"In a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Donald Trump asked the new leader to assist the United States in its ongoing investigation of foreign interference in the 2016 elections. The Department of Justice confirmed today that it is investigating Ukraine's involvement in 2016 election meddling. ...

"Prior to the release of the transcript, media and other Democrats misrepresented the phone call as an abuse of office. It is unclear how a United States president attempting to get to the bottom of foreign interference in democratic U.S. elections constitutes an abuse of power, as many Democrats have alleged in recent days. The focus on the phone call comes ahead of the much-anticipated release of an Inspector General report on political spying abuses by the Obama administration as well as declassification of materials expected to detail efforts to spy on the Obama administration's political opponents using false information.

"While the media have largely ignored Ukraine's outsize role in election meddling in 2016, a Politico article headlined 'Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire' details the efforts former officials made to support Hillary Clinton in her campaign against Donald Trump. Much of the so-called Russia scandal involves political players in Ukraine, including Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Christopher Steele, the author of the debunked 'dossier' alleging a grand conspiracy of collusion between Trump and Russia. Steele was secretly funded through cutouts by Clinton and the Democratic National Committee."

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"In short, Pelosi just changed everything. The next election is now about impeachment.

"If you think America is polarized today, you ain't seen nothing yet."

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"Hispanic Americans make up a growing share of the U.S. electorate. In fact, a record 29 million Latinos were eligible to vote in the 2018 midterm elections, accounting for 12.8 percent of all eligible voters, a new high. ...

"Too often, the Hispanic voting bloc is being fed the idea that Democratic ideals are in line with that of our community. However, the left has become a purveyor of extreme socialist ideologies that are frankly out-of-touch with everyday Latinos.

"Politicians, pollsters and pundits need to remember that Latinos are not single-issue voters. The priorities we care about reflect the priorities of Americans from all walks of life. This fabricated narrative that Hispanics only care about immigration and are avid supporters of illegal immigration is absurd.

"Truthfully, it is disrespectful to assume Latinos are not proud, informed Americans seeking the same things as the rest of the electorate -- economic opportunity, freedom, strong national security, effective education and affordable health care."

"According to interviews with more than a dozen Ukrainian and U.S. officials, Ukraine's government under recently departed President Petro Poroshenko and, now, Zelensky has been trying since summer 2018 to hand over evidence about the conduct of Americans they believe might be involved in violations of U.S. law during the Obama years.

"The Ukrainians say their efforts to get their allegations to U.S. authorities were thwarted first by the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, which failed to issue timely visas allowing them to visit America.

"Then the Ukrainians hired a former U.S. attorney -- not Giuliani -- to hand-deliver the evidence of wrongdoing to the U.S. attorney's office in New York, but the federal prosecutors never responded.

"The U.S. attorney, a respected American, confirmed the Ukrainians' story to me. The allegations that Ukrainian officials wanted to pass on involved both efforts by the Democratic National Committee to pressure Ukraine to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election as well as Joe Biden's son's effort to make money in Ukraine while the former vice president managed U.S.-Ukraine relations, the retired U.S. attorney told me.

"Eventually, Giuliani in November 2018 got wind of the Ukrainian allegations and started to investigate."

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"So, let me get this absolutely straight ...

"Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada and arguably the most woke, virtue-signalling and PC-crazed leader in the history of Mankind -- or 'Peoplekind' as he insisted we rename it last year - turns out to have a rather cracked halo?

"Wow. I'm so shocked ...not.

"I've not met a high-horse rider yet who doesn't eventually tumble off into a pit of shameless hypocrisy.

"But I've got to hand it to Trudeau, when he fell, he really FELL.

"For a guy so keen to paint himself as the male Mother Teresa, the revelation that he has literally painted himself to appropriate non-white skin color is a bombshell from which I doubt he will ever recover."

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"A close friend and former colleague of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, echoed new revelations from former Senator Orrin Hatch R-Ut., that Joe Biden did not believe Anita Hill after she accused Thomas of sexual harassment during Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation process. ...

"Williams' recollection is line with that of Biden's former Senate colleague, Orrin Hatch, who appears in the new Fox Nation documentary, 'The Confirmation Chronicles Vol. 2: High-tech Lynching.'

"Senator Hatch alleges that Biden confided to him during the 1991 hearings that he doubted Hill's story. 'Biden told me personally that he didn't believe her. He said, "I don't know why she did this." I don't mean to malign Joe, but Joe told me he didn't believe her and there were some others that told me that, too.' ...

