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2:00 PM ET, February 5, 2017

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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Sanders on Trump: ‘This guy is a fraud’  —  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that President Donald Trump is “a fraud” and is working with Wall Street as he looks to roll back some banking regulations.  —  “It is hard not to laugh, to see President Trump alongside these Wall Street guys.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
McConnell rebukes Trump's judge attack  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday distanced himself from President Donald Trump's positions on Russia, voter fraud and the travel ban, while criticizing the president for attacking a federal judge.  —  “It is best not to single out judges …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: No federal money for voter fraud probe  —  (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he doesn't want to spend federal funds to investigate what President Trump claimed was massive voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election.  —  While McConnell says there is voter fraud, he doesn't believe it's …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Pence leaves door open to easing Russia sanctions
Discussion: Mediaite and ABC News
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Appeals court rejects Trump administration's request to restore travel ban  —  A federal appeals court early Sunday rejected the Department of Justice's (DOJ) request to restore President Trump's travel ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Discussion: Scripting News, alan.com, RedState and IJR
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
9th Circuit Court declines to quickly reinstate travel ban
John Fund / National Review:   Round Two for the Supreme Court?
Julie Westfall / Los Angeles Times:
Hundreds of people showed up for a town hall with California's Rep. Tom McClintock, and things got intense  —  The scene inside and outside Rep. Tom McClintock's town hall meeting Saturday morning was at times raucous, and the California congressman ultimately was escorted out by police.
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Tampa Bay Times:
A Bilirakis gathering turns out to be strongly pro-Obamacare  —  PALM HARBOR — Rep. Gus Bilirakis issued the call to residents of his conservative district on Facebook: Come share your thoughts on the future of health care.  —  More than 200 people took the Republican congressman up on it …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats aim to make Steve Bannon a scarier Karl Rove  —  Democrats spent years turning George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove into a bogeyman whose mere mention sent liberals' blood boiling.  Now, members of Congress are doing the same to top Trump hand Steve Bannon — but in much darker terms.
Discussion: Political Wire
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David Cohen / Politico:
Albright on Trump: Bannon ‘pulling the strings’  —  Referring to him as President Donald Trump's puppet master, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright condemned the placement of Steve Bannon on the National Security Council.  —  “I think he's the person that's pulling the strings,” …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Steve Bannon's Book Club
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
Trump's Radical Anti-Americanism  —  As the President rejects our foundational principles, all we can turn to is our instinct for shared defiance.  —  Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the couple who did so much to bear witness to the terrible truths of the Second World War, came to town last week …
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
How far can protesters go before the government steps in?  —  The protests of 2016, against pipelines and police shootings and a presidential candidate, have sparked lawmakers in eight states to consider bills boosting penalties for unlawful demonstrations.  They include one that would protect drivers …
Discussion: Hot Air
David Rose / Daily Mail:
Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data  — The report claimed the pause in global warming never existed, but it was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data  —  The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation …
Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Trump's DOJ lays out travel ban defense  —  Trump travel ban remains suspended for now  —  (CNN)Top Justice Department lawyers are now in charge of defending the Trump administration's hastily drawn up executive order, and they are assiduously avoiding President Donald Trump's blunt …
Discussion: NBC News, Deadline and Jamie Dupree
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Prosecute the Rioters  —  And make sure that we condemn them as well.  —  From time to time over the years, the eminent historian Daniel Pipes has lamented that treason, not just as a crime but as a concept, appears defunct in the West.  The question of bringing treason charges against jihadists has been raised from time to time.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Free Melania - From Our Expectations  —  WASHINGTON — Now, stacked on the Trump tower of petrifying things we have to worry about — war with Iran, war with China, war with Mexico, war with Islam, war with koala bears — there is yet another looming disaster.
Discussion: New Yorker
The Irish Times:
Fintan O'Toole: Welcome to Trumperica  —  Donald Trump's chaotic signing of grandiose orders has the air of a deluded despot's last days, not his first  —  Updated:  —  Probably the smartest thing anyone said about Donald Trump before his election was the explanation by Salena Zito …
 
 
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CNN:
Gorsuch nomination meets with positive reception
Discussion: Washington Post
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
Florida heroin bust reveals something bizarre: Drugs covered in Donald Trump's face
Discussion: AOL, Tampa Bay Times and IJR
Associated / KOSU:
New Film Links McVeigh to Far-Right Ahead of OKC Bombing
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
G.O.P. Hurries to Slash Oil and Gas Rules, Ending Industries' 8-Year Wait
Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Is the Met Museum ‘a Great Institution in Decline’?
Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller:
Google Redefines The Word ‘Fascism’ To Smear Conservatives, Protect Liberal Rioters
Patrick Maguire / The Guardian:
Two-thirds of Britons believe Trump is ‘threat to international stability’
CBC News:
In his own words: Imam Hassan Guillet's address at Quebec City funeral for 3 mosque victims
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 Earlier Items: 
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
AME bishops sound a battle cry against the Trump administration
Neil Johnson / GazetteXtra:
Hundreds protest Trump, Ryan in Janesville
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Schumer's dilemma: Satisfying the base while protecting his minority
Fox News Insider:
PREVIEW: Trump Tells O'Reilly He ‘Respects’ Putin in Super Bowl Interview
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Mitt Romney: No regrets about criticizing Trump, but time to recognize his ‘strong start’