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6:35 PM ET, January 30, 2017

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Bwittes / Lawfare:
BREAKING NEWS: Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order  —  Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees. … Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Trump defiantly says ‘all is going well’ on immigration order amid chaos, while Obama backs protesters
Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post and Axios
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Dems will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee  —  Senate Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick no matter who the president chooses to fill the current vacancy.  —  With Trump prepared to announce his nominee on Tuesday evening …
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Daily Mail:
NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE?  William Pryor of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
New York Times:
How Trump's Rush to Enact an Immigration Ban Unleashed Global Chaos  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Friday, shutting the borders to refugees and others from seven largely Muslim countries, the secretary of homeland security was on a White House conference call getting …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
A Dangerously Isolated President  —  The Presidential order that Donald Trump signed on Friday barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the United States was reviewed by virtually no one.  The State Department did not help craft it, nor the Defense Department, nor Justice.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scarborough singles out Trump aide Stephen Miller for ‘power trip’ … MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Monday singled out Stephen Miller, saying President Trump's senior adviser had gone on a “power trip.”  —  “Why did Stephen Miller fight so hard to put out this order on Friday without talking to any of the other agencies?”
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama supports protests: ‘American values are at stake’  —  Barack Obama spoke out Monday afternoon against his successor — and in support of the protests opposing President Donald Trump — with a spokesman saying the former president thinks they're “citizens exercising their Constitutional right …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama rejects comparison between Trump's immigration policy and his own, encourages protests
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and IJR
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama ‘fundamentally disagrees’ with Trump's immigration order
Discussion: CBS Philly and FOX31 Denver
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded.  —  “This will be the biggest such act …
Discussion: Vox, The Atlantic, ABC News and Eduwonk
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Ayesha Rascoe / Yahoo:
Trump signs executive order to slash regulations
Reuters:
Trump order targeting business rules leaves key regulations untouched
Discussion: Bloomberg and Hot Air
CNN:
How the Trump administration chose the 7 countries in the immigration executive order  —  (CNN)The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump's executive order on immigration were initially identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.
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Jon Finer / Foreign Policy:
Sorry, Mr. President: The Obama Administration Did Nothing Similar to Your Immigration Ban
Washington State:
AG Ferguson seeks halt to Trump's immigration Executive Order
Globe and Mail:
Quebec City mosque attack suspect known for right-wing online posts  —  The suspect in the deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque was known in the city's activist circles as a right-wing troll who frequently took anti-foreigner and anti-feminist positions and stood up for U.S. President Donald Trump.
Discussion: The Intercept and Washington Post
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CBC News:
Multiple dead, 2 arrested after shooting at Quebec City mosque
Eliza Mackintosh / CNN:
Trump ban is boon for ISIS recruitment, former jihadists and experts say  —  Trump's refugee ban and the war on ISIS  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations will be used by ISIS as a recruitment tool, giving the militant group a major propaganda boost, former jihadists have told CNN.
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Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Islamic State Supporters React Angrily to Trump's Temporary Refugee Halt
Discussion: Infowars and Washington Post
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump's facile claim that his refugee policy is similar to Obama's in 2011
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee to Roast Trump on Same Night as Correspondents' Dinner  —  The annual custom of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner suddenly seems uncomfortable if not untenable: Journalists mingling with Trump administration aides who loathe them, celebrities decrying Trump White House policies …
Page Six:
Billy Bush's wife is furious about that Donald Trump tape  —  Media insiders are buzzing that Andy Lack wants NBC to become “the next Fox News” after he poached cable stars Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly from the network.  —  “He believes he's building MSNBC and NBC into the next Fox.
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Koch network could serve as potent resistance in Trump era  —  INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The weekend gathering of wealthy donors who help finance the conservative Koch network was supposed to serve as a celebration of the policy victories within reach now that Republicans control Washington …
Discussion: Hot Air and Axios
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Koch Network Focuses On Understanding Trump Voters
Discussion: Raw Story, Heat Street and alan.com
James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
Rep. Tom Price Got Privileged, Discounted Offer on Biomedical Stock, Company Says  —  Rep. Tom Price got a privileged offer to buy a biomedical stock at a discount, the company's officials said, contrary to his congressional testimony this month.
Aaron Gregg / Washington Post:
Trump says Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from F-35 program  —  President Trump said Monday that Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from its next lot of 90 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes, capping weeks of private meetings with Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson and public criticisms of the program's cost.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump claims Lockheed Martin cut $600 million off cost of F-35 joint strike fighter
Discussion: Axios and Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Washington Post:
Trump's hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions  —  In jagged black strokes, President Trump's signature was scribbled onto a catalogue of executive orders over the past 10 days that translated the hard-line promises of his campaign into the policies of his government.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos and Axios
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump on Schumer's tears: Who is his acting coach?  —  President Donald Trump on Monday accused Sen. Chuck Schumer of crying “fake tears” at a news conference criticizing his controversial executive order on refugees and travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and Daily Kos
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Rasmussen Reports:
Most Support Temporary Ban on Newcomers from Terrorist Havens  —  Most voters approve of President Trump's temporary halt to refugees and visitors from several Middle Eastern and African countries until the government can do a better job of keeping out individuals who are terrorist threats.
Fox News:
Iran tests ballistic missile in defiance of UN resolution, US officials say  —  Iran conducted its first ballistic missile test under Donald Trump's presidency, in yet another apparent violation of a United Nations resolution, U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday.
New York Times:
Bannon Is Given Security Role Usually Held for Generals  —  WASHINGTON — The whirlwind first week of Donald J. Trump's presidency had all the bravura hallmarks of a Stephen K. Bannon production.  —  It started with the doom-hued inauguration homily to “American carnage” …
 
 
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New York Times:
Republicans Have One Big Incentive to Stick With Trump
Alex Weprin / Politico:
Fox News' Sean Hannity: The media 'doesn't understand' Donald Trump
Discussion: Mediaite
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Progressives launch last-minute push against Betsy DeVos, and conservatives counter with online ad campaign
Discussion: Vox and The Daily Caller
Justin Salhani / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman cultivating ties with anti-Muslim parties across Europe
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Ford criticizes immigration order: ‘Against our values’
Discussion: Raw Story and The Verge
Anna Yukhananov / Morning Consult:
Approval Ratings for Obamacare Jump With Law on Chopping Block
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Trayvon Martin's parents, five years after his shooting, weigh political bids
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Just Hate  —  This is a delicate, unlovely point.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Yonatan Zunger:
Trial Balloon for a Coup?
Media Matters for America:
White Nationalists Praise Trump's Muslim Ban: “God Bless You,” “Feel Like Crying” With Joy
Discussion: Washington Post
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A US federal court allows The Intercept's claim that the DMCA stops OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but dismisses its claims against Microsoft

 
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