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Jan 14 2017, 9:48 pm ET
These Democratic Lawmakers Won't Attend Trump's Inauguration
by Phil McCausland

VIDEO

Seventeen Democratic lawmakers now say they are skipping Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, a number that grew Saturday after the president-elect dismissed a congressman who is a civil rights icon as "all talk."

Some Democrats had said they were boycotting the event prior to Saturday, but more Democratic members of the House said they would not attend after Trump in a series of tweets attacked Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who a day earlier said he doesn't see Trump as a "legitimate president" due to alleged Russian interference in the election.

Below are the Democratic lawmakers who do not plan on attending.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ers-won-t-attend-trump-s-inauguration-n707001
 
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Rep. John Lewis's books sell out following Donald Trump's attacks
Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
The Fix
January 15 at 4:49

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One side-effect of Rep. John Lewis's heated and very public spat with President-elect Donald Trump: ballooning interest in books written by the civil rights icon.

The Georgia Democrat's "Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement" was sold out on Amazon and was the site's No. 3 bestseller Saturday afternoon. Used copies of the hardcover edition were going for nearly $100.

Claiming the top spot on the list was another book by Lewis: "March," a graphic-novel trilogy about the civil rights movement. The third installment won the National Book Award last year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-1017am:homepage/story&utm_term=.fb124dfd3a2b
 
#3,373 ·
Jan 15 2017, 11:41 am ET
Trump's Plan to Quickly Recall Ambassadors Is 'Risky Move': Experts
by Alexander Smith

A plan by Donald Trump to toss out dozens of ambassadors on the day he takes office risks months of uncertainty in some of the most sensitive parts of the world, according to several experts.

The president-elect's stance that all politically appointed ambassadors must, with no exceptions, be gone from Day One risks cutting off nations' direct line to the president while Congress wades through the lengthy process of approving their successors, analysts said.

This could be especially pertinent because of Trump's penchant for making candid foreign policy statements from his Twitter account; a good ambassador might be able to provide their host government with reassurances and explanation perhaps absent from the president-elect's forthright 140-character messages.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/t...sky-move-experts-n705131?cid=eml_pol_20170115
 
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Barack Obama: Eight Years in the White House
On 60 Minutes, President Obama discusses his two terms as commander-in-chief, Donald Trump and what has been one of the strangest presidential transitions in history
2017Jan 15
Correspondent Steve Kroft

The following script is from "60 Minutes Presents: Barack Obama: Eight Years in the White House," which aired on Jan. 15, 2017. Steve Kroft is the correspondent.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-barack-obama-eight-years-in-the-white-house/
 
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By Emily Schultheis CBS News January 15, 2017, 2:42 PM
Outgoing CIA Director warns Donald Trump over Russia threat, criticism of intel agencies

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Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan warned President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday, saying he doesn't fully understand the threat of Russia -- and that his open criticism of the intelligence community could have effects far outside the United States' borders.

"I think he has to be mindful that he does not have a full appreciation and understanding of what the implications are of going down that road," Brennan told "Fox News Sunday."

He also said that once Mr. Trump is inaugurated things will be different for him -- and that he'll have responsibilities beyond just "talking and tweeting."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/outgoin...er-russia-threat-criticism-of-intel-agencies/
 
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Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in Obamacare replacement plan
By Robert Costa and Amy Goldstein
Politics
January 15 at 10:00 PM

VIDEO

President-elect Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obama's signature health-care law with the goal of "insurance for everybody," while also vowing to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump declined to reveal specifics in the telephone interview late Saturday with The Washington Post, but any proposals from the incoming president would almost certainly dominate the Republican effort to overhaul federal health policy as he prepares to work with his party's congressional majorities.

Trump's plan is likely to face questions from the right, after years of GOP opposition to further expansion of government involvement in the health-care system, and from those on the left, who see his ideas as disruptive to changes brought by the Affordable Care Act that have extended coverage to tens of millions of Americans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...735dd&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%2Bnation
 
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With days left in office, President Obama ushers in dozens of policies. But will they stay seated?
By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis
Politics
January 14 at 6:52 PM

VIDEO

In the past week, the Obama administration overturned a decades-old policy toward Cuban immigrants, forged two major agreements to address racial bias in big-city police departments and approved an unexpected cut in mortgage insurance premiums for hundreds of thousands of low-income and first-time home buyers.

Officials even made time, after years of lobbying, to add the rusty patched bumble bee to the list of endangered species.

In the final days before President Obama leaves office, administration officials are rushing to complete dozens of tasks that will affect millions of lives and solidify the president's imprint on history. But in many cases, their permanence is uncertain, and President-elect Donald Trump is already pledging to undo some of them after taking office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati..._story.html?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.6ab61034fc01
 
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Trump Meets With Martin Luther King Jr.'s Son
By Jordyn Phelps
ALANA ABRAMSON
Jan 16, 2017, 1:56 PM ET

VIDEO

President-elect Donald Trump met with Martin Luther King Jr.'s son to discuss the civil rights leader's legacy.

