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Zach Basu
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Director of News @Axios[email protected] • Combat sports enthusiast • 🇮🇳🇦🇷🇬🇧
Washington, DC
Joined July 2011
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    Translator chokes up as Zelensky addresses the European Parliament: "Nobody is going to break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians. We have a desire to see our children alive. I think it's a fair one."
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    MSNBC with some graphic shade for Paul Gosar.
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    At the pace these leaks are coming, we’re going to know the full story by Monday. nytimes.com/2019/09/19/us/…
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    Biden on May 1: "China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man...They’re not competition for us." Biden today: "We are in a competition with China. We need to get tough with China. They are a serious challenge to us, and in some areas a real threat." axios.com/joe-biden-chin…
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    Pakistan will "absolutely not" allow the CIA to use bases on its soil for cross-border counterterrorism missions after U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan tells ⁦@jonathanvswan⁩ in a must-see interview airing Sunday. axios.com/imran-khan-int…
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    Fauci calls for federally mandated stay-at-home order: "I don't understand why that's not happening.” cnn.com/world/live-new…
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    Ukraine's defense minister posts a message on Facebook as dawn breaks in Kyiv and the city remains in Ukrainian control: "Three days that changed our country and the world forever. Where are all those who promised to capture Kyiv in 2 hours?"
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    A White House official also provided us with this response on background: "This is clearly a form of anti-Semitism to levy these attacks against a Jewish staffer."
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    Judge cites the John Bolton case in his decision to deny Trump family's effort to block Mary Trump's book: “By the looks of it the horse is not just out of the barn, it is out of the country.” gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl…
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    Andrew Weissmann, the architect of the Mueller team's case against Paul Manafort, says evidence in the Senate Intel report that suggests Konstantin Kilimnik was involved in Russia's DNC hacking operation is "substantial new information." axios.com/andrew-weissma…
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    After 7.5 hours behind closed doors today, Michael Cohen will return to the House Intel Committee on March 6 because there's "more to discuss." The week after that, the committee will interview Felix Sater, who worked with Cohen on Trump Tower Moscow. axios.com/michael-cohen-…
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    Ukraine's defense minister: "We offer Russian soldiers a choice: to die in an unjust war or full amnesty and 5 million rubles of compensation (about $50,000, despite the loss in value) if they put down their guns and voluntarily surrender to prison." axios.com/ukraine-russia…
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    Episode 2 of our series on Trump's final days in office is out, taking you inside the president's inner circle after Nov. 7 — the day the election was called for Joe Biden. "Off the rails: Conspiracy theorists commandeer Trump’s legal operation" axios.com/trump-lawyers-…
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    Bloomberg has joined CNN, CNBC and the Financial Times in withdrawing as media sponsors for Saudi Arabia's "Davos in the Desert." As of now, Fox Business is the only American media sponsor that remains on the list. axios.com/companies-saud…