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2:45 PM ET, December 5, 2016

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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.
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
McConnell won big by blocking Obama  —  Drumroll, please....  The winner of my 2016 award for the top member of Congress is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  —  (R-Ky.).  —  Yes, you read that right.  —  A Democrat feels compelled to honor McConnell.  —  Let me explain.
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Tegna / WCNC-TV:
Cooper extends lead over McCrory in recount … DURHAM, N.C. - Democratic challenger Roy Cooper's lead over incumbent Governor Pat McCrory has grown, according to partial recount results released by the Durham County Board of Elections.  —  After recounting 52,833 ballots …
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
McCrory concedes in North Carolina  —  North Carolina GOP Gov. Pat McCrory has conceded the governor's race to Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, after a prolonged canvassing of votes that stretched almost a full month after Election Day.  —  “Despite continued questions …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Pat McCrory Concedes In North Carolina Governor's Race
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
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).
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Stein Explains Recount Push Outside Trump Tower
Discussion: Politico
Detroit Free Press:
Judge orders immediate start of Michigan recount
Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Hot Air
Theo Keith / FOX6Now.com:
Presidential recount: Counting complete in 6 counties; results have barely changed
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's tweet wasn't actually about #PizzaGate, but his son is now defending the baseless conspiracy theory  —  This post has been updated.  —  There are so many fake tales floating around about the 2016 election that they appear to be getting confused for one another.
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Politico:
Incoming national security adviser's son spreads fake news about D.C. pizza shop
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
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Trump Chooses Ben Carson to Lead HUD  —  Ben Carson endorsed Donald J. Trump at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., in March.  —  The president-elect reached out to one of his old Republican primary opponents to be secretary of housing and urban development.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Ben Carson: From Trump friend to enemy to ally to outsider to Cabinet member
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Rogue electors brief Clinton camp on anti-Trump plan  —  Advocates of the long-shot bid to turn the Electoral College against Donald Trump have been in contact with close allies of Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions, but the Clinton camp …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Top House Republican won't back Trump's tariff proposal
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
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Naomi Klein / The Nation:
The Lesson from Standing Rock: Organizing and Resistance Can Win
Discussion: ABC News, AOL and The Daily Caller
U.S. Army / army.mil:
Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing
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 …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump's Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved
Michael Green / Foreign Policy:
How Bad Was Trump's Taiwan Phone Call?
Discussion: Hit & Run and reverbpress.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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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.
 
 
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Herb Jackson / NorthJersey.com:
Gottheimer: Garrett won't talk about transition
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Best Way to Stop Trump Is at the Local Level
Hadas Gold / Politico:
How Donald Trump and ‘Morning Joe’ made up
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Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
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Discussion: CNN, New York Times and AOL
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The war on ‘fake news’ is all about censoring real news
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Shinzo Abe to Become First Japanese Leader to Visit Pearl Harbor
Jeffrey Rosen / New York Times:
States' Rights for the Left
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