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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lessig: 20 Trump electors could flip — Larry Lessig, a Harvard University constitutional law professor who made a brief run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, claimed Tuesday that 20 Republican members of the Electoral College are considering voting against Donald Trump …
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New York Times:
Buck Up, Democrats, and Fight Like Republicans — On Monday, members of the Electoral College will vote in Donald J. Trump as president. Though he lost the election by nearly three million votes and almost daily generates headlines about new scandals, the Democratic Party is doing little to stop him.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election — Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa. So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers …
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CNN:
Did Donald Trump need an apology from Mitt Romney? — Source: Trump told Romney he won't be nominee — (CNN)As President-elect Donald Trump considered Mitt Romney for secretary of state, Trump wanted one thing Romney wouldn't give him: an apology. — Trump was willing to move past Romney's bitter campaign-trail criticism of him.
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Rex Tillerson's 3 a.m. phone call — It was nearly 3 o'clock in the morning when the phone rang in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, an impoverished, war-torn country on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. — Hours earlier, Rex Tillerson, then a young, up-and-coming country manager at Exxon …
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump wasn't happy with his State Department finalists. Then he heard a new name.
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Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
The problem with Rex Tillerson's nine-figure nest egg
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump recruits army of chief executives to battle with the system in Washington
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Trump's national security adviser shared secrets without permission, files show — A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” …
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Flynn, Who Improperly Shared Classified Info, Giving Trump Daily ‘Intel Updates’ — RNC communications director Sean Spicer said on Wednesday that while President-elect Donald Trump, who has eschewed regular intelligence briefings, is meeting once or twice daily with retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn for an “intel update.”
Noah Browning / Reuters:
Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings
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Daniel Wagner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Must Give Up Hotel Before Inauguration, Agency Tells Lawmakers — Major development in dispute over Donald Trump's conflicts of interest: The government agency that leases a taxpayer-owned landmark for Trump's Washington hotel has told lawmakers that the president-elect will be in breach …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Federal Agency Warns Trump He Must Give Up DC Hotel Before Inauguration
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William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Huma vs. the “Night Stalkers” — After a stunning election loss, the knives appear to be out in Clintonworld. — “Maybe I'm just pissed off, but I really don't give a s**t about what happens to Huma to be honest with you,” one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Don Trump Jr. involved in INTERIOR search — WAYNE BERMAN up for TRADE REP — TRUMP'S TECH SUMMIT — SPOTTED AT DAVID RUBENSTEIN'S PARTY — B'DAY: Kirsten Powers — By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc) with DANIEL LIPPMAN …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Flynn deletes fake news tweet about Clinton's involvement in sex crimes — Incoming White House national security adviser Michael Flynn quietly deleted a tweet in which he shared a fake news story linking Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — to sex crimes with minors, CNN reported.
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Reince Priebus, Incoming White House Chief Of Staff … RNC Chair Reince Priebus, incoming White House chief of staff, joined me this morning: — 12-14hhs-priebus — Transcript: — HH: Joined now by the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, incoming White House Chief of Staff as well.
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Nominees Are In for a Rough Ride — Worried about the corporate gazillionaires whom Donald Trump is naming to his cabinet? Don't fret — it could be months, if ever, before these people set foot inside the federal government. Mr. Trump's transition team is seriously behind …
S.P. Sullivan / New Jersey Online:
N.J. trooper pulled over women to ask them out, covered it up, state says — TRENTON — A New Jersey state trooper has been suspended without pay after an internal investigation found he was pulling over women to ask them out on dates and falsifying police records to cover it up, authorities said.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Administration Bars States From Withholding Federal Money From Planned Parenthood — WASHINGTON — Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration on Wednesday issued a final rule to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds …
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Harriet Torry / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Raises Rates for First Time in 2016, Anticipates 3 Increases in 2017 — Central bank will nudge up the federal-funds rate by a quarter percentage point to between 0.50% and 0.75% — WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would raise its benchmark short-term interest rate …
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Agence France-Presse:
IBM unveils plan to hire 25,000 in US on eve of Trump meeting — 12k — US technology giant IBM said Tuesday it would hire 25,000 people in the country over the next four years, a day before President-elect Donald Trump meets with tech industry leaders. — About 6,000 of those hirings …
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Hannah Al-othman / Daily Mail:
IBM to hire 25,000 more workers in the US in the next four years and invest $1billion …
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Jason Kurtz / CNN:
NFL great Brown on meeting Trump: ‘I fell in love with him’ — Jim Brown on Trump: He has “my admiration” — (CNN)NFL legend Jim Brown stopped by Trump Tower Tuesday for a meeting pegged as a discussion about issues facing the African-American community, saying he “fell in love” with President-elect Donald Trump.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Divisions deepen inside Trump Tower — Donald Trump's White House-in-waiting is already being roiled by divisions, with the conservative outsiders who helped power his historic victory colliding with a Republican Party establishment muscling its way in. — Insiders paint a picture …
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