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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Former ambassador to Russia: Putin wanted ‘revenge’ against Clinton — Russia interfered in the U.S. elections to get revenge against Hillary Clinton — , a former U.S. ambassador to the Kremlin said Sunday. — Michael McFaul, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Donald Trump Ties C.I.A. Reports on Russian Meddling to Democrats' Shame — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he did not believe American intelligence assessments that Russia had intervened to help his candidacy …
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Trump Says Democrats Made Up Russian Hacking As An ‘Excuse’ For His ‘Major Landslide Victory’ — President-elect Donald Trump dismissed reports that the CIA has concluded Russia interfered in the U.S. election, arguing that Democrats had conjured the story to account for their “massive” election loss.
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
TRUMP: I'm a ‘smart person,’ don't need intelligence briefings every single day — President-elect Donald Trump brushed off concerns that he's not participating in the traditional daily intelligence and national security briefings that presidents hold every day.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump vs. Congress on Russian hacking
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armed-services.senate.gov:
McCain, Graham, Schumer, Reed Joint Statement on Reports That Russia Interfered with the 2016 Election
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emptywheel, Law News and Washington Post
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Priebus denies report RNC was hacked
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Power Line, Washington Post, ABC News and Refinery29
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI and CIA give differing accounts to lawmakers on Russia's motives in 2016 hacks
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NO QUARTER USA NET, RedState, Slate, Lawyers, Guns & Money and New York Times
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Reince Priebus, Sen. Rand Paul, and Sen. Claire McCaskill
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Politicus USA
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Bipartisan Senate Group Calls for Probe of Russian Hacking in US
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Politico, Daily Kos and Associated Press
Steve Coll / New Yorker:
Rex Tillerson, from a Corporate Oil Sovereign to the State Department — The news that President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Rex Tillerson, the chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, as his Secretary of State is astonishing on many levels.
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Brent Johnson / New Jersey Online:
Christie turned down several jobs in Trump administration, sources say — TRENTON — President-elect Donald Trump offered Gov. Chris Christie numerous positions in his incoming administration, but the New Jersey governor turned them down, two sources with knowledge of Trump's transition efforts told NJ Advance Media.
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Political Wire and Mediaite
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Rick Perry Said to Be Trump's Top Candidate for Energy Secretary — Democratic Senators Manchin, Heitkamp also under consideration — President-elect met with contenders at Army-Navy game — Donald Trump has narrowed his search for energy secretary to four people …
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TheBlaze, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Outside the Beltway
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real — President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real and that he is “studying” whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago.
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Political Wire and alan.com
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rand Paul threatens to block Bolton nomination — Sen. Rand Paul is threatening to block President-elect Donald Trump's likely pick of John Bolton as the No. 2 in the State Department. — The Kentucky Republican, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, could stop …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Bernstein says Trump's lies worse than Nixon's — Carl Bernstein, whose reporting broke open the Watergate scandal that led to former President Nixon's resignation, said Sunday that Nixon's lies were nothing compared to Donald Trump — “Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment.
Fox News:
Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” December 11, 2016. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Chris Wallace. — Today, the Trump way.
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Outside the Beltway, Politicus USA and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Biden: Trump ran ‘most vicious’ campaign he's ever seen … said Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump — ran “the most vicious campaign” he has ever seen. — Speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN's “State of the Union,” Biden estimated that only 10 percent of Americans could explain Hillary Clinton
Richard Rainey / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
John Kennedy defeats Foster Campbell for Louisiana's open U.S. Senate seat — Donald Trump thanks supporters and rallys for John Kennedy in Baton Rouge rally — Donald Trump and US Senate candidate John Kennedy wave to supporters during a Get Out the Vote rally Friday, December 9 …
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