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8:55 PM ET, December 11, 2016

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Bill Flanagan / CBS News:
John McCain doesn't know what to make of Trump's Russia hacking response  —  Responding to intelligence officials' report that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) …
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Former ambassador to Russia: Putin wanted ‘revenge’ against Clinton  —  Russia interfered in the U.S. elections to get revenge against Hillary Clinton  —  , a former U.S. ambassador to the Kremlin said Sunday.  —  Michael McFaul, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 …
Discussion: RedState
armed-services.senate.gov:
McCain, Graham, Schumer, Reed Joint Statement on Reports That Russia Interfered with the 2016 Election  —  Washington, D.C. ­- U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump vs. Congress on Russian hacking
Fox News:
Trump: Claims of Russian interference in 2016 race ‘ridiculous,’ Dems making excuses
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Reince Priebus, Sen. Rand Paul, and Sen. Claire McCaskill
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politicus USA
CNN:   Bipartisan group of senators calls for probe of Russian role in 2016 US elections
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Bipartisan Senate Group Calls for Probe of Russian Hacking in US
Spencer Ackerman / The Guardian:
Intelligence figures fear Trump reprisals over assessment of Russia election role  —  Legislators overseeing the CIA and other intelligence agencies have told the Guardian they will be vigilant about reprisals from Donald Trump over an internal assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to ensure Trump's victory.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump Links C.I.A. Reports on Russia to Democrats' Shame Over Election  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he did not believe American intelligence assessments that Russia had intervened to help his candidacy, casting blame for the reports …
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
TRUMP: I'm a ‘smart person,’ don't need intelligence briefings every single day  —  President-elect Donald Trump brushed off concerns that he's not participating in the traditional daily intelligence and national security briefings that presidents hold every day.
Discussion: Mashable, alan.com and AOL
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Trump Says Democrats Made Up Russian Hacking As An ‘Excuse’ For His ‘Major Landslide Victory’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rand Paul threatens to block Bolton nomination  —  Sen. Rand Paul is threatening to block President-elect Donald Trump's likely pick of John Bolton as the No. 2 in the State Department.  —  The Kentucky Republican, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, could stop …
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Chris Wallace Asks Trump: Why Pick Business Exec. Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State?
Discussion: alan.com and The Week
Steve Coll / New Yorker:
Rex Tillerson, from a Corporate Oil Sovereign to the State Department  —  The news that President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Rex Tillerson, the chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, as his Secretary of State is astonishing on many levels.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Bernstein says Trump's lies worse than Nixon's  —  Carl Bernstein, whose reporting broke open the Watergate scandal that led to former President Nixon's resignation, said Sunday that Nixon's lies were nothing compared to Donald Trump  —  “Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment.
Brent Johnson / New Jersey Online:
Christie turned down several jobs in Trump administration, sources say  —  TRENTON — President-elect Donald Trump offered Gov. Chris Christie numerous positions in his incoming administration, but the New Jersey governor turned them down, two sources with knowledge of Trump's transition efforts told NJ Advance Media.
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Rick Perry Said to Be Trump's Top Candidate for Energy Secretary  —  Democratic Senators Manchin, Heitkamp also under consideration  —  President-elect met with contenders at Army-Navy game  —  Donald Trump has narrowed his search for energy secretary to four people …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real  —  President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real and that he is “studying” whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago.
Discussion: Political Wire and alan.com
 
 
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Alex Mohajer / The Huffington Post:
Russian Interference Could Give Courts Legal Authority To Install Clinton
Discussion: AOL, Weasel Zippers and Politico
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Tim Cook, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg — and maybe even Jeff Bezos — are going to Trump's tech summit next week
Discussion: Business Insider
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The Dangers of Echo Chambers on Campus
Discussion: Washington Post
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump sparks imitator in Ohio Senate race
Discussion: alan.com
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Intelligence expert: Trump's choice of Putin buddy to head State adds to his White House ‘Kremlin cabal’
 

 
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