November 2019

Impeachment Inquiry

• Sondland: Highly-anticipated impeachment witness testifies (Al Jazeera)
• WATCH LIVE: Sondland: Ukraine Aid Link Reflected Trump’s ‘Desires And Requirements’ by Philip Ewing, Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Gordon Sondland Returns To Impeachment Inquiry As A Key Witness With An Updated Story by Rachel Martin (NPR)
• Gordon Sondland Blames Ukraine Scandal on Trump by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Gordon Sondland’s Testimony Could Lead to Yet Another Article of Impeachment by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
• Sondland Testifies Explicit Ukraine Quid Pro Quo Came From Trump and Everyone Was In on It by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Sondland Testifies Rudy Giuliani Was Still Involved With Ukraine Weeks After the Whistleblower Complaint by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• ‘It was no secret’: Sondland says Trump ordered Ukraine pressure campaign by Andrew Desidero, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• Gordon Sondland’s Testimony Is Devastating for Trump by Greg Walters, Cameron Joseph (VICE)
• Gordon Sondland Just Linked Mike Pence Directly To Trump’s Ukraine Scandal by Greg Walters, Liz Landers (VICE)
• Witness: Worked with Giuliani at Trump’s ‘express direction’ by Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, and Eric Tucker (AP)
• The Latest: Perry denies knowing of Trump push on Ukraine (AP)
• Sondland acknowledges there was a ‘quid pro quo’ involving Ukraine by Aaron C. Davis (Washington Post)
• Impeachment hearings live updates: Trump lashes out as Sondland acknowledges there was a ‘quid pro quo’ by John Wagner and Felicia Sonmez (Washington Post)
• Sondland Kept Pompeo Informed on Ukraine Pressure Campaign by Michael S. Schmidt (NY Times)
• The one impeachment witness who Republicans can’t claim is a ‘never Trumper’ just threw Trump under the bus by John Haltiwanger (Business Insider)
• Impeachment Hearing Live Updates: ‘Everyone Was in the Loop’ on Ukraine Pressure, Sondland Says by Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
• Sondland Kept Pompeo Informed on Ukraine Pressure Campaign by Michael S. Schmidt (NY Times)
• Army steps up protection of Vindman as White House pushes talking points attacking service member by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• Read Trump’s very large, very strange Sharpie notes on impeachment by Hannah Brown (Vox)
• Read Gordon Sondland’s Opening Statement (NY Times)
• READ: Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s Opening Statement by Elena Moore (NPR)
• Impeachment inquiry: Trump directed Ukraine pressure – Sondland (BBC)
• Gordon Sondland: ‘Was there quid pro quo? … The answer is yes’ by William Roberts (Al Jazeera)
• Fox News Impeachment Expert Ken Starr Says Trump Is In Deep Trouble by Luke Darby (GQ)
• Donald Trump’s No-Quid-Pro-Quo Defense Is Crushed. The GOP Didn’t Get the Memo. by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Key Takeaways From Gordon Sondland’s Watershed Impeachment Hearing by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Using familiar defense, Trump claims not to “know” Sondland very well. Evidence suggests otherwise by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• Gordon Sondland Rips Out the Heart of Trump’s Defense by Matt Ford (The New Republic)
• A top Pentagon official severely undercut a Trump impeachment talking point by Alex Ward (Vox)
• ‘On whose authority?’: What to watch in impeachment hearings by Laurie Kellman (AP)
• Giuliani Says He Is Still Talking to Ukrainian Officials About Biden and 2016 by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Gordon Sondland Threw Half the Trump Administration Under the Bus by Jay Willis (GQ)

Other News

• Trump Cleared a Sailor Accused of War Crimes. The Navy Wants to Expel Him From the SEALs Anyway. by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Mike Pompeo planning to resign because Trump ‘hurting his reputation’, report claims by Conrad Duncan (Independent)
• North Korea says no interest in Trump summit until ‘hostile policy’ removed by Hyonhee Shin (Reuters)
• Trump press secretary backtracks claim Obama officials left ‘You will fail’ notes by Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
• For-Profit Colleges Tap a Fox News Host to Influence Trump by Isaac Arnsdorf (ProPublica)
• Trump Just Flipped a Court That Will Decide Crucial Voter Suppression Cases in the South by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)

