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12:25 PM ET, January 22, 2017

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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  —  Composite image by Joe Ward based on video from Urdu Voice of America  —  The women's march in Washington was roughly three times the size of the audience at President Trump's inauguration, crowd counting experts said Saturday.
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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 …
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
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?
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Conway: WH Spox Wasn't Lying, He Was Just Offering ‘Alternative Facts’  —  Senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway said in an interview Sunday morning that White House press secretary Sean Spicer wasn't lying about crowd size at the President's inauguration—he was just giving “alternative facts.”
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.
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: ABC News and Politico
New York Daily News:   Half a million people show up for Women's March on Washington as others flock to sister marches across globe
Bloomberg:
Trump Spokesman Accuses Media of False Inaugural Reporting
Discussion: ABC News
Los Angeles Times:
Women's marches live updates: Millions march in L.A. and around the world following Trump's inauguration
Max Kutner / Newsweek:
INAUGURATION AND WOMEN'S MARCH, BY THE NUMBERS
The Independent:
Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica.
Washingtonian:
Photos: Scenes from the Women's March on Washington
Discussion: Jewish Telegraphic Agency and AOL
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McCain and Graham back Tillerson  —  After weeks of agonizing over Rex Tillerson's ties to Russia, John McCain and Lindsey Graham said Sunday that they will vote for President Donald Trump's secretary of state nominee, essentially clinching approval for Tillerson.
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
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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
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McCain and Schumer: Don't end Russian sanctions without Congress
Discussion: ABC News
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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Changes Course After Denouncing Protesters
Discussion: Politico and The Republic
Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
Watch | Trumps attend interfaith prayer service
Discussion: Bloomberg, Axios, TheBlaze and Politico
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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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Makes Bizarre Courtesy Call At CIA Headquarters (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Mahablog
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
On Day 2, Trump sticks to media bashing and boasting
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
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
NBC News:
Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Others Rip Trump Speech in Front of Memorial  —  President Trump Praises CIA, Attacks Media in Agency Visit 2:31  —  Donald Trump traveled to CIA headquarters Saturday to offer reassurance to the workforce after he spent weeks criticizing American intelligence …
Discussion: The Hill and Hullabaloo
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’
Discussion: RedState
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
 Earlier Items: 
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Brock groups set $40 million budget to fight Trump
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox declines to renew contracts for several contributors
Discussion: RedState and Outside the Beltway
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:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

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

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
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