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11:10 AM ET, January 17, 2017

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CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Confidence drops in Trump transition  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump will become president Friday with an approval rating of just 40%, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, the lowest of any recent president and 44 points below that of President Barack Obama, the 44th president.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump Remains Unpopular, With the Presidency in Hand (POLL)  —  Donald Trump enters office as the most unpopular of at least the last seven newly elected presidents, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds, with ratings for handling the transition that are also vastly below those of his predecessors.
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Approval polls are rigged against me  —  on Tuesday tweeted that approval rating polls are rigged against him, as a series of polls show him with historically low approval as he enters office.  —  “The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Poll: Trump will take office as least popular president in at least 4 decades  —  After a tumultuous campaign and transition, President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office Friday as the least popular incoming president in at least four decades, but a majority of Americans nevertheless …
Discussion: Politico and Shakesville
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
‘He Is Going to Test Our Democracy as It Has Never Been Tested’  —  Sometime early last fall, John Dean says he began having nightmares about a Trump presidency.  He would wake in the middle of the night, agitated and alarmed, struggling to calm his nerves.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
More Than 40 Democratic Lawmakers Are Boycotting Trump's Inauguration  —  The number of Democratic lawmakers refusing to attend Donald Trump's inauguration jumped significantly on Monday, with 42 House Democrats now planning to boycott Friday's ceremony, according to the Washington Post.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
John Lewis, Donald Trump, and the Meaning of Legitimacy
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
More than 40 Democratic lawmakers now skipping Trump's inauguration
John Wagner / Washington Post:   Surprisingly, Trump inauguration shapes up to be a relatively low-key affair
Austin Yack / National Review:
John Lewis Boycotted George W. Bush's Inauguration, Too
Manu Raju / CNN:
First on CNN: Trump's cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it  —  Tom Price in 60 seconds Story highlights  —  Washington (CNN)Rep. Tom Price last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited …
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Trump's HHS pick doesn't want to flaunt his own Obamacare bill at confirmation hearing
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump, Price and Hill GOP at odds on Obamacare
Discussion: Vox, CNBC, RedState and ACASignups.net
#DisruptJ20:
DisruptJ20 Releases Statement on Project Veritas Video — January 16, 2017  —  Contact: Lacy MacAuley, (202) 815-0288, lacymacauley@gmail.com  —  Legba Carrefour, (202) 297-4511, media@disruptj20.org  —  DisruptJ20 Releases Statement on Project Veritas Video
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Most Successful Democrat Since F.D.R.  —  When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he understood, without quite saying it, that there had been no highly successful Democratic president in decades.  —  Bill Clinton made the country a better place, but his biggest legislative plans failed and he was beset by scandal.
Discussion: Instapundit and Politico
Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
CIA Director John Brennan Rejects Donald Trump's Criticism  —  Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan rejected Donald Trump's suggestions that he may have leaked an unsubstantiated dossier on the president-elect while defending the U.S. intelligence community more broadly.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Monica Crowley losing White House job shows that the rules of politics still apply for Donald Trump  —  THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump and his team believe that the rules and norms of Washington do not apply to them.  They are wrong, and yesterday brought a significant proof point.
Bloomberg:
Putin Says Doesn't Believe Trump Met Prostitutes in Russia  —  Attacks on Trump seek to undermine election result, Putin says  —  Unsubstantiated claims are ‘obvious fabrications,’ Putin says  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't believe that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump met …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Slot
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Warns on House Republican Tax Plan  —  Donald Trump criticized a cornerstone of House Republicans' corporate-tax plan, which they had pitched as an alternative to his proposed import tariffs, creating another point of contention between the incoming president and congressional allies.
Adam Edelman / New York Daily News:
Scalpers taking losses on tickets to Trump inauguration, as secondary market interest on the mogul's swear-in wanes  —  Donald Trump will take office as one of the most unpopular President-elects in recent history — and even scalpers are feeling the pain.  —  Some flippers …
Discussion: The Slot and Raw Story
Nicole Lopez-Alvar / WSVN-TV:
8 shot at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Miami on MLK Day; 2 detained  —  Police and fire rescue crews are on the scene after eight people were shot during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park.  —  According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue …
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Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
Reporters Plead with MLK III to Attack Trump; Did Lewis Tweets Shake You ‘To Your Core?’
Discussion: Power Line and Mediaite
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
Martin Luther King's Niece Voted For Trump
John King / CNN:
Sources: Trump labor pick Andrew Puzder has voiced second thoughts about nomination  —  Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be labor secretary has voiced second thoughts in recent days, because of a relentless barrage of criticism from Democrats, labor unions and other liberal groups …
 
 
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Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
Lifelong Woodmont Country Club member resigns over Obama golf controversy
Discussion: Reuters, Hot Air, TheBlaze, IJR and Fox News
Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:
A bit of context on Trump, NATO, and Germany
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Bloomberg:
The Davos Disconnect  —  Six charts show why the people …
Discussion: The Big Picture and LewRockwell
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Trumpcare Conundrum  —  As congressional Republicans race …
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
How Trump's Pick for Education Secretary May Reignite the Education Wars
Discussion: Politico
BBC:
Istanbul Reina nightclub attack suspect captured
Discussion: TalkLeft
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump has earned no respect for being the ultimate sore winner
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‘Society Must Be Defended’
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Emily Brown / USA Today:
Obamas, out. Trumps, in: Flipping the White House is a 5-hour sprint
Discussion: Political Wire
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Trump: Monday will be day one of administration
Steve Usdin / Politico:
When a Foreign Government Interfered in a U.S. Election — to Reelect FDR
Discussion: Daily Wire
New York Times:
For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia
Discussion: The Week and Politicus USA
Jason Newman / Rolling Stone:
Bruce Springsteen Cover Band Drops Out of Trump Inauguration Party
 

 
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