Impeachment Inquiry

• White House Ukraine expert says Trump’s request for Biden probe was improper by Patricia Zengerle, Karen Freifeld, Jonathan Landay (Reuters)
• Watergate Prosecutor Predicts The Moment This Week That Donald Trump Will Be ‘Toast’ by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
• Rex Tillerson Says Trump’s Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine Was “Wrong” by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Trump Donor Gordon Sondland’s Testimony Could Be An Impeachment Turning Point by Ryan J. Reilly (Huffington Post)
• What To Watch On Day 3 Of Public Trump Impeachment Hearings by Laurie Kellman / AP (Huffington Post)
• WATCH LIVE: Impeachment Hearings Resume With White House, State Department Witnesses by Brian Naylor, Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Ron Johnson goes after witness set to testify in impeachment inquiry by Marianne levine (Politico)
• In Opening Statement, Vindman Outlines Concerns About Trump’s Ukraine Call by Abigail Weinberg (Mother Jones)
• More Intimidation: Nunes Baselessly Claims Whistleblower May Have Broken the Law by Jeremy Schulman (Mother Jones)
• Trump Campaign Attacks Another Impeachment Witness as He Testifies by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
• As Trump allies attack Vindman, he rejects claims that he is partisan by John Wagner and Colby Itkowitz (Washington Post)
• READ: Impeachment Witnesses’ Opening Statements For Tuesday’s Hearings by Elena Moore (NPR)
• US Army prepared to move Vindman to secure location: report by Justine Coleman (The Hill)
• Analysis: 5 takeaways from Alexander Vindman’s and Jennifer Williams’s testimony by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Who Is Jennifer Williams? Pence Aide Listened to Trump-Zelensky Call by Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
• Who Is Alexander Vindman? White House Aide Reported Ukraine Concerns by Danny Hakim (NY Times)
• Impeachment Hearings Live Updates: White House Questions Vindman’s Judgment by Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
• Watch Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s powerful opening statement in the impeachment hearings by Jen Kirby (Vox)
• “It’s Lieutenant Colonel Vindman”: Nunes’s effort to out whistleblower is met with an epic clap-back by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• The GOP counsel’s xenophobic attack on Vindman’s patriotism by Zach Beauchamp (Vox)
• Impeachment hearing: White House Twitter account attacks Vindman’s judgment by Joan E. Greve (The Guardian)
• Trump Impeachment Hearings, Day Three by Perry Bacon, Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
• Most Americans Think Trump Committed An Impeachable Offense by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux. Laura Bronner (FiveThirtyEight)
• Purple Heart Under Fire by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
• Trump call with Zelenskyy was ‘improper’, ‘unusual’: WH aides by William Roberts (Al Jazeera)
• Impeachment inquiry: White House attacks witness who heard ‘improper’ call (BBC)
• Gordon Sondland Returns To Impeachment Inquiry As A Key Witness With An Updated Story by Rachel Martin (NPR)
• ‘Couldn’t believe what I was hearing’: White House aides testify in impeachment probe by Patricia Zengerle, Karen Freifeld, Jonathan Landay (Reuters)
• Republicans reject Trump’s attacks on impeachment witnesses by Melanie Zanona (Politico)
• Republicans abandon tradition of whistleblower protection at impeachment hearing by John M. Donnelly (Roll Call)
• The Republicans’ Most Bizarre Impeachment Defenses of Donald Trump by Jay Willis (GQ)

Other News

• The Trump Administration Keeps Promoting Stephen Miller’s Immigration Hardliner Allies by Nuria Marquez Martinez (Mother Jones)
• Trump says his weekend medical exam was ‘very routine’ (Reuters)
• Trump appointee Mina Chang resigns after questions over résumé by Martin Pengelly (The Guardian)
• As Tensions Rise Over Defense Costs, U.S. Walks Out Of Talks With South Korea by Anthony Kuhn (NPR)
• White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed without evidence that Obama staffers left notes for Trump aides saying ‘You will fail’ by Eliza Relman (Business Insider)
• Trump denies heart attack prompted sudden hospital visit by Martin Pengelly (The Guardian)
• Trump shift on Israeli settlements fulfills wish list of evangelical base by Maria Caspani, Matt Spetalnick (Reuters)

Impeachment Inquiry

• Impeachment hearings spur Trump campaign fundraising by Kimberly Halkett (Al Jazeera)
• Trump Turns on Pompeo After a Week of Damning Testimony by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Impeachment Public Hearings Week 2 — Who Is Testifying And What Happens Next by Deirdre Walsh (NPR)
• Week 2 Of Public Impeachment Hearings: Who’s Testifying And When by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)
• Trump says he might be willing to testify in impeachment inquiry by Matt Spetalnick, Patricia Zengerle (Reuters)
• Impeachment: Trump will ‘strongly consider’ testifying (BBC)
• Trump impeachment: President says he will ‘strongly consider’ testifying in inquiry by Phil Thomas (Independent)
• Democrats Offer Trump Chance To Testify, And He Says He Might Do It — In Writing by Bobby Allyn (NPR)
• IRS whistleblower case advances as Senate staff looks at whether political appointee meddled with audit of Trump or Pence by Jeff Stein and Tom Hamburger (Washington Post)
• Opinion: The GOP’s defenses in the Trump impeachment inquiry are about to blow up in spectacular fashion this week by Sonam Sheth (Business insider)
• Time and again, envoy’s Ukraine tale differs from others by Eric Tucker (AP)
• US officials knew of Ukraine’s Trump anxiety by Desmond Butler and Michael Biesecker (AP)
• White House officials to kick off big Trump impeachment week by Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick (AP)
• Opinion: Donald Trump Is America’s Anti-President by Laurence H. Tribe (Newsweek)
• READ: State Department Official David Holmes’ Impeachment Inquiry Testimony (NPR)
• READ: Testimony Of Top State Department Official David Hale by Elena Moore (NPR)
• Russia could have monitored Trump’s call with Sondland, State Dept. official testified by Kyle Cheney, Rishika Dugyala (Politico)
• House Releases Impeachment Inquiry Testimony From David Hale, David Holmes by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (Huffington Post)
• US impeachment inquiry: Trump considers testifying in person by Kimberly Halkett (Al Jazeera)
• How Not to Plot Secret Foreign Policy: On a Cellphone and WhatsApp by David E. Sanger (NY Times)

Mueller Report

• US House exploring if Trump lied in Mueller investigation: Report (Al Jazeera)
• Impeachment Investigators Exploring Whether Trump Lied to Mueller by Charlie Savage (NY Times)
• Trump May Have Lied to Robert Mueller, and Democrats Are Investigating It by Jay Willis (GQ)
• Congress Is Now Investigating Whether Trump Lied to Mueller by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• House is investigating whether Trump lied to Mueller, its general counsel told a federal appeals court by Ann E. Marimow, Spencer S. Hsu and Rachael Bade  (Washington Post)

Israeli Settlements

• US says Israeli settlements are no longer illegal (BBC)
• Trump administration no longer considers Israeli West Bank settlements ‘inconsistent with international law’ by Andrew Buncombe, Bel Trew (Independent)
• US says Israeli settlements no longer considered illegal in dramatic shift by Julian Borger and Oliver Holmes (The Guardian)
• Mike Pompeo’s big announcement about Israeli settlements, briefly explained by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)

