memeorandum: Sylvester Stallone on Donald Trump, Republicans and Running for Office (Ramin Setoodeh/Variety)

7:20 PM ET, January 10, 2016

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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:

White House Chief of Staff ‘Appalled’ by ‘El Chapo’ Guzman's Comments in Interview With Sean Penn

Discussion: Associated Press, NBC News, Deadline and 6abc.com

El Chapo Speaks — A secret visit with the most wanted man in the world … It's September 28th, 2015. My head is swimming, labeling TracPhones (burners), one per contact, one per day, destroy, burn, buy, balancing levels of encryption, mirroring through Blackphones, anonymous e-mail addresses …

Ollie Gillman For / Daily Mail:
Sean Penn LED authorities to El Chapo: Actor under investigation after meeting with world's …

Discussion: New York Times, Observer, Gothamist, The Daily Caller, ATTN, Business Insider, MichelleMalkin.com, NBC News, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and The Right Scoop, more at Mediagazer »

ABC News:
Marco Rubio Calls Sean Penn's ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Interview ‘Grotesque’

Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools, New York Times, Mediaite, Business Insider, Mashable, Associated Press and 6abc.com

Breitbart:
Sean Penn Interviews El Chapo for Rolling Stone... SHOCK: Magazine Gives Fugitive Drug Lord Editorial Control

Discussion: New York Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Mashable, 6abc.com and Business Insider

Associated Press:
LATEST: MEXICAN OFFICIAL SAYS PENN MEETING HELPED IN CAPTURE

Discussion: Hot Air, Business Insider, Taylor Marsh and CNN

Rolling Stone:
Watch Two Minutes of El Chapo's Exclusive Interview, Just Before His Recapture

Discussion: Mediaite, Al Jazeera English and TalkLeft

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Poll: Neck-And-Neck 2016 Races in Iowa, New Hampshire — Three weeks until the first presidential nominating contest, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are running neck and neck in Iowa, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are also locked in a tight race in the Hawkeye State.

Discussion: Guardian, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and American Power

CBS News:

Hillary Clinton responds to Trump's attacks on Bill — When it comes to Republican Donald Trump repeated attacks about her husband's sex life, Hillary Clinton has one message for Donald Trump: “Didn't work before, won't work again.” — Trump has spent weeks attacking former President Bill Clinton …

Discussion: The Last Tradition and Wall Street Journal

Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Even in Early Races, Poll Finds

Discussion: Marist Poll, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, Bloomberg Business, Washington Post, Bloomberg.com and American Power

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Gabby Giffords to endorse Clinton amid gun feud with Sanders

Discussion: Bloomberg.com and The Week

Kyle Cheney / Politico: Gun control feud between Clinton and Sanders escalates

Alex Castellanos:
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and the Missile Headed for Grandma's House

Discussion: Hit & Run and The Resurgent

CBS News:
Gabby Giffords to endorse Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Refinery29 and addictinginfo.org

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Clinton's gamble on Muslims

Discussion: RedState and Politico

Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo Politics:

The State of the Union will be digitized, live-streamed, tweeted and, oh yeah, broadcast — On Tuesday night, President Obama will deliver his sixth and final State of the Union address. And as details trickle out about what it will include, it's clear that the administration is focused equally on both the message and the medium.

Discussion: Medium, Wired and Bloomberg.com

Brent Baker / NewsBusters:

CNN's Cooper Lets Slip: White House Press Corps ‘Agrees’ With Obama — Share it Tweet it — Ooops. CNN's Anderson Cooper seemingly let slip on Thursday night what anyone who has a watched a presidential press conference already knows, but journalists are usually loath to admit …

Jay Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Nuclear Deal Fuels Iran's Hard-Liners

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Israel Matzav and National Review

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Economist: GOP may win 47 states in general election — Supply-side economist Arthur Laffer is predicting Republicans will win the White House in a landslide this year, regardless of the nominee. — “I would be surprised if the Republicans don't take 45, 46, 47 states out of the 50,” …

Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and Outside the Beltway

Kim Willsher / Observer:

‘I went to join Isis in Syria, taking my four-year-old. It was a journey into hell’ — Sophie Kasiki is one of the few women to escape from Raqqa, the stronghold of Islamic State — Sophie Kasiki stared at the photograph of a young English-speaking boy in a camouflage uniform …

Discussion: Guardian and Daily Mail

Hadas Gold / Politico:

ABC severs debate partnership with Union Leader — ABC is cutting off their partnership with the New Hampshire Union Leader for the Republican primary debate on Feb. 6, an ABC spokesperson has confirmed. — The paper was set to have a co-branding relationship for the debate …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:

Sylvester Stallone on Donald Trump, Republicans and Running for Office — Sylvester Stallone has packed many jobs onto his resume over the years: movie star, screenwriter, director, producer and painter of Kafkaesque portraits, but in a new interview with Variety, he revealed …

Discussion: The Right Scoop and The Gateway Pundit

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Paul: Cruz eligibility may reach SCOTUS — Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday pressed questions about GOP presidential rival Ted Cruz's eligibility to be president, saying he believes that the issue will have to be resolved by the Supreme Court if Cruz gets elected president.

Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Associated Press

USA Today:

Gas prices could drop toward $1 a gallon — In some gas stations around the country, the price of a gallon of regular has dropped below $1.42. AAA and GasBuddy, two organizations that follow gasoline prices, say that gasoline prices below $2 will not be unusual in most of the United States.