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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Top network executives, anchors meeting with Donald Trump Monday — Executives and anchors from the country's five biggest television networks are set to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Monday afternoon. — The meeting was organized by Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway …
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New York Post:
Donald Trump's media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’ — More On: — President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post. — “It was like a f—ing firing squad,” said one source.
CNNMoney:
Protecting Donald Trump costs New York City more than $1 million a day — Protecting President-elect Donald Trump and his family is costing New York City more than $1 million a day, according to three city officials. — And those costs won't necessarily drop significantly once he moves to the White House.
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Talking Points Memo:
Cashing in BIGLY in Argentina! — Over the weekend, there were a flurry of stories about how Donald Trump and his family are already using the presidency to leverage his overseas businesses as well as his new DC hotel. Well, now there's more. This time in Argentina. — Here's the background.
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Josh Marshall / Associated Press:
And Now a Denial from Macri! — A short while ago we flagged …
And Now a Denial from Macri! — A short while ago we flagged …
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CNN:
Source: Democratic Rep. Gabbard meeting with Trump, talking top jobs in DC — Washington (CNN)Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team Monday for a possible top job in the new administration, a source said.
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders Urges Supporters: Ditch Identity Politics And Embrace The Working Class
Sanders Urges Supporters: Ditch Identity Politics And Embrace The Working Class
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Alex Daugherty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Donald Trump met with Bernie Sanders supporter Tulsi Gabbard
Donald Trump met with Bernie Sanders supporter Tulsi Gabbard
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Kellyanne Conway to CNN anchor about Trump's tweeting: ‘Why do you care?’ — A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump — is dismissing questions about Trump's tweeting, asking why a network news anchor would care. — “Why take it up? Why take up ‘SNL’? No president does that. Why waste time?
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David Wright / CNN:
Conway defends Trump's ‘Hamilton’ twitter scrap: ‘Why do you care’
Conway defends Trump's ‘Hamilton’ twitter scrap: ‘Why do you care’
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Poll: Trump's popularity soars after election — Donald Trump's popularity is rising in the days since his election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of registered voters. — Forty-six percent of voters now have a very favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of the president-elect.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Low Marks for Major Players in 2016 Election - Including the Winner
Low Marks for Major Players in 2016 Election - Including the Winner
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
FEC hits Trump on 1,100 errors, totaling roughly $1.3M — The FEC alerted the Trump campaign that it had close to 1,100 errors amounting to more than $1.3 million in corrections — The announcement came just months after the Trump campaign shifted to an aggressive digital fundraising model
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Jonathan Shorman / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kobach took plan for Department of Homeland Security into Trump meeting — Secretary of state photographed holding written plan for federal agency — A written plan for the Department of Homeland Security brought by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach into his meeting with President-elect Donald …
vatican.va:
MERCY AND PEACE — MISERICORDIA ET MISERA is a phrase used by Saint Augustine in recounting the story of Jesus' meeting with the woman taken in adultery (cf. Jn 8:1-11). It would be difficult to imagine a more beautiful or apt way of expressing the mystery of God's love when it touches the sinner …
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Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump's Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’ — WASHINGTON — By the time Richard B. Spencer, the leading ideologue of the alt-right movement and the final speaker of the night, rose to address a gathering of his followers on Saturday, the crowd was restless.
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Senator Bernie Sanders:
Let's Rebuild our Infrastructure, Not Provide Tax Breaks to Big Corporations and Wall Street — Our infrastructure is collapsing, and the American people know it. Every day, they drive on roads with unforgiving potholes and over bridges that are in disrepair. They wait in traffic jams and ride in overcrowded subways.
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Trump has a plan for government workers. They're not going to like it. — President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against, by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits …
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U.S. Soccer:
U.S. Soccer Parts Ways with Jurgen Klinsmann — U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati announced today that Jurgen Klinsmann has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team and Technical Director for U.S. Soccer. — Gulati will conduct a media teleconference call Tuesday afternoon to discuss the change.
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Media Matters for America:
It's Time For MSNBC To Address Reports That Joe Scarborough Is Advising Donald Trump — MSNBC must address recent reports that President-elect Donald Trump “often seeks out” political advice from network host Joe Scarborough. If true, the reports call into question Morning Joe's Trump coverage …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Howard Dean: Stephen Bannon a ‘Nazi’ — Howard Dean, who is in the running to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called Donald Trump — 's former campaign chairman and current senior strategic adviser, Stephen Bannon, a “Nazi.”
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Howard Dean: Steve Bannon is a ‘Nazi’
Howard Dean: Steve Bannon is a ‘Nazi’
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A thought on the Hamilton storm of the:
A thought on the Hamilton storm of the weekend: — But let me first say that for the last 24 hours I have been focused on one thing, Blake's state championship game. I didn't even hear about this fuss until lunch today. Blake's game was a heart wrenching loss that came in overtime play last night.
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Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic:
‘Hail Trump!’: White Nationalists Salute the President Elect — “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” — That's how Richard B. Spencer saluted more than 200 attendees on Sunday, gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the National Policy Institute …
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John Tierney / City Journal:
The Real War on Science — The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress. — Autumn 2016 — Technology and Innovation — Politics and law — My liberal friends sometimes ask me why I don't devote more of my science journalism to the sins of the Right.
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Paul Demko / Politico:
Obamacare repeal plan stokes fears of market collapse — Republicans warned for years that Obamacare would blow up the nation's individual insurance market. Instead, their own rush to repeal the health care law may be what triggers that death spiral. — GOP lawmakers say they plan …
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
How Christie lost his spot on the Trump transition team — Something was bothering Donald Trump as he made his victory speech after the election. The newly minted president-elect took the stage with at least 40 of his closest aides and allies, but according to a high-level campaign source familiar …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Will Republicans rein in a corrupt Trump presidency? Don't bet on it. — THE MORNING PLUM: — Donald Trump vowed to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington. But experts on governmental ethics are increasingly worried that Trump's presidency, and his refusal to place …
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