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Why Democrats say they're withholding the impeachment articles DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS THAT SHOULDN'T BE OVERSHADOWED: -- Nancy Pelosi signaled this morning in a letter to colleagues that the House will transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate as soon as next week. "I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate," she wrote. (Our live blog has more.) EFTA00032532 -- The Senate has conducted 15 impeachment trials in U.S. history. It has heard witnesses in every single one. Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, reviews the history: "Only 19 other individuals besides Trump have been impeached by the House of Representatives. The Senate completed a trial in 15 of those cases, and in every single one of them, it heard testimony from witnesses. Those cases include the only two prior instances in which a president was impeached." -- House Republicans are eyeing a push to condemn Pelosi for delaying the trial. From Politico: "GOP Rep. Bradley Byrne, who is running for an Alabama Senate seat, introduced a censure resolution on Thursday morning to rebuke Pelosi for hanging on to the articles of impeachment since December. Republicans have the option to force a floor vote on the measure though Democrats would surely move to table it, just as they did with a censure resolution against" Schiff. -- Meanwhile, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) tweeted an impeachment -related fundraising appeal that included a doctored photo of Pelosi, drawing a retweet from Trump. Felicia Sonmez reports: "The tweet marks the second time this week that a House Republican has tweeted a photo that appears to have been manipulated. On Monday, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) tweeted a fake photo of Obama with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. ... The tweet shows a close-up, red-tinted photo of Pelosi, with the lines in the House speaker's face exaggerated due to the image's unnaturally high contrast." le:Matt Golsteyn is pictured in his D.C. office with his wife Julie and their infant son Henry. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Matt Golsteyn is pictured in his D.C. office with his wife Julie and their infant son Henry. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) -- An Army general denied a request by an officer pardoned by Trump in an open murder case to have his Special Forces tab reinstated. Dan Lamothe EFTA00032533 reports: "The decoration for retired Army Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn was denied Dec. 3 by Lt. Gen. Francis M. Beaudette, the commander of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, the Army disclosed Thursday. Beaudette's decision is not final, and the service said in a statement that it will next have an administrative panel consider whether it should reinstate the Special Forces tab and a Distinguished Service Cross — the U.S. military's second-highest valor award — and expunge a letter of reprimand Golsteyn received in connection with his case. Golsteyn was awaiting trial this year in the alleged murder of a suspected Taliban bombmaker in Marja, Afghanistan, in February 2010. ... The general's denial of Golsteyn's reinstatement request follows Trump's decision in November to pardon Golsteyn along with former 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, an Army officer who had been convicted of murder in Afghanistan. ... Golsteyn, reached for comment Thursday evening, said he had not heard about the decision until it was first reported by The Washington Post. A few minutes later, he and his lawyer, Phil Stackhouse, said they received notification from the Army in an emailed letter that had just arrived." -- The Justice Department is winding down the Hillary Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence. Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky report: "John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was tapped in November 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into concerns raised by Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during Clinton's time as secretary of state, when the U.S. government decided not to block the sale of a company called Uranium One. As a part of his review, Huber examined documents and conferred with federal law enforcement officials in Little Rock who were handling a meandering probe into the Clinton Foundation. ... Current and former officials said that Huber has largely finished and found nothing worth pursuing — though the assignment has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to lawmakers." EFTA00032534 -- Internal Boeing documents show employees discussing efforts to manipulate U.S. and international safety regulators. Ian Duncan, Lori Aratani and Michael Laris report: "'Yes, I still haven't been forgiven by god for the covering up I did last year," said a 2018 message. Another exchange between Boeing employees, from August 2015, closes out with this: 'I know but this is what these regulators get when they try and get in the way. they impede progress. ...' In 2017, a Boeing employee wrote: 'this airplane is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys.' The documents were released by Boeing to congressional investigators probing how the company's 737 Max jets were certified by the Federal Aviation Administration as safe before two crashes that killed 346 people.... "At issue in some of the messages was whether simulator training should be required for pilots flying the Max. Boeing went to great lengths to prevent such a requirement, in part because it would be costly for its customers, company documents show. ... In one November 2015 message, the 737 chief technical pilot, whose name is redacted in the documents, said failing to get computer-based training for one system 'is a planet-killer for the MAX.' ... In another email chain, from June 2017, the chief technical pilot forwarded to Boeing colleagues messages in which he persuaded an airline, which is not identified in the documents, not to require simulator training on the Max. 