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12:00 PM ET, January 14, 2017

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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump rips John Lewis: Worry about your ‘crime infested’ district  —  on Saturday morning returned fire on a top Democrat who said he was not a “legitimate president.”  —  A day after Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said Trump was not legitimate, the president-elect told him to worry about his own district instead.
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump: John Lewis is ‘all talk,’ ‘no action or results’  —  President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday accused Rep. John Lewis of not doing enough for his district after the Georgia lawmaker and civil rights icon said he doesn't see the “president-elect as a legitimate president.”
Matt Rivera / NBC News:
John Lewis: 'I Don't See Trump as a Legitimate President'
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Dukakis: Trump needs to apologize to Clinton  —  Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis said in an interview Friday that President-elect Donald Trump  —  needs to get off Twitter and apologize to Hillary Clinton  —  “I mean he ought to be ashamed of himself for this kind of stuff …
Discussion: alan.com
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New York Times:
Democrats Confront F.B.I. Chief at Closed-Door Intelligence Briefing  —  WASHINGTON — America's intelligence chiefs sat down with members of Congress behind closed doors on Friday for what they thought would be a straightforward briefing on Russian cyberattacks.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and National Review
The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz confronted Comey about Russian hacking
Wall Street Journal:
James Comey's Best Service
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump open to removing Russia sanctions  —  on Friday said he would be open to lifting sanctions on Russia if he feels satisfied by the relations between the two countries.  —  “If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody's doing some really great things?”
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Elana Schor / Politico:
Intelligence Committee will investigate possible Russia-Trump links  —  Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said late Friday that his committee will investigate possible contacts between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, reversing himself one day after telling reporters …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Democrats plot their D.C. departures for Trump inauguration  —  Many prominent Democrats and Republicans who opposed Donald Trump are fleeing Washington for the inauguration, heading far from the capital to plot anti-Trump strategy or simply avoid the pain of witnessing inauguration celebrations.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
WHIP LIST: Democrats boycotting Trump's inauguration
Discussion: Daily Wire
The Independent:
Ex-MI6 agent's frustration as FBI sat on Trump file for months  —  Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who investigated Donald Trump's alleged Kremlin links, was so worried by what he was discovering that at the end he was working without pay, The Independent has learned.
Frank MacEachern / Westport Daily Voice:
Cops: Greenwich Republican Insulted Town Worker, Then Pinched Her Groin  —  GREENWICH, Conn. — A well-known Greenwich Republican called a town worker “nothing but a bloodsucking lazy union employee” and later reached in from behind to place his hand between her legs and pinch her in the groin area …
Discussion: Political Wire
Annie Karni / Politico:
The Man Who Became Donald Trump  —  The code name for the operation was “Royal Water,” English for the Latin-named “Aqua Regia” acid, which is powerful enough to dissolve gold.  —  That was how the small group of Hillary Clinton aides clued in to the top-secret identity of the man …
Armstrong Williams / The Hill:
Armstrong Williams op-ed: Dems, not Jeff Sessions, have the real race problem  —  It is an unfortunate truth that Democrats are not the examples of diversity and inclusion as much as they claim.  —  They portray themselves as the righteous warriors of truth and conviction, and they actually believe this “truth” to be self-evident.
Discussion: Politico and New York Post
Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
California's bullet train is hurtling toward a multibillion-dollar overrun, a confidential federal report warns  —  California's bullet train could cost taxpayers 50% more than estimated — as much as $3.6 billion more - according to a confidential federal report obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
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LuAnn de Lesseps and her new husband ‘gleaming’ on honeymoon  —  One proposal on dealing with the media that was pitched to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team calls for drug testing the White House press corps.  —  Trump's attacks on the mainstream media were a cornerstone …
Discussion: alan.com
Reuters:
Trump adviser had five calls with Russian envoy on day of sanctions: sources  —  Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, held five phone calls with Russia's ambassador to Washington on the day the United States retaliated for Moscow's interference …
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Top Trump aide in frequent contact with Russia's ambassador
Discussion: ABC News and Politicus USA
Chloe Melas / CNN:
Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down among acts announced for Trump inauguration concert  — Donald Trump's Presidential Inaugural Committee announced more acts for their inauguration festivities on Friday  — Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down, Jennifer Holliday and The Piano Guys are among those expected to perform
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Michael Paulson / New York Times:
Jennifer Holliday Plans to Sing at Trump's Inauguration ‘for the People’
Discussion: AOL and theGrio
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Jerusalem Post:
German court calls synagogue torching an act to ‘criticize Israel’
Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House blasts Chaffetz for threatening to subpoena ethics watchdog
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
When ‘there is serious reason to doubt’ rumors and allegations, is it libelous to publish them?
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who defends NPR and accuses critics of “bad faith distortion” of her past comments about the First Amendment
 
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