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7:55 AM ET, January 31, 2018

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Washington Post:
Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe's role in final weeks of 2016 election … The Justice Department's inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch …
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. officials appealed to White House to halt release of memo alleging FBI abuses related to author of Trump dossier … Top Justice Department officials made a last-ditch plea Monday to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly about the dangers of publicly releasing a memo alleging abuses …
The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes Won't Say if He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo  —  The House intel committee GOP leader refused to answer behind closed doors if he coordinated with the president's team on his report blasting Rosenstein, Comey, and McCabe.  —  BETSY WOODRUFF, SPENCER ACKERMAN1.30.18 6:17 PM ET
Amanda Carpenter / Politico:
I'm a Republican.  Why Is My Party Gaslighting America?  —  Riddle me this: If Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have smoking gun evidence of a deep-state conspiracy that threatens American democracy itself, wouldn't they be doing more than playing silly hashtag games, such as #ReleasetheMemo?
Mike Levine / ABC News:
DOJ gives special counsel internal docs on thwarted Sessions resignation, source says  —  In the weeks before special counsel Robert Mueller's team interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department turned over a cache of internal correspondence, including documents related …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Nunes Conspiracy  —  First, a few words on the State of the Union address.
Discussion: Consortiumnews.com
Ryan Struyk / CNN:
CNN Instant poll: Trump gets least positive reaction in at least 20 years  —  Washington (CNN)Almost half of Americans who watched President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address — 48% — say they had a “very positive” impression of the speech, down from 57% of speech-watchers …
Discussion: USA Today, Political Wire, The Week and KTLA
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NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump's State Of The Union Address  —  In his first State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Trump is expected to take a bipartisan tone.  He is expected to focus on jobs and the economy, infrastructure, immigration, trade and national security.
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump arrived at State of the Union separately from the President  —  Washington (CNN)In a break with longstanding tradition, Melania Trump opted to ride with the guests she invited to share her first lady's box during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Kennedy responds to Trump: ‘We all feel the fault lines of a fractured country’  —  Washington (CNN)Rep. Joe Kennedy tied the turmoil of the past year to President Donald Trump's administration, saying, “We all feel the fault lines of a fractured country,” in a sharply critical speech …
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Kennedy responds for the Democrats
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi tells Democrats not to disrupt ‘slobbering’ Trump during SOTU
ABC News:
Updates: Trump to deliver first State of the Union amid Washington discord
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
CNN's Van Jones Goes Off on Trump for ‘Smearing’ DREAMers in State of the Union
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
New York Times:   First Trump State of the Union Speech Makes Appeal for Unity
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump to declare ‘New American Moment’ — but Hillary Clinton declared one first
Discussion: Raw Story, Mashable and AOL
Victor Cha / Washington Post:
Giving North Korea a ‘bloody nose’ carries a huge risk to Americans  —  Victor Cha is a professor at Georgetown University and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  —  North Korea, if not stopped, will build an arsenal with multiple nuclear missiles meant …
Discussion: CNBC, The Week and Business Insider
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Washington Post:
Disagreement on North Korea policy derails White House choice for ambassador to South Korea
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
White House abandons planned pick for South Korea ambassador
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
The incredible story of the North Korean escapee at the State of the Union
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Daniel Lippman / Politico:   INSIDE the STATE OF THE UNION …
Hillary Clinton:
The most important work of my life has been to support and empower women.  I've tried to do so here at home, around the world, and in the organizations I've run.  I started in my twenties, and four decades later I'm nowhere near being done.  I'm proud that it's the work I'm most associated with …
CNN:
Trump's lawyers argue Mueller has not met threshold for presidential interview  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's attorneys are arguing that special counsel Robert Mueller's team has not met the high threshold they believe is needed to interview a president in person …
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Howard Fineman / NBC News:
The ‘state’ of Donald Trump?  He thinks it couldn't be better.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is telling friends and aides in private that things are going great — for him.  —  Some reasons: He's decided that a key witness in the Russia probe, Paul Manafort, isn't going to “flip” and sell him out, friends and aides say.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Seeks Interview With Ex-Spokesman for Trump's Legal Team  —  Mark Corallo resigned from position after revelation that president's son arranged meeting with Russian lawyer  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking an interview with Mark Corallo, the former spokesman …
Eric Columbus / Washington Post:   Mueller won't indict Trump. But here's what he can do.
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Trump's top health official traded tobacco stock while leading anti-smoking efforts  —  The Trump administration's top public health official bought shares in a tobacco company one month into her leadership of the agency charged with reducing tobacco use — the leading cause of preventable disease …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Jimmy Kimmel Strikes Out  —  Jimmy Kimmel is the host of one of the late-night talk shows.  I'm not sure which one, as I never watch any of them.  As I understand it, they do nothing but bash President Trump and are viewed only by cultists.  Kimmel announced that his special guest tonight …
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Axios:
Full text of Trump's State of the Union address  —  Editor's note: These are the president's prepared remarks as he gives them.  Axios inadvertently published the embargoed full text before the president was finished.  —  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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The White House:   President Donald J. Trump's State of the Union Address
The Atlantic:
Trump's First State of the Union  —  President Trump delivered his first State of the Union before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.  These addresses are typically opportunities for American presidents to highlight their achievements and provide a vision for the country going forward.
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour arrested with gun at airport  —  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he will pay a fine after being arrested with a loaded handgun in his briefcase as he went through an airport security checkpoint in early January.
 
 
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The paradox of Trump  —  President Trump's State of the Union embodied …
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Dueling Trumps deliver a State of the Union speech likely to widen a deep partisan divide
Zeeshan Aleem / Vox:
Trump's State of the Union had basically nothing to match his promises on trade
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A call for unity against a backdrop of controversy and division
Discussion: New York Times and ABC News
Sbrown / CGD Blogs:
How the Trump Administration's Plan Would Shape the Composition of Immigration: First Numerical Estimates
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Mike Cernovich Is Bidding $500,000 to Buy Gawker.com
David Uberti / Splinter:
Howard Kurtz's New Trump Book Is Part of a Long Right-Wing Con
Joanna Walters / The Guardian:
Greg Gianforte, politician who assaulted Guardian reporter, to lead GOP workshop
CNN:
Senior adviser who worked for disgraced Trump appointee at federal volunteer agency was banned …
Discussion: Raw Story
TMZ.com:
‘Glee’ Star Mark Salling Dead of Apparent Suicide
John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Trump Administration Admits It Cribbed Forbes Magazine To Create “Oligarch List”
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing
 
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