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7:00 AM ET, December 19, 2016

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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning  —  WASHINGTON — The battle over Monday's electoral college vote is the beginning, not the end.  A larger campaign to undermine the legitimacy — and constitutionality — of Donald Trump's presidency is likely just getting underway.
Discussion: Heat Street, Common Dreams and RedState
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pa. electors get police protection: ‘This is stupid’  —  Facing a wave of calls, Pennsylvania electors sounding unshakable  —  President-elect Donald Trump during a “thank you” rally in Alabama tonight.  —  President-elect Donald Trump  —  HARRISBURG — Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day.
New York Times:
Trump's Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Week
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company  —  Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Trump holds off record session with reporters  —  held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening.  —  While the topics of conversation were not reported, the meeting was confirmed in a presidential pool report.  It's been more than 140 days since Trump has held a press conference.
Discussion: Jezebel and Mediaite
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99  —  Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles.
Discussion: TMZ.com, Jezebel and New York Magazine
Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
White nationalists target Jews in small Montana town  —  A call to action in the Daily Stormer describes Jews as a “vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.”  —  A white-supremacist call to action to “troll” Jewish people in Whitefish, Montana—home of white nationalist Richard Spencer's mother …
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Keila Szpaller / Missoulian:
White supremacist website calls for action in Montana
Jaweed Kaleem / Los Angeles Times:
Election officials focus on whether voter ID laws contributed to Hillary Clinton's defeat  —  Delia Anderson, a 77-year-old Milwaukee resident, did not vote on election day because she did not have the correct photo ID card.  —  Starting with John F. Kennedy's victory over Richard Nixon in 1960 …
Discussion: Hot Air
Eric Eyre / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses … Follow the pills and you'll find the overdose deaths.  —  The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia's southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392.  There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Kathryn Shattuck / New York Times:
Inside the Ku Klux Klan, With an A&E Documentary Series  —  The setup is warm and fuzzy.  “Girls, I got y'all some gifts,” says Steven Howard, presenting his two young daughters with prettily wrapped packages, which they eagerly rip into.  The cameras then reveal what's inside: the distinctive pointed hoods of the Ku Klux Klan.
Discussion: alan.com, Jezebel and Deadline
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Donald Trump: The Russian Poodle  —  In 1972, President Richard Nixon's White House dispatched burglars to bug Democratic Party offices.  That Watergate burglary and related “dirty tricks,” such as releasing mice at a Democratic press conference and paying a woman to strip naked and shout …
Discussion: War on the Rocks
Eric Bradner / CNN:
McCain: Russian election-related hacks threaten to ‘destroy democracy’  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Russian election-related hacks threaten to “destroy democracy” and faulted the American response as “totally paralyzed.”  —  McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Bipartisan Letter Seeks Single Inquiry Into Russian Hacking Claims
Discussion: Political Wire
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
DNC Chair Contradicts Obama: Russian Hackers Came After Us ‘Until End of Election’
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
On New York's Fifth Avenue, Trump's White House North  —  NEW YORK — The world's power address du jour is a sheath of soaring black glass on Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to which a cop in combat armor — his fingers on an assault rifle — took a moment the other day to tell a tourist where to find the city's best pizza.
Fox News:
Reince Priebus on war of words with White House over Russia  —  This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” December 18, 2016.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Chris Wallace.  —  With the Electoral College set to meet tomorrow …
Discussion: Althouse and Politicus USA
ABC News:
Senior GOP Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of CIA Director Over Media Leaks on Russian Hacking  —  A senior Republican congressman called for an investigation into whether the head of the CIA leaked to the media while withholding from Congress the agency's findings that Russians used hacking …
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Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Priebus: Trump not yet ready to accept Russian election tampering
Discussion: Daily Kos and AOL
Fox News:
Priebus: Trump ready to accept Russia hacking report, if CIA, FBI get on same page
 
 
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