at CPAC after impeachment witness vote
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
In Trump impeachment trial, Senate right to block new witness testimony
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Trump Hotel Patrons Relish Impeachment Finale
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The extreme measure one House Republican is taking to win over Donald Trump
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Washington Post:
‘The center of the orbit’: Endangered Republicans go all-in on Trump
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Joe Heim / Washington Post:
It wasn't just the National Archives. The Library of Congress also balked at a Women's March photo.
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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
In Kyiv, Pompeo does not dispute allegations in Bolton's book
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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