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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: Cancel Boeing's Air Force One contract  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday called for the cancellation of a Defense Department contract with Boeing to build the next generation of presidential aircraft, decrying the deal as too expensive.  —  “Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Boeing responds to Trump: Air Force One deal is for $170M  —  Boeing on Tuesday responded to President-elect Donald Trump  —  's criticism over the cost of a new Air Force One plane, saying the contract is actually for $170 million.  —  Trump earlier Tuesday tweeted that the deal was for …
Robert Reed / Chicago Tribune:
Boeing CEO waits for Trump's trade play  —  Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg, right, speaks Dec. 2, 2016, at an Illinois Manufacturers' Association luncheon at the J.W. Marriott Chicago hotel downtown.  Muilenburg argues that international trade is essential to the U.S. economy.  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did Donald Trump tank Boeing's stock because he was mad about a news article?  —  Shares of stock in aircraft manufacturer Boeing fell nearly $2 a share before markets opened on Tuesday.  —  The reason?  A tweet from the president-elect. … Were Boeing to lose a $4 billion contract …
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Can algos trade Trump's tweets?  Absolutely.  Maybe.  —  Donald Trump sent the tweet heard 'round the defense industry Tuesday morning at exactly 35 seconds after 8:52 a.m. ET, blasting Boeing and suggesting he wanted to cancel the company's contract for the new Air Force One aircraft.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Did Boeing Get Out Of Line?  —  This morning Donald Trump lashed …
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Sold All His Stockholdings in June, Transition Spokesman Says
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump's Carrier deal is wildly popular  —  Donald Trump's first major action as president-elect — the deal he and Vice President-elect Mike Pence struck last week with Carrier Corp. — is earning high marks from American voters, a new Politico/Morning Consult poll shows.
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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
He ‘lied his a- off’: Carrier union leader on Trump's big deal  —  The Secret Service agents told the Carrier workers to stay put, so Chuck Jones sat in the factory conference room for nearly three hours, waiting for president-elect Donald Trump.  He'd grown used to this suspense.
Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Raw Story
Ned Resnikoff / ThinkProgress:
The details of the Carrier deal have finally been released. Trump exaggerated big league.
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Secret Service advertised as hot ‘new amenity’ at Trump Tower  —  The U.S. Secret Service is the hot, new “amenity” at Trump Tower, where desperate brokers are trying to lure well-heeled clients into the building on Fifth Avenue that has served as President-elect Donald Trump's home as well as his campaign and transition headquarters.
New York Times:
Bob Dole Worked Behind the Scenes on Trump-Taiwan Call  —  WASHINGTON — Former Senator Bob Dole, acting as a foreign agent for the government of Taiwan, worked behind the scenes over the past six months to establish high-level contact between Taiwanese officials and President-elect Donald J. Trump's staff …
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Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
SoftBank Pledges to Invest $50 Billion in U.S. After Meeting With Trump  —  President-elect met with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son in Trump Tower  —  SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said Tuesday he would invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 new jobs …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
‘Worse than irrelevant’: How Donald Trump's potential press secretary views the press
Discussion: Mediaite and RedState
Tony Romm / Politico:
Trump takes credit for SoftBank's $50 billion investment
Discussion: ABC News
CNN:
Senate Dems, powerless to stop Trump nominees, regret ‘nuclear option’ power play  —  (CNN)Senate Democrats are eager to make Donald Trump pay a political price for nominating staunch conservatives to fill out his Cabinet, hoping to exact revenge for the GOP's stubborn opposition to President Barack Obama's nominees.
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Dems seek to quash quick Mattis confirmation
Discussion: ABC News and BizPac Review
CNN:
Source: Trump transition team requested security clearance for Flynn Jr.  —  Washington (CNN)Officials from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team attempted to distance themselves Tuesday from Michael G. Flynn — the son and former top aide to his father, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn …
Discussion: RedState, ThinkProgress and Mediaite
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Lydia Polgreen Named Editor-In-Chief Of The Huffington Post  —  The New York Times' “rising star” becomes the site's second newsroom leader, following founder Arianna Huffington.  —  NEW YORK Lydia Polgreen, a New York Times associate masthead editor and editorial director of NYT Global …
Detroit News:
Half of Detroit votes may be ineligible for recount  —  One-third of precincts in Wayne County could be disqualified from an unprecedented statewide recount of presidential election results because of problems with ballots.  —  Michigan's largest county voted overwhelmingly …
Sarah Lazare / Alternet:
Paper Owned by Trump's Son-In-Law Runs Alarming Op-Ed Calling for FBI Crackdown on Anti-Trump Protests  —  From the outset, Jared Kushner's New York Observer has been an instrument of the Trump campaign.  —  The New York Observer, a right-wing newspaper owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Smith / The Guardian:
Megyn Kelly accuses Trump social media director of inciting online abuse  —  The Fox News host says Dan Scavino is ‘a man who works for Donald Trump whose job it is to stir up’ nastiness and threats, and urges him to stop  —  Journalist Megyn Kelly, who is under armed guard after receiving death threats …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Top Dem super PAC launches anti-Trump war room  —  A top Democratic super PAC is launching a war room aimed at making President-elect Donald Trump  —  's life miserable as he prepares to enter the White House.  —  Liberal political operative David Brock, a close ally of former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
House GOP wins Obamacare lawsuit  —  A federal judge on Thursday ruled the Obama administration has been improperly funding an Obamacare subsidy program, a huge win for the House of Representatives in a lawsuit against the White House.  —  Congress authorized the program but never actually provided …
Discussion: RedState
Jeff Burlew / Tallahassee Democrat:
Plaintiffs want presidential recount in Florida  —  Three Central Florida voters are mounting an unlikely bid to overturn the presidential election in the Sunshine State.  —  In a lawsuit filed Monday in Leon Circuit Court, they assert that Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, actually won Florida.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump will hire foreign workers to staff Mar-a-Lago this winter  —  will hire foreign workers to staff the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., this winter — as he did last year.  —  According to the Palm Beach Post, Trump won approval from the U.S. Labor Department in October …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Electors take anti-Trump battle to court  —  Two presidential electors in Colorado are heading to court Tuesday to try and boost their extreme long-shot gambit to stop Donald Trump from officially being elected president when the Electoral College votes on Dec. 19.
Louder With Crowder:
Tucker Carlson Drop Kicks Smug College Student Over Trump, Environment...  Ok college students, take a knee.  I know on campus, in your safe space, you hear a lot about Faux News or Fox Noise or whatever the kids are calling it these days.  You may even think you're smarter than Tucker Carlson …
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. lawmaker: Sony hack may have inspired Russian election hacking  —  The U.S. failure to retaliate strongly for the 2014 cyber attack against Sony Pictures may have helped inspire Russian hackers who sought to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election, a senior congressional Democrat said on Tuesday.
 
 
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Todd VanDerWerff / Vox:
Donald Trump is turning his transition into a reality show, too. That's an ominous sign.
Neil Munro / Breitbart:
GOP Leadership to Delay Donald Trump's Election-Winning Priorities
Andrew Hanna / Politico:
Flynn under fire for fake news
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Christie's approval hits record low; most say he should have been charged for Bridgegate
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