'Looks like my jedi mind trick worked again!' the pilot wrote. 'These are not the droids you're looking for.' ... In a shift Tuesday, the company said that it is recommending that pilots undergo simulator training before they resume flying the 737 Max. The FAA, which will have the final say, said it will consider Boeing's recommendation." (Read the Boeing documents for yourself here.) -- The United States economy added 145,000 jobs in December as the unemployment rate remained at 3.5 percent. (Rachel Siegel) -- Video from Jeffrey Epstein's first apparent suicide attempt was lost due to "technical errors," according to prosecutors. Reis Thebault reports: "Federal EFTA00032535 prosecutors said in December they were unable to locate the video, which would have showed guards finding Epstein after his first apparent suicide attempt in July. Then, just a day later, they wrote in a court filing that they had found the footage and were 'in the process of obtaining a copy' from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, where Epstein was held. But on Thursday, prosecutors reversed themselves again, saying the video 'no longer exists' because of 'technical errors.' Jail officials initially thought they had saved footage from outside Epstein's cell, when in fact the footage they preserved was from a different part of the facility, explained Assistant U.S. Attorneys and Jason Swergold in the latest filing." -- Border crossings are starting to plateau as U.S. officials report a continued decline in immigration apprehensions. Abigail Hauslohner reports: "The number of people apprehended or deemed 'inadmissible' by U.S. border authorities along the southern border fell to 40,620 last month, down 72 percent from May, when the Trump administration declared it was at the height of a border crisis. December marked the seventh straight month of decline in border crossings, but the month- to-month differences have shrunk significantly since September. Border enforcement actions last month were roughly on par with December 2017." -- Counties, cities and states are stepping up on their climate goals as the Trump administration steps back. Rebecca Tan reports: "Maryland's most populous jurisdiction is promising an ambitious package of new climate initiatives in 2020, joining other liberal counties, cities and states stepping up to address what they see as the Trump administration's resistance to protecting the planet.... In February, Montgomery will hold a town hall on hundreds of recommendations from climate workgroups convened last year by County Executive Marc Elrich (D). And by early 2021, officials hope to unveil a comprehensive plan detailing how the county will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2027 and 100 percent by 2035." EFTA00032536 American sprinters Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) raise their gloved fists in a civil rights protest at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. (AP)  American sprinters Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) raise their gloved fists in a civil rights protest at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. (AP) THE NEW WORLD ORDER: -- Gag rule alert: The International Olympic Committee warned athletes they would face sanctions, which could include the loss of medals, for participating in political protests during the Olympics in Tokyo this summer, including kneeling, political hand gestures and wearing or holding signs or armbands. Jacob Bogage reports: "The committee published a three-page document of guidelines. ... 'We needed clarity, and they wanted clarity on the rules,' [said] Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission, which helped create the new document. ... The guidelines outlaw demonstrations such as those staged by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who raised their gloved fists on the medal stand at the 1968 Games in Mexico City, and former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who in 2016 began kneeling during the national anthem. Both demonstrations sought to draw attention to racial injustice and have been repeated by other athletes in recent years.... "Ethiopian runner Feyisa Lilesa crossed his wrists at the finish line of the men's marathon at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro to show support for civil rights protesters in his home country. Americans Race Imboden, a fencer, and hammer-thrower Gwen Berry were placed on probation by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee in August after demonstrating on the medal stand at the Pan American Games. Imboden knelt during the national anthem, while Berry raised a fist. Athletes who protest will face discipline 'on a case-by-case basis as necessary,' according to the guidelines." EFTA00032537 -- A billion animals have been caught in Australia's fires. Some may go extinct. Karin Brulliard and Darryl Fears report: "The mouse-size dunnart is not as iconic as the koalas or platypuses that draw tourists, but it is arguably the most special mammal on Australia's Kangaroo Island. Now the Kangaroo Island dunnart's days may be numbered. Before bush fires struck, it was already endangered, so rare that even researchers who studied them had never seen one. Now they fear they never will. One-third of the 1,700-square-mile island has burned, including the entire area where these dunnarts are known to live. ... More than 1 billion mammals, birds and reptiles nationwide — some of them found nowhere else on Earth — may have been affected or killed by the fires sweeping across Australia, according to a University of Sydney estimate. The potential toll is far greater when other types of animals are included. ... Individual animals might survive, but when their habitat is gone, 'it doesn't matter,' Saunders said. 