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5:00 AM ET, January 22, 2017

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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.
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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 …
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: Nielsen
Bloomberg:
Trump Spokesman Accuses Media of False Inaugural Reporting  —  Spicer insists that inauguration crowds larger than reported  —  Photographs show far fewer people on Mall than Spicer claimed  —  Donald Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, took to the White House briefing room …
Discussion: ABC News
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
On Day 2, Trump sticks to media bashing and boasting
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
President Trump Tells CIA: ‘I Am With You 1,000 Percent’
Discussion: Jamie Dupree and Associated Press
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.
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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.
Discussion: AOL, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and The Week
The Independent:
Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica.
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.
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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
Daily Mail:
The enthusiastic crowd brought instruments as they cheered and chanted during the protest
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump attacks Time reporter for mistake about MLK bust  —  President Trump on Saturday attacked a Time magazine journalist for mistakenly reporting that a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office.  —  Trump called out the reporter, Zeke Miller …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
At CIA headquarters, Trump boasts about himself, denies feud  —  President Donald Trump, in his first speech in his first full day as commander in chief, visited the Central Intelligence Agency on a mission to reassure the intelligence community that they have his full support …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump wages war against the media as demonstrators protest his presidency
Discussion: New York Magazine
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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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 …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Women's March Organizer Recently Met Ex-Hamas Operative, Has Family Ties To Terror Group  —  Linda Sarsour is organizing women's march  —  GOP Congressman Shakes Hillary's Hand Only To Later Mock Her  —  Melania Trump's Dress Stole The Show At The Inaugural Balls  —  Bill Was Staring — And Hillary Caught Him
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox declines to renew contracts for several contributors  —  Fox News has declined to renew contributor contracts for longtime political commentator George Will, Republican strategist Ed Rollins and actress Stacey Dash, according to a network spokesperson.  —  Will, 75, is a Pulitzer-winning …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump's inaugural cake was commissioned to look exactly like Obama's, baker says  —  Amid the glitz of President Trump's inaugural festivities, one item stood out in particular late Friday night: a spectacular nine-tier cake that the new president and Vice President Pence cut into with a sword.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Inaugural TV Ratings Fall Short of Obama's in 2009  —  Fox News tops cable, broadcast with 8.4 million total viewers  —  Obama's first inauguration in 2009 drew audience of 38 million  —  Nearly 31 million people watched President Donald Trump's inauguration …
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
Donald J. Trump / CNN:
Full text: Trump's executive order on Obamacare  —  MINIMIZING THE ECONOMIC BURDEN OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PENDING REPEAL  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState and FiveThirtyEight
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department blesses White House post for Kushner  —  In a reversal of legal advice given to prior presidents, the Justice Department has concluded that it is lawful for President Donald Trump to appoint his son-in-law Jared Kushner to a White House post.
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New York Times:
Jared Kushner, Trump's Son-in-Law, Is Cleared to Serve as Adviser
Discussion: Political Wire
Michelle Fitzpatrick / Yahoo:
‘Europe will wake up in 2017’, Le Pen tells Germany right-wing congress  —  Koblenz (Germany) (AFP) - French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on Saturday told a European gathering of rightwing populists in Germany that a string of high-stakes elections in 2017 would blow a wind of change across the region.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Breitbart to open bureaus in Berlin and Paris: report
Discussion: RedState, Axios and Bloomberg
 
 
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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Makes Bizarre Courtesy Call At CIA Headquarters (VIDEO)
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Brock groups set $40 million budget to fight Trump
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Women's March on Washington: A sea of pink-hatted protesters vows to resist Donald Trump
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump attends interfaith prayer service in Washington as a huge crowd protests his presidency
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and RedState
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Inaugural Speech Dims G.O.P. Hopes for a More Conservative Trump Agenda
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