Martin Luther King III said that he had "a very constructive meeting" with the president-elect and touched on how he hopes to be a "bridge-builder" to help the country "become a greater nation" moving forward.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-meet-martin-luther-king-jrs-son-today/story?id=44804763
 
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Trump national security spokeswoman Monica Crowley to forgo post amid plagiarism charges
John Wagner
Post Politics
January 16 at 1:04 PM

Monica Crowley, recently appointed by President-elect Donald Trump to a key national security communications job, said Monday that she would relinquish the post amid multiple allegations of plagiarism.

Crowley, who has been named senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council, said in a statement that "after much reflection," she had decided to remain in New York and "will not be taking a position in the incoming administration."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m_term=.eed15d559d31&wpisrc=al_alert-politics
 
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10 More Detainees Are Transferred From Guantánamo Prison
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
JAN. 16, 2017

WASHINGTON - With days left in the Obama administration, the United States has sent 10 more lower-level detainees from the wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Oman, and lawyers for two more who are on a list of those recommended for transfer are urgently asking a court to send them home as well.

The government of Oman announced early on Monday that it had resettled the 10 men. They were from a list of those approved for transfer, many after about 15 years of detention without trial, but remained stranded because they come from unstable countries like Yemen. Oman, which has a custodial rehabilitation program for Islamist extremists, previously took in 20 detainees, all Yemenis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/...leave-guantnamo-prison.html?ref=politics&_r=1
 
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Jan 16, 10:14 AM EST
Obama issues warning on 1st anniversary of Iran nuclear deal

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is marking the first anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal by warning the Trump administration that the accord can't easily be undone and is preferable to war.

Obama says the agreement is the product of years of work between Iran and six world powers, not just between the U.S. and Iran. He says a diplomatic solution that keeps Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is preferable to an "unconstrained" Iranian nuclear program or another war in the Middle East.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-16-10-14-08
 
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Obama to commute hundreds of federal drug sentences in final grants of clemency
By Sari Horwitz
National Security
January 16 at 1:41 PM

Justice Department officials have completed their review of more than 16,000 clemency petitions filed by federal prisoners over the past two years and sent their last recommendations to President Obama, who is set to grant hundreds more commutations to nonviolent drug offenders during his final days in office.

"Everyone has killed themselves here to get the final recommendations to the president," Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates said in an interview. "We were in overdrive. We were determined to live up to our commitment. It was 24-7 over the Christmas break."

U.S. Pardon Attorney Robert A. Zauzmer has not taken a day off since Yates brought him on in February 2016 to sift through the backlog of thousands of petitions. From her home in Atlanta, Yates said she reviewed hundreds of petitions during the holidays.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-to-commute-hundreds-of-federal-drug-sentences-in-final-grants-of-clemency/2017/01/16/c99b4ba6-da5e-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-low_criminal-justice-240pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.a700aa0018d5
 
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Tumult surrounds Trump days ahead of his presidency
By Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 2:43 PM ET, Mon January 16, 2017

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In fact, many of the political storms raging as he takes office have been instigated by Trump himself. Inciting chaos and disruption has been the key to his political career, helping him rupture the Republican establishment and win the White House. He seemingly has no plans to change tactics in the White House.

"He is reinventing the modern presidency," said Timothy Naftali, a CNN presidential historian.

But as Trump takes office, his signature style, designed to keep everyone off balance, is facing its most significant test. Will his confrontational, brazen approach, the prosecution of personal grudges on social media and tendency to stir disorientation prove to be a workable template for a presidency? And will his method of deliberately picking at societal fault lines work when Trump is president of all Americans?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/politics/donald-trump-presidency/index.html
 
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Jan 16 2017, 4:02 pm ET
Obama Welcomes World Series Champs Chicago Cubs at White House
by Associated Press

VIDEO

President Barack Obama celebrated the World Series champion Chicago Cubs on Monday and spoke about the power sports has to unite people.

"Throughout our history, sports has had this power to bring us together even when the country is divided," Obama said at a White House ceremony for his hometown team. "Sports has changed attitudes and culture in ways that seem subtle but that ultimately made us think differently about ourselves."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...eries-champs-chicago-cubs-white-house-n707501
 
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In final days, Obama administration signs law enforcement pact with Cuba
Gregory Korte , USA TODAY Published 7:16 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2017 | Updated 4 hours ago

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department signed a new agreement on law enforcement cooperation with Cuba on Monday, seeking to further deepen ties with the communist island just four days before the end of the Obama administration.

The agreement outlines U.S.-Cuban cooperation on a wide range of criminal and security-related issues, including terrorism, narcotics, cyber-security, immigration, money laundering, smuggling and human trafficking.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ion-signs-law-enforcement-pact-cuba/96648026/
 
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Jan 16, 3:37 AM EST
Obama prepares for a busy retirement, more freedom
By JOSH LEDERMAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For Barack Obama, there's a presidential library to build, hundreds of millions of dollars to raise, causes to champion and a book to write. And don't forget that long-promised vacation with his wife.

