memeorandum: Ready or Not, Republicans Say Cabinet Hearings Will Begin Tuesday (Eric Lichtblau/New York Times)

10:15 AM ET, January 9, 2017

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Donald Trump Says He's Not Surprised by Meryl Streep's Golden Globes Speech — President-elect Donald J. Trump dismissed Meryl Streep as “a Hillary lover” early Monday morning after the actress, in a speech at the Golden Globes award ceremony, denounced him as a bully who disrespected and humiliated others.

New York Times:

Meryl Streep's Golden Globes Speech — Turning attention away from her and toward Donald J. Trump, Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes to call out the president-elect for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter in 2015, and warned that a free press would need to be defended.

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Associated Press:

The Latest: Conway Suggests Streep Misused Globes Platform — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): — A top aide to Donald Trump says actress Meryl Streep should have supported the president-elect instead of denouncing him from the stage of the Golden Globes.

Discussion: Politico and ABC News

Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:

Kellyanne Conway: I Wish Meryl Streep Was As Concerned About Disabled Boy Tortured On Facebook Live — Senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway responds to Meryl Streep's diatribe against Donald Trump at the Golden Globes: — KELLYANNE CONWAY: I'm glad Meryl Streep has such a passion …

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Post, New York Times and RedState

Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:

The Note: Welcome to Confirmation Week — NOTABLES —CABINET HEARING BLITZ HITS CAPITOL HILL: It's a busy week on Capitol Hill as the first of Trump's Cabinet picks face confirmation hearings this week, ABC's ARLETTE SAENZ reports. The hearing blitz kicks off on Tuesday with hearings …

Discussion: Hot Air, Associated Press and BizPac Review

Adam Cancryn / Politico:

Obamacare repeal's doomsday scenario — Hospital and health plan leaders talk in almost apocalyptic terms about what might lie ahead if Republicans abolish Obamacare without a blueprint for its replacement. — Their doomsday scenario: Millions of people could lose their health care coverage …

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Sen. Mitch McConnell / Fox News:
Senate Majority Leader McConnell: ObamaCare failed Americans. Now it's time for relief

Discussion: Vox and The Week

Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Republicans Would Repeal Obamacare In Precisely The Way They Accuse Democrats Of Enacting It

Discussion: Real Clear Politics, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post

Toni Clarke / Reuters:
Senate to act this week on Obamacare repeal, McConnell says

Discussion: Political Wire

Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
McConnell: ‘First Steps’ In Obamacare Repeal Coming ‘By The End Of This Week’ [VIDEO]

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and ThinkProgress

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Obama retools his political operation for post-Trump — Barack Obama doesn't want his post-presidency to be all about Donald Trump, but he knows some of it's going to have to be. — Trump's win upended his plans for life after leaving office, and people who've been talking to him say he's …

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Wave 105:
Theresa May says Donald Trump's lewd remarks about women ‘unacceptable’

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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: UK prime minister: Trump's comments about groping women ‘unacceptable’

Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
President Obama Says He and Donald Trump ‘Are Sort of Opposites’

Discussion: Political Wire, BizPac Review, Business Insider and AOL

Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:

The ‘Keepin’ it 1600' Guys Launch Crooked Media to Counter Trump — With Donald Trump about to enter the White House, they just don't feel like “keepin' it 1600” anymore. — Just before Christmas, former Obama administration staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor recorded …

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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:

Hillary Clinton made a rare appearance at ‘The Color Purple’ — and got three standing ovations — Hillary Clinton made a rare public appearance at the Broadway musical “The Color Purple” on Sunday — and received three standing ovations. — Photos from the scene showed people gawking at Clinton and snapping photos.

Discussion: The Week and The Daily Caller

New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Receives Ovation at ‘The Color Purple’

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New York Times:

F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Scandal — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Volkswagen executive who faces charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, two people with knowledge of the arrest said on Sunday …

Discussion: RT, The Verge and Automotive News Automaker

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:

Kushner to be named ‘senior adviser’ to Trump: report — Lawyers have etched out a plan for President-elect Donald Trump — 's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to serve in the new administration, according to a report. — Mike Allen said in his inaugural Axios AM e-letter early Monday that Kushner will serve as senior adviser.

Discussion: RedState

The Hill:

What Trump can accomplish on day one — Judging by his campaign promises, Donald Trump — will be a busy man on his first day in the Oval Office. — Trump has pledged to take sweeping, unilateral actions on Jan. 20 to roll back President Obama's policies and set the course for his administration.

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

Ready or Not, Republicans Say Cabinet Hearings Will Begin Tuesday — WASHINGTON — Advisers to President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition team, facing complaints from Democrats that they are trying to jam nominees through confirmation hearings, said on Sunday they were confident …

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Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:

Jared Kushner's Rise to Unimaginable Power — Jared Kushner is more like his father-in-law than anyone imagines. — Until very recently, and to all outward appearances, Jared Kushner was just another socially striving young businessman with inoffensively Bloombergian political values.

Discussion: link.axios.com, Political Wire and CNBC

Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:

Someone is trying to take down the Drudge Report — and it's a mystery who's behind it — The Drudge Report, the highly trafficked conservative news website, has been knocked offline for extended periods of time over the course of the last two weeks, succumbing to large distributed denial of service attacks …

MY CENTRAL JERSEY:

Officials to investigate black dummy hanging at Plainfield game — Officials at Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark said they will investigate an incident in which the Plainfield High School girls basketball team arrived at the school for a game Saturday and found a black dummy hanging from its neck in the room they were given.

Discussion: Raw Story and The Root