Tax Returns

• House panel agrees to temporary stay of Trump subpoena to allow Supreme Court to weigh in on financial records by Harper Neidig (The Hill)
• Trump tax returns: Supreme Court temporarily blocks release of financial documents by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• Judge orders Democrats to give notice if they request Trump’s NY tax returns by Naomi Jagoda (The Hill)

Trump Health

• White House attempts to downplay speculation over Trump’s health after unscheduled hospital visit by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• Trump was not treated for any urgent health issues in Saturday’s exam: physician (Reuters)
• Trump’s Unscheduled Hospital Visit Raises Suspicions About His Health by Kevin Freking / AP (TIME)
• The questions surrounding Trump’s trip to Walter Reed hospital, briefly explained by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• Trump’s doctor issues letter addressing ‘speculation’ about visit to Walter Reed by Brett Samuels (The Hill)

Other News

• Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
• Asylum at the Border Is Over—and Mexico Is Turning Factories Into Shelters to Clean Up Trump’s Mess by Fernanda Echavarri, Julie Lurie (Mother Jones)
• Trump Ditches Flavored Vape Ban After Learning His Supporters Like to Vape by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• North Korea Says It Won’t Give Trump A Summit For Free by Kim Tong-Hyung / AP (Huffington Post)
• North Korea Says It’s ‘No Longer Interested’ in Meetings That Only Serve U.S. Interests, President Trump’s Pride by Kim Tong-Hyung (TIME)
• Trump and Powell met Monday at White House to discuss economy (Reuters)
• US cancels civil nuclear cooperation waiver for Iran by Matthew Lee (AP)
• The Supreme Court May Criminalize Immigrant Advocacy by Lorelei Laird (Slate)
• After Elise Stefanik’s Pro-Trump Performance, Donations Pour in for Her Opponent by Abigail Weinberg (Mother Jones)
• New York Times editor says Trump has put his reporters’ lives at risk by Jim Waterson (The Guardian)
• The Federalist Society Just Proved It’s All In for Trump by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
• Trump says he told Fed’s Powell U.S. interest rates are too high (Reuters)
• Civil Rights Groups Call For Trump To Fire Stephen Miller Over White Nationalism by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)
• Trump advisory board member: Women should strive to be “handmaidens,” stay out of the workplace by Eric Hananoki (Media Matters)

Analysis

• The White Nationalist Websites Cited by Stephen Miller by Katie Rogers and Jason DeParle (NY Times)
• Trump backs off his flavored vape ban — for exactly the reason he said he wouldn’t by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)

Impeachment Inquiry

• Pelosi warns Trump: ‘You’re in my wheelhouse when you come after the whistleblower’ by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Trump Attacks Vice President’s Aide Ahead of Her Impeachment Testimony by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
• Schumer calls on Trump to testify as part of impeachment inquiry by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
• Trump labels top Pence aide a ‘Never Trumper’ by RIshika Dugyala (Politico)
• Democrats Say Trump Is Welcome to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump Blasts Pence Aide as “Never Trumper” After She Said Ukraine Call Was “Inappropriate” by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Pelosi says Trump is welcome to testify in impeachment inquiry, if he chooses (The Guardian)
• Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Should Testify Under Oath Instead of Sounding Off on Twitter by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
• Republicans Shift Defense of Trump, While He Attacks Another Witness by Sheryl Gay Stolberg (NY Times)
• In Trump-Nixon impeachment comparison, Pelosi raises specter of resignation by Doina Chiacu (Reuters)
• Pence adviser says that Trump’s phone call to Ukrainian president was “unusual and inappropriate” by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)

Physical Exam

• Trump’s health ‘very good’ after unscheduled physical exam (BBC)
• Report: Trump Went to Hospital for Unscheduled Medical Exam by Tim Scocca (Slate)
• Trump Heads To Hospital For Unannounced “Part One” of Annual Physical by Jordan Hoffman (Vanity Fair)

Louisiana

• Louisiana delivers Trump a black eye by Alex Isenstadt (Politico)
• Democratic Governor in Louisiana Wins Reelection, Deals Huge Blow to Trump by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump’s favorite loses in Louisiana governor’s race by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)

Other News

• Trump tweets at North Korea’s Kim, tells him to ‘get the deal done’ by Simon Lewis (Reuters)
• Donald Trump defends Joe Biden after North Korea calls him ‘rabid dog’ who ‘must be beaten to death with a stick’ by Liam James (Independent)
• Rebuffed by US, migrants dwell in lawless Mexican state by Maria Verza (AP)
• A radio host criticized Trump on the air. He was fired mid-show, he says. by Derek Hawkins (Washington Post)
• Trump pardons soldiers implicated in war crimes by Bryan Bender, Wesley Morgan (Politico)
• Trump Retreats From Flavor Ban for E-Cigarettes by Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman, and Sheila Kaplan (NY Times)
• Sanders, Warren Call Out Fedex For Paying $0 In Taxes After Trump Cuts by Benjamin Fearnow (Newsweek)
• While you weren’t looking, the trade war with China went off the rails by Linette Lopez (Business Insider)

Opinion

• Iowans flocked to Trump in 2016. He betrayed them by Robert Henley (Salon)
• The Honest People Donald Trump Cannot Fathom by Elizabeth Drew (NY Times)

