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11:45 AM ET, January 26, 2017

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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’
Discussion: New Urban Legends, TheBlaze and Vox
Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones Says Infowars Has Been Invited To Trump's White House Press Briefings  —  ALEX JONES: He keeps saying CNN is fake, and I'm not going to any of your fake news.  What's CNN doing in the front row, when [White House press secretary Sean] Spicer keeps going to them?
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes'
Discussion: RedState
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Mexicans want their president to cancel Washington visit after Trump touts his wall  —  MEXICO CITY — As Mexico's foreign minister was flying toward Washington on Tuesday for his first visit with the new administration, news broke that President Trump, the very next day …
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan: U.S. Will ‘Front Money’ for Border Wall, Devise Plan to Make Mexico Pay Later  —  President Trump just fulfilled his biggest campaign promise, signing an executive order on Wednesday that orders the “immediate construction of a physical wall” between the United States and Mexico.
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Mexican president rebuffs Trump on wall executive order
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
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Max Fisher / New York Times:
Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties
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 …
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” …
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump's flashy executive actions could run aground  —  President Donald Trump's team made little effort to consult with federal agency lawyers or lawmakers as they churned out executive actions this week, stoking fears the White House is creating the appearance of real momentum with flawed orders …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Mattis, Pompeo stunned by CIA ‘black sites’ report
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.
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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 …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
A Lie by Any Other Name  —  This is not a presentation of “alternative facts,” whatever that may mean, as Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's mistress of misdirection, posited over the weekend.  —  These are lies; good old-fashioned lies, baldfaced and flat-out lies.
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.”
Discussion: Refinery29 and The Week
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Trump transforms Emanuel into Mayor Zorro  —  Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in silhouette, presides over the meeting of the Chicago City Council on Jan. 25, 2017.  —  Depending on your politics, President Donald Trump is either a miracle worker saving America or an evil wizard bent on ruining the nation.
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
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Pence Will Speak at Anti-Abortion Rally  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence will speak on Friday to a gathering of anti-abortion activists on the National Mall, a sign of the movement's new and growing authority in a government now dominated by Republicans.
Discussion: RedState and LifeNews.com
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In his first major TV interview as president, Trump is endlessly obsessed with his popularity  —  The lengthy interview revealed a man fixated on his following and eager to provide evidence of his likability, even if that information doesn't match reality.
CNN:
Donald Trump's doublethink: How to undermine your own election  —  Trump believes fraud cost him popular vote  —  (CNN)Doublethink is, of course, a construct made famous by George Orwell's classic and newly popular novel, “1984.”  It is the ability — for all who engage …
Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Elon Musk may actually be serious about tunneling under L.A.  —  One of the few people who is just rich, powerful and inventive enough to actually do something about the legendary traffic congestion in Los Angeles is finally fed up.  And he has a plan.  —  Billionaire innovator Elon Musk …
Dan Levine / Reuters:
In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states' rights  —  Five years ago, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, now President Donald Trump's nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, sat in the front row as the U.S. Supreme Court debated the contentious Affordable Care Act.
 
 
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OK, let's talk about Dr. Ben Carson:
OK, let's talk about Dr. Ben Carson.  —  Yes, I have serious …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Trump sets dizzying WH pace in first days
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
New York Post:
Trump: ‘I will send in the Feds’ if Chicago doesn't fix crime problem
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Grills Buzzfeed's Editor-in-Chief on Decision To Publish Dossier
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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump says he hopes America has seen the end of Clinton probes
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In a Swirl of ‘Untruths’ and ‘Falsehoods,’ Calling a Lie a Lie
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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