'They'll die anyway.'" -- Disgusting: Hoaxers are using the fires to spread misinformation and profit, Brittany Shammas reports. -- The fire crisis is fueling protests calling for bolder action on climate change. Kate Shuttleworth reports: "At rallies nationwide on Friday, thousands called for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to resign over what they say is his administration's passivity on an issue that has hit home to millions of Australians as a clear and present danger. The conservative leader has defended his disaster response after facing criticism from victims and firefighters for its perceived inadequacy. In Melbourne, close to 10,000 people took to the streets, spurning calls from police and the state's center-left leader, Daniel Andrews, not to risk diverting emergency resources. ... An organizer of a similar rally in Sydney, Gavin Stanbrook, said the events of recent weeks revealed a nation polarized over how to tackle the challenge. 'We are divided between coal interests and politicians on the one side and then firefighters and volunteers on the other and the rest of us who are either impacted or our friends and family are on the front line, or in cities EFTA00032538 surrounded by smoke,' Stanbrook said. 'We need to come together and say that we will not accept it anymore.'" -- Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 soldiers in Niger. Danielle Paquette reports: "The clash unfolded in the western village of Chinegodar near the border with Mali, according to Nigerien defense officials, as fighters with ties to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda look to seize new swaths of territory. The bloodshed came about a month after gunmen ambushed a Nigerien army post in another border town, killing 71 soldiers in the deadliest strike on the nation's forces in recent memory. The Islamic State West Africa Province asserted responsibility for that massacre two days later." -- In Israel, deadly floods have kept residents confined to their homes and offices even as they braced for potential spinoff attacks from rising tensions between the United States and Iran. Steve Hendrix reports: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday beseeched citizens to take flood warnings as seriously as they do the sirens warning of imminent rocket fire that are a feature of life in many Israeli communities. ... Netanyahu also warned the adventurous not to venture out to the desert to witness the dramatic — and potentially dangerous — spectacle of dry stream beds reanimated with roaring water. 'Watch them on television,' he advised.... Officials said rescue resources had been redeployed nationwide in response to the flooding, which stretched from the coastal plains along the Mediterranean to the occupied West Bank down to the Dead Sea." -- China identified a new strain of coronavirus as the source of its pneumonia outbreak. Gerry Shih and Lena H. Sun report: "A group of Chinese experts this week isolated and obtained the genome sequence of the new virus, which is believed to be responsible for sickening dozens of people who visited a wild-animal market last month in Wuhan, in central China, state media reported Thursday. The outbreak ahead of the Lunar New Year travel season in China has prompted health authorities across East Asia to increase screening of travelers for signs of fever, underscoring fears about its potential spread." EFTA00032539 -- Understatement of the year? Pope Francis said 2020 is off to a rough start, saying it "does not seem to be marked by encouraging signs." Chico Harlan reports: "While saying that maintaining hope is essential, the pope spent the next 45 minutes talking about wars and could-be wars, exploitation, sexual abuse, Internet hate speech, international indifference to humanitarian crises, and the depressing state of the world's fight against climate change. He called heightened tensions between the United States and Iran 'particularly troubling,' but his remarks amounted to a laundry list of flash points, both major and obscure, from Burkina Faso to Venezuela to Australia. 'Certainly, hope has to be realistic,' Francis said. 'It demands acknowledging the many troubling issues confronting our world and the challenges lurking on the horizon. It requires that problems be called by their name and the courage be found to resolve them." -- Lebanon has banned ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn from traveling. Sarah Dadouch reports: "Ghosn appeared at a hearing in Lebanon on Thursday, two days after Lebanon's caretaker justice minister, Albert Serhan, said the country's public prosecutor had received the Interpol red notice about Ghosn and would be taking the necessary steps. He was placed under house arrest. A few days after his arrival in Lebanon's capital, Ghosn found himself in more legal trouble: A group of lawyers last Thursday lodged a legal complaint against him for visiting Israel as chairman of Renault and later Nissan. Lebanon and Israel have been in a state of war for the past six decades, and Lebanese law considers interacting with the country's southern neighbor and