Impeachment Inquiry

• OMB Staffer Could Shed Light On Impeachment Inquiry Enigmas by David Welna (NPR)
• What We Learned From The 1st Week Of Impeachment Hearings by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
• Aide Confirms Trump Asked About Ukraine Investigation, Delivering Blow to GOP Defense by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump personally kept pressure on Ukraine, says impeachment inquiry witness by Julian Borger (The Guardian)
• White House budget official to testify in impeachment probe on Saturday by Jan Wolfe, Nandita Bose (Reuters)
• White House official arrives to testify in impeachment probe by Mike Lillis (The Hill)
• David Holmes’ Closed-Door Testimony Confirms What We Knew About Donald Trump and Gordon Sondland by Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones)
• White House budget official says decision to delay aid to Ukraine was highly irregular by Karoun Demirjian, Rachael Bade, Colby Itkowitz, and Erica Werner (Washington Post)
• Senior national security official ties key official more closely to Trump on Ukraine in impeachment inquiry by Colby Itkowitz, Karoun Demirjian, Michael Kranish and Shane Harris (Washington Post)
• Pence aide said Trump’s Ukraine phone call was ‘unusual and inappropriate’ by Jan Wolfe and Nandita Bose (Reuters)
• Opinion: A Bad Week for Trump Got Worse with a New Impeachment Witness by John Cassidy (The New Yorker)
• The House Just Released the Testimony of a Pence Aide Who Had Concerns About Trump’s Ukraine Call by Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones)
• READ: Full Testimony of NSC Aide Who Corroborated a Central Allegation of the Impeachment Inquiry by Samantha Michaels (Mother Jones)
• Sondland said he was acting on Trump’s orders, aide told investigators by Kyle Cheney, Blake Hounshell (Politico)
• Pence aide testified that Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine were ‘inappropriate’ by Andrew Desidero, Melanie Zanona (Politico)
• READ: Testimony Of Tim Morrison, Former Russia Director For National Security Council by Elena Moore, Laurel Wamsley (NPR)
• NSC Official Faults Sondland’s Role In ‘Shadow’ Ukraine Policy by Franco Ordoñez, Philip Ewing (NPR)

Other News

• Donald Trump Has Had a Lot of Terrible Lawyers. Rudy Giuliani Might Be the Worst. by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
• The Nightmare Scenario: Trump Loses in 2020 and Refuses to Concede by Cameron Joseph (VICE)
• Trump just issued multiple war crime pardons. Experts think it’s a bad idea. by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
• Trump’s Pardons of Servicemen Raise Fears That Laws of War Won’t Apply by Dave Philipps (NY Times)
• Donald Trump Thinks Homelessness Is a Scourge. His Administration Just Ousted the Official in Charge of Addressing It. by Jonathan L. Fischer (Slate)
• White House: Trump undergoes exam at Walter Reed by Jill Colvin, AP (Washington Post)
• Attorney General Bill Barr Is Getting Roasted for His Outrageous Speech Blasting Progressives by Samantha Michaels (Mother Jones)
• Barr Accuses Democrats Of Trying To ‘Cripple’ The Trump Administration’s Power by Merrit Kennedy (NPR)

Opinion

• Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party by Cas Mudde (The Guardian)

Impeachment Inquiry / Hearings

• Former US Ambassador Yovanovitch testifies in impeachment inquiry by William Roberts (Al Jazeera)
• White House releases memo of April call with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy (Al Jazeera)
• Watch the Second Public Impeachment Hearing Live (Slate)
• READ: President Trump’s April 21 Call With Ukraine’s Zelenskiy (NPR)
• READ: Former Ambassador To Ukraine Yovanovitch’s Opening Statement To Congress (NPR)
• New Trump-Ukraine Call Transcript Raises More Questions by Matt Cohen (Mother Jones)
• ‘Very intimidating’ – Trump launches Twitter attack on witness during impeachment testimony by Susan Cornwell, Richard Cowan, Patricia Zengerle (Reuters)
• Trump Just Released a Rough Transcript of His First Ukraine Call Where He Talked About Beauty Pageants by Greg Walters (VICE)
• Trump Tried to Intimidate Marie Yovanovitch as She Testified About His Intimidation by David Uberti (VICE)
• As Former Ambassador Testifies to Feeling Threatened by Trump, He Smears Her in Real Time by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump attacked Marie Yovanovitch on Twitter during her testimony. She responded in real time. by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony Showcases Donald Trump’s Obsession With Revenge by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• The White House Releases a Trump-Zelensky Call Transcript That Shows the White House Hasn’t Been Honest About the Call by Aaron Mak (Slate)
• How Republicans Tried to Manufacture Outrage During Friday’s Impeachment Hearing by Jim Newell (Slate)
• Marie Yovanovitch ‘Devastated’ by Trump’s Attack, Updates by Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
• State Dept. official confirms Trump-Sondland conversation on Ukraine probes: report by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
• Trump Denigrates Ex-Envoy Yovanovitch on Twitter During Impeachment Testimony by Michael D. Shear, Peter Baker and Charlie Savage (NY Times)
• Trump attacks ambassador even as she describes feeling threatened by him by Rosalind S. Helderman and Rachael Bade (Washington Post)
• Trump’s release of his April call with Ukraine’s president is a distraction by Alex Ward (Vox)
• Right-wing media latch on to GOP hearing stunt to accuse Democrats of misogyny by Eric Kleefeld (Media Matters)
• Democrats Say Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Parallel Putin’s by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Republicans Couldn’t Lay a Glove on Marie Yovanovitch, so They Didn’t Even Try by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
• 5 Important Takeaways From Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony by Carla Herreria (Huffington Post)
• Diplomat: Sondland told Trump Ukraine would investigate Bidens by Andrew Desidero (Politico)
• Opinion: Did President Trump Just Earn Himself Another Article of Impeachment? by The Editorial Board (NY Times)
• Opinion: The Sober Clarity of the Impeachment Witnesses by David Remnick (New Yorker)
• “This Is The Way Gangsters Operate”: A Hero Is Born As Yovanovitch Gives Voice To Widespread Rage At State by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)

