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9:25 AM ET, January 23, 2018

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: FBI director threatened to resign amid Trump, Sessions pressure  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions — at the public urging of President Donald Trump — has been pressuring FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, but Wray threatened to resign if McCabe was removed …
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Fox News:
More than 50,000 texts exchanged between FBI officials Strzok and Page, Sessions says  —  More than 50,000 texts were exchanged between two FBI officials who have come under fire for exchanging anti-Trump messages during the 2016 election, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed Monday.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What's next in the investigation of those missing FBI texts  —  Congressional investigators believe they are barely beginning to answer the questions raised by the text messages between the FBI's Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.  For several reasons:  —  1) Strzok and Page were more prolific texters than anyone knew.
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit
Washington Post:
Tensions swell between Sessions and FBI over senior personnel from Comey era
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jgoldsmith / Lawfare:   Power and Integrity at the FBI: Chris Wray Stands Up to the President and the Attorney General
Jonathan Carlson / WGCL-TV:
Feds: Man threatened to kill CNN employees  —  A Michigan man was arrested after an FBI investigation, accused of threatening to travel to Atlanta to commit mass murder at CNN headquarters.  —  According to federal court documents, the man, from a Detroit suburb, made 22 calls to CNN about a week ago.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Man arrested, accused of threatening to kill CNN employees  —  A Michigan man was arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot and kill CNN employees, WGCL-TV reported Monday.  —  The FBI launched an investigation after the man, who is unnamed in the CBS report, reportedly called CNN 22 times about a week ago.
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
'Fake news.  I'm coming to gun you all down': Mich. man accused of making threatening calls to CNN  —  On Jan. 9, an operator in Atlanta manning the public contact number for CNN received a phone call.  According to a federal arrest affidavit unsealed Monday, the male caller launched into a threat.
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
The Case For The Democratic ‘Cave’  —  It's not really a cave if you're just continuing the fight.  —  WASHINGTON After Senate Democrats voted for a three-week government funding extension Monday, Republicans and liberal progressives seemed to agree about one thing: Democrats had caved.
Discussion: New York Times
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
The Senate gathered to reopen the government, and boy did everyone have fun  —  The Senate gathered to reopen the government, and boy did everyone have a great time.  —  Democrat Amy Klobuchar gave Republican Lindsey O. Graham an awkward high-five, their fingers becoming interlocked into a vertical handshake.
New York Times:   Senate Democrats' Vote to End Shutdown Infuriates Some on the Left
Jim Newell / Slate:
Why Democrats Caved  —  Shortly after voting to end …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
GOVERNMENT OPEN ... SCALISE talks to Playbook about what's next …
Discussion: Splinter
Washington Post:   White House shutdown strategy: Keep Trump contained
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:   Support for Democrats' DACA Strategy Grew During Government Shutdown, Polls Show
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Why the Democrats lost their nerve in the shutdown battle
Discussion: Hullabaloo and New York Times
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump will no longer join the President in Davos  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump, in a change of plans, will not be joining President Donald Trump on his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this week.
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Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Populism Is Waning, Which Is Reason to Party in Davos
Discussion: The Week and Washington Post
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Tony Perkins: Trump Gets ‘a Mulligan’ on Life, Stormy Daniels  —  Donald Trump is still the answer to many conservative evangelical leaders' prayers.  Or at least to their continuing grievances.  —  They embrace Trump the policymaker, says Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, despite being uneasy about Trump as a man.
Neil Diamond:
NEIL DIAMOND ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM CONCERT TOURING AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES CANCELLED  —  NEIL DIAMOND ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM CONCERT TOURING  —  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES CANCELLED  —  Legendary singer, songwriter and performer Neil Diamond today announced …
CNN:
Susan Collins had senators in bipartisan meetings use talking stick  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)During bipartisan talks between senators to discuss passing a funding bill to end the government shutdown, Sen. Susan Collins whose office was being used for the negotiations, figured out a civil way to create discussion.
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Kevin Dayton / Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
After false missile alarm, Ige couldn't log on to Twitter  —  Gov. David Ige told reporters today that part of the delay in notifying the public that the Jan. 13 ballistic missile alert was a false alarm was that he did not know his Twitter account password.
Discussion: Daily Wire and Engadget
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Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:   Hawaii governor didn't correct false missile alert sooner because he didn't know his Twitter password
Peter Spiliakos / National Review:
Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham, and the Future of the GOP  —  1. Tom Cotton has strengthened his chances of being the Republican presidential nominee someday.  He was the most effective Trump surrogate and has earned the “fighter” reputation that Cruz wanted so desperately.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
George Papadopoulos is the ‘John Dean’ of the Russia investigation, his fiancee says  —  He has been mocked by President Trump as a “low level volunteer” and “proven to be a liar.”  —  But the fiancee of George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who pleaded guilty in October …
Rachel Louise Ensign / Wall Street Journal:
Bank of America: No More Free Checking for Customers With Low Balances  —  eBanking customers switched into accounts that typically require direct deposit or a minimum balance to avoid $12 monthly fee  —  Bank of America Corp. BAC .69% has eliminated a free checking account popular …
Emily Guskin / Washington Post:
Most Americans don't trust President Trump with the ‘nuclear button’  —  A slim majority of Americans are concerned that President Trump might launch a nuclear attack without justification, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Politico:
DONNA SHALALA might run for Congress — Why shutdown politics suck — Zinke on defense after zigzag — OOPS: Florida voter data breach — Hurricane Maria's sick legacy  —  By Marc Caputo (mcaputo@politico.com; @MarcACaputo) and Matt Dixon (mdixon@politico.com; @Mdixon55), with Emily Goldberg …
Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
WATCH: Hot mic catches GOP senator ogling ‘beautiful’ teenaged girls with fellow lawmaker  —  As the Senate prepared to pass the continuing resolution that would re-open the government, a Mississippi Republican was caught on a hot mic making comments about the appearances of high-school aged pages.
Washington Times:
Shock poll: Americans want massive cuts to legal immigration  —  Cutting chain migration even more popular than legalizing Dreamers  —  A government shutdown is in the rearview mirror, but the outlines of a looming immigration deal remain murky with the sides still far apart …
Discussion: RedState
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96  —  Unsung for seven decades, the real Rosie the Riveter was a California waitress named Naomi Parker Fraley.  —  Over the years, a welter of American women have been identified as the model for Rosie, the female war worker …
Discussion: The Week, thecut and CBS Los Angeles
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Davos Man  —  President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland  —  The annual Davos event has become a gathering of the very people responsible for a perverse version of globalization—one that has undermined the livelihoods of ordinary people …
Discussion: HuffPost
 
 
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Ecuador's president calls Julian Assange ‘more than a nuisance’
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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