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5:20 PM ET, January 8, 2017

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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Reince Priebus: 'There's No Reason' To Do Background Checks On Trump's Cabinet Picks  —  Reince Priebus, chief of staff to Donald Trump, argued on Sunday that there was “no reason” to complete background checks on the president-elect's cabinet appointments.  —  The Office of Government Ethics warned …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Toni Clarke / Reuters:
Senate to act this week on Obamacare repeal, McConnell says  —  The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday.
Discussion: Political Wire
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell: We won't delay hearings  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday rebuffed Democratic calls to slow down rapid confirmation of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, even after a nonpartisan federal watchdog raised “great” concerns about moving ahead with hearings for nominees whose ethics reviews have not been completed.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Senate GOP Leader Says Dems Need to ‘Grow Up’  —  The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Democrats need to “grow up” and “get past” the election.  —  The Kentucky Republican is objecting to concerns raised …
Discussion: Politico
The Hill:
Dems launch early '18 attacks on GOP Senate targets
Discussion: Political Wire
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Ethics Office Warns Confirmations For Trump Nominees Are Moving Too Fast
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
UK prime minister: Trump's comments about groping women ‘unacceptable’  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday criticized President-elect Donald Trump  —  for the lewd comments he was heard making about women in a 2005 tape that surfaced last year.  —  “I think that's unacceptable,” May said in an interview with Sky News.
Discussion: Wave 105 and Raw Story
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
President Obama Says He and Donald Trump ‘Are Sort of Opposites’  —  President Obama said he thinks it's fair to say that he and President-elect Donald Trump “are sort of opposites in some ways,” but he admitted there is one thing they have in common: confidence.
Discussion: AOL
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Pro-Trump Californians hope his victory can fuel a GOP revival in the Golden State
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama: I didn't underestimate the threats from Vladimir Putin  —  President Obama said in an interview that he did not misjudge the potential threats of Vladimir Putin, despite the U.S. intelligence report that the Russian president personally ordered an “influence campaign” to meddle in the U.S. presidential elections.
Discussion: NBC News and The Week
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Graham: Republicans happy about Russian meddling are political hacks  —  (R-S.C.) on Sunday ripped Republicans who are “gleeful” about Russia's meddling in the U.S. election, saying anyone who isn't condemning the meddling is “a political hack.”  —  “Most Republicans are condemning what Russia did.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Obama: I didn't underestimate Putin
Discussion: Political Wire
Jerusalem Post:
Jerusalem ramming attack: Four killed as truck rams into IDF soldiers … Police confirm that the perpetrator has been neutralized; police chief identifies driver as east Jerusalem resident.  —  Four soldiers were killed, and 17 wounded, after a flatbed truck driven by an Arab terrorist rammed …
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Judah Ari Gross / The Times of Israel:
4 killed as driver plows truck into troops in Jerusalem terror attack
Discussion: Israel Matzav and The Daily Caller
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Obama says he thinks ObamaCare will survive  —  President Obama said he thinks ObamaCare, his signature healthcare legislation, will survive.  —  “I think it will,” he said in an interview on ABC's “This Week.”  “It may be called something else.  And as I said, I don't mind.”
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Tapper Grills Conway: If WikiLeaks Didn't Influence the Election, Why Did Trump Invoke Them So Much?  —  CNN's Jake Tapper had Kellyanne Conway on State of the Union, where he asked the Donald Trump adviser about the President-elect's response to the intelligence that Russia meddled with the 2016 election
Discussion: The Week
Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Netanyahu tried to negotiate a good press in return for benefits-media  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under police investigation for suspected corruption, was caught on tape negotiating mutual benefits with an arch-foe, the owner of one of Israel's largest-selling newspapers, Israeli media reported on Sunday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Pagan Kennedy / New York Times:
How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News  —  One day in late November, an earth and environmental science professor named Nathan Phillips visited Breitbart News for the first time.  Mr. Phillips had heard about the hateful headlines on the site — like …
Discussion: Occidental Dissent
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Celebrities give Obama emotional farewell in video  —  Celebrities, activists and others gave an emotional goodbye to President Obama in a new video by the White House titled “Yes We Can: Your Most Memorable Moments from the Obama Presidency.”  —  The video features figures including Leonardo DiCaprio …
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Mike Miller / IJR:
Hollywood Celebrities Share Their ‘Obama Moments’ in Emotional Farewell Video to the President
William J. Burns / New York Times:
How We Fool Ourselves on Russia  —  In the quarter-century since the end of the Cold War, profound grievances, misperceptions and disappointments have often defined the relationship between the United States and Russia.  I lived through this turbulence during my years as a diplomat in Moscow …
Dan Mitchell / International Liberty:
A Secret Glimpse at Life Inside a Bureaucracy  —  More than two years ago, I shared a couple of humorous images showing the languorous lifestyle of lazy bureaucrats.  —  While those images were amusing, they didn't really capture the true nature of bureaucracy.
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Karl Marlantes / New York Times:
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Associated Press:
Trump Has Taken Few Steps to Disentangle From Private Empire
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Jeff Sessions, a Lifelong Outsider, Finds the Inside Track
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Gun silencers are hard to buy. Donald Trump Jr. and silencer makers want to change that.
Discussion: Hot Air
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: President Barack Obama
Discussion: Politicus USA
New York Times:
'What's the Big Deal?' Ask Trump Voters on Russia Hacking Report
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Spicer: Media doesn't treat Trump with respect, cheers on Democrats
Discussion: Politicus USA
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Trump opposition sets up blue-state headquarters
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Democrats wage anti-Trump offensive for their own gain
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Celebrity divas insult half of America with their Trump ‘resistance’
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
White House Red Scare
 

 
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