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11:15 AM ET, January 22, 2017

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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump Attacks News Media Over Reporting on Crowd Sizes  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump and his staff spent their first full day in the White House waging a bitter war against the news media over depictions of the crowd at the inauguration on Friday.  —  In a pair of angry public appearances …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds  —  “That's what you guys should be writing and covering,” new White House press secretary Sean Spicer angrily lectured reporters on Saturday during his first remarks from the podium of the press briefing room.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's real war isn't with the media.  It's with facts.  —  Trump needs to delegitimize the media because he needs to delegitimize facts.  —  Speaking at the CIA this afternoon, President Donald Trump said, “I have a running war with the media.”  —  Like much that Trump says, this isn't quite true.
Discussion: Politico and Nielsen
Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Comparing Trump's inauguration crowd to the Women's March  —  This post has been updated to add context.  —  Washington (CNN)It's going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017 as opposed to Barack Obama in 2009.
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Trumpism Corrupts: Spicer Edition  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks in the press briefing room on January 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C..  —  The first official White House press conference is on Monday, but Sean Spicer called a Very Special Presser Saturday evening.  Why?
Discussion: Washington Post
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump wages war against the media as demonstrators protest his presidency  —  President Trump used his first full day in office to wage war on the media, accusing news organizations of lying about the size of his inauguration crowd as Saturday's huge protests served notice that a vocal …
Discussion: Politico
Bloomberg:
Trump Spokesman Accuses Media of False Inaugural Reporting
Discussion: ABC News
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
On Day 2, Trump sticks to media bashing and boasting
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Quinta Jurecic / Lawfare:
President Trump Speaks at CIA Headquarters  —  The day after his inauguration, President Donald Trump addressed CIA employees at the Agency's headquarters.  Video of his remarks is available below courtesy of The Washington Post, along with a transcript courtesy of CSPAN.
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NBC News:
Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Others Rip Trump Speech in Front of Memorial
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Hill
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Makes Bizarre Courtesy Call At CIA Headquarters (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Mahablog
New York Daily News:
Half a million people show up for Women's March on Washington as others flock to sister marches across globe  —  Anastasia Shawback boarded a 5:30 a.m. bus Friday, riding 22 hours from Illinois to join the Women's March on Washington against newly-installed President Trump.
Discussion: alan.com
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Max Kutner / Newsweek:
INAUGURATION AND WOMEN'S MARCH, BY THE NUMBERS
Washingtonian:
Photos: Scenes from the Women's March on Washington
Discussion: AOL
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 1-22-17: Kellyanne Conway, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Chuck Schumer  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on January 22, 2017 and it will be updated.  —  GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC HOST: Spicer then left the briefing room without taking any questions.
Discussion: Politico
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Reuters:
UK PM May promises frank talk with Trump after women protest  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would not be afraid to tell Donald Trump when she finds something he has said unacceptable, as she prepares to meet the new U.S. President in Washington this week.
Discussion: The Week
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Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
Watch | Trumps attend interfaith prayer service
Discussion: Axios and Politico
New York Times:
Pictures From Women's Marches Around the World  —  Crowds in hundreds of cities around the world are gathering Saturday in conjunction with the Women's March on Washington, expected to be the largest inauguration-related demonstration in American history.
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The Independent:
Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / WPXI-TV:
Jesse Jackson: Trump's inauguration speech was ‘full of hope and inclusion’  —  WASHINGTON - Not long after President Donald Trump was sworn in, we happened to run into the Rev. Jesse Jackson on the street.  He gave a thumbs-up to Trump's inauguration speech but said the new commander in chief …
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
Metro Inauguration Day trips top 500,000, but still lowest since 2005 … Friday's Metro ridership was the lowest in at least two presidential Inaugurations, and also was lower than that of an average weekday, the agency said Saturday.  —  Metro said 570,557 people took trips in the system between its early 4 a .m.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McCain: I'll vote for Tillerson  —  After weeks of agonizing over Rex Tillerson's ties to Russia, John McCain said Sunday that he will vote for President Donald Trump's secretary of state nominee.  —  The announcement from McCain essentially clinches approval for Tillerson, though it could be still be a rocky ride.
Discussion: ABC News
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Scenes from a pussy riot  —  Who knew President Trump's lewd 2005 “Access Hollywood” video, particularly his ugly “grab 'em by the pussy” line, would start a movement?  A lot of political observers thought it would sink his presidential candidacy — wrong — but few might have predicted …
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Inaugural TV Ratings Fall Short of Obama's in 2009
Discussion: Politico, The Hill, TheBlaze and Daily Kos
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Women's March Organizer Recently Met Ex-Hamas Operative, Has Family Ties To Terror Group
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Brock groups set $40 million budget to fight Trump
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Breitbart to open bureaus in Berlin and Paris: report
Discussion: RedState, Instapundit and Bloomberg
 Earlier Items: 
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox declines to renew contracts for several contributors
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Inaugural Speech Dims G.O.P. Hopes for a More Conservative Trump Agenda
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump's inaugural cake was commissioned to look exactly like Obama's, baker says
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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