Stranger Than Fiction

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TOP NEWS

• Giuliani associate and apparently representative of the President, Lev Parnas, spoke with Rachel Maddow last night. In the interview he said he was given the authority to speak for the President and that he, along with people like Attorney General Barr and Vice President Pence were fully aware of the pressure campaign on Ukraine’s incoming President to deliver political dirt on Joe Biden.

• Parnas also said Rep. Devin Nunes was a key player in the scheme and was aware of what he and Giuliani were doing in Ukraine.

• The Senate trial presenting and deliberating the case of impeachment begins today.

• Ukraine has opened an investigation into the alleged surveillance of U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich.

• U.S. and China signed phase one of a trade agreement.

• Amazon was seeking an additional $1 billion in incentives in the ultimately failed bid to open a second headquarters in New York’s Long Island City.

THE ELECTION

• Warren to Sanders post-debate audio “You called me a liar on TV”

• Liz Cheney won’t run for open Senate seat

• How do the Iowa caucuses work?

THE COMMENT

“I am betting my whole life that Trump knew exactly everything that was going on that Rudy Giuliani was doing in Ukraine,” Mr. Parnas said.

THE STRANGEST

• 'The blob', a huge marine heatwave, killed nearly a million seabirds in the biggest known die-off of its kind

THE AV ROOM

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