Looming retirement is looking like anything but for the 44th president.

Obama's next chapter starts Friday when he becomes an ex-president. He'll be freer to speak his mind, set his own schedule and make some money.

Already, Obama is looking ahead to the book he wants to write, and has had talks with Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel about arrangements that could include speaking gigs.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-16-03-37-39
 
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Jan 17, 12:34 PM EST
Obama praises outgoing press secretary for 'integrity'


WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has made a surprise visit to the final daily press briefing with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.

Obama praised Earnest Tuesday for "his smarts and his maturity," but added that one of his best qualities has been his integrity.

Obama says Earnest is "tough and didn't always give you guys what you wanted," but that he tried to make sure to share as much of the administration's vision and policy as possible.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-17-12-34-05
 
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Obama looks to lock in $1 billion to schools with low-income kids
By Thomas Frank, CNN
Updated 10:32 AM ET, Tue January 17, 2017

Washington (CNN)The Obama administration is considering a major last-minute policy shift that could force hundreds of school districts to cut spending at well-financed elementary and secondary schools and move nearly $1 billion dollars to schools with large numbers of low-income students.

The policy, written by the Department of Education, is under review by the White House budget office and has drawn fierce opposition from Republican lawmakers and school administrators.

The policy, written by the Department of Education, is under review by the White House budget office and has drawn fierce opposition from Republican lawmakers and school administrators.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/obama-billion-schools-regulation/index.html
 
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Trump Fires Back After Polls Show His Favorability Ratings In The Basement
January 17, 201712:48 PM ET
Danielle Kurtzleben

CHART

Donald Trump loves superlatives: words like "biggest," "best," and "greatest" pepper many of his statements, whether at a microphone or on Twitter. But a recent poll lends him another, less attractive superlative: the lowest favorability rating of any incoming president in at least 40 years.

That's what a new ABC News-Washington Post poll shows, with only 40 percent of Americans currently viewing Donald Trump favorably and 54 percent unfavorably. That's the lowest favorability for any incoming president since at least Jimmy Carter in 1977 in that poll. (Carter is the earliest data the poll presented). The next-lowest performer on this measure was George W. Bush in 2001, and his favorability rating was 16 points higher than Trump's currently is.

A new CNN/ORC poll bolsters this finding, showing Trump with 44 percent favorability (along with 53 percent unfavorability). (A Pew poll from last month had him at an even lower 37 percent.)

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/17/510256862/trump-polls-tweet-favorability-popular

 
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Health Law Repeal Could Cost 18 Million Their Insurance, Study Finds
By ROBERT PEAR JAN. 17, 2017

WASHINGTON - Repealing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, while leaving other parts in place, would cost 18 million people their insurance in the first year, a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday. A repeal could increase the number of uninsured Americans by 32 million in 10 years, the report said, while causing individual insurance premiums to double over that time.

The budget office analyzed the probable effects of a Republican bill repealing the law like the one approved in Congress, but vetoed early last year by President Obama.

The C.B.O. report, released after a weekend of protests against repeal, will only add to the headaches that President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans face in their rush to gut President Obama's signature domestic achievement as they try to replace it with a health insurance law more to their liking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/...ce-affordable-care-act.html?ref=politics&_r=1
 
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Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning, U.S. soldier convicted for leaking classified information
By Ellen Nakashima and Sari Horwitz By Ellen Nakashima and Sari Horwitz
National Security
January 17 at 5:35 PM

VIDEO

President Obama commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, an Army private convicted in 2013 of taking troves of secret diplomatic and military documents and disclosing them to WikiLeaks.

Obama also granted a full and complete pardon to Ret. Marine General James E. Cartwright for lying to the FBI in a probe of a leak of classified information about a covert U.S.-Israeli cyberattack on Iran's nuclear program. A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was known as Obama's favorite general, Cartwright pleaded guilty in October and faced a request by prosecutors for a two-year prison term sentencing in two weeks.

In addition, Obama granted clemency to about 200 low-level drug offenders who were sentenced under harsh drug laws and would have received lighter sentences if convicted today. In all, the president commuted 209 individuals and pardoned another 64. He is expected to grant more federal drug commutations on Wednesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.ef01f1b2583a
 
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Jan 17 2017, 5:30 pm ET
Trump Accuser Summer Zervos Files Defamation Suit Against President-Elect
by Daniella Silva

VIDEO

A woman who previously accused Donald Trump of unwanted sexual advances has filed a defamation lawsuit against the president elect - just three days before Trump's presidential inauguration.

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on the "The Apprentice," said in a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred in Los Angeles on Tuesday that she filed the lawsuit over allegedly false statements Trump made in response to her accusation.

The suit, filed Tuesday morning, claims Trump knew his statements about Zervos and his other accusers would subject them to "threats of violence, economic harm and reputational damage."

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...famation-suit-against-president-elect-n708031
 
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