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6:20 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.
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.
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 …
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’  —  President Trump's chief strategist is lashing out at the media, calling the press the true “opposition party” in a combative interview with The New York Times.  —  “The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut …
Discussion: RedState and Althouse
Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Trump press secretary says the administration is considering a 20% border tax on Mexican imports to help pay for the wall  —  Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary for President Donald Trump, told reporters on Thursday that the administration is pushing for 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  —  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.
Elena Holodny / Business Insider:
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Steve Bannon Tells NY Times The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Yahoo:
Mexico president cancels Trump summit as wall taunt deepens spat
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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 …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Entire State Department Management Team Fired By Trump Admin  —  The entire senior level management team at the State Department was fired by President Donald Trump's administration this week, CNN reported Thursday.  —  Senior administration officials told CNN's Elise Labott …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump team narrowing search for State Department's No. 2 official
Discussion: Common Dreams
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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Tess Townsend / Recode:
Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news
Discussion: Boing Boing
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
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.
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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
White House denies offering Infowars credentials
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.
Associated Press:
Official: Border Patrol Chief Tells Agents He Was Forced Out  —  The Border Patrol chief has been forced out a day after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious plan to build a wall at the Mexican border and hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and CBS Baltimore
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Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:   U.S. Border Patrol Chief Morgan asked to leave agency
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats launch scorched-earth strategy against Trump  —  What began as a high-minded discussion about how to position the Democratic Party against President Donald Trump appears to be nearing its conclusion.  The bulk of the party has settled on a scorched-earth, not-now-not-ever model of opposition.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Hot Air and Raw Story
Richard Stengel / The Atlantic:
The End of the American Century  —  In 1941, a year before America entered World War II, Henry Luce, the founder and publisher of Time, wrote an essay called “The American Century.”  It was an argument not just against isolationism but for America as a global moral beacon.
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says  —  Issue raised at White House meeting this week on manufacturing  —  Idea has been backed by secretary of state nominee Tillerson  —  Tesla Motors Inc. founder Elon Musk is pressing the Trump administration to adopt …
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Doomsday Clock's Most Dire Warning Since the Cold War  —  The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the Doomsday Clock now stands at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, suggesting that existential threats now pose a greater danger to humanity than they have at any time since the height of the Cold War.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Verge
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.
Max Fisher / New York Times:
British Alignment With Trump Threatens European Order  —  LONDON — As American allies across Europe and Asia brace for President Trump, Britain stands out for the degree to which it is proceeding as if little has changed.  —  The country, consumed with managing “Brexit” …
Henry Grabar / Slate:
The Siege of Sanctuary Cities Has Begun  —  President Trump wants to turn local police into deportation agents and punish cities that don't comply.  What happens when they fight back?  —  After months of demonizing undocumented immigrants on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump signed …
 
 
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Geoff Pender / The Clarion Ledger:
Senate likely to kill early voting, online registration
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Trump is playing with the press: Glenn Reynolds
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: I have settled on my Supreme Court pick. Probably.
Discussion: ABC News
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Republicans in Congress Tread Lightly in Trump's Early Days
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jessica Yellin / New York Times:
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
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Huntsman would beat Hatch in a Senate showdown, new poll finds
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
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Chelsea E Manning / The Guardian:
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Financial Times:
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