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9:35 AM ET, January 26, 2017

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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump's Voter Fraud Example?  A Troubled Tale With Bernhard Langer  —  WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Trump gathered House and Senate leaders in the State Dining Room for a get-to-know-you reception, served them tiny meatballs and pigs-in-a-blanket, and quickly launched into a story meant …
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Jillian Kay Melchior / Heat Street:
EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Trump Is Currently Registered to Vote in Two States
Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kris Kobach says he advised Donald Trump on voter fraud probe, immigration orders
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Tiffany Trump is registered to vote in two states: report
ABC News:
TRANSCRIPT: ABC News Anchor David Muir Interviews President Trump  —  ABC News “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir interviewed President Donald Trump in the White House.  The following is a transcript of the interview:  —  DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, it's an honor to be here at the White House.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Trump's absurd claim the 2012 Pew report researcher was ‘groveling’  —  “Then he's groveling again.  You know I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear or have to hear.”
Discussion: Vox and Slate
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Read leaked drafts of 4 White House executive orders on Muslim ban, end to DREAMer program, and more  —  Apparent Trump administration drafts suggest a harsh crackdown on immigrants.  —  On Tuesday, Vox was given six documents that purported to be draft executive orders under consideration by the Trump administration.
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The White House:
Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States  —  ENHANCING PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE INTERIOR OF THE  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act …
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Mexican president rebuffs Trump on wall executive order  —  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto reaffirmed Wednesday that Mexico will not pay for a border wall, in response to President Donald Trump  —  's executive actions on immigration.  —  Trump signed two executive orders Wednesday …
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
As Trump Orders Wall, Mexico's President Considers Canceling U.S. Trip
Discussion: Raw Story and The Nation
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir: Construction of Border Wall Will Begin in ‘Months’
Fox News:
Trump orders construction of border wall, targets sanctuary cities
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Blocks Syrian Refugees and Orders Mexican Border Wall to Be Built
Amie Gordon / Daily Mail:
Shia LaBeouf is ARRESTED live on camera during anti-Trump livestream after ‘getting in a fight with a passing protester’  —  Shia LaBeouf was led away in handcuffs after a spat during an anti-Trump protest.  —  The Hollywood actor was arrested by NYPD officers during his ‘He will not divide us’ live stream …
Discussion: Page Six, Raw Story and twitchy.com
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TMZ.com:
Shia LaBeouf — Arrested at His Trump Protest  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS  —  NYPD officers hauled Shia LaBeouf away in handcuffs from his marathon protest site in NYC ... after he got into it with another protester.  —  The arrest happened right in the middle of Shia's “He will not divide us” …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes'  —  President Trump's longtime ally, Roger Stone, outlines the billionaire's thinking as he decided to run for the White House in his new book.  —  In an excerpt of “The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump
Discussion: RedState
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
It's No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats hold lessons on how to talk to real people  —  Senate Democrats geared up for battle with President Donald Trump by preparing to talk to people who voted for him — and by hearing from one of his arch-nemeses.  —  Gathering in Sheperdstown, W.Va., Democrats were scheduled to hear …
Discussion: Hot Air, Axios and Power Line
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
The National Elite Nervous Breakdown  —  It cannot go on like this.  It's been five days since the inaugural and the adrenalized, hypercaffeinated, speed-freak affect of the entire chattering class is beginning to seem like we're living through Bob Woodward's classic depiction in his book Wired …
Discussion: Rush and Power Line
Austin Wright / Politico:
Mattis, Pompeo stunned by CIA ‘black sites’ report  —  Two of the officials who will be in charge of carrying out President Donald Trump's terrorism detainee policies, Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, were “blindsided” by reports of a draft executive order …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Torture ‘works’
Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post and RedState
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Dems to David Brock: Stop Helping, You Are Killing Us  —  As David Brock attempts to position himself as a leader in rebuilding a demoralized Democratic Party in the age of Trump, many leading Democratic organizers and operatives are wishing the man would simply disappear.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Maybe Trump isn't ‘lying’  —  CNN's Jake Tapper provided the best evisceration of President Trump's claim that massive voter fraud, namely millions of illegal immigrants casting votes, threw the popular vote to Hillary Clinton:  —  The media, understandably, try to understand why Trump would tell such an easily debunked falsehood.
Dan Barry / New York Times:
In a Swirl of ‘Untruths’ and ‘Falsehoods,’ Calling a Lie a Lie  —  And from the moment he became president, Donald J. Trump has unleashed so many of consequence that the public has barely had time to parse their full implication.  Words about the dishonest media, the end of Obamacare …
Discussion: NPR, more at Mediagazer »
USA Today:
How Donald Trump, Theresa May are the 2017 version of '80s power couple Reagan-Thatcher  —  LONDON — He was a skilled communicator and a celebrity.  She was strong-willed and shared his disdain for big government.  —  They were the power political couple of the 1980s: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Chelsea E Manning / The Guardian:
Compromise doesn't work with our political opponents.  When will we learn?  —  In Chelsea Manning's first column since her commutation, she writes that Barack Obama's legacy is a warning against not being bold enough  —  Barack Obama left behind hints of a progressive legacy.
Robert Frank / CNBC:
Mar-a-Lago membership fee doubles to $200,000  —  Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach resort owned by the Trump Organization, doubled its initiation fee to $200,000 following the election of Donald Trump as president.  —  People close to the Florida resort said the increase took effect Jan. 1.
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Hui-Yong Yu / Bloomberg:
Trump Hotels CEO Plots U.S. Expansion With Foreign Plans Shelved
 
 
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Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Grills Buzzfeed's Editor-in-Chief on Decision To Publish Dossier
Hadas Gold / Politico:
BuzzFeed hires reporter to cover Trump's relationship with the media
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In his first major TV interview as president, Trump is endlessly obsessed with his popularity
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump says he hopes America has seen the end of Clinton probes
Discussion: RedState
Sarah Karmali / Harper's BAZAAR:
RALPH LAUREN SHARES SOARED ON INAUGURATION DAY
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump's team floats tax cuts that aren't paid for
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