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1:40 AM ET, March 21, 2017

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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News pulls Judge Napolitano over his Trump wiretap claims  —  Judge Andrew Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, is being kept off the air indefinitely.  (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images)  —  Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano is being kept off …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Fox News pulls Napolitano after his Trump wiretap claims
Discussion: Business Insider
Media Matters for America:
The Bigotry And Idiocy Of Donald Trump's Favorite News Show
Discussion: The Guardian and The Hill
New York Times:
Trump's Weary Defenders Face Fresh Worries  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump began Monday as he has started so many other presidential mornings — by unleashing a blistering Twitter attack on critics who suggested his 2016 campaign colluded with the Russians.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
All the President's Lies  —  The ninth week of Donald Trump's presidency began with the F.B.I. director calling him a liar.  —  The director, the very complicated James Comey, didn't use the L-word in his congressional testimony Monday.  Comey serves at the pleasure of the president, after all.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Stranger …
Washington Post:
President Trump faces his hardest truth: He was wrong  —  On the 60th day of his presidency came the hardest truth for Donald Trump.  —  He was wrong.  —  James B. Comey Jr. — the FBI director whom Trump celebrated on the campaign trail as a gutsy and honorable “Crooked Hillary” …
New York Times:
F.B.I. Is Investigating Trump's Russia Ties, Comey Confirms
New York Times:
Comey Confirms F.B.I. Inquiry on Russia; Sees No Evidence of Wiretapping
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
GOP leaders pile on sweeteners to sell Obamacare repeal  —  House Republican leaders are making a last-ditch attempt to win enough support to pass their Obamacare repeal, revealing an expansive series of changes to the bill on Monday night designed to woo wary GOP lawmakers.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Republican leaders are adding a $75 billion magic asterisk to their Obamacare repeal plan  —  It will help older people in some totally unspecified way.  Allegedly.  —  In an effort to blunt the American Health Care Act's disastrous effect on older Americans, House Republican leaders …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The new Republican health care bill doesn't fix the old bill's problems  —  Work requirements for Medicaid, bigger tax cuts for the rich, but nothing for the uninsured.  —  There are three problems you could have imagined the manager's amendment to the American Health Care Act trying to fix:
Discussion: RedState, IJR and Common Dreams
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Conservative chair: ObamaCare talks ‘over’ but bill won't pass  —  The chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus says the negotiations on the ObamaCare repeal plan are “over” but predicts the legislation won't pass the House.  —  “We've communicated very clearly what we'd like to see and have done.
Discussion: Vox
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republican Health-Care Plan Has Disappeared Again  —  The greatest advantage the Republican Party held, through eight years of political war over the provision of health care, was not having a plan to defend.  After November's elections handed them full control of government …
CNN:
Republicans change health care bill in search for votes
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:   Sen. Pat Toomey's Serious Medicaid Idea
The Hill:
GOP mulls ObamaCare tweak to win NY support
Discussion: Uticaod
Jacob Gardenswartz / Vox:
Every House Republican who could sink the GOP health care bill
Discussion: Politico
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What Did We Learn Today?  —  Judged by time, today's House Intelligence Committee hearing was mainly an exercise in hypotheticals and ‘no comments’.  For those who hadn't gotten the full treatment until now, it was also an exposure to what we might term James Comey's militant earnestness.
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
FBI probe of Trump-Russia ties began 3 months before election  —  The FBI's counterintelligence investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, confirmed by FBI director James Comey in congressional testimony Monday, began as early as late July …
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Comey: ‘No Information’ To Back Trump's Claim Obama Wiretapped Him
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Spicer digs in after FBI confirms Russia probe
Discussion: Daily Kos
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton camp unloads on Comey
Discussion: RedState
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
The Blaze Suspends Tomi Lahren  —  Conservative media company The Blaze has suspended political commentator Tomi Lahren, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Daily Caller.  —  Lahren's show is suspended for effect for at least one week starting Monday, according to TheDC's sources.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka Trump set to get West Wing office as role expands  —  Ivanka Trump, who moved to Washington saying she would play no formal role in her father's administration, is now officially setting up shop in the White House.  —  The powerful first daughter has secured her own office …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Tillerson plans to skip NATO meeting, visit Russia in April - sources  —  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip an April 5-6 meeting of NATO foreign ministers for a U.S. visit by the Chinese president and will travel to Russia later in the month, U.S. officials said on Monday …
NBC News:
Here's Judge Gorsuch's Full Opening Statement  —  Full Video: Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's Opening Statement 16:47  —  The text of Judge Neil Gorsuch's opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee as prepared for delivery.  —  Mr. Chairman, Sen. Feinstein, Members of the Committee:
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Arnie Seipel / NPR:
Amid Charges By Former Law Student On Gender Equality, Former Clerks Defend Gorsuch
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Survey: Only 43 percent can name a Supreme Court justice
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Six Highlights From the Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing
Sam Thielman / The Guardian:
US forbids any device larger than cellphone on airlines from 13 countries  —  New TSA requirement blocks passengers from bringing laptops, iPads, Kindles and cameras, with a lack of specifics on whether flight crews are included in rule  —  US authorities have secretly required airlines …
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Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Trump drops 208 spots on Forbes list of billionaires  —  Donald Trump is $1 billion poorer since becoming president, according to Forbes's latest list of the world's billionaires.  —  The magazine's newest ranking, released Monday, estimated that Trump's net worth has fallen from $4.5 billion …
Discussion: The Hill, Forbes and CNBC
 
 
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Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Are U.S. jobs vulnerable to workers with H-1B visas?
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Georgia nonprofit says it unwittingly gave $25,000 to white nationalist Richard Spencer
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
'He's baaaack!':  Trump's visits to Mar-a-Lago are stretching Palm Beach's budget and locals' patience
Discussion: Daily Kos
Pam Key / Breitbart:
Sean Spicer to ABC's Jon Karl: ‘Calm Down’ — 'It's Not Your Press Briefing'
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
TMZ.com:
Huma Abedin and Tony Goldwyn Do Disneyland Together (PHOTO GALLERY + VIDEO)
Discussion: Heat Street and New York Magazine
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
NY attorney general hires prosecutor likely to target Trump administration: report
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Daily Caller
Sarah Posner / New Republic:
How did Donald Trump—a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator—hijack the religious right?
 Earlier Items: 
Rolando Pujol / New York's PIX11:
EXCLUSIVE: 9/11 families sue Saudi Arabia, accuse the U.S. ally of complicity in the terrorist attacks
Discussion: New York Magazine
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Trump wants to defund PBS. ‘Sesame Street’ brutally parodied him for decades.
Discussion: Mashable
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Burying Their Cattle, Ranchers Call Wildfires ‘Our Hurricane Katrina’
Discussion: Washington Post
Pew Research Center:
A wider partisan and ideological gap between younger, older generations
Discussion: Washington Post
Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
The Trump Voters Who Don't Deserve Democrats' Sympathy
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Wall Street Journal:
X names former Tubi CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki as its CFO; Trump pardoned Banki in January 2021 for making false statements; a source says he joined X in November
 
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