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8:00 PM ET, January 26, 2017

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’  —  WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Plans 20% Tax on Mexican Imports to Pay for Border Wall  —  PHILADELPHIA — President Trump plans to make Mexico pay for his border wall by imposing a 20 percent tax on all imports into the United States from Mexico, raising billions of dollars that would cover the cost of the new barrier.
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump to Mexican president: Better to cancel our meeting  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump hasn't even been president for a week and already the US-Mexico battle over a border wall is turning red hot.  —  Not giving an inch, Trump bluntly said Thursday that it would be better to cancel …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP congressional leaders: The border wall will cost $12 billion to $15 billion  —  PHILADELPHIA — Congressional Republican leaders said Thursday that they plan to move forward with legislation to provide $12 billion to $15 billion to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Political Wire
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
The Note: President Trump's First Interview with David Muir  —  THE BIG STORY: It might be a good thing that congressional Republicans are huddling with President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in Philadelphia, because official Washington is already drowning.
Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Trump press secretary says the administration is considering a 20% border tax on Mexican imports …
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan: U.S. Will ‘Front Money’ for Border Wall, Devise Plan to Make Mexico Pay Later
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’
Discussion: RedState
Elena Holodny / Business Insider:
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump
Jay Caruso / RedState:
BREAKING: Trump Proposes Tax On Imports From Mexico To Pay For The Wall
Discussion: TheBlaze
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:   Steve Bannon Tells NY Times The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon: The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut and Just Listen For Awhile’
Discussion: IJR
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult.  The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus …
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Trump administration asks top State Department officials to leave  —  Rex Tillerson grilled on foreign policy  —  Washington (CNN)Two senior administration officials said Thursday that the Trump administration told four top State Department management officials that their services …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump team narrowing search for State Department's No. 2 official
Discussion: Common Dreams
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
A Conversation With Kellyanne Conway: “I'm the Face of Trump's Movement”  —  The president's counselor — now the most powerful (and ridiculed) woman in America — talks ‘SNL,’ “alternative facts,” the “public cesspool” of Twitter and the apoplectic, outraged media: “I can go on any show at any time.”
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Joe Heim / Washington Post:
‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway  —  When Kellyanne Conway took over as Donald Trump's presidential campaign manager in August — his third in under a year — there were few signs that Trump would emerge victorious on election night just three months later.
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.
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Washington Post:
It turns out Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is also registered to vote in two states  —  Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and one of his closest White House advisers, is registered to vote in both New Jersey and New York, according to elections officials and voting registration records …
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Fox News:
John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky: Why Trump's probe of voter fraud is long overdue
Daniella Silva / NBC News:
Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump on Border Wall and Unsubstantiated Voter Fraud Claims
Discussion: NBC News, AOL and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd  —  On the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.
Paul Demko / Politico:
Trump White House abruptly halts Obamacare ads  —  The Trump administration has pulled the plug on all Obamacare outreach and advertising in the crucial final days of the 2017 enrollment season, according to sources at Health and Human Services and on Capitol Hill.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says
Discussion: Gizmodo, Business Insider and Axios
Joe Concha / The Hill:
White House denies offering Infowars credentials  —  The White House press office is denying it offered credentials to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's website Infowars, after Jones claimed in a video that he had been offered access.  —  “He is not credentialed for the White House.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans Think Trump Will Be Worst President Since Nixon  —  PPP's newest national poll finds Donald Trump continuing to fare poorly with the public in his first week in office.  Voters split evenly in their appraisals of his job performance with 44% approving and 44% disapproving of him.
Geoff Pender / The Clarion Ledger:
Senate likely to kill early voting, online registration  —  The Senate Elections Committee passed its own version of campaign finance reform on Wednesday and an ‘omnibus’ bill to clean up and tweak Mississippi election code.  —  Senate Elections Chairwoman Sally Doty, R-Brookhaven …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Trump is playing with the press: Glenn Reynolds  —  He's gaslighting them and they fall for it every time.  —  Why are the relations between Donald Trump and the press so bad?  There are two reasons.  One is that Trump is a Republican, and the press consists overwhelmingly of Democrats.
Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties  —  Fearing a loss of millions of dollars for defying immigration authorities, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Thursday ordered county jails to comply with federal immigration detention requests …
Discussion: Fox News Insider
 
 
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