DIRTY OPERATOR BRENNAN APPEARS TO HAVE COOKED THE RUSSIA REPORT; ANOTHER OFFICIAL SAYS TRUMP CALL WAS PERFECTLY FINE; DEMS USE FOCUS GROUPS TO PICK THE IMPEACHMENT “CRIME”

TODAY’S TOP TEN

DID JOHN BRENNAN COOK UP THE RUSSIA ELECTION interference narrative? Real Clear Investigations.

TOP NSC OFFICIAL TOLD SECRET IMPEACHMENT PANEL nothing improper transpired during Trump-Zalensky call. ZeroHedge.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION KNEW HUNTER BIDEN HIRING was shady, witness admits. New York Post.

DEMOCRATS CAUGHT USING SECRET FOCUS GROUPS to pick Trump’s impeachment crime. Breitbart.

WILL VULNERABLE DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE START abandoning impeachment effort? Fox News.

AG BARR: DEMOCRATS ARE ENGAGED IN A WAR TO CRIPPLE, sabotage Trump administration. Daily Wire.

DEMOCRATIC PROGNOSTICATOR ISN’T TOO HIGH on Deval Patrick’s chances in the presidential sweepstakes. TheWeek.

FEDERAL JURY IN SAN FRANCISCO RULES against David Daleiden, undercover journalists in Planned Parenthood case. The Federalist.

OBAMA TELLS DEMOCRATS TO TONE DOWN their leftist rhetoric. Hot Air.

KANYE WEST TELLS JOEL OSTEEN “THE DEVIL HAS BEEN distracting me for a long time.” Chicago Tribune.

COMMENTARY WORTH READING

Journalists against free speech. John Tierney.

Paul Krugman: Always wrong, never in doubt. David Harsanyi.

The religion of climatism. Josef Joffe.

VIDEOS WORTH WATCHING 

College students can’t name a single war the U.S. fought. CampusReform.

Rep. Ratcliffe: Much of what Adam Schiff is saying is not true. Fox News.

Climate scientists reaping what they sow. Tony Heller.

OFFBEAT BEAT

Tesla crash victim can’t find anyone to recycle his wrecked car. ZeroHedge.

TWEETS OF NOTE

(@ChuckRossDC) John Dean pulled back the curtain on impeachment on CNN today. “I think this president probably should have been impeached the day he walked in.” Tweet.

(@KamVTV) Katie Yovanovitch is mad she couldn’t implement Obama’s foreign policy under Trump. No wonder he fired her. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

TOP UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL THROWS MORE COLD WATER on Democrats’ impeachment charade. Daily Wire.

DRUDGE LEAD AT TIME OF EMAIL 

PELOSI INVITES TRUMP TO TESTIFY Drudge.