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New York Times:
Rocky First Weekend for Trump Troubles Even His Top Aides — WASHINGTON — President Trump's first weekend in office unfolded much the way things often did during his campaign: with angry Twitter messages, a familiar obsession with slights and a series of meandering and at times untrue statements …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump struggles to shake his erratic campaign habits — That Donald Trump chose to spend the first 48 hours of his presidency feuding with the news media over crowd sizes, crowing about his win in front of a wall of killed CIA agents, spreading inaccurate information and firing off tweets didn't shock his supporters or critics.
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The Moderate Voice and Vox
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Dan Rather on Trump: ‘These are not normal times’ — Dan Rather warned Americans about the Trump administration in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying these are not “normal times.” — The former CBS Evening news anchor targeted President Trump, adviser Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Sean Spicer for comments in the last 24 hours.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
That time I caught Sean Spicer making a blatantly false claim — White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in his first full day on the job, made a couple of easily disproved claims about the size of President Donald Trump's inauguration crowd, as The Fix's Philip Bump and Chris Cillizza noted on Saturday.
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Conway: 'We're going to have to rethink our relationship' with press
Conway: 'We're going to have to rethink our relationship' with press
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New York Times:
Crowd Scientists Say Women's March in Washington Had 3 Times as Many People as Trump's Inauguration
Crowd Scientists Say Women's March in Washington Had 3 Times as Many People as Trump's Inauguration
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Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News:
Kellyanne Conway: WH Spokesman Gave ‘Alternative Facts’ on Inauguration Crowd
Kellyanne Conway: WH Spokesman Gave ‘Alternative Facts’ on Inauguration Crowd
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Conway: WH Spox Wasn't Lying, He Was Just Offering ‘Alternative Facts’
Conway: WH Spox Wasn't Lying, He Was Just Offering ‘Alternative Facts’
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Eyes Michael Flynn's Links to Russia — U.S. counterintelligence agents have investigated communications that President Donald Trump's national security adviser had with Russian officials. Michael Flynn is the first person inside the White House whose links are known to have faced scrutiny …
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New York Times:
Foreign Payments to Trump Firms Violate Constitution, Suit Will Claim — WASHINGTON — A team of prominent constitutional scholars, Supreme Court litigators and former White House ethics lawyers intends to file a lawsuit Monday morning alleging that President Trump is violating the Constitution …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
CIA officers give mixed reviews of Trump's strange visit — President Trump's visit to the CIA on his first day in office shocked some agency veterans because of its combative, political tone. But several said they were glad that Trump seemed to have stopped demonizing the intelligence community …
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The Moderate Voice
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Trump at the CIA — On his first full day in office, President Trump visited the CIA at its Langley, Virginia headquarters. Trump told CIA employees he is “behind” them. He said, “I know maybe sometimes you haven't gotten the backing that you've wanted, and you're going to get so much backing.”
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NBC News:
Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Others Rip Trump Speech in Front of Memorial
Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Others Rip Trump Speech in Front of Memorial
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Outside the Beltway, The Hill and Hullabaloo
Ryan Browne / CNN:
Trump to CIA: ‘I am with you 1,000%’
Trump to CIA: ‘I am with you 1,000%’
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Will Marco Rubio defy President Trump on his pick for secretary of state? — Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey O. Graham said Sunday that they will back the nomination of Rex Tillerson, clearing the way for the oil executive to become secretary of state and leaving just one drama unresolved: What will Marco Rubio do?
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
McCain Will Vote Yes on Trump's Secretary of State Nominee Rex Tillerson
McCain Will Vote Yes on Trump's Secretary of State Nominee Rex Tillerson
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Changes Course After Denouncing Protesters
The Latest: Trump Changes Course After Denouncing Protesters
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Politico and The Republic
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McCain and Graham back Tillerson
McCain and Graham back Tillerson
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Power Line, Axios and ThinkProgress
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McCain and Schumer: Don't end Russian sanctions without Congress
McCain and Schumer: Don't end Russian sanctions without Congress
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ABC News
Nicholas Fondacaro / NewsBusters:
CNN: Is Dictator Trump Making You ‘Doubt Your Own Eyes’ to Truth? — “Do citizens in dictatorships recognize what's happening right here right now,” he sneered, “Are they looking at the first two days of the Trump administration and saying, 'Oh, that's what my leader does?'”
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
VIDEO: Passengers cheer as woman berating Trump supporter is kicked off plane — An elderly woman demanded a Donald Trump supporter seated next to her be moved, but she quickly found out that's not how the world works. — Scott Koteskey, in a window seat, posted video on Saturday showing …
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The Geller Report
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Breitbart writer expected to join White House staff — Julia Hahn, a staff writer at Breitbart News, is expected to join the White House - a move that further underscores Breitbart's influence in the new administration. — According to two sources briefed on the move …
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Politico:
WikiLeaks calls out Trump for refusing to release tax returns — WikiLeaks on Sunday took President Donald Trump to task for refusing to release his tax returns and offered to post them online, after a senior adviser said definitively that Trump would not be publicly disclosing the documents.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump's Health Plan Would Convert Medicaid to Block Grants, Aide Says — WASHINGTON — President Trump's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will propose giving each state a fixed amount of federal money in the form of a block grant to provide health care to low-income people on Medicaid …