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2:05 PM ET, December 9, 2016

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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.
Discussion: 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.
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Obama Orders Investigation Into Election-Related Hacking
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNN
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama orders review of cyber attacks on 2016 election: adviser
Discussion: Washington Times and Engadget
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
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Devin Henry / The Hill:
Trump to pick Rep. McMorris Rodgers for Interior secretary
Discussion: TheBlaze
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 …
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and ABC News
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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
Discussion: RedState
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.
Discussion: The Week and alan.com
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Donald Trump to Remain Executive Producer on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ (EXCLUSIVE)
David Wright / CNN:
Conway on Trump ‘Apprentice’ role: He'll do it in his spare time
Discussion: Washington Post
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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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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Report: Megyn Kelly in talks with ABC
Discussion: RedState
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.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Resurgent
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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 …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / New York Times:
Taiwan Feels Forgotten. But Not by Trump.
Discussion: 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.”
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
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?
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post, Truthdig and TalkLeft
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.
Discussion: Detroit Free Press and Hot Air
 
 
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Alan Levin / Bloomberg:
Balloon Pilot Who Killed 16 Was on Drugs and Had Five DWI Raps
Discussion: KFOR-TV and KXAN-TV
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Biden Hails Trudeau and Merkel as Last Liberal Leaders Standing
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Michael Flynn once claimed Arabic signs on southern border guide ‘radicalized Muslims’ into US
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
The White House:
Continued Rise in Opioid Overdose Deaths in 2015 Shows Urgent Need for Treatment
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them
 Earlier Items: 
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Donald Trump Inaugural Reprises Campaign Slogan in Attempt to Unify Country
Discussion: Politico and Refinery29
Rob Bradford / Full Count:
Sources: Former Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine being considered for United States Ambassador to Japan
Patrick J. Michaels / The Hill:
Trump's EPA pick will make Obama regret his environmental overreach
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Paid Nearly $2.9 Million to Family-Owned Businesses as Campaign Wound Down
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Report: Trump down to two candidates for RNC head
Stephanie Susskind / WPTV:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks
 
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