"The accounts of Williams and Hatch contradict what Biden has said repeatedly about believing Hill."

"An FBI assistant to James Comey says in a book released Tuesday that the former FBI director took advantage of the 'chaos' of the early Trump administration to set up an interview with Michael Flynn, the national security adviser.

"Josh Campbell, who was Comey's personal assistant at the FBI, writes in 'Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI,' that FBI leadership had 'intense discussion' about how to interview Flynn regarding phone conversations he had in December 2016 with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

"'With all the chaos ... we thought we might actually get away with sending agents over to the White House to sit down with Flynn,' Campbell quotes Comey saying about arranging the Jan. 24, 2017, interview with Flynn.

"Campbell, who left the FBI to join CNN in February 2018, writes that normal FBI protocol for an interview with a high-level White House official would have the bureau send a request to the White House counsel's office, and then wait for approval to send over agents.

"But Comey decided to work around those guidelines in hopes of catching Flynn with his guard down.

"'We just decided, you know, screw it,' Comey said, according to the book."

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"The New York Times had a significant story to tell about Brett Kavanaugh. It's this: In a new book, the Times reporters produced new evidence that profoundly undermined the central claims against Kavanaugh. Leland Keyser -- Christine Blasey Ford's friend and the person Ford herself testified was also at the party where Ford claimed Kavanaugh assaulted her -- has stated on the record that she doesn't have 'any confidence' in Ford's story.

"Not only does she not recall the specific party at issue, she doesn't recall 'any others like it.' Moreover, Keyser maintains this recollection in spite of a determined effort by old friends to get her to change her testimony -- a pressure campaign that Keyser admirably resisted.

"But that's not the story the New York Times chose to tell. Instead, this weekend it ran an extended piece that breathlessly asserts that there exists a new claim against Kavanaugh. The original story reported that a man named Max Stier alleged that 'friends' pushed Kavanaugh's penis into the hand of a female student. Hours later -- only after Democrats issued furious denunciations of Kavanaugh -- did the Times add a rather significant editor's note. The female student 'declined to be interviewed,' and her 'friends say that she does not recall the incident.'

"In other words, 'Never mind.' But even that editor's note is incomplete. It turns out that Max Stier served as one of Bill Clinton's lawyers during the Starr investigation, a fact that's at least relevant to the existence of partisan bias.

"The New York Times's disgraceful weekend performance is a reminder that the media performed abysmally during the Kavanaugh confirmation process."

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"The Democrats, after all, have shown themselves to be thoroughgoing authoritarians. Many of our progressive friends spent the Obama years lecturing us that opposition to the president and his agenda was tantamount to sedition or treason. They tell us now that failing to knuckle under to their political agenda is treason. Democratic prosecutors have been conducting investigations of companies and political activists for having the wrong opinions on global warming; Democrats in California have just declared the National Rifle Association a terrorist organization because it opposes them politically, and Democrats threaten companies doing business with the NRA with governmental retaliation; Democrats have proposed to gut the First Amendment; Democrats propose to put people in prison for showing films with political content without government permission; Democrats have resurrected 19th-century Know-Nothingism in their bigoted and unconstitutional campaign to keep Catholics off of federal courts; Democrats have illegally and unethically abused the powers of the IRS and other government agencies to harass and punish political rivals. It isn't Republicans who want to censor political speech. It isn't Republicans employing violence against college students and visitors at Mizzou or firebombing buildings at Berkeley.

"And now Robert Francis O'Rourke has finally decided to confess what everybody already knows by openly declaring his intention to seize Americans' firearms in direct violation of the Bill of Rights -- a proposal that other leading Democrats already have endorsed."

"There's an old joke often expressed well into banquets and conferences, where a speaker says, 'We're at the point where everything that needs to be said has been said, but not everyone has said it.' We're already at that point with the Democratic primary debates. Tonight was a three-hour ordeal, and candidates largely repeated the arguments they made in the previous two debates. There's not much reason to expect tonight will generate any dramatic swings in the polling in the coming days or weeks. The conventional wisdom will remain that this is a three-person race, with Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders having far and away the best shots at the nomination. ...

"For anyone who actually knows a thing or two about these issues, these debates are pretty painful, watching ten candidates offer variations of bumper-sticker slogans, pretending that we can withdraw our way to world peace, regulate our way to good health, release our way to no crime, and spend our way to prosperity."