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11:25 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: 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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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump White House senior staff have private email accounts: report  —  At least four senior officials in President Trump's White House have active accounts on a private Republican National Committee (RNC) email system, according to a new report.  —  Counselor Kellyanne Conway …
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
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 …
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
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” …
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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
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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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump's flashy executive actions could run aground
Discussion: Raw Story
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 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
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Mexican president rebuffs Trump on wall executive order
Discussion: New York Times
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.
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.
 
 
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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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USA Today:
How Donald Trump, Theresa May are the 2017 version of '80s power couple Reagan-Thatcher
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
Dan Barry / New York Times:
In a Swirl of ‘Untruths’ and ‘Falsehoods,’ Calling a Lie a Lie
Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kris Kobach says he advised Donald Trump on voter fraud probe, immigration orders
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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