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4:50 PM ET, November 19, 2016

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New York Times:
‘Hamilton’ Had Some Unscripted Lines for Pence.  Trump Wasn't Happy.  —  “Hamilton,” the hit Broadway musical about colonial rebels shaping the future of an unformed country, took an even more political turn at the end of its performance on Friday night.  —  With Vice President-elect Mike …
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New York Times:
High in Tower, Trump Reads, Tweets and Plans  —  Donald J. Trump sits high in Trump Tower in New York, spending hours on the phone with friends, television personalities and donors to ask if they know people to recommend for his cabinet.  —  He joins a daily morning transition meeting …
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Trump, Romney have ‘far-reaching conversation’ at meeting  —  Donald Trump met with Mitt Romney Saturday afternoon, one of a flurry of meetings the president-elect is holding at his New Jersey golf course.  —  Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said he and the president-elect had a …
Discussion: NPR and Jezebel
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Hamilton's cast reminded Pence that inclusivity is an American value.  Trump wants an apology.  —  This time it's not Megyn Kelly, the bereaved father of an Army captain, or a former Miss Universe contestant.  No, Donald Trump's latest Twitter feud is with the cast of Hamilton — the Broadway musical that has taken the world by storm.
Charles Ventura / USA Today:
Trump asks ‘Hamilton’ cast who ‘harassed’ Mike Pence to apologize
Pat Saperstein / Variety:
Mike Pence Booed at ‘Hamilton’ Performance
New York Post:
VP-elect Mike Pence booed at ‘Hamilton’
Discussion: The Geller Report and Infowars
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Chris Christie's fall from grace  —  Chris Christie, once one of the Republican Party's brightest stars, was virtually assured a position in a Donald Trump administration.  As one of the first big-name politicians to endorse the Manhattan billionaire, the New Jersey governor had earned Trump's gratitude.
Discussion: RedState and New Jersey Online
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Brent Griffiths / Politico:   Trump to meet with Christie on Sunday
Washington Post:
For foreign diplomats, Trump hotel is place to be  —  About 100 foreign diplomats, from Brazil to Turkey, gathered at the Trump International Hotel this week to sip Trump-branded champagne, dine on sliders and hear a sales pitch about the U.S. president-elect's newest hotel.
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama loyalists plot Trump resistance  —  President Barack Obama told his most loyal operatives that they have 10 days to get over their grief.  —  They're already ahead of schedule.  —  In the past week, Obama alumni have planned gatherings at Glascott's Saloon in Chicago (an old campaign haunt) and The Winslow in New York.
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
A lot of you have asked what we're doing about misinformation, so I wanted to give an update.  —  The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously.  Our goal is to connect people with the stories they find most meaningful, and we know people want accurate information.
Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
Trump's big infrastructure plan?  It's a trap.  —  Ronald A. Klain served as assistant to President Obama and oversaw the team implementing the American Recovery and Renewal Act from 2009-2011.  He was an adviser to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.  The views expressed here are solely his own.
Laura Bult / New York Daily News:
Protesters in Washington D.C. clash with white nationalists at conference celebrating ‘year of Donald Trump’ (WARNING: GRAPHIC) … A white nationalist conference held at a federal building in Washington, D.C., in celebration of “the year of Donald Trump” ignited violent clashes between protesters …
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NPR.org:
'We're Not Going Away': Alt-Right Leader On Voice In Trump Administration
Economist:
Democrats on the brink  —  The American left is in danger of learning precisely the wrong lesson from defeat  —  AGHAST at the defection of millions who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 but for Donald Trump in 2016—notably working-class whites in the Midwest—the left wants the Democratic Party …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Pentagon and intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama to remove the head of the NSA  —  The heads of the Pentagon and the nation's intelligence community have recommended to President Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, be removed.
Discussion: RedState
Chicago Tribune:
Teen grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis shot dead in Englewood over gym shoes  —  Jovan Wilson, 15-year-old grandson of Rep. Danny Davis and son of Stacey Wilson, was shot and killed Nov. 18, 2016, in his home in Englewood.  (Alyssa Pointer / Chicago Tribune)
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Chicago Tribune:
Grandson of Congressman Danny Davis slain, 3 others hurt in city shootings
Discussion: Fox 59 and Q13 FOX News
New York Times:
Jeff Sessions as Attorney General: An Insult to Justice  —  In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions, then a United States attorney from Alabama, to be a federal judge.  The Republican-controlled Senate rejected Mr. Sessions out of concern, based on devastating testimony by former colleagues, that he was a racist.
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
In Alabama, Jeff Sessions Desegregated Schools and Got the Death Penalty for KKK Murderer
New York Times:
With National Security Choices, Trump Builds Team to Bulldoze Status Quo  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's remarkable appointments on Friday served notice that he not only intends to reverse eight years of liberal domestic policies but also overturn decades of bipartisan consensus …
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Trump's security picks deepen Muslim worries about an anti-Islamic White House
 
 
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Alex Harris / miamiherald:
Octopus in the parking garage is climate change's canary in the coal mine
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Michael Smith / Gallup:
Image of Democratic Party More Positive Than GOP
Discussion: alan.com and Politicus USA
Hadas Gold / Politico:
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon on Politics as War
Discussion: Politico
The Hill:
Blue-collar voters launch hand grenade into Washington
Kristin Tate / The Hill:
The media needs to get off their ‘fake news’ false narrative
Discussion: Infowars, Recode and Politicus USA
Stephen B. Presser / Chicago Tribune:
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Darren Rovell / ABC News:
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