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5:50 PM ET, March 12, 2017

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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
HHS Sec. Tom Price: ‘Nobody Will Be Worse Off Financially’ Under GOP Health Plan  —  WASHINGTON — No one will be adversely affected by the Republicans' new health care bill once its enacted, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.  —  “I firmly believe that nobody …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Trump economic head: Whether millions have insurance is ‘interesting’ but beside the point  —  National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn says how many people lose health coverage is really only about headlines.  —  Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace grilled Gary Cohn …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s High-Risk Strategy for Health Law Repeal
Discussion: Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
David Edwards / Raw Story:   HHS Secretary Tom Price boldly promises ‘nobody will be worse off’ after Obamacare is repealed
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Price on Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody will be worse off financially’
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats to turn Obamacare attacks against GOP in 2018
Discussion: Mother Jones
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Intel panel calls for wiretap evidence by Monday  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and ranking member Adam Schiff  —  (D-Calif.) have asked the White House to offer by Monday any evidence showing Trump Tower was wiretapped.  —  A congressional aide confirmed …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
McCain calls on Trump to clarify wiretapping claim
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
McCain to Trump: Retract wiretapping claim or prove it
Discussion: CBS New York, NBC News and IJR
Mike Allen / Axios:
1 big thing: Why Preet was toast  —  Why did Trump insiders instantly know that the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” Preet Bharara of Manhattan, would be fired when he resisted President Trump's resignation order to all the holdover U.S. attorneys?  —  There's a school of thought that the whole purge …
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New York Daily News:
Russian spies in New York City: Preet Bharara announces espionage charges against 3 men  —  The Cold War remains alive and well in New York City, where a trio of Russian nationals were acting as spies, federal investigators said Monday.  —  “The arrest of Evgeny Buryakov and the charges …
David Edwards / Raw Story:   US Attorney fired by Trump was banned from entering Russia by Vladimir Putin
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case  —  In the two and a half years since Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., the explosive case has been parsed in intricate detail.  Witnesses offered varying descriptions of the fatal encounter.
Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Trump's budget director claims Obama was ‘manipulating’ jobs data  —  President Trump's budget director claims the Obama administration was “manipulating” jobs data.  —  Mick Mulvaney told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that he has long thought the previous administration framed data …
Discussion: Political Wire
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
WikiLeaks aids doubters of Russian election hacking  —  WikiLeaks is helping to cast doubt on the conclusion of intelligence agencies that the Russian government was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee, in what appears to be the latest disinformation campaign orchestrated by Moscow.
Discussion: RedState
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Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:
What WikiLeaks Really Revealed About the CIA's Spying Techniques
Wall Street Journal:   Authorities Question CIA Contractors in Connection With WikiLeaks Dump
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
They are poor, sick and voted for Trump.  What will happen to them without Obamacare?  —  Another morning, another list  —  of patients and problems in the hands of 35-year-old Keisha Saunders.  Diabetes, depression, heart disease.  Robert needs lower blood pressure.  Buffy needs prescriptions filled.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Leonard Pitts, Jr / miamiherald:
‘Can we all get along?’  Apparently not  —  So this driver is stopped at an intersection.  A pedestrian is dawdling in the crosswalk.  Driver leans out the window and yells, “Get out of the street, you damned liberal!”  —  It's been years since I read that in a magazine.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Resist the Internet  —  So far, in my ongoing series of columns making the case for implausible ideas, I've fixed race relations and solved the problem of a workless working class.  So now it's time to turn to the real threat to the human future: the one in your pocket or on your desk …
Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
83% Of America's Top High School Science Students Are The Children Of Immigrants  —  What would we lose if immigrants could no longer come to America?  Surprisingly, one of the most important things America would lose is the contributions made by their children.
Elliot Hannon / Slate:
GOP Congressman's White Supremacist Tweet: “We Can't Restore Our Civilization With Somebody Else's Babies.”  —  Republican Congressman Steve King, who has a history of tip-toeing around white nationalist rhetoric, fired off a tweet Sunday afternoon that reeked of white supremacist ideology.
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Donald Trump Jr: At Fundraiser, President's Son Says ‘Zero Contact’ With Dad  —  DALLAS — Donald Trump Jr. said he has had virtually no contact with his father since the real estate tycoon and reality star became president and ceded control of his business empire to his oldest sons.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Irwin M. Stelzer / Weekly Standard:
The American Left Discovers Its Inner George Wallace  —  Who would have imagined that it would come to this?  Leftish activists are campaigning to have the Confederate flag removed from statehouses, statutes of southern statesmen removed from campuses and public spaces …
 
 
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New York Times:
Russian Espionage Piggybacks on a Cybercriminal's Hacking
David Ng / Los Angeles Times:
In liberal Hollywood, a conservative minority faces backlash in the age of Trump
Kurtis Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Utah on the verge of the toughest drunk-driving standard in the U.S. - .05%
Discussion: KTLA
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Uber Gears Up to Block Bid to Form a Union in Seattle
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
20 years after 7 Israeli schoolgirls were killed, some hail Jordanian shooter as a hero upon his release
Liam Deacon / Breitbart:
Second Explosion Rocks Sweden in 24 Hours, Suspected Bomb
 Earlier Items: 
Riley Beggin / ABC News:
Trump budget chief: President is focused on health care, not insurance coverage
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Dangerous Safety of College
Graham Moomaw / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Amid Trump resistance, Virginia Democrats see surge of candidates for House of Delegates
The Hill:
The future of politics is grassroots
Discussion: Political Wire
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Anti-immigrant anger threatens to remake the liberal Netherlands
Max Fisher / New York Times:
What Happens When You Fight a ‘Deep State’ That Doesn't Exist
 

 
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