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12:55 PM ET, January 26, 2017

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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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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Entire State Department Management Team Abruptly Steps Down  —  The entire senior level management team at the State Department collectively resigned on Wednesday, according to the Washington Post.  —  Undersecretary for management Patrick Kennedy unexpectedly stepped down after nine years …
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.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mexican president cancels Trump meeting in Washington  —  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday called off a meeting with President Donald Trump that had been scheduled for next week, after tensions rose between the two countries over Trump's executive actions on a border wall and a sweeping immigration crackdown.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: It'd be better to cancel meeting if Mexico won't pay for wall
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’
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?
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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
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.
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
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 …
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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 …
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:
GOP leaders won't say how border wall will be paid for  —  PHILADELPHIA — Republican leaders are vowing to pass a spending bill to build President Donald Trump's border wall.  What they won't say is how they plan to cover the costs.  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said Thursday …
Discussion: ABC News
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Frustrated Republicans press McConnell to kill the filibuster
Discussion: Hot Air
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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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.
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.
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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: Mediaite, Refinery29 and The Week
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 …
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 …
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, LifeNews.com and TheBlaze
 
 
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Deutsche Welle / DW.COM:
Berlin abolishing slander law on insulting foreign leaders
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Trump sets dizzying WH pace in first days
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USA Today:
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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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