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10:40 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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Bloomberg:
FBI's Wray Opposes GOP Memo Release, Citing Inaccuracies  —  Trump overheard saying memo ‘100 percent’ should be released  —  Republicans say memo raises doubts about Russia probe  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray has informed the White House of his opposition to releasing a controversial …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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 …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Real Aim of the Secret Memo Is the Mueller Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said on Tuesday that he wanted Americans to see a secret memo that portrays the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation as scandalous, he also said he cautioned his Republican colleagues …
The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes Won't Say If He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo … The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee refused to answer when a colleague asked him if he had coordinated his incendiary surveillance memo with the White House, The Daily Beast has learned.
Amanda Carpenter / Politico:
I'm a Republican. Why Is My Party Gaslighting America?
Eric Columbus / Washington Post:   Mueller won't indict Trump. But here's what he can do.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A call for unity against a backdrop of controversy and division
Discussion: New York Times and ABC News
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Mueller needs ‘no protection’ from Trump
Discussion: IJR
CBS News:
Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address - CBS News poll  —  Views of the speech  —  Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave.  Just a quarter disapproved.  —  How did the speech make you feel?
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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 …
Allison Graves / PolitiFact:
Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union speech  —  President Donald Trump offered a rosy assessment of American life in his first State of the Union address — but several of his points were factually flawed.  —  “This is our new American moment,” Trump said.
Discussion: Business Insider
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.
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Trump's Speech Exposed the GOP's Lack of Direction
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
A divisive and misleading State of the Union
President Donald Trump / Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's claims in his State of Union address
Discussion: Daily Kos
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Trump campaign: Send us $1 and we'll scroll your name during State of the Union live stream
Discussion: CNBC
ABC News:
Updates: Trump to deliver first State of the Union amid Washington discord
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigns amid tobacco stock controversy  — Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald resigned Wednesday as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  — Fitzgerald's departure came less than a day after Politico revealed …
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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 …
Debra Goldschmidt / CNN:   CDC Director Fitzgerald resigns
Politico:
CDC director resigns over financial conflicts
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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HuffPost:
The Hidden Extremism Of Trump's State Of The Union
Discussion: Washington Post and AOL
The Atlantic:
Trump's First State of the Union
Washington Post:
Disagreement on North Korea policy derails White House choice for ambassador to South Korea
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 …
Discussion: The Week
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Seeks Interview With Ex-Spokesman for Trump's Legal Team
Discussion: Washington Post
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump arrived at State of the Union separately from the President
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 …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
In Joe Kennedy's speech, Democrats rediscovered Barack Obama's compelling vision  —  America is about equality, across all dimensions.  —  No State of the Union response speech has ever been a truly great speech, but Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) delivered what's probably the best entry in the genre that I've ever heard Tuesday night.
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Kennedy responds for the Democrats
New York Times:
Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts  —  Federal and state authorities are investigating the sellers of artificial followers and other fraudulent social media engagement.  —  More than a million followers have disappeared from the accounts of dozens of prominent Twitter users …
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Donald Trump is teaching Republicans how to fight  —  It's an observation so strikingly true that you wonder why you didn't think of it earlier.  “Donald Trump,” a friend said the other day, “is teaching the Republican Party how to fight and how to win.”  —  The evidence is everywhere every day …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump's plans for immigration, infrastructure meet swift resistance in Congress
Discussion: CNN and Bangor Daily News
Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:
Porn actor Stormy Daniels casts doubt on denial of affair with Trump  —  Daniels appears to question the authenticity of a statement denying the affair, only for her lawyer to insist it is real  —  The allegations that Donald Trump paid hush money to hide an affair with adult film star …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Jimmy Kimmel Strikes Out
Discussion: twitchy.com
 
 
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's immigration ‘compromise’ is a trick
ABC:
The Cabinet Files reveal national security breaches, NBN negotiations, welfare reform plans
Discussion: Splinter and The Guardian
Lindsay Wise / thenewstribune:
Hawley trails McCaskill in Missouri Senate fundraising
Discussion: Political Wire
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Trump's Immigration Plan Receives a Chilly Reception
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Donald Trump is still the man to these blue-collar voters
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
What Trump's address sounded like, in eight American living rooms
 Earlier Items: 
CBS News:
Rubio, Menendez express concern about Russian influence in Mexican election to Tillerson
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
INSIDE the STATE OF THE UNION …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The paradox of Trump  —  President Trump's State of the Union embodied …
Sbrown / CGD Blogs:
How the Trump Administration's Plan Would Shape the Composition of Immigration: First Numerical Estimates
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair:
Mike Cernovich Is Bidding $500,000 to Buy Gawker.com
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour arrested with gun at airport
CNN:
Senior adviser who worked for disgraced Trump appointee at federal volunteer agency was banned …
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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