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12:15 AM ET, November 30, 2016

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New York Times:
Steven Mnuchin Is Donald Trump's Expected Choice for Treasury Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — Steven Terner Mnuchin, a financier with deep roots on Wall Street and in Hollywood but no government experience, is expected to be named Donald J. Trump's Treasury secretary as soon as Wednesday, sources close to the transition say.
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Bloomberg:   Goldman's Cohn Set to Meet With Trump Amid Transition Talks
Ben Brody / Bloomberg:
Treasury Contender Allison: Meeting Trump ‘Like a Job Interview’
Discussion: New York Times
Ben White / Politico:
Trump to pick Mnuchin for Treasury secretary
Discussion: ABC News
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Trump to Announce Carrier Plant Will Keep Jobs in U.S.  —  From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue, and the decision by Carrier, the big air-conditioner company, to move 2,000 of them from Indiana …
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Nancy Pelosi Torches Democrat Trying To Unseat Her As Party Leader  —  She called it “pathetic” that Rep. Tim Ryan says she just wants more power.  —  WASHINGTON House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tore into fellow Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio) on Monday for suggesting she can't lead …
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Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:
More Than A Dozen Pelosi Supporters Consider Turning On Her  —  “I think a lot of people are unsure if we want the faces of the party to be Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi: liberals from New York and California,” one Democrat said.  —  Managing Editor, BuzzFeed DC  —  Alex Wong / Getty Images
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Many People Just Voted Themselves Out of Health Care?  (Updated) (Updated again) (And again)  —  My original update was right!  Screwed up dates.  So it's back to around 5 1/2 million Trump chumps.  —  As Greg Sargent points out, the choice of Tom Price for HHS probably means the death of Obamacare.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Trump's HHS pick wants to replace Obamacare
Discussion: Townhall.com and Instapundit
David Dayen / The Nation:
Donald Trump Is Coming for Your Medicare
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
Trump Taps Rep. Tom Price For Health And Human Services Secretary
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Instapundit
Susan Page / USA Today:
Gingrich calls Trump tweet about vote fraud a big mistake  —  WASHINGTON — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich calls Donald Trump a potentially transformative president.  But he shouldn't have sent out that tweet alleging election fraud.  —  In an interview Tuesday with Capital Download …
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Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Newt Gingrich explains how Trump feeds media false narratives to distract from real stories  —  “It's better off for him to give them a rabbit than for [the media] to go find their own rabbit.”  —  President-elect Donald Trump's fondness for giving credence to false narratives is part of a …
Discussion: NPR and New York Daily News
Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
Donald Trump offering huge perks for inauguration donors  —  President-elect offering access, luxury in exchange for big money  —  Donald Trump's inaugural committee is offering huge perks — prime tickets, luxurious lodging, access to the president-elect himself — in exchange for six …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
For $1 million and up, inaugural donors will get ‘candlelight dinner’ with Trump and other access
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Elaine Chao tapped to be Trump's Transportation secretary  —  Former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao was nominated on Tuesday by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Transportation.  —  Chao ran the Labor Department under the George W. Bush administration.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:   Rep. Lou Barletta under consideration for labor secretary
Associated Press:
The Latest: Romney Says He Has ‘Increasing Hope’ About Trump
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Dem senator: I'll ‘beat the hell out of you’ for burning flag  —  (D-W.Va.) lashed out at flag burning on Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump  —  raised the issue.  —  “It's a First Amendment right, but you do it in front of me, I'm going to beat the hell out of you,” Manchin said, according to a Roll Call reporter.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell pushes back at Trump on flag-burning comments
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump Victory Tour Set as Cabinet Comes Together
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Election  —  Just a week before the November 8th election, attackers set a church in Greenville, Mississippi, on fire.  The historically black church was targeted in what authorities believe was an act of voter intimidation …
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Tod Lindberg / Weekly Standard:
His Reelection Plan  —  To those who believed, sequentially, that Donald Trump would drop out soon after entering the GOP primary field; that this or that outrageous provocation of his would fatally turn off primary voters; that while he might be winning primaries, he had a ceiling …
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Hannity: Trump doesn't need a White House press office  —  Fox News personality Sean Hannity on Monday said President-elect Donald Trump  —  does not need press in the White House.  —  Hannity, a longtime Trump supporter, blasted the mainstream media during his interview with radio host Matt Boyle …
Discussion: RedState
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John Hayward / Breitbart:
Sean Hannity: People Don't Need ‘Fake News’ Corporate Media Anymore; Landscape Shifting to Breitbart, Drudge, Talk Radio
Discussion: Mediaite and Politicus USA
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Politico: What If Trump Enforces the Law?!  —  I have been saying for a long time that, while our current legal immigration system poses intractable problems, illegal immigration is relatively easy to solve: we only need to enforce our existing laws.  Donald Trump's appointment of Jeff Sessions …
Mark Finkelstein / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Mika Shockingly Scorches Elizabeth Warren: ‘Tired of this Act,’ ‘Shrill, Almost Unhinged’  —  Mika: This Reminds Me of Republican Obstructionism Eight Years Ago, 'Except Now It's Democrats Doing It'  —  Earlier in this presidential election cycle, Mika Brzezinski was a big Elizabeth Warren booster …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Free Beacon:
Sen. Chris Coons Regrets Making Appointments Simpler to Confirm  —  Senator Chris Coons (D., Del.) said on CNN Tuesday that he regrets the rule change Senate Democrats made to the nomination process.  —  “The filibuster no longer acts as an emergency brake on the nomination,” Coons said.
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
AJ Vicens / Mother Jones:
The Republican Governor of North Carolina Has Finally Run Out of Options  —  The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Monday night dismissed the bulk of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory's ballot challenges in the disputed governor's race.  Their ruling, along with a vote difference …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Obama on Dems' Inability to Reach Voters: ‘Part of It Is Fox News in Every Bar and Restaurant’  —  President Obama sat down for a post-election interview earlier this month with Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner, reflecting on Donald Trump's win and what Democrats did wrong.
Amanda Taub / New York Times:
How Stable Are Democracies?  ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’  —  WASHINGTON — Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room.  Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics …
 
 
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Tim Marcin / International Business Times:
How To Keep Trump From Becoming President? 25th Amendment Could Declare Republican Mentally Unfit
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John W. Miller / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump to Name Wilbur Ross as Commerce Secretary, Transition Official Says
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
Lawmakers Drop Plan Requiring Women to Register for Draft
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Belgium and the Netherlands Swap Land, and Remain Friends
Discussion: PRI and FiveThirtyEight
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Veterans to Serve as ‘Human Shields’ for Dakota Pipeline Protesters
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Future of the American Center
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CNBC:
New York Times subscription growth soars tenfold, adding 132,000, after Trump's win
Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Republicans block program to register 2 million Illinois voters
Discussion: Chicago Sun Times
Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
BET founder says Trump is not a racist, and stocks are right to rally post-election
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and Bloomberg seek to bury the hatchet in lengthy phone call
Discussion: Political Wire
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump's likely homeland security pick let an inmate die of thirst in his jail
Discussion: Mother Jones
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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