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1:45 PM ET, January 7, 2021

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CNBC:
'I can't stay here' — Mick Mulvaney resigns from Trump administration, expects others to follow  — President Donald Trump's former chief of staff and current special envoy to Northern Ireland said Thursday that he's resigning from his diplomatic post.  — Mick Mulvaney told CNBC …
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Randy Krehbiel / Tulsa World:
Inhofe: “I've never seen Mike Pence as angry as he was today”  —  U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has been in Congress 34 years and in politics more than 50.  As mayor of Tulsa, he once had garbage dumped on his lawn by angry residents.  —  But it's unlikely anything matched what he experienced Wednesday …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Aides weigh resignations, removal options as Trump rages against perceived betrayals  —  President Trump was decamped in the White House residence Wednesday night, raging about his perceived betrayals, as an array of top aides weighed resigning and some senior administration officials began conversations …
Politico:
‘He screwed the country’: Trump loyalty disintegrates  —  It was, for many of President Donald Trump's own allies, the final straw.  —  What began as a rally intended to support Trump became a permanent and irreversible stain on his presidency Wednesday afternoon, as fans of the outgoing president stormed …
Lawfare:
Can Trump Be Stopped?  —  The hours since Wednesday afternoon have seen a tidal wave of calls for Donald Trump to lose the powers and duties of the office for his role in the historic storming of the U.S. Capitol.  There is a new push for impeachment.  And news reports suggest that members …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Facebook blocks Trump from platform indefinitely after Capitol riot response
Associated Press:
The Latest: Mulvaney says he's quitting after Capitol riot
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
With Georgia Senate wins, a new day of unified Democratic power will dawn in Washington.
FBI.gov — FBI:
FBI Seeking Information Related to Violent Activity at the U.S Capitol Building
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Senator Jeff Merkley on the Storming of the Capitol
Jon Swaine / Washington Post:
Man who posed at Pelosi desk said in Facebook post that he is prepared for violent death  —  Last Saturday, Richard Barnett of Gravette, Ark., criticized Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a Facebook post for using the description “white nationalist” as a “derogatory term.”  —  “I am white.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are drafting new impeachment articles.  Inaction is increasingly untenable.  —  Some Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are circulating drafts of new articles of impeachment directed at President Trump for his role in inciting the violent mob assault on the Capitol, a Democratic aide tells me.
KUSI-TV:
KUSI News confirms identity of woman shot and killed inside US Capitol  —  WASHINGTON (KUSI) — The woman who was shot and killed inside the US Capitol during the protests was from the San Diego area.  —  KUSI News has spoken with her husband.  —  The woman is Ashli Babbit, a 14-year veteran …
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Washington Post:
Woman fatally shot as pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol identified as Air Force veteran  —  When a group of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol and smashed windows on Wednesday, a woman jumped onto a pane and started through.  —  Seconds later, a gunshot rang out and the woman …
Steve Hayes / The Dispatch:
Giuliani to Senator: ‘Try to Just Slow it Down’  —  The president's lawyer tries to block the count of the Electoral College votes.  —  Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer and top adviser to President Donald Trump, is calling Republican lawmakers urging them to delay the electoral vote count by at least …
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Marina Pitofsky / The Hill:
Giuliani calls wrong senator in last-ditch effort to delay certification of Biden's win
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Cotton calls out Senate Republicans for misleading supporters about election results  —  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is calling out Republican colleagues including Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — though not by name — for challenging the results of the 2020 election in a way he says was misleading.
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George Will / Washington Post:
Trump, Hawley and Cruz will each wear the scarlet ‘S’ of a seditionist
Discussion: Raw Story
Sara Fischer / Axios:
How right-wing media explained the pro-Trump siege of the Capitol  —  You can't understand America, 2021, without watching how right-wing media explained a mob storming the U.S. Capitol for the first time since the early 19th century.  —  The big picture: The right's favored media …
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Kyle Daly / Axios:   The Capitol siege's QAnon roots
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Facial recognition firm claims Antifa infiltrated Trump protesters who stormed Capitol
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Remove Trump Tonight  —  This is a moment of shame and grief.  —  If we are not very careful, it will also be a terrible moment of opportunity for President Donald Trump.  The violence Trump incited could be his pretext for further abuses of presidential power.
Discussion: The Federalist and Raw Story
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New York Times:
Which Members of Congress Objected to Certifying Biden's Victory?  —  When a mob of President Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday, they forced an emergency recess in the Congressional proceedings to officially certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Andrew McCormick / The Nation:
Madness on Capitol Hill  —  Part insurrection, part happy hour, Trump supporters lost their minds, and I watched a man urinate on the Capitol steps.  The nation, ashamed, was left to mourn.  —  It was 5pm when the explosions started, one after another, washing the crowd of Donald Trump supporters in plumes of tear gas.
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Strict absentee voting limits proposed after record Georgia turnout  —  Voting was never easier in Georgia than in November's presidential election.  But it might not last.  —  Republican legislators plan to crack down on voting access after record turnout helped Democrat Joe Biden win Georgia …
Discussion: Denver Post and Townhall
 
 
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We all live in the America Trump has made. Normal politics isn't enough.
The Daily Caller:
Editorial Board: Patriots Do Not Storm Their Nation's Capitol
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Trump has shown an incomprehensible indifference to mayhem
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