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6:00 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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Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kobach says he advised Trump on voter fraud probe, immigration orders  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Wednesday that he advised President Trump to investigate voter fraud and played a role in the early writing of expected executive orders on immigration policy.
Jillian Kay Melchior / Heat Street:
EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Trump Is Currently Registered to Vote in Two States
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Steve Bannon registered to vote in two states despite Trump's cries of ‘voter fraud’
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.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Politico
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Max Fisher / New York Times:
Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States' role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process …
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
Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
As Trump Orders Wall, Mexico's President Considers Canceling U.S. Trip
Discussion: Raw Story and The Nation
Fox News:
Trump orders construction of border wall, targets sanctuary cities
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Dems: Wall is ‘opposite of what America stands for’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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.
Discussion: The Week and Al Jazeera English
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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, ThinkProgress, NBC News and The Slot
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir: Construction of Border Wall Will Begin in ‘Months’  —  In his first one-on-one television interview since being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, President Donald Trump told ABC News anchor David Muir that Mexico would be paying …
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir Alleged Voter Fraud Probe Has ‘a Lot to Look Into’
Discussion: TIME, Business Insider and Politico
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
It's No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones  —  President Trump, who flew across the country on hundreds of nights during the 2016 campaign to sleep in his own bed, has now spent five straight days in the unfamiliar surroundings of the White House.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Is Donald Trump's War With CNN Personal?  —  Shortly after 9 p.m. last night, Donald Trump launched another salvo at CNN, tweeting: “Congratulations to @FoxNews for being number one in inauguration ratings.  They were many times higher than FAKE NEWS @CNN - public is smart!”
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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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Poised to Lift Ban on C.I.A. ‘Black Site’ Prisons
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Torture ‘works’
Discussion: ABC News and RedState
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
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
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 and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
A white Trump voter explains why he left a black waitress a $450 tip with an uplifting note  —  When Jason White walked into Busboys and Poets Monday morning, a Washington restaurant that promotes social justice, he looked around and told his friend he might want to remove his red “Make America Great Again” cap.
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Awesome: Trump Fans Leave Huge Tip, Kind Note for Stunned Anti-Trump Waitress
Discussion: RedState
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump says he hopes America has seen the end of Clinton probes  —  President Trump said he hopes the days of investigations into his former rival Hillary Clinton  —  are behind them.  —  ABC's David Muir asked Trump in an interview whether Americans are done hearing news about probes into the former Democratic nominee.
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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Sarah Karmali / Harper's BAZAAR:
RALPH LAUREN SHARES SOARED ON INAUGURATION DAY
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats hold lessons on how to talk to real people
Discussion: Power Line
Fox News Insider:
Economist: Stock Market Gained $2T in Wealth Since Trump Elected
 Earlier Items: 
WTKR-TV:
Bill would end Virginia's ‘winner take all’ electoral vote system
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Associated Press:
Germany will abolish law against insulting foreign heads of state
Discussion: Mother Jones
Adele M. Stan / American Prospect:
Hold the Mansplaining: The Resistance Is Being Led by Women
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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