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6:30 PM ET, March 22, 2017

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Austin Wright / Politico:
Nunes: Trump transition members were under surveillance during Obama administration  —  Updated 4:48 p.m.: Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the panel's Republican chairman in a statement over his claim that the Trump transition team was under surveillance.
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
House Intel chairman: Trump's personal communications may have been collected  — Its chairman said Wednesday Trump's communication might have been part of ‘incidental collection’  —  (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's personal communications …
Bloomberg:
Nunes Says Trump Team Conversations Caught in Surveillance  —  Republican says 'I'm actually alarmed' conversations picked up  —  Disclosure may bolster Trump's claim he was under surveillance  —  House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said Wednesday that the U.S. intelligence community …
Discussion: Politico and Vox Popoli
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
GOP chairman: Surveillance was collected about Trump transition team
Fox News:
Trump team communications captured by intelligence community surveillance, Nunes says
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed …
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Rep. Daniel Donovan / Staten Island Advance:
Why I will vote ‘no’ on the American Health Care Act  —  Rep. Daniel Donovan will vote “no” on the current Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.  (Staten Island Advance/Rachel Shapiro)  —  Since my first day serving in Congress I made a commitment to weigh the impact …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Biden warns against GOP health bill: ObamaCare is ‘peace of mind’
Discussion: RedState
Jim Newell / Slate:
There's a secret, cynical reason Paul Ryan can't give conservatives what they want on the American Health Care Act.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
While Gorsuch was testifying, the Supreme Court unanimously said he was wrong  —  Awkward.  —  About 40 minutes after Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch began his second day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, all eight of the justices he hopes to join said a major disability decision Gorsuch wrote in 2008 was wrong.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Joviality at Neil Gorsuch's Hearing Masks Drama Behind the Scenes
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Neil Gorsuch emotional about right-to-die questions in Supreme Court confirmation hearings
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Fox News:
UK Parliament terror attack: 4 people killed, including cop and alleged assailant; 20 injured  —  DEVELOPING - Four people, including a London police officer who was stabbed and the alleged assailant, were killed after a terror attack that saw more than 20 people injured outside the Parliament building on Wednesday.
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Washington Post:
Attacker kills 3, injures 20 in vehicle and knife assault near British Parliament, according to officials
The Guardian:
Houses of Parliament attack: four dead including police officer
Wall Street Journal:
A President's Credibility  —  Trump's falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.  —  If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him?  Would the rest of the world?
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Comey Is Now the Most Powerful Person in Washington
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Why People Continue to Believe Objectively False Things
Discussion: The Resurgent
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Conservatives claim votes to stop GOP Obamacare repeal  —  House conservatives say they have the votes to bring down a Republican plan to replace Obamacare, threatening a core piece of President Donald Trump's agenda and sparking a frantic, 11th-hour pressure campaign by the president and House GOP leaders.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Defying Trump, Freedom Caucus insists they'll oppose GOP ObamaCare replacement
Discussion: Politico and RedState
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Republican flips to yes on healthcare bill
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and RedState
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Republicans lied about healthcare for years, and they're about to get the punishment they deserve  —  It's hard to decide which would be the more politically damaging outcome for Republican politicians: passing the American Health Care Act, and therefore owning the premium increases …
Washington Post:
Secret Service asked for $60 million extra for Trump-era travel and protection, documents show  —  The U.S. Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for the next year, offering the most precise estimate yet of the escalating costs for travel and protection resulting …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Chelsea Clinton to get lifetime achievement award  —  Chelsea Clinton will be honored with a Variety's lifetime achievement award next month, the magazine announced Tuesday.  —  The 37-year-old former first daughter, a vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, is rumored to be eyeing a run …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Tweeting Toward Oblivion  —  Donald Trump faces a stark choice.  He can tweet, or he can govern.  —  He can indulge his persecution complex, firing off missives that compare Barack Obama to Joseph McCarthy and American intelligence officers to Nazis, or he can recognize it as a gateway to disgrace and irrelevance.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
White Pride and Prejudice
Discussion: twitchy.com and The Guardian
Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
We Fact-Checked Lawmakers' Letters to Constituents on Health Care  —  When Louisiana resident Andrea Mongler wrote to her senator, Bill Cassidy, in support of the Affordable Care Act, she wasn't surprised to get an email back detailing the law's faults.  Cassidy, a Republican who is also a physician, has been a vocal critic.
Discussion: Vox and STAT
Jessica Schulberg / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Team Said It Didn't Ask For Military Vehicles At Inauguration.  Emails Show It Did.  —  “Such support would be out of guidelines,” one Pentagon official wrote.  —  WASHINGTON The month after Donald Trump won the presidential election, his staff asked the Pentagon to send photographs …
Erin McPike / IJR:
Trump's Diplomat  —  “I didn't want this job.  I didn't seek this job.”
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Ex-Colo. GOP leader said only Democrats committed voter fraud.  Now he's charged with voter fraud.  —  The 2016 election was just a month away when Steve Curtis, a conservative radio host and former Colorado Republican Party chairman, devoted an entire episode of his morning talk show to the heated topic of voter fraud.
 
 
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P.R. Lockhart / Mother Jones:
Congressional Black Caucus Shows Trump Its Policy Vision for Black America
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Obama team lines up behind Perriello
Spencer Ackerman / The Guardian:
Muslims inside FBI describe culture of suspicion and fear: ‘It is cancer’
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
Justin Holcomb / Townhall.com:
Turkish President: Europeans Will Not Walk Safely Unless Demands Are Met
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama Admin Loyalists, Government Insiders Sabotage Trump White House
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mitch McConnell's Trumpcare Plan Is to Lose Fast
Caroline Winter / Bloomberg:
How Scott Adams Got Hypnotized by Trump
Discussion: The Concourse
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Labor nominee Acosta cut deal with billionaire guilty in sex abuse case
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
Grieving father: 'I don't play Trump songs anymore'
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Eyeing Trump's Budget Plan, Republican Governors Say ‘No, Thanks’
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
 

 
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