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8:15 AM ET, January 4, 2018

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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump attorney sends Bannon cease and desist letter over ‘disparaging’ comments  —  Lawyers on behalf of President Donald Trump sent a letter Wednesday night to former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon demanding he refrain from making disparaging comments against the president and his family.
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Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Didn't Want to Be President  —  One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration's shocked first days.  —  Election Night: It “looked as if he had seen a ghost.”  —  On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM  —  Jeffrey Smith / New York Magazine (Used by permission)  —  Amid the firestorm over Michael Wolff's forthcoming book “Fire and Fury,” a lawyer for President Trump says legal action against Steve Bannon is “imminent,” accusing the former White House aide of breaking a confidentiality …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials  —  Michael Wolff has tapes to back up quotes in his incendiary book — dozens of hours of them.  —  Among the sources he taped, I'm told, are Steve Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh.
Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers send cease-and-desist letter to Bannon … Lawyers for President Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to Trump's former senior strategist Stephen K. Bannon, arguing he had violated a non-disclosure agreement in speaking about his time on the campaign and in Trump's most trusted inner circle.
CNN:
Inside Trump's two days of fury  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump started 2018 in a fury partly fueled by anger at his legal team for offering shifting timelines about when the Russia investigation would end, according to two sources familiar with the President's mindset.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book.  But should we believe it?  —  Among the many things he's been called — “blunt,” “pathetic,” “calculating” — the one thing Michael Wolff has never been described as is boring.  —  A provocateur and media polemicist …
Washington Post:
Trump slams Bannon: ‘When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind’ … President Trump unleashed on his former chief strategist and campaign manager Wednesday, issuing a long and unusual statement questioning Stephen K. Bannon's mental stability, honesty and political influence.
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Steve Bannon, calling Trump a ‘great man,’ says he still supports him in first comments after eruption
Mike Allen / Axios:
Bannon and Trump: Monsters they can't control
Discussion: Mediaite and Breitbart
The Hill:
Trump lawyer sends cease-and-desist letter to Bannon: report
Discussion: ABC News and RedState
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   Hope Hicks fled the room after Trump called her ‘the best piece of tail’ Lewandowski will ever have: report
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Enraged Trump Personally Dictated Scathing Denouncement of Strategist Steve Bannon
New York Times:
Read Trump's Reaction to Steve Bannon's Comments
Annie Karni / Politico:
Washington's growing obsession: The 25th Amendment  —  Lawmakers concerned about President Donald Trump's mental state summoned Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee to Capitol Hill last month for two days of briefings about his recent behavior.
Discussion: Shareblue Media, The Week and Axios
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
“He's going to unravel.”  Psychiatrist warns members of Congress about Trump in secret briefing  —  “Trump is going to get worse and will become uncontainable with the pressures of the presidency.”  —  More than a dozen lawmakers, including at least one Republican senator …
Weekly Standard:
GOP Senators: ‘Trump Being Trump’ in Nuclear-Button Spat with Kim Jong-un
CNN:
Trump dissolves voter fraud commission  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump dissolved his much-touted voter fraud commission on Wednesday, attributing the step to various states' refusal to participate in the board, which was criticized as a misguided step to solve a practically non-existent problem.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Deputy AG, FBI director make unannounced visit to Paul Ryan's office  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray made an unannounced visit to Speaker Paul Ryan's office Wednesday as the Justice Department grapples with an increasingly hostile faction …
Discussion: The Last Refuge, The Stream and Axios
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Top FBI, DOJ officials huddle with Ryan to talk dossier
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CBS News fires political director amid allegations of ‘inappropriate behavior’  —  CBS News said Wednesday that it has fired its political director, Steve Chaggaris, amid allegations of “inappropriate behavior” in his past.  —  Chaggaris was a longtime CBS News employee.
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Jason Schreier / Kotaku:
IGN Fires Editor-In-Chief For ‘Alleged Misconduct’
lohud.com:
Fire reported at Hillary and Bill Clinton's house in Chappaqua  —  New Castle police have confirmed a fire at the Clintons' home in Chappaqua.  —  Police declined to give further details on the fire at 15 Old House Lane where Bill and Hillary Clinton have lived for nearly 20 years after buying it for $1.7 million in 1999.
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump's media uses Clinton house fire to invent totally bonkers conspiracy
Discussion: Associated Press
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump picks Giuliani law partner to replace Preet Bharara in NY  —  will name a law partner of ally and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) to replace Preet Bharara  —  as the top prosecutor in southern New York, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
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New York Post:
Trump picks Preet Bharara's replacement
Discussion: The Week
Laura Jarrett / CNN:   New interim US attorneys include Giuliani law partner
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
Peter Thiel Is Exploring The Creation Of A Conservative Cable News Network  —  Peter Thiel addresses the final night of the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.  —  Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images  —  Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel wants …
Mike Pence / Washington Post:
This time, we will not be silent on Iran  —  Mike Pence is vice president of the United States.  —  Eight-and-a-half years ago, Americans watched the people of Iran rise up to claim their birthright of freedom.  In the “Green Revolution,” millions of courageous young men and women filled …
Discussion: BBC, Breitbart, Daily Wire and IJR
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Lee Drutman / Vox:
There is no separation of powers without divided government  —  Partisan loyalty has triumphed over institutional loyalty.  —  A year ago, as we approached the opening days of the Trump administration, it was still possible to make a hopeful, albeit long-shot, argument that 2017 …
Nora Krug / Washington Post:
Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days.  Then their spouses fell in love.  —  SAN MATEO, Calif. — The literary pairing was inevitable.  —  “When Breath Becomes Air,” Paul Kalanithi's memoir of his final years as he faced lung cancer at age 37, was published posthumously …
Discussion: thecut
 
 
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