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12:20 PM ET, December 5, 2016

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Evan McMullin / New York Times:
Trump's Threat to the Constitution  —  WASHINGTON — On July 7, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, met privately with House Republicans near the Capitol.  I was present as chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Agents of Idiocracy  —  Last week when Donald Trump began his so-called Thank You Tour in Cincinnati, he had yet another opportunity to be magnanimous and conciliatory, to step beyond the division and acrimony of his campaign and into the unity and healing necessary to be president of a strained nation.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
D.C. Police detain suspect with an assault rifle at Comet Ping Pong restaurant
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Man Motivated by ‘Pizzagate’ Conspiracy Theory Arrested in Washington Gunfire
Elana Schor / Politico:
Democrats to give Trump Cabinet picks the Garland treatment  —  Senate Democrats are preparing to put Donald Trump's Cabinet picks through a grinding confirmation process, weighing delay tactics that could eat up weeks of the Senate calendar and hamper his first 100 days in office.
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump's Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved  —  Donald Trump's protocol-breaking telephone call with Taiwan's leader was an intentionally provocative move that establishes the incoming president as a break with the past, according to interviews with people involved in the planning.
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Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
What the Taiwan Call Means  —  The most important lesson, for both foreign leaders and domestic foreign policy analysts, is that the Obama era in American foreign policy has come to an end.  —  The ten minute telephone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen to Donald Trump will not …
Michael Forsythe / New York Times:
Taiwan City Planning a Makeover Says a Trump Agent Showed Interest
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
U.S. Army / army.mil:
Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing  —  Army POC: Moira Kelley (703) 614-3992, moira.l.kelley.civ@mail.mil  —  The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota …
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Business Wire:
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners Respond to the Statement from the Department of the Army  —  DALLAS & NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) and Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE: SXL) announced that the Administration's statement today …
Naomi Klein / The Nation:
The Lesson from Standing Rock: Organizing and Resistance Can Win
Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller and AOL
Devin Henry / The Hill:
Feds deny permit for Dakota Access pipeline
Discussion: The Week, The Resurgent and Daily Kos
David Wright / CNN:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner plan move to DC  — Kushner is expected to play a significant role in the new Trump administration, while Ivanka Trump may take a lead role in managing her father's sprawling business interests  —  (CNN)Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner …
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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump to meet with Al Gore  —  Ivanka Trump is meeting Monday with climate change activist and former vice president Al Gore  —  The President-elect's daughter, who reportedly wants to make global warming one of her signature issues, will meet with Gore at Trump Tower in Manhattan …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Trump Chooses Ben Carson to Lead HUD  —  Ben Carson, who took Donald J. Trump on a tour of blighted neighborhoods in Detroit during the presidential campaign, including his boyhood home, has been chosen by Mr. Trump to oversee one of the government's main efforts to lift American cities …
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David Wright / CNN:
Trump taps Ben Carson for HUD secretary
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Trump Taps Ben Carson For Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Discussion: The Atlantic, The Guardian and alan.com
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's pollster says he ran a ‘post-ideological’ campaign  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Donald Trump won more because of strength than ideology.  —  The shouting match between top advisers to the president-elect and Hillary Clinton's senior staff overshadowed several …
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Rick Noack / Washington Post:   Trying to imitate Trump's victory, Italy's Beppe Grillo could help throw Europe into crisis
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
GOP wagers Americans don't care about Trump's conflicts  —  Republicans see the same ethically challenged complications lurking in Donald Trump's business portfolio that Democrats are squawking about.  They just think Americans don't care about these entanglements anymore.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Post:
The disclosure that could end Eric Schneiderman's career  —  State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's witch hunt against supposed “climate-science deniers” became an even more embarrassing debacle late last month — and just might wind up ending his career.
Detroit News:
Judge orders Mich. presidential recount to begin Monday  —  Detroit — A federal judge has ordered Michigan election officials to begin a massive hand recount of 4.8 million ballots cast in the presidential election at noon Monday.  —  U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued a ruling …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
In an anti-recount filing, Trump's lawyers say the election was ‘not tainted by fraud or mistake’  —  Three leading Republicans were asked over the weekend whether or not they agreed with Donald Trump's tweeted assertion that millions of voters had cast illegal ballots (part of Trump's effort to rebut his popular vote loss).
Discussion: Politico, Law News, Hot Air and The Guardian
 
 
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The Victory of ‘No’  —  On January 29, 2009, the whittled …
Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
‘People want answers:’ Criminal probe of Oakland fire launched as death toll hits 33
Discussion: New York Times and AOL
Theo Keith / FOX6Now.com:
Presidential recount: Counting complete in 6 counties; results have barely changed
Discussion: The American Mirror
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
Democrats' Popular Vote Advantage Is Growing But That May Not Equal Election Wins
Wall Street Journal:
Exxon CEO Now a Contender for Donald Trump's Secretary of State
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