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Martin Matishak / Politico:
Obama orders ‘full review’ of election-related hacking — President Barack Obama has ordered a “full review” before he leaves office of the cyberattacks that plagued this year's presidential election, a top White House official said Friday. — The announcement by Lisa Monaco …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Obama orders review of Russian hacking during presidential campaign — President Obama has ordered a “full review” of Russian hacking during the November election, as pressure from Congress has grown for greater public understanding of exactly what Russia did to interfere in the electoral process.
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Political Wire and Towleroad
CNN:
Obama orders review of Russian election-related hacking — Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama has ordered a full review into hacking by the Russians designed to influence the 2016 election, White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser Lisa Monaco said Friday.
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Obama Orders Investigation Into Election-Related Hacking
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Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama orders review of cyber attacks on 2016 election: adviser
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Expected to Pick Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers to Run Interior — If confirmed by the Senate, she would lead administration's efforts to open up federal lands and waters to fossil-fuel development — WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers …
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Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Trump Picks Rodgers for Interior Secretary — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the highest-ranking woman in the House Republican leadership, is expected to be announced as Donald Trump's secretary of the interior, the Wall Street Journal reports. — “Ms. McMorris Rodgers …
New York Times:
Trump Eyes Goldman Sachs President for Economic Post; Millions Spent on Campaign, and Millions Made Back
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
Trump to pick Rep. McMorris Rodgers for Interior secretary
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Bloomberg:
Trump Team's Memo Hints at Broad Shake-Up of U.S. Energy Policy — Advisers seeking to identify staff involved in climate policy — Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are developing plans to reshape Energy Department programs, help keep aging nuclear plants online and identify staff …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Paul Ryan: I had a ‘very exciting meeting’ with Trump today — Speaker Paul Ryan said he had a “very exciting meeting” with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Friday. — “I really enjoyed coming up here and meeting with the president-elect. We had a great meeting.
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
After Repeal — It's the opportunity Republicans have been awaiting for six years, which invites the obvious question: Are they going to screw it up? In January, a united Republican Congress and Republican White House will finally have the ability to dispose of Obamacare, the unpopular and destructive health-insurance law.
Ted Cruz / Washington Post:
If Republicans really want to drain the swamp, here's how to do it
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Conway On Trump Decision Not To Leave ‘The Apprentice’: Obama Played Golf! — Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, on Friday morning defended the President-elect's decision to stay on as an executive producer of NBC's “The Apprentice,” comparing the move to President Obama's time playing golf.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Donald Trump to Remain Executive Producer on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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David Wright / CNN:
Conway on Trump ‘Apprentice’ role: He'll do it in his spare time
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Carrier says it will spend millions automating Indiana plant, plans to lay off workers Trump ‘saved’ — The deal keeps getting worse. — As part of the deal President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence struck with Carrier, the company has promised to make a $16 million investment …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Carrier to ultimately lose some jobs Trump saved: report
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Could a Last-Minute Suitor Woo Megyn Kelly Away from Fox News? — Despite an offer of more than $20 million from Fox, Kelly appears to be listening to some surprising suitors. — On Wednesday morning, Megyn Kelly was once again promoting her new memoir, Settle for More …
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Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
COULD BREITBART BREAK WITH TRUMP? — The front page of Breitbart right now seems surprisingly critical of the Trump transition: — From that lead story: … Wow — the Trump News Network is linking a Trump appointee to the hated rootless cosmopolitan gun-grabber Mike Bloomberg. Them's fightin' words.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Dems facing likely defeat in shutdown fight — Senate Democrats are fighting a legislative battle they appear unlikely to win, demanding new negotiations on a critical spending bill after Senate Republicans have already closed off talks and the House has gone home for the holidays.
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Hot Air and The Resurgent
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats threaten brief shutdown over policies they hope Trump will support
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Mark Moyar / New York Times:
The World Fears Trump's America. That's a Good Thing. — Among global elites, Donald J. Trump's recent phone call with Taiwan's president has induced fear on a scale seldom matched since Ronald Reagan's “Evil Empire” speech. The Sydney Morning Herald warned that the phone call …
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / New York Times:
Taiwan Feels Forgotten. But Not by Trump.
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Washington Post and Politico
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
This is what happens when Donald Trump attacks a private citizen on Twitter — About a year ago, 18-year-old college student Lauren Batchelder stood up at a political forum in New Hampshire and told Donald Trump that she didn't think he was “a friend to women.”
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Occupy Democrats, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Trump gets one presidential intelligence briefing a week: sources — President-elect Donald Trump is receiving an average of one presidential intelligence briefing a week, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter, far fewer than most of his recent predecessors.
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CBS News, Political Wire, Mediaite, Jezebel, Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump just offered yet another Goldman veteran a spot in his administration — Goldman's Cohn offered NEC director job - NBC — Donald Trump has offered Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn a key economic post, which would add to the administration another veteran of the powerful firm …
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Mediaite, New York Magazine, Morning Consult and The Week
Scott Wong / The Hill:
McConnell huddles with GOP rep to discuss possible ND Senate opening — (R-Ky.) and his incoming campaign chairman, Sen. Cory Gardner — (R-Colo.), huddled with Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) this week to discuss the congressman's possible future in the upper chamber, sources told The Hill.
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Politico
Graham Rayman / New York Daily News:
Barneys slammed with discrimination suit by black New Jersey couple who say they were hassled when returning scarf, jeans — A black couple filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Barneys Thursday — claiming the store hassled them when they tried to return a scarf and a pair of fancy jeans, the Daily News has learned.
W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Good riddance Harry Reid — In a Thursday op-ed in the New York Times, Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada wrote ruefully on the occasion of his retirement, addressing what many liberals have described as the “post-truth” world. After all, how else could they have lost the 2016 election?
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Power Line, twitchy.com and New York Times
Jesse Berney / Rolling Stone:
Trump's Presidency Is Shaping Up to Be an American Tragedy — His administration is likely to be just as bad as you think - and possibly worse — They're already building the inaugural stand on the west side of the Capitol building. In six weeks, Donald Trump will stand on it …
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Associated Press:
Federal Judge Refuses to Halt Wisconsin Recount — A federal judge refused to halt Wisconsin's presidential recount Friday, telling President-elect Donald Trump's supporters that the recount probably won't change anything anyway. — Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by more than 22,000 votes in the state.
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