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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump rips John Lewis: Worry about your ‘crime infested’ district — on Saturday morning returned fire on a top Democrat who said he was not a “legitimate president.” — A day after Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said Trump was not legitimate, the president-elect told him to worry about his own district instead.
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump: John Lewis is ‘all talk,’ ‘no action or results’ — President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday accused Rep. John Lewis of not doing enough for his district after the Georgia lawmaker and civil rights icon said he doesn't see the “president-elect as a legitimate president.”
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Dukakis: Trump needs to apologize to Clinton — Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis said in an interview Friday that President-elect Donald Trump — needs to get off Twitter and apologize to Hillary Clinton — “I mean he ought to be ashamed of himself for this kind of stuff …
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New York Times:
Democrats Confront F.B.I. Chief at Closed-Door Intelligence Briefing — WASHINGTON — America's intelligence chiefs sat down with members of Congress behind closed doors on Friday for what they thought would be a straightforward briefing on Russian cyberattacks.
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JustOneMinute and National Review
Elana Schor / Politico:
Intelligence Committee will investigate possible Russia-Trump links
Intelligence Committee will investigate possible Russia-Trump links
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Open to Shift on Russia Sanctions, ‘One China’ Policy — President-elect Donald Trump suggested he would be open to lifting sanctions on Russia and wasn't committed to a long-standing agreement with China over Taiwan.
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump open to removing Russia sanctions
Trump open to removing Russia sanctions
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RedState and The Daily Caller
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Democrats plot their D.C. departures for Trump inauguration — Many prominent Democrats and Republicans who opposed Donald Trump are fleeing Washington for the inauguration, heading far from the capital to plot anti-Trump strategy or simply avoid the pain of witnessing inauguration celebrations.
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The Moderate Voice, Political Wire and The Hill
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
WHIP LIST: Democrats boycotting Trump's inauguration
WHIP LIST: Democrats boycotting Trump's inauguration
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Daily Wire
The Independent:
Ex-MI6 agent's frustration as FBI sat on Trump file for months — Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who investigated Donald Trump's alleged Kremlin links, was so worried by what he was discovering that at the end he was working without pay, The Independent has learned.
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Balloon Juice, emptywheel, Politicus USA and Talking Points Memo
Frank MacEachern / Westport Daily Voice:
Cops: Greenwich Republican Insulted Town Worker, Then Pinched Her Groin — GREENWICH, Conn. — A well-known Greenwich Republican called a town worker “nothing but a bloodsucking lazy union employee” and later reached in from behind to place his hand between her legs and pinch her in the groin area …
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Political Wire
Annie Karni / Politico:
The Man Who Became Donald Trump — The code name for the operation was “Royal Water,” English for the Latin-named “Aqua Regia” acid, which is powerful enough to dissolve gold. — That was how the small group of Hillary Clinton aides clued in to the top-secret identity of the man …
Armstrong Williams / The Hill:
Armstrong Williams op-ed: Dems, not Jeff Sessions, have the real race problem — It is an unfortunate truth that Democrats are not the examples of diversity and inclusion as much as they claim. — They portray themselves as the righteous warriors of truth and conviction, and they actually believe this “truth” to be self-evident.
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Politico and New York Post
Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
California's bullet train is hurtling toward a multibillion-dollar overrun, a confidential federal report warns — California's bullet train could cost taxpayers 50% more than estimated — as much as $3.6 billion more - according to a confidential federal report obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
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Page Six:
LuAnn de Lesseps and her new husband ‘gleaming’ on honeymoon — One proposal on dealing with the media that was pitched to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team calls for drug testing the White House press corps. — Trump's attacks on the mainstream media were a cornerstone …
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Human Rights Watch lists Trump as threat to human rights — Human Rights Watch is listing President-elect Donald Trump — as a threat to human rights, calling his campaign a “vivid illustration of the politics of intolerance.” — “Donald Trump's election as US president …
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Reuters:
Trump adviser had five calls with Russian envoy on day of sanctions: sources — Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, held five phone calls with Russia's ambassador to Washington on the day the United States retaliated for Moscow's interference …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
First sign of enhanced U.S.-Russia relations under Trump: An invite to Syria talks
First sign of enhanced U.S.-Russia relations under Trump: An invite to Syria talks
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Top Trump aide in frequent contact with Russia's ambassador
Top Trump aide in frequent contact with Russia's ambassador
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ABC News and Politicus USA
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
Will Mark Zuckerberg Be Our Next President? — It's a serious question. “He wants to be emperor,” several people have told me. — During this crazy and bizarre week—one in which we learned that Donald Trump was briefed by intelligence chiefs that the Russian government had kompromat on him …
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Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
The Music Donald Trump Can't Hear — One of the pleasures of music-streaming services is that, day after day, they remind you effortlessly of the almost incredible wealth and beauty of American popular music—from the blues and Tin Pan Alley to jazz, R. & B., country, rock and roll, and on to hip hop—and of its strange, snaking unity.
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
How Cruz and Trump learned to like each other — Ted Cruz met with Donald Trump exactly one week after Election Day. As it turned out, Cruz's tete-a-tete with the president-elect he had spurned from the stage of the Republican National Convention just months before wasn't the most consequential meeting he would have that day.