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2:10 PM ET, January 14, 2017

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Itay Hod / The Wrap:
Jennifer Holliday Pulls Out of Trump Inauguration, Apologizes to LGBT Community (Exclusive)  —  “I sincerely apologize for my lapse of judgement,” Broadway legend writes in open letter provided to TheWrap  —  Jennifer Holliday has canceled her appearance at Donald Trump's inauguration event next week …
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Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
Jennifer Holliday Pulls Out of Trump Inauguration, Apologizes to LGBT Community  —  Update: On Saturday morning Jennifer Holliday released a letter addressed to the LGBT community announcing that she will no longer be performing at the inauguration concert, apologizing for what she called a “lapse of judgment.”
Cristina Corbin / Fox News:
Protesters planning to blockade inauguration checkpoints, ‘party’ outside Pence home
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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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Lawmakers condemn Trump for attack on John Lewis  —  Lawmakers took to social media on Saturday to defend Rep. John Lewis's (D-Ga.) legacy after President-elect Donald Trump  —  launched an early-morning Twitter attack on the civil rights leader.  —  Pushing back against Trump's criticism that Lewis is …
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump rips John Lewis as Democrats boycott inauguration  —  Donald Trump lashed out at Rep. John Lewis on Saturday after the civil rights icon said he doesn't view Trump as a “legitimate president” — and the confrontation threatened to trigger a broader boycott of Trump's inauguration …
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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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Senate Intel panel to probe Trump team's ties to Russia
Discussion: The Week
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump open to removing Russia sanctions
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 …
Discussion: alan.com and twitchy.com
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New York Times:
Democrats Confront F.B.I. Chief at Closed-Door Intelligence Briefing
Discussion: JustOneMinute and National Review
The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz confronted Comey about Russian hacking
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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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
WHIP LIST: Democrats boycotting Trump's inauguration
Discussion: Daily 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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Discussion: New York Post and Politico
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 …
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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