Stephen Miller

• Over 75 Members Of Congress To Stephen Miller: Resign From White House Now by Christopher Mathias (Huffington Post)
• Opinion: Stephen Miller’s Sinister Syllabus by Jamelle Bouie (NY Times)
• Stephen Miller’s White Nationalism Is the Guiding Strategy of the Modern Republican Party by Aaron Ross Coleman (GQ)

Roger Stone

• Trump ally Roger Stone guilty of lying to Congress (Al Jazeera)
• Roger Stone: Trump ally convicted of lying to Congress (BBC)
• Roger Stone Found Guilty on All Counts by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Roger Stone Found Guilty of Lying Under Oath to Protect Trump by Greg Walters (VICE)
• Roger Stone Convicted on all Charges Stemming from Mueller Probe by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)

Other News

• California and nearly two dozen other states sue Trump administration for the right to require more fuel-efficient cars by Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post)
• Trump appeals to Supreme Court again, this time to block House committee’s subpoena seeking his financial records by Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow (Washington Post)
• There’s New Proof That Trump Officials Lied Under Oath About the Census Citizenship Question by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
• Trump Asks Supreme Court To Block House Subpoena For His Tax Records by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
• Trump Pardons 2 Service Members Accused Of War Crimes And Restores Another’s Rank by Richard Gonzales (NPR)

Impeachment Inquiry / Hearings

• 7 Moments That Stood Out From The 1st Day Of The Trump Impeachment Hearings by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
• Trump impeachment inquiry moves ahead after start of televised hearings by Patricia Zengerle, Karen Freifeld (Reuters)
• The Seven Ways Wednesday’s Hearing Clarified Trump’s Real Motives by William Saletan (Slate)
• Trump’s Ambassadors Are Uniquely Unqualified. The Ukraine Scandal Proves It. by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
• How Trump is using Facebook to amplify his fight against impeachment by Emily Stewart,. Rani Molla (Vox)
• Trump’s Choice: National Security or Political Obsession by David E. Sanger (NY Times)
• Pelosi says testimony of diplomats ‘corroborated evidence of bribery’ by Trump by John Wagner and Felicia Sonmez (Washington Post)
• Analysis: What you learned about the impeachment hearing depended on what channel you watched by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
• Rudy Giuliani says Trump will stay loyal to him but jokes that he has ‘insurance’ by Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
• Analysis: Trump’s defender v his nemesis: the battle at the heart of impeachment hearings by Andrew Gumbel (The Guardian)
• Next Up In Impeachment Hearings: A Parade Of Key Witnesses by Mary Clare Jalonick / AP (Huffington Post)
• Pelosi: Impeachment Testimony Was Evidence of Trump’s “Bribery” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Pelosi: Impeachment Inquiry Has Yielded Evidence That Trump Engaged In ‘Bribery’ by Tim Mak (NPR)
• Second U.S. embassy official reportedly heard Trump call with Sondland by AP (Politico)
• 2nd U.S. Official Heard Trump Call With Sondland by Desmond Butler, Michael Biesecker, Matthew Lee / AP (Huffington Post)
• Trump has a Mike Pence insurance policy: The sanctimonious veep is implicated too by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Opinion: Impeachment, Day One: Republicans weaponize nihilism, defend Trump, destroy reality by Andrew O’Hehir (Salon)
• Was impeachment hearing “dull”? Cynical media takes get vigorous pushback by Dan Froomkin, Press Watch (Salon)
• Who is Marie Yovanovitch? What to expect from the next impeachment hearings by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• 5 Things To Know Before Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony In Impeachment Hearing by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)

Tax Returns

• Federal Appeals Court Lets Stand Ruling That Congress Can Subpoena Trump Tax Returns by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
• Trump lawyers poised to take tax returns fight to Supreme Court by Darren Samuelsohn, Josh Gerstein (Politico)
• Trump asks Supreme Court to protect his tax returns – setting up constitutional showdown by Andrew Buncome (Independent)
• Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to prevent release of his tax returns by Lawrence Hurley, Karen Freifeld (Reuters)

Other News

• Erdoğan Stopped His Oval Office Meeting to Show Trump an Anti-Kurd Propaganda Video by Tim Marcin (VICE)
• Chad Wolf Becomes Acting Head Of Homeland Security, Names Ken Cuccinelli His Deputy by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• Sessions vows to ‘work for’ Trump endorsement by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Trump hotel sales brochure touts ‘tremendous upside potential’ of government-related business: report by Rachel Frazin (The Hill)
• Erdogan Hands ‘Tough Guy’ Letter Back to Trump by Megan Specia (NY Times)
• Before Joining White House, Stephen Miller Pushed White Nationalist Theories by Katie Rogers (NY Times)
• A Trump Tax Break To Help The Poor Went To a Rich GOP Donor’s Superyacht Marina by Justin Elliott, Jeff Ernsthausen, and Kyle Edwards (ProPublica)
• Democratic leaders call on Stephen Miller to resign amid claims he pushed white nationalist beliefs by Abbey Marshall (Politico)
• Trump’s tax break for the poor went to rich developers building near Mar-a-lago, report says by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• Trump’s Energy nominee bats away questions about Perry and Ukraine; Brouillette also tells confirmation hearing about mining potential of the Arctic by Benjamin J. Hulac (Roll Call)
• Senate Confirms Controversial Judicial Nominee, Flipping Court That Will Decide Trump Subpoena Cases by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
• Senate Confirms Wildly Problematic Trump Court Pick Steven Menashi by Jennifer Bendery (Huffington Post)

Analysis

• New Evidence Shows That 2020 Census Citizenship Question Was a Sham All Along by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)

