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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Ex-Bush official: Trump ‘like an addict’ for press coverage — Three former press secretaries warned Sunday that they believe President-elect Donald Trump — will create more difficulties for the media when he takes office. — Former presidential press secretaries for the Clinton …
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Meet The Press 1/1/17 — ANNOUNCER: — From NBC News in Washington, this is Meet The Press was Chuck Todd. — CHUCK TODD: — Good first Sunday morning of 2017 and a happy new year to everybody on this special Meet The Press broadcast. We're going to look at the difficult …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
New York Times, Wall Street Journal editors take on Trump and the media
New York Times, Wall Street Journal editors take on Trump and the media
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Promises a Revelation on Hacking — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald J. Trump, expressing lingering skepticism about intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the election, said on Saturday evening that he knew “things that other people don't know” about the hacking …
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Gingrich Says Biggest Worry About Trump Administration Is That They Might ‘Lose Their Nerve’ — Less than three weeks before the presidential inauguration, leading Trump ally Newt Gingrich said his biggest worry about the incoming administration is that they will “lose their nerve.”
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Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Brazile credits Trump's ‘make America great again’ slogan
Brazile credits Trump's ‘make America great again’ slogan
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Jason Easley / Politicus USA:
Trump's Press Secretary Begs The American People To Stop Mocking Donald Trump — Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer went on national television to complain that the American people are mocking Donald Trump and called on every American to support the president-elect instead of mocking him.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Here are the eight Trump Cabinet picks Democrats plan to target — Democratic senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March — an unprecedented break with Senate tradition.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Mar-a-Lago, the Future Winter White House and Home of the Calmer Trump — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — When President-elect Donald J. Trump rang in the new year this weekend, he did it in Gatsby-like opulence, joined by the actor Sylvester Stallone, the gossip page fixture Fabio …
John A. Farrell / New York Times:
Nixon's Vietnam Treachery — Richard M. Nixon always denied it: to David Frost, to historians and to Lyndon B. Johnson, who had the strongest suspicions and the most cause for outrage at his successor's rumored treachery. To them all, Nixon insisted that he had not sabotaged Johnson's 1968 peace initiative …
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CBS Los Angeles:
Vandal Changes Famed Hollywood Sign Overnight To Read ‘Hollyweed’ — HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Authorities say someone managed to modify the famed Hollywood sign to read “Hollyweed” in an overnight act of trespass. — Sgt. Trudeau of Security Services says the incident unfolded around midnight Sunday …
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Washington Post corrects story on Vermont utility breach — The Washington Post has corrected a story that originally said Russian hackers penetrated the U.S. electric grid by breaching a utility company in Vermont. — “An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid.
Aaron Short / New York Post:
Trump advisers want Netanyahu to attend inauguration — President-elect Donald Trump's advisers want to invite Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu to the inauguration or arrange a meeting of the two leaders before then, a source close to the transition said.
Molly K. McKew / Politico:
Putin's Real Long Game — A little over a year ago, on a pleasant late fall evening, I was sitting on my front porch with a friend best described as a Ukrainian freedom fighter. He was smoking a cigarette while we watched Southeast DC hipsters bustle by and talked about ‘the war’ …
Washington Post:
Manhunt underway after massacre at Istanbul nightclub, officials say — ISTANBUL — Turkish authorities on Sunday were hunting for the lone gunman who opened fire on a New Year's celebration at one of Istanbul's most popular nightclubs, killing dozens of people, including a number of foreigners …
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