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2:15 PM ET, January 7, 2018

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Bannon apologizes  —  Battered by the backlash from Michael Wolff's book, Steve Bannon is trying to make amends with the Trump family, providing a statement to Axios that expresses “regret” to President Trump and praises his son, Donald Trump Jr. Show less “Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man.
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CNN:
Tapper cuts off interview with Trump adviser  —  In a heated interview, White House adviser Stephen Miller talks with CNN's Jake Tapper about Michael Wolff's book “Fire and Fury” and its revelations about life inside the Trump campaign and White House.
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Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Pompeo, Lewandowski vehemently defend Trump, slam ‘Fire and Fury’ book as fiction  —  CIA Director Mike Pompeo and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski both defended President Trump on Sunday against accusations in a new tell-all book.  —  The director dismissed claims in Michael Wolff's book …
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump: ‘Now I have to put up with a Fake Book’  —  President Donald Trump on Sunday continued to express his dismay with a blockbuster new book that portrays a commander-in-chief who is mentally unstable.  —  “I've had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced …
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Why hasn't Michael Wolff's dementia-Trump ever been seen in public?  —  President Trump is on TV and in newspapers more than any human on earth, and yet Michael Wolff, based on his time gossiping, has convinced the national media that grandpa got away and is now drooling in the Oval Office.
Discussion: alicublog
San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi's son hobnobs with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago  —  Paul Pelosi Jr., son of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, appears to be quite the nonpartisan partyer.  —  At least judging by the pair of Instagram photos of himself arm-in-arm with first daughter Ivanka Trump …
Discussion: Mediaite
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and the Rule of Law  —  There's been a bomb cyclone of revelations from and about the White House since New Year's Day.  But there's a pattern.  It all stems from President Trump's contempt for the rule of law.  The week began with a tweet from the President that …
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
House GOP intensifies assault on Mueller probe
Discussion: RedState
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
‘Learn his name first’: The politicizing of military widows is touching a nerve  —  In a way, Jenn Budenz lies with him, her right hand resting on their infant, with a gaze fixed on a framed photo of Maj. Andrew Budenz in a sharp Marine Corps uniform.  —  His face is everywhere at the grave …
Jennifer Van Evra / CBC News:
Sarah Silverman's response to a Twitter troll is a master class in compassion  —  After a troll lashed out at Silverman, she found him help for his pain.  —  Sarah Silverman may be known for her biting comedy, but her recent exchange with a Twitter troll is being held up as a model of compassion.
Discussion: JustOneMinute, Mashable and Althouse
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
Kushner's Financial Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role  —  Last May, Jared Kushner accompanied President Trump, his father-in-law, on the pair's first diplomatic trip to Israel, part of Mr. Kushner's White House assignment to achieve peace in the Middle East.
Haroon Ullah / Globe and Mail:
We are being defeated in a digital war - but there is still time to fight back  —  Last year, Russia and its allies engineered a rift between truth and lies, fact and fake news, humans and bots - and the bots are winning.  They're winning because social-media firms profit from all traffic …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History  —  We all know that the world is going to hell.  Given the rising risk of nuclear war with North Korea, the paralysis in Congress, warfare in Yemen and Syria, atrocities in Myanmar and a president who may be going cuckoo, you might think 2017 was the worst year ever.
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Trump's ill-advised claim that the media are covering his mental fitness like Reagan's  —  President Trump is fond of Ronald Reagan comparisons.  As he campaigned on a promise to “Make America Great Again,” Trump cited Reagan's presidency as the last time America was great.
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Here are the people closest to Trump who might doubt his mental fitness
Discussion: CNN and The Guardian
 
 
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USA Today:
President Trump's Twitter-fueled foreign policy: Not as bad as you might think.
Discussion: RedState
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
More than $100K raised for Moore accuser whose home was destroyed in suspicious fire
Discussion: RedState, Vox and Politicus USA
Benjamin Weinthal / Fox News:
Germany urged to abandon its support of Iran's mullah regime
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
How U.S. Intelligence Agencies Underestimated North Korea
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Pro-Kremlin Twitter Trolls Take Aim at Robert Mueller
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
 Earlier Items: 
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Official who improperly helped Redskins owner cut down trees picked as National Park Service deputy director
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Is President Trump Mentally Ill? It Doesn't Matter
Discussion: The Mahablog
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
How Actual Smart People Talk About Themselves
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Althouse
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The 2018 midterms are fast approaching. First up: Primary fights for both parties' future.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
After years of watching Fox, Trump is shocked to learn reporters check facts