Impeachment Inquiry / Hearings

• Factbox: What Wednesday’s impeachment witnesses have told House inquiry so far (Reuters)
• Witnesses arrive as Trump impeachment probe goes public in political drama by Patricia Zengerle, Matt Spetalnic (Reuters)
• Rudy Giuliani’s Op-Ed Defense Of Donald Trump Backfires Spectacularly by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
• Trump impeachment: How Ukraine story unfolded (BBC)
• Trump impeachment inquiry enters new phase with public hearings by William Roberts (Al Jazeera)
• The Impeachment Hearing Is About to Start. Trump Is Already Short-Circuiting. by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump impeachment: Russia says claims against US president ‘far-fetched’ as public hearings begin by Phil Thomas (Independent)
• What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP by John F. Harris (Politico)
• Poll: Most voters remain unmovable in impeachment views by Steven Shepard (Politico)
• House launches historic Trump impeachment hearings by Andrew Desidero, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• Watch Live: House Holds 1st Open Hearing In Trump Impeachment Inquiry by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Watch the First Public Impeachment Hearings Live (Slate)
• Watch: the first House public impeachment inquiry hearing starts Wednesday by Ella Nilsen (Vox)
• Trump lashes out online ahead of impeachment hearings by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Trump impeachment hearings: White House releases ‘swamp’ video defending president as public inquiry begins by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• Read: Chairman Adam Schiff’s opening statement at today’s impeachment hearings (Politico)
• William Taylor’s Big Impeachment Reveal by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
• Bill Taylor Just Unleashed a Bombshell: Trump Asked About ‘the Investigations’ Into the Bidens After Ukraine Call by Cameron Joseph, Greg Walters (VICE)
• READ: Taylor Reveals New Trump Phone Call On ‘Investigations’ In Opening Statement (NPR)
• READ: Opening Statement Of Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State George Kent (NPR)
• Bombshell Testimony: Trump Asked Sondland About Ukrainian “Investigations” by Matt Cohen (Mother Jones)
• Bill Taylor dropped a bombshell in his impeachment hearing opening statement by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• In Opening Statement, George Kent Says Giuliani Sabotaged US-Ukraine Policy by Abigail Weinberg (Mother Jones)
• Trump impeachment hearings focus on Ukraine pressure campaign in first day by Patricia Zengerle, Matt Spetalnick, Karen Freifeld (Reuters)
• What George Kent’s bow tie says about his impeachment testimony by Terry Nguyen (Vox)
• ‘Trump cares about Biden more than anything else’: President overheard asking about ‘investigations’ in Ukraine, impeachment hearing told by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• Trump not watching impeachment hearing, says White House by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Bill Taylor Says Aide Was Told Trump Cared More About Biden Probe Than Ukraine by Hayley Miller, Ryan J. Reilly (Huffington Post)
• Trump Impeachment Hearings Kick Off With Testimony On Giuliani ‘Infecting’ Foreign Policy by Ryan J. Reilly (Huffington Post)
• Follow the Money in the Ukraine Scandal by Kate Zavadski (ProPublica)
• Analysis: 5 takeaways from Bill Taylor’s and George Kent’s impeachment testimony by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• New testimony ties Trump more directly to Ukraine pressure campaign by Elise Viebeck (Washington Post)
• Key Moments From the First Public Impeachment Hearing by Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
• Full Video and Analysis of Day 1 of Impeachment Hearing Testimony (NY Times)
• Analysis: The many, many conflicting and shifting defenses of Trump’s Ukraine scandal from right-wing media by Parker Malloy (Media Matters)
• Key Trump Impeachment Defense Is Blowing Up In Republicans’ Faces by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
• Republicans Spent the First Day of Impeachment Hearings in an Alternate Reality by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• 7 Key Takeaways From The First Public Impeachment Hearing by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)
• The GOP Impeachment Defense Depends on Ignoring the Evidence Trump Released Himself by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
• Bill Taylor, George Kent, and the Power of Expertise by Lili Loofbourow (Slate)
• Pro-Trump Twitter Spammers Spent the Impeachment Hearing Naming the Alleged Whistleblower by Aaron Mac (Slate)

Erdogan / Turkey

• Congress and White House at odds as Erdogan and Trump set to meet by William Roberts (Al Jazeera)
• Trump To Welcome Turkey’s Erdogan To White House Amid Stressed Relations by Deb Riechmann / AP (Huffington Post)
• Strained US-Turkey ties as Trump and Erdogan hold meeting by Deb Riechmann (AP)

Other News

• Hillary Clinton says ‘never say never’ to running against Trump in 2020 election by Felicia Sonmez, Robert Costa (Independent)
• The White House Wants a Webcam to Livestream Border Wall Construction by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Trump administration proposes denying work permits to asylum-seekers who illegally cross border by Marty Johnson (The Hill)
• Bolton suggested Trump’s personal and financial interests guide his foreign policy decisions: report by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Trump says U.S. left troops in Syria ‘only for the oil,’ appearing to contradict Pentagon by David Brown (Politico)
• Trump lawyer demands notice if Democrats seek president’s New York tax returns by Brian Faler (Politico)
• Trump claims Ivanka created 14m jobs. The entire economy only added 6m by Luke O’Neil (The Guardian)
• Barr says watchdog report on Russia probe’s origins is ‘imminent’ by Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney, Abbey Marshall (Politico)
• Trump’s interim homeland security pick clears Senate hurdle by Ted Hesson (Reuters)
• AOC and Ilhan Omar call for Stephen Miller’s resignation over his promotion of white supremacist articles by Sean Collins (Vox)
• Trump Administration Proposes Tougher Rules on Work Permits for Asylum-Seekers by AP (TIME)
• Another inflated résumé in the Trump administration — with a fake Time magazine cover by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• White House uses “anti-Semitism” defense after Miller is busted for promoting white nationalism by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• Roger Stone’s defense: MAGA, God and Donald Trump by Darren Samuelsohn, Josh Gerstein (Politico)

