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11:15 PM ET, January 20, 2018

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Washington Post:
‘Negotiating with Jell-O’: How Trump's shifting positions fueled the rush to a shutdown … In a remarkable, televised 55-minute meeting with about two dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers earlier this month, President Trump twice proclaimed that any immigration deal would need to be …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Congressional leaders refuse to budge on shutdown's first day, but negotiations continue
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: Negotiating with Trump ‘like negotiating with Jell-O’
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump gala at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night again rents a ballroom from Trump
Discussion: CNN, thecut, Balloon Juice, Mediaite and Politico
New York Times:
Patrick Meehan, Congressman Combating Harassment, Settled His Own Misconduct Case  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
GOP rep loses spot on Ethics Committee over sexual harassment settlement
Discussion: Washington Press
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Welcome to Trump's whatever shutdown  —  Trump has spent a year upending the rules of being president, and so far he's approaching the congressional spending crisis as another episode that will work itself out.  —  Little of the congressional drama that precipitated the weekend's government shutdown …
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Oliver Willis / Shareblue Media:
Watch Mitch McConnell kill effort to protect military pay as GOP pushed for shutdown  —  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would not allow military pay to be left unmolested by the Republican Party's decision to shut down the federal government.  Once again, Donald Trump …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Washington Press
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump lashes out as #TrumpShutdown trends worldwide on inauguration anniversary
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and Roll Call
Associated Press:
The Latest: Shutdown on Trump anniversary frustrates him
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Gutiérrez ready to give in on wall  —  Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) said Saturday that he's ready to give President Trump  —  his signature border wall if the Republicans will agree to new legal protections for “Dreamers.”  —  Furthermore, he said he'd help with the construction.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:   New Trump Ad Calls Dems ‘Complicit’ In Murders By Undocumented Immigrants
Wall Street Journal:
Charles Is in Charge  —  Schumer previews life for Trump if Democrats retake Congress.
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Women's March 2018: Thousands of Protesters Take to the Streets  —  A year after millions of people turned out for the Women's March and took to the streets en masse to protest President Trump's inauguration, demonstrators gathered on Saturday in cities across the United States …
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NBC Chicago:   300K People Joined Women's March in Chicago: Organizers
Amanda Maile / ABC News:
Women's March brings out thousands across US as Trump tweets in response
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Iraq War vet Tammy Duckworth nails Trump: I will not be lectured by a draft dodger  —  “I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops ... in danger.”  —  Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) …
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite
CNN:
You'll get your mail, but not your passports.  Here's what's affected by the shutdown  —  (CNN)In the final moments leading up to Friday's midnight deadline, Senate Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure to continue government services.
Discussion: WNEP-TV, KTLA, NBC News and WREG-TV
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
WH releases photos of Trump working through shutdown  —  The White House on Saturday released photos of President Trump  —  working on the first day of the government shutdown and the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.  —  One photo shows the president walking through a hallway wearing a white …
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Amid Trump's inaugural festivities, members of Russia's elite anticipated a thaw between Moscow and Washington … In the days before Donald Trump's inauguration, a wealthy Russian pharmaceutical executive named Alexey Repik arrived in Washington, expressing excitement about the new administration.
Alexis Simendinger / The Hill:
Meadows: House majority loss wouldn't ‘change a whole lot’  —  (R-N.C.) Thursday in the midst of the GOP's hunt for a spending deal that could attract enough votes in the House to shift the risk of a shutdown to Democrats in the Senate.  —  The president didn't realize he reached Meadows …
Sean Wilentz / New York Times:
They Were Bad.  He May Be Worse.  —  Historians have long looked to a few key criteria in evaluating the beginning of a president's administration.  First and foremost, any new president should execute public duties with a commanding civility and poise befitting the nation's chief executive, but without appearing aloof or haughty.
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Minnesota woman strikes St. Kate's  —  St. Catherine University (a/k/a St. Kate's, formerly St. Catherine College) sits on a leafy 110-acre campus in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul.  It is located a few blocks down the street from my high school alma mater and within shouting distance …
Jennifer Svan / Stars & Stripes:
Overseas military families lose AFN; access to other services remains unclear  —  KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Defense Department personnel and their families overseas woke up Saturday to much confusion, uncertainty and some anger about how their lives would be affected by the U.S. government shutdown.
 
 
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Associated Press:
Shutdown forces closure of Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island
Los Angeles Times:
Tens of thousands turn out for Women's March in downtown Los Angeles
ABC News:
Sunday on ‘This Week’: White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short, Sen. Dick Durbin …
Discussion: Politico
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
The National Rifle Association's Telegenic Warrior
Associated Press:
Missouri governor: ‘no blackmail,’ ‘no violence’ in affair
 Earlier Items: 
Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
Nicolle Wallace's Road From the White House to 30 Rock
Annie Karni / Politico:
Who's in and who's out as the West Wing grapples with shutdown
Discussion: Breitbart and Talking Points Memo
CNNMoney:
CNN boss Jeff Zucker may be in mix for ESPN job
Discussion: Breitbart and Deadline
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Clueless Versus Trump
 

 
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