memeorandum: Execution of Alabama Death Row inmate Ronald Bert Smith set to proceed (Kent Faulk/al.com)

1:45 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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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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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

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: Engadget

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Politico, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Jezebel, Balloon Juice, Political Wire, Daily Kos, The Resurgent and Climate Depot

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

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Donald Trump to Remain Executive Producer on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Donald Trump will remain an exec producer on NBC's “Celebrity Apprentice,” which is returning Jan. 2 after a two-year hiatus with new host Arnold Schwarzenegger. — MGM confirmed to Variety that Trump has retained his EP credit on the series.

David Wright / CNN:
Conway on Trump ‘Apprentice’ role: He'll do it in his spare time

Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire

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

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

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Breitbart, Politico and The Week

Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Trump Expected to Tap Labor Secretary Who Prefers Foreign Labor to American Workers

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Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Top Ten Reasons Andy Puzder Is a Great Pick for Labor Secretary

Discussion: Power Line, Hit & Run, twitchy.com and ThinkProgress

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 …

Discussion: RedState and Morning Consult

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 …

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 …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, USA Today, FTVLive, Mediaite and TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »

Joe Concha / The Hill:
Report: Megyn Kelly in talks with ABC

Discussion: RedState

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 …

Discussion: Common Dreams, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Post, NBC News and Mediaite

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Carrier to ultimately lose some jobs Trump saved: report

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Monthly, The Resurgent, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, The Week, TheBlaze and CNNMoney, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Morning Consult and The Week

New York Times:
Trump Eyes Goldman Sachs President for Economic Post; Millions Spent on Campaign, and Millions Made Back

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

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

Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats threaten brief shutdown over policies they hope Trump will support

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, RedState, Daily Kos, NPR, New York Magazine, The Week, Politico and Hot Air

Patrick J. Michaels / The Hill:

Trump's EPA pick will make Obama regret his environmental overreach — Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's nomination for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is as clear a signal as the incoming administration can send with regard to its environmental policies.

Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Scott Pruitt, Trump's Climate-Denying EPA Pick, Is Worse Than You Think

Discussion: Raw Story

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

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / New York Times:
Taiwan Feels Forgotten. But Not by Trump.

Discussion: Politico and Washington Post

Kent Faulk / al.com:

Execution of Alabama Death Row inmate Ronald Bert Smith set to proceed — The U.S. Supreme Court has yet again refused to stay Ronald Bert Smith's execution. The execution is now set for 9:45 p.m. — As with the two stays denied by the high court earlier tonight, Smith's attorneys again sought …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, SCOTUSblog, NPR, KTLA, Washington Post, BuzzFeed and Associated Press

Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Alabama Inmate Executed After Supreme Court Refuses a Stay

Discussion: Washington Post, SCOTUSblog, The Week and Empirical SCOTUS

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.”

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: CBS News, Political Wire, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Jezebel and Hot Air

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