Analysis

• The five ways Republicans will crack down on voting rights in 2020 by Carol Anderson (The Guardian)

Impeachment Inquiry

• Can Public Impeachment Hearings Drag Down Trump’s Approval Ratings? by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
• The Democrats’ Impeachment Strategy Is Simple—and Risky by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Impeachment Hearing FAQ: Who Will Testify And How The Questioning Will Work by Deirdre Walsh (NPR)
• In reversal, Mulvaney says he won’t sue over impeachment probe subpoena by Jan Wolfe (Reuters)
• The two quid pro quos at the heart of the impeachment inquiry by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• There’s a Surprisingly Plausible Path to Removing Trump From Office by Juleanna Glover (Politico)
• READ: Republicans’ strategy to defend Trump on impeachment (The Hill)
• Live updates: Republicans prepare to defend Trump in open hearings; Mulvaney no longer seeking judge’s ruling on testifying by John Wagner and Colby Itkowitz (Washington Post)
• Republicans, Planning Impeachment Defense, Argue Trump Did Nothing Wrong by Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
• Mulvaney won’t sue over impeachment, declines to cooperate by Eric Tucker (AP)
• Giuliani Was Close to a Podcast Deal With the News Outlet That Spread His Ukraine Conspiracies by Mike Spies, Jake Pearson, and J. David McSwane (ProPublica)
• This Lawsuit Against Trump Could Have Big Implications for the Impeachment Inquiry by Greg Walters (VICE)
• The inside story of the phone call that could see Trump impeached by Sharon LaFraniere, Andrew E. Kramer, Danny Hakim (New York Times)
• Impeachment hearings schedule and day’s events (Politico)
• Trump last line of impeachment defense: Repeating big lies about Joe Biden by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Who’s holding the impeachment hearings? Meet the House Intelligence Committee by Bridget Bowman (Roll Call)
• Trump Has Considered Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General by Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt (NY Times)
• Opinion: What Trump Is Hiding From the Impeachment Hearings by Neal K. Katyal (NY Times)
• Rep. Adam Schiff: Trump’s Potentially Impeachable Offenses Include Bribery by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
• As Trump Attacks, Death Threats Against the Whistleblower and His Lawyers Increase by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Risks for all sides as Trump impeachment hearings swing open by Lisa Mascaro (AP)
• House Intel panel announces additional witnesses for public impeachment hearings by Andrew Desidero, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• The Impeachment Of Donald Trump Is Starting. Here’s What To Know. by Nick Robins-Early (Huffington Post)
• A Guide to All the People in This Week’s Impeachment Hearings by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)

Stone Trial

• Stone previewed WikiLeaks bounty to Trump campaign in April 2016 by Darren Samuelsohn, Matthew Choi (Politico)
• Stone Trial Reveals Trump Likely Lied to Mueller by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Donald Trump Apparently Thought Roger Stone Had Inside Information On WikiLeaks by Ryan J. Reilly (Huffington Post)
• Trump campaign wanted updates on 2016 WikiLeaks releases on Clinton: ex-aide testifies by Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters)
• Roger Stone wanted to ‘debrief’ Kushner on hacked emails, Trump campaign aide says by AP (The Guardian)
• Roger Stone trial testimony casts doubt on Trump’s answers to Mueller by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• What Roger Stone’s trial revealed about Donald Trump and WikiLeaks by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)

DACA

• Trump claims he’ll strike deal for Dreamers with Dems if SCOTUS overturns DACA by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• What today’s DACA case means to undocumented students, educators by Bianca Quilantan (Politico)
• DACA finally lands in Supreme Court after Trump’s yearslong battle by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
• Trump falsely claims DACA recipients are ‘hardened criminals’ just as Supreme Court begins hearings by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• Trump knocks DACA recipients, Obama as Supreme Court prepares for arguments by Morgan Gstalter (The Hill)
• Trump’s attempt to smear DACA recipients as “hardened criminals” is untethered from reality by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• Trump administration tells Supreme Court it owns termination of DACA program by Robert Barnes (Washington Post)
• Supreme Court Appears Ready to Let Trump End DACA Program by Adam Liptak (NY Times)
• Supreme Court sharply divided over Trump’s DACA repeal by John Kruzel (The Hill)
• Supreme Court’s Conservatives Seem To Back Trump On Ending DACA by Mark Sharman / AP (Huffington Post)

Border / Migrant Children

• U.S. Held Nearly 70,000 Migrant Children In Government Custody In 2019 by Christopher Sherman, Martha Mendoza, Garance Burke / AP (Huffington Post)
• The U.S. Detained a Record 69,550 Migrant Children This Year by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• A Trump administration strategy led to the child migrant backup crisis at the border by Neena Satija, Karoun Demirjian, Abigail Hauslohner, and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)

Stephen Moore

• Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller’s Unfiltered Anti-Immigrant Views by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• Report: Stephen Miller Inundated Breitbart Writer’s Inbox With White Nationalist Talking Points by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Ocasio-Cortez Calls On Stephen Miller To Resign Amid White Nationalist Email Leak by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
• Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller Is Exactly Who You Think He Is by Amy Russo (Huffington Post)
• Transcript: Stephen Moore on US economy, racism and Donald Trump (Al Jazeera)