sworn enemy a crime. Ali Abbas, one of the two lawyers who filed the Israel-related complaint against Ghosn, said the travel ban was a formality that usually comes after receiving Interpol notices, especially red notices, which alert police about internationally wanted fugitives but do not compel any country to arrest the fugitive." -- Trump wished North Korean leader Kim Jung Un a happy birthday through South Korea. (AP) EFTA00032540 -- A statue mocking Trump in Melania Trump's home country was burned down. Lateshia Beachum reports: "Firefighters in Moravce, a city in central Slovenia, tried to extinguish the bonfire, but their efforts left charred planks on the ground. The arsonists responsible for the Christmas nutcracker -like statue's ashes are reportedly still at large. The nearly 26-foot tall wooden structure that had a mechanism to open Trump's red painted mouth full of pointy teeth was constructed last year in a nation divided over the U.S. president. The statue of Trump, with the president's signature blue suit and red tie, had been under torch threats since local residents threatened to set it ablaze on Halloween ... It was relocated because of the risk." -- London's Madame Tussauds removed its wax figures of Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, from its display of Britain's royal family less than 24 hours after the couple announced they would be "stepping back" from their roles as senior royals. Jennifer Hassan reports: "The figures will no longer stand alongside the rest of the royal family. They have been moved by the wax museum's staff. The likenesses of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Catherine, remain on display alongside figures of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip. 'As two of our most popular and well-loved figures, they will of course remain an important feature at Madame Tussauds London as we watch to see what the next chapter holds for them,' said [Steve Davies, general manager of Madame Tussauds London]." LA/ice President Pence, along with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, and their children, Arabella, Joseph and Theodore Kushner, attend a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House last month. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) Vice President Pence, along with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, and their children, Arabella, Joseph and Theodore Kushner, attend a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House last month. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) EFTA00032541 2020 WATCH: -- Jared Kushner's global role is shrinking as his role in the president's reelection campaign grows. From Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman in the Times: "When senior administration officials gathered in the Situation Room on Tuesday for a meeting to discuss the repercussions of the killing of [Soleimani], the White House aide whose portfolio is the Middle East was notably absent from the meeting.... [He] was sitting for a photo shoot for a planned Time magazine cover story. ... [Kushner] is positioning himself to be the overseer of something of even greater personal interest to his father-in-law: Mr. Trump's 2020 re-election campaign. ... [Kushner] sees no reason to involve himself as extensively in international issues now that the State Department is run by [Mike] Pompeo, whom he sees as far more competent than his predecessor, Rex W. Tillerson." -- Mike Bloomberg won't release the women who sued him from their nondisclosure agreements. From ABC News: "'You can't just walk away from it,' Bloomberg said. 'They're legal agreements, and for all I know the other side wouldn't want to get out of it.' Last month, ABC News reported on several lawsuits in which Bloomberg was accused of making crude remarks in the 1990s and of allegedly fostering an uncomfortable environment for women to work — allegations Bloomberg has denied. Three cases against the company remain active. ABC News has spoken with several women who expressed interest in telling their stories who were subject to confidentiality agreements, but said they feared the prospect of facing retribution from the company for speaking out." -- Tom Steyer appears to have qualified for the seventh Democratic debate, scheduled for next Tuesday night in Iowa, on the strength of Fox News polls that found him with double-digit support in Nevada and South Carolina. David Weigel reports: "Steyer, who has spent more than $115 million on his campaign so far, hit 12 percent in the network's poll of Nevada ... and 15 percent in South Carolina. ... It came after Steyer poured more than $20 million into commercials and other advertising in these states as of this week, with $11.2 million worth of EFTA00032542 expenditures in South Carolina and $10.3 million in Nevada. He has also spent heavily to attract hundreds of thousands of small-dollar donations, which the DNC requires for debate access." -- The Fox News Nevada poll also shows Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders vying for the lead in the state: "Biden tops Sanders by 23-17 percent among Democratic caucusgoers, with both down one percentage point since November. [Elizabeth] Warren comes in at 12 percent, down from 18 percent — and ties with [Steyer] for third." -- A new Monmouth Poll shows a four-way fight in the New Hampshir === IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS === [Image 1] The image is a screenshot of a webpage with a news article. The article discusses internal documents from Boeing that reveal employees' concerns about the company's efforts to address safety issues. 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