Congress debates whether to begin impeachment proceedings against the President, Elizabeth Warren proposes free college and student debt relief, and Seth Moulton enters the field. Then Jessica Yellin, author of Savage News, joins to talk about political media coverage in the Trump Era.

Show Notes:

Mueller and Impeachment 

• New York Times: The Mueller Report Is 448 Pages Long. You Need to Know These 7 Key Things.
• Washington Post: Trump asked his lawyer to cross legal lines. The Mueller report shows how he pushed back.
• Washington Post: Constraints on presidency being redefined in Trump era, report fallout shows
• Wired: 14 MUELLER REPORT TAKEAWAYS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
• Politico: 5 unresolved mysteries about Russian meddling in Mueller’s report
• Bloomberg: Mueller Left a Strong Hint on Obstruction
• Empty Wheel: PUTIN’S GHOST: THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CALCULUS NOT INCLUDED IN THE OBSTRUCTION ANALYSIS
• CNN: 9 unanswered questions for the Mueller report
• New York Times: Mueller Report Leaves Unanswered Questions About Contacts Between Russians and Trump Aides
• Washington Post: Inside the special counsel’s long hunt to uncover whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russia
• The Atlantic: The Mueller Report Is an Impeachment Referral
• Washington Post: The Mueller report is not an impeachment referral – Op-Ed
• Washington Post: George Conway: Trump is a cancer on the presidency. Congress should remove him.
• Politico: Trump claims Democrats ‘can’t impeach’ him
• CNN: Trump claims ‘nobody disobeys my orders,’ defying Mueller’s account
• Wall Street Journal: Giuliani Lashes Out at Republicans Who Criticized Trump Over Mueller Report
• Politico: ‘Game over’: Republicans rejoice after Mueller concludes
• New York Times: Reaction to Mueller Report Divides Along Partisan Lines
• New York Times: Reaction to the Mueller Report One Day After Its Release
• Vox: Mitt Romney is “sickened” by the Trump administration’s “dishonesty” after reading Mueller report
• Politico: Trump lashes out at Romney
• New York Times: Trump and His Businesses Sue House Democrats to Hide Accounting Records
• Washington Post: House Democratic leaders say no immediate plans to open impeachment proceedings after Mueller report
• New York Times: Pelosi Cautions on Impeachment as She Denounces Trump’s Ethics
• Politico: Pelosi tamps down expectations as some Dems agitate for impeachment
• Washington Post: Adam Schiff: Congress must ensure that Trump is working for the American people — not foreign interests
• Vox: The problem with impeachment
• New York Times: There’s a Bigger Prize Than Impeachment – Keeping Trump in office will destroy the Republican Party. – Op-Ed
• Crooked: DEMOCRATS’ IMPEACHMENT PANIC IS ENDANGERING THE COUNTRY
• New York Times: The Lure of Impeachment – Op-Ed
• Washington Post: Trump plausibly committed impeachable offenses. A leading expert explains how. – Plumline
• Washington Post: Democratic equivocation over impeachment is a moral and political disaster
• CNN: It’s not 1998 anymore. Democrats shouldn’t be afraid of impeachment
• The Atlantic: Impeachment Is Not the Answer. At Least Not Yet.
• Washington Post: Nancy Pelosi is walking a careful line on Trump. How much longer will it work? Plumline
• American Prospect: The Bad History Informing the Impeachment Debate
• Associated Press: Former White House Counsel Don McGahn subpoenaed in aftermath of Mueller report
• New York Times: Trump and Allies Ramp Up Attacks as McGahn Emerges as Chief Witness in the Mueller Report

2020 candidates

• New York Times: Elizabeth Warren Calls for Impeachment Process Against Trump
• Think Progress: Warren, Castro are the first 2020 candidates to call for Trump’s impeachment
• NBC News: On impeachment, Warren just stole the show from her dodging Democratic rivals.
• Vox: Elizabeth Warren calls for Trump’s impeachment
• CNN: Why the Mueller report probably isn’t a game changer for voters
• The Atlantic: The Mueller Report Could Alienate the Voters Republicans Need
• Esquire: Here’s Where the 2020 Candidates Stand on Impeachment
• New York Times: How 2020 Democrats Are Gaming Out Trump Impeachment Quandary
• Politico: Poll: Trump approval sinks 5 points after Mueller report, tying all-time low
• Bloomberg: Mueller Report, Biden’s Entry Set to Reshape Democratic Campaign
• Huffington Post: The Mueller Report Really Didn’t Change Much At All: Poll
• CNN: CNN Is About to Host a Hunger Games Town Hall

2020

• Medium:  I’m calling for something truly transformational: Universal free public college and cancellation of student loan debt
• New York Times: Elizabeth Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition
• The Atlantic: Elizabeth Warren Wants College to Be Free
• The Atlantic: The College-Affordability Crisis Is Uniting the 2020 Democratic Candidates
• Inside Higher Ed: Buttigieg Rejects Free College
• Fox News: Fox News Poll: Interest in 2020 already at Election Day levels
• Campaign for Free College: Support for Free College Continues to Rise
• ThirdWay: Why Free College Could Increase Inequality
• We are Progressives: PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS PAC LEADERS, LAKE RESEARCH PARTNERS, AND LEADING PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATIONS HELD A PRESS CALL TO HIGHLIGHT THE POPULARITY OF PROGRESSIVE POLICIES IN 2018 BATTLEGROUND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
• Politico: The red state that loves free college
• Reuters: Inside the progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party
• Rise California: What do California voters think of free college tuition?
• Demos: Strong Support For Policies That Address The College Affordability Crisis, New Study Shows
• Inside Higher Ed: Losing the White Working Class, Too
• Demos: Voters Support Bold Economic Agenda
• Vox: Elizabeth Warren has the biggest free college plan yet
• CNN: Elizabeth Warren releases sweeping student debt cancellation and free college plan
• Bloomberg: Elizabeth Warren Proposes Scrapping Student-Loan Debt for Millions
• Bloomberg: Elizabeth Warren’s Student Loan Relief Would Lift Black, Latino Borrowers
• The Cut: The World Needs Fewer Cersei Lannisters
• Vanity Fair: CAN ELIZABETH WARREN GET HER GROOVE BACK?
• Washington Post: Another sign of Elizabeth Warren’s relentless focus on inequality
• New York Times: Elizabeth Warren Wants to Make It Easier to Prosecute Executives
• CNN: Why is Elizabeth Warren struggling? Democrats aren’t looking for policy
• New York Times: Seth Moulton Joins 2020 Race for President
• Politico: Seth Moulton announces 2020 bid
• Politico: Moulton dings Dems right out the gate for single-payer health care push
• Washington Post: Rep. Seth Moulton joins the 2020 presidential race
• Vox: Rep. Seth Moulton unsuccessfully tried to oust Nancy Pelosi. Now he’s running for president.
• The Atlantic: The Only Democrat Running to Challenge Trump on National Security
• Boston.com: What sort of presidential campaign would Seth Moulton run?
• FiveThirtyEight: How Seth Moulton Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
• New York Times: Seth Moulton on the Issues: A Marine Veteran Eyes Foreign Policy
• Washington Post: Why are you running for president? – Plumline
• Morning Consult: How the ‘Medicare for All’ Messaging Battle Can Be Won, or Lost
• New York Times: Hospitals Stand to Lose Billions Under ‘Medicare for All’
• CNN: New poll shows Pete Buttigieg surging into top tier in New Hampshire with Biden and Sanders

Jessica Yellin

• Recode: Everyone in TV news goes for outrage. That makes it “ripe for disruption,” says former CNN reporter Jessica Yellin
• Oprah Magazine: CNN Alum Jessica Yellin on the Inspiration Behind Her Debut Book, Savage News
  
• Wall Street Journal: Jessica Yellin Has Stories to Tell
• Vanity Fair: HOW FOX NEWS AND TRUMP ARE MELTING OUR BRAINS
• Washington Post: The Scene: Washington toasts Jessica Yellin’s new novel
• Fortune: Looking Back on 2018, Journalists See Mostly Noise
• Vogue: Jessica Yellin Is a Veteran Reporter Out to Change the Way You Get Your News
• The Atlantic: Questions Fox News Should Have Asked Brett Kavanaugh by Jessica Yellin
• The Wrap: Ex-CNN Journalist Slams ‘Moral Corruption’ of CBS’ Jeff Fager: ‘Denials Are Just Gross’
• Los Angeles Times: Journalists need to stop taking Trump’s bait by Jessica Yellin
• New York Times: How to Save CNN From Itself by Jessica Yellin
• Washington Post: What the media got right — and wrong — about the Mueller report
• CJR: The media are complacent while the world burns
• New York Post: Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’
• CNN: Mueller’s findings are fresh fuel for the never-ending information wars
• Washington Post: Report: U.S. declines again in press-freedom index, falls to ‘problematic’ status
• Washington Post: Media must ‘fight their own DNA’ to properly cover the redacted Mueller report.
• Pew Research Center: For many rural residents in U.S., local news media mostly don’t cover the area where they live
• The Hill: Georgia GOP legislators propose ‘journalism ethics board’
• Vox: Did the media botch the Russia story? A conversation with Matt Taibbi.
• RealClearPolitics: Joe Scarborough: Media Has Nothing To Apologize For, “Why Would Donald Trump Lie About Russia?”
• Nieman Center at Harvard: BuzzFeed, Michael Cohen, and Media Credibility
• Mother Jones: Trump Continues Stirring Dangerous Hatred of the Media
• Washington Post: It’s time — high time — to take Fox News’s destructive role in America seriously
• Recode: Laurene Powell Jobs says President Trump’s attacks on the press are “right out of a dictator’s playbook”
• Wall Street Journal: The Media Will Re-Elect Trump
• PNAS: Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality
• Aspen Institute/Knight Foundation: CRISIS IN DEMOCRACY: RENEWING TRUST IN AMERICA
• Forbes: Why Journalism Urgently Needs A Domestic Marshall Plan — And Democracy Demands It
• FiveThirtyEight: Is The Media Coverage Of The Mueller Investigation A Problem?
• Vox: What Pete Buttigieg learned from Donald Trump
• CJR: Pete Buttigieg is flavor of the month
• New York Times: Pete Buttigieg’s Focus: Storytelling First. Policy Details Later.
• Slate: How Astonishing Is Mayor Pete’s Rise?
• Washington Post: Pete Buttigieg is winning the Internet, for what that’s worth — which remains unclear
• Current Affairs: ALL ABOUT PETE