Other News

• • The Trump Administration Is Giving Family Planning Funds to a Network of Anti-Abortion Clinics by Stephanie Mencimer (Mother Jones)
  • Trump allies received hundreds of thousands of dollars under federal health contract by Dan Diamond, Adam Cancryn (Politico)
  • Donald Trump plans to make foreign aid conditional on religious freedom by Peter Beaumont (The Guardian)
  • Emails Connect Trump Officials And GOP Redistricting Expert On Citizenship Question by Hansi Lo Wang (NPR)
  • Mark Sanford Ends His Primary Challenge Against President Trump by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
  • Trump Makes No Promises On China Trade Deal by Scott Horsley (NPR)
  • Trump says he’ll meet with dictators if it helps the US by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
  • Trump Has a Terrifying New Plan to Poison the Air, Water, Humans by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
  • Trump Boldly and Insanely Claims Ivanka Created 14 Million Jobs by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
  • Pact reached to avert government shutdown through Dec. 20 by Andrew Taylor (AP)
  • Clinton says she is being urged by ‘many, many, many people’ to run in 2020 by Abby Marshall (Politico)
  • Trump threatening to fire Mulvaney: report by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
  • Stephen Miller emails reveal white nationalist origin of Fox News talking points by John Whitehouse & Eric Kleefeld (Media Matters)

Analysis

• Behind Trump’s Dealings With Turkey: Sons-in-Law Married to Power by David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Lipton (NY Times)
• How the Roberts Court Abandoned Bipartisan Consensus by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)

Opinion

• Some of Trump’s Most Devious Lies Are About Health Care by Nicholas Bagley (NY Times)

Impeachment Inquiry

• The Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Begins A New Phase This Week: What You Need To Know by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Trump fumes over impeachment probe with public hearings days away by James Oliphant (Reuters)
• Trump’s bluster crashes into a barrage of impeachment facts by Nancy Cook (Politico)
• Opinion: The Disorienting Defenses of Donald Trump by The Editorial Board (NY Times)
• 13 Republicans and Trump appointees who have indicated his Ukraine call was hardly ‘perfect’ By Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• ‘A circus and a hoax’: how rightwing media are covering impeachment by Victoria Bekiempis (The Guardian)
• Giuliani associate flips on Trump, says he threatened Ukraine to investigate Biden or lose aid by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• Trump Says Whistleblower Should Be Investigated. Here’s Why That’s Terrifying. by Jeremy Schulman (Mother Jones)
• READ: Defense Department Official’s Impeachment Inquiry Testimony (NPR)
• Trump’s lie about impeachment transcripts is one of his laziest yet by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• READ: Top Pentagon official’s testimony during impeachment inquiry (The Hill)
• Democrats release new batch of testimony from Trump impeachment inquiry by Patricia Zengerle, Susan Cornwell (Reuters)
• US national security officials objected to stopping Ukraine aid (Al Jazeera)
• READ: Foreign Service Officer Christopher Anderson’s Impeachment Inquiry Testimony (NPR)
• READ: Ukraine Specialist Catherine Croft’s Impeachment Inquiry Testimony (NPR)
• The insider’s guide to the impeachment hearings by Andrew Desidero, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• Opinion: To Exonerate Trump, Republicans Embrace Russian Disinformation by Michelle Goldberg (NY Times)

Supreme Court / DACA

• 3 ways the Supreme Court could decide DACA’s fate by Ian Millhiser (Vox)
• Analysis: How the Trump Administration Eroded Its Own Legal Case on DACA by By Michael D. Shear, Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Adam Liptak (NY Times)
• Supreme Court again confronts Trump’s authority, this time over DACA recipients by Robert Barnes (Washington Post)
• Microsoft takes its fight for ‘dreamers’ in its ranks to the Supreme Court by Cat Zakrzewski(Washington Post)
• Dreamers prepare for fight as Daca decision heads to supreme court by Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)
• The DACA Case Is a Test of the Administration’s Basic Competence by Garrett Epps (The Atlantic)
• Deported Before DACA by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)

Tax Returns

• U.S. judge dismisses NY attorney general as defendant in Trump tax returns case  by Jonathan Stempel and Jan Wolfe (Reuters)
• US judge sides with New York AG in Trump tax return lawsuit (Al Jazeera)
• Judge Dismisses Trump Lawsuit Against NY Over Tax Returns by AP (Huffington Post)
• Judge throws out Trump’s attempt to stop release of tax returns by Clark Mindock (Independent)

Veteran’s Day

• Trump met with ‘lock him up’ chants during Veterans Day Parade by Vittoria Elliot (Independent)
• Trump NYC Veterans Day speech met with protests by Brett Samuels, Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
• Trump Met With ‘Lock Him Up’ Chants, ‘Impeach’ Signs At NYC Veterans Day Parade by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)

Other News

• Former U.N. Ambassador Haley: Trump Actions ‘Not A Good Practice’ But Not Impeachable by Brian Naylor, Mary Louise Kelly (NPR)
• Nikki Haley: Top aides ‘told ex-UN envoy to undermine Trump’ (BBC)
• Republicans used to ignore Trump’s resorts. Now they’re spending millions. by Anita Kumar (Politico)
• Donald Trump Jr. Just Got Booed Off the Stage — by His Own Supporters by Tim Marcin (VICE)
• Trump Jr. Gets Booed Out of His Own Book Event as White Nationalists Eat Their Own by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Peter King is the 20th House Republican to announce their retirement by Sean Collins (Vox)
• Trump Is MAGA-fying the National Medal of Arts by Peter Nicholas (Slate)
• Political Group Spending at Trump Hotels Rocketed Up to $19 Million by Luke Darby (GQ)
• White House press secretary says Trump will decide when she holds first press briefing by John Bowden (The Hill)
• House Lawmakers Urge Trump To Cancel Turkish President’s White House Visit by Antonia Blumberg (Huffington Post)
• Trump weighs conditioning foreign aid on religious freedom by Nahal Toosi, Gabby Orr (Politico)