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4:20 PM ET, January 13, 2017

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Washington Post:
Commanding general of D.C. National Guard to be removed from post  —  The head of the D.C. National Guard, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz, said Friday that he has been ordered removed from his command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Orders DC National Guard Chief To Leave In Middle Of Inaugural Ceremony  —  In a bizarre move, Donald Trump has demanded that the commanding officer of the Washington, D.C. National Guard resign from his post in the middle of the Inauguration ceremony, even though the general …
The Hill:
Dems ‘outraged’ with Comey after House briefing  —  A number of House Democrats left Friday's confidential briefing on Russian hacking fuming over the actions of FBI Director James Comey and convinced he's unfit to lead the agency.  —  “I was nonjudgmental until the last 15 minutes.
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Wall Street Journal:
James Comey's Best Service  —  The new AG should ask the director to resign for the good of the FBI.
Discussion: The Guardian, Politico and Hot Air
CNN:
House takes first step towards repealing Obamacare  —  Washington (CNN)The House of Representatives began the process of dismantling the Affordable Care Act on Friday, approving a budget resolution on a mostly party line vote.  —  The vote was 227-198.  —  The Senate passed the measure earlier this week.
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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Ryan confronted by cancer patient who says ObamaCare saved his life … faced some tough questions from audience members at a CNN town hall Thursday night, starting with a cancer patient who said ObamaCare saved his life.  —  Jeff Jeans said he was a lifelong Republican and small business owner …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Republicans say they'll protect you if you have a pre-existing condition.  Don't believe it.  —  At his CNN town hall yesterday, Paul Ryan met a man named Jeff Jeans, a lifelong Republican and small business owner who not long ago got a cancer diagnosis.  He didn't have insurance …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Activist Who Says ACA Saved His Life Confronts Ryan At Town Hall (VIDEO)  —  In a remarkable exchange, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was asked during CNN's Thursday town hall to explain to a cancer patient who said the Affordable Care Act saved his life how congressional Republicans …
Discussion: CBS News and alan.com
Politico:
Chaffetz threatens to subpoena federal ethics watchdog over Trump criticism  —  House Republicans have found a subject for their opening review of conflicts of interest under Donald Trump: the federal official in charge of investigating conflicts of interest.
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Lawmaker Hints at Investigating Ethics Chief Critical of Trump
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
TRUMP the SOCIAL BUTTERFLY — Hatch's ROB PORTER to be tapped as W.H. staff secy …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
After Trump rebuke, federal ethics chief called to testify before House lawmakers
Discussion: Democracy21 and The Week
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Approval of Trump Transition Still Low as Inauguration Nears  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — In Gallup polling conducted two weeks before Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump continues to garner historically low approval for his transition performance, with 51% of Americans disapproving …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup Poll: Trump's Approval Rating Lowest Of Any PEOTUS In Decades
Discussion: alan.com and Washington Post
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Breitbart Alumni Launch ‘Populist-Nationalist’ Group  —  Patrick Howley, a former Breitbart News reporter, left the site under vague circumstances back in November.  Howley told me at the time that he was leaving of his own volition because the site had become more “controlled” …
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-Breitbart Reporters Say They're Forming PAC To Enforce Trump Agenda
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump team: Flynn spoke to Russian envoy to plan future call  —  's transition team on Friday said that a top national security aide's contacts with a Russian envoy in December were about setting up a future conversation and did not involve substantive talks.
Discussion: RedState
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Why did Obama dawdle on Russia's hacking?
TMZ.com:
Donald Trump Inauguration — No ‘My Way’ with Paul Anka ... But It's Not Political  —  Donald Trump was going to get his way — legendary “My Way” singer and songwriter Paul Anka performing on inauguration night, but Paul tells us he has to back out.  —  Paul says the Prez-elect is an old friend …
Seamus Duff / The Sun:
‘I JUST THREW UP’ Madonna tweets VERY racy picture in an intimate place - and Piers Morgan isn't impressed  —  The Good Morning Britain host claims to have lost his breakfast over the Queen of Pop's latest social media call to action  —  Madonna has incurred the wrath of Piers Morgan again …
Discussion: alan.com
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Krauthammer: Trump honeymoon ‘officially over’  —  Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer says President-elect Donald Trump  —  has already lost any goodwill following his White House win.  —  “The shortest honeymoon on record is officially over,” he wrote in Thursday's edition of his column.
Discussion: National Review, neo-neocon and IJR
Barbara Bush / TIME:
The Bush Sisters Wrote the Obama Girls A Letter  —  Bush is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps  —  Malia and Sasha, eight years ago on a cold November day, we greeted you on the steps of the White House.  We saw both the light and wariness in your eyes as you gazed at your new home.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump and Obama Staff Meet  —  The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times local):  —  Senior staff members of President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration will meet with their White House counterparts Friday.  —  Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer …
Discussion: Politico
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Louis Nelson / Politico:   Trump revives attack on intel community in early morning Twitter burst
Bloomberg:
Davos Wonders If It's Part of the Problem  —  Did the global elite's devotion to borderless capitalism sow the seeds of a populist backlash?  —  by  —  Kenneth Rogoff can pinpoint the moment he started to grow concerned Donald Trump would be the next U.S. president: It was when Rogoff's fellow attendees …
Alexey Kovalev:
A message to my doomed colleagues in the American media  —  Congratulations, US media!  You've just covered your first press conference of an authoritarian leader with a massive ego and a deep disdain for your trade and everything you hold dear.  We in Russia have been doing it for 12 years now …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
'It's Game of Thrones, the Apprentice, and Survivor all mixed into one'  —  Behind closed doors, Chris Christie — unceremoniously sent packing from Donald Trump's transition headquarters in Washington two months ago — is telegraphing a message to his confidants: I'll be back.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood seeks survival in Trump era  —  Planned Parenthood is grappling with how to survive in the era of Donald Trump  —  Republicans have long targeted the healthcare group for providing abortions, threatening to shut down the government if federal funding wasn't pulled from the organization.
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
To say a final ‘Thanks Obama,’ thousands of Americans to applaud together on his last day  —  The idea hatched from an off-the-cuff comment to her older brother.  It was months before America would elect Donald Trump as its president, and already Bejidé Davis was worried that the country hadn't appreciated Barack Obama.
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState and The Week
Dave Urbanski / TheBlaze:
Fox News host skewers CNN after Trump takedown: 'They say payback's a b***h'  —  Fox News host Neil Cavuto took CNN to task in an on-air commentary, mocking the cable network on the heels of a headline-grabbing press conference this week during which Republican President-elect Donald Trump called CNN “fake news.”
 
 
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump's Cabinet nominees keep contradicting him
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
GOP governors fight their own party on Obamacare