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12:40 PM ET, January 6, 2017

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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Focus on Russian Hacking Is a ‘Political Witch Hunt’  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump said in an interview Friday morning that the storm surrounding Russian hacking during the presidential campaign is a political witch hunt being carried out by his adversaries …
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Adam Entous / Washington Post:
U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win  —  Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials who said that American intelligence agencies intercepted communications …
Evan Perez / CNN:
Intel report says US identifies go-betweens who gave emails to WikiLeaks  — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denied that Russia was the source of leaked Democratic emails  —  Washington (CNN)US intelligence has identified the go-betweens the Russians used to provide stolen emails to WikiLeaks …
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
'Don't You Say That Again': Conway and Cuomo Get Into Transfixing War of Words Over Russia Hacks  —  In a meaty interview that raged on for the better part of twenty minutes this morning, CNN New Day anchor Chris Cuomo sparred with Kellyanne Conway of the Trump campaign on a wide variety of controversies …
Bloomberg:
FBI Says Democrats Refused Access to Hacked E-Mail Servers
Discussion: Politico
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls Russia hacking allegations a ‘political witch hunt’
Discussion: TheBlaze
TIME:
U.S. Intelligence Report Identifies Russians Who Gave DNC Emails to Wikileaks
Discussion: CNN
NBC News:
Top Russians Celebrated When Trump Won, Intel Report Says: Source
New York Times:
Donald Trump Casts Intelligence Aside
CNN:
Sources: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall  — The Trump transition team says he his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process  — The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump promised to force Mexico to pay for the wall
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump slams media on border wall: Mexico will pay us back
Discussion: Political Wire and Althouse
Talking Points Memo:
Trump ‘Wall’ To Become Border Fence Upgrade; USA Will Pay
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Mattis clashing with Trump transition team over Pentagon staffing  —  The honeymoon seems to be ending between retired Gen. James N. Mattis and Donald Trump's transition team amid an increasingly acrimonious dispute over who will get top jobs in the Defense Department — and who gets to make those decisions.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Former CIA director James Woolsey quits Trump transition team  —  Former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr., a veteran of four presidential administrations and one of the nation's leading intelligence experts, resigned Thursday from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Arnold Schwarzenegger Responds to Trump Taunts  —  The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger is responding to Donald Trump's taunting on Twitter.  The former California governor says the president-elect should work as hard to represent all Americans as he did for TV ratings.
Discussion: Politico
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Corker: Trump still answers cellphone, doesn't screen my calls
Discussion: Political Wire
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day …
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren announces she's running for re-election  —  WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren announced this morning that she is running for reelection in 2018, seeking a second term as US Senator from Massachusetts.  —  “I am running for re-election in Massachusetts in 2018,” she wrote in an email to her network of supporters.
Discussion: alan.com
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Elizabeth Warren / Elizabeth Warren for Senate:
2018  —  Nobody expected 2017 to start this way.
Discussion: CBS Boston
New England Journal of Medicine:
Repealing the ACA without a Replacement — The Risks to American Health Care  —  Health care policy often shifts when the country's leadership changes.  That was true when I took office, and it will likely be true with President-elect Donald Trump.  I am proud that my administration's work …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Age of Fake Policy  —  On Thursday, at a rough estimate, 75,000 Americans were laid off or fired by their employers.  Some of those workers will find good new jobs, but many will end up earning less, and some will remain unemployed for months or years.  —  If that sounds terrible to you …
Bryan Bender / Politico:
Bill Perry Is Terrified.  Why Aren't You?  —  At this naked moment in the American experiment, when many people perceive civilization on the verge of blowing up in some metaphorical sense, there is an elderly man in California hoping to seize your attention about another possibility.
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Send in the Head Clowns  —  Democrats have been in power for so long that they've forgotten how to oppose.  Their party has been on a roll since 2005 when the botched Social Security reform, the slow bleed of the Iraq war, and Hurricane Katrina sent the Bush administration into a tailspin.
New York Times:
Clinton vs. de Blasio for New York Mayor?  Unlikely Idea Has People Talking  —  From political circles in New York City to cocktail parties on Capitol Hill, on right-of-center Facebook pages and among left-of-center donors, two of the biggest untethered threads in New York politics are being drawn together around a single question.
TMZ.com:
President Obama Builds a Wall for Rental House (PHOTO GALLERY)  —  President Obama is taking a cue from Donald Trump ... he's building himself a wall.  —  We got photos of construction at Obama's soon-to-be D.C. rental.  You also see construction in the garage.  As we reported, it will become an office with a bathroom.
Tom Pepinsky:
Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable  —  Malaysia is a country that I know well, and whose political system I have studied closely for fifteen years.  It is also a country whose political liberalization I have long awaited.  Malaysia has a multiparty parliamentary system of government …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Greta Van Susteren Joins MSNBC  —  The former Fox News personality will host ‘For the Record’ in the 6 p.m. slot.  —  This new year is already proving to be quite the tumultuous one for cable news time slots.  Greta Van Susteren has landed at MSNBC five months after departing Fox News Channel.
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Associated Press:
SeaWorld: Tilikum, orca that killed trainer, has died  —  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity at SeaWorld parks, has died.
Fox News:
GOP congressman takes down colleague's sponsored ‘art’ depicting police as pigs  —  A Republican congressman took matters into his own hands Friday and personally removed a painting depicting police officers as pigs that a colleague had allowed to be displayed at the U.S. Capitol complex.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sherrod Brown will vote against Sessions  —  Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced Friday that he would not vote to confirm Jeff Sessions for attorney general.  —  Brown appears to be the first Democratic senator to explicitly say he will oppose Sessions to lead the Justice Department …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
The most expensive F-35 variant has hit another major snag that could take years to fix  —  The Pentagon has established a “red team” to address considerable shortcomings with the F-35C, the carrier-based naval variant of the most expensive weapons project in history.
Discussion: AOL
 
 
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New York Times:
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Cody Derespina / Fox News:
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Zion police back woman's account of alleged racial slur by Dairy Queen franchise owner
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Conservatives ready to support $1 trillion hole in the budget
Discussion: Political Wire
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How Republicans Plan to Roll Back Obama-Era Regulations
Myles Tanzer / The FADER:
Coachella's Owner Is A Republican Mega-Donor Who Has Funded Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Roberts Belatedly Sees Conflict, Withdraws in Top Court Case
Discussion: New York Times
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Head of nurses union ‘counting on’ Trump for single-payer system
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Chrissie.Thompsonfink / Cincinnati.com:
Trump makes calls against Kasich's pick for Ohio GOP chair
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
President Obama Talks Race Relations, Calls Alleged Hate Crime in Facebook Video ‘Terrible’
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Neil Cavuto is leaving Fox News after 28 years at the network; source: Fox offered him a new deal that he declined to accept and ultimately decided to leave

 
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