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10:40 AM ET, March 23, 2017

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TIME:
Read President Trump's Interview With TIME on Truth and Falsehoods  —  President Trump spoke with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer on March 22 for a cover story about the way he has handled truth and falsehood in his career.  —  This is a transcript of the exchange, with some minor edits.
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Michael Scherer / TIME:
Can President Trump Handle the Truth?  —  Generations of American children have learned the apocryphal tale of young George Washington, bravely admitting to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.  The story sprang from a culture that wanted even its fables to serve the ideal of truth.
Discussion: CNBC and Mediaite
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Defense of His Lies: 'I'm President and You're Not'  —  It is remarkable — and perhaps praiseworthy — that Donald Trump gave a long and detailed interview on the subject of his being a pathological liar.  The interview, with Time's Michael Scherer, covers a wide range of Trump's lies …
Discussion: Politico
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Freedom Caucus Closing In On Deal To Rewrite Health Care Bill At 11th Hour  —  Republicans are considering changes that could doom the bill in the Senate and save face in the House.  —  WASHINGTON Just hours before an expected Thursday vote in the House, congressional Republicans …
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The Hill:
Freedom Caucus, Trump reach ‘agreement in principle’ on ObamaCare repeal bill  —  Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said Wednesday night he and President Trump have come to an “agreement in principle” on a plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, just one day before a historic House vote on the bill.
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Republicans Are Rushing To Vote on a Health Care Bill They Haven't Read.  They Learned Nothing From Obamacare.  —  On the even of a major vote on the House health care plan, Republicans, fearing that the bill lacks enough support to pass, have apparently settled on a new plan …
Discussion: Vox
NBC News:   Four Reasons the Health Care Bill Might Pass — and 7 Reasons It Might Not
Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:   Keeping Our Promise to Repeal ObamaCare
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
White House moves to tweak health care bill to win over conservatives
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Inside Trump's last-ditch bid to avoid a health care disaster
Discussion: Axios, Mediaite and The Hill
CNN:
US Officials: Info suggests Trump associates may have coordinated with Russians  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN.
The Guardian:
London attack: police confirm seven people arrested - live  —  Seven arrested in six counter-terrorism raids in London, Birmingham and elsewhere following Wednesday's terrorist attack on London … French authorities have launched an inquiry into the London attack after it became clear three …
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Robert Wall / Wall Street Journal:
Vehicles Becoming Favored Terrorist Attack Weapon
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Axios:
Russia erupts: “I'm President and you're not”  —  In an interview out this morning, President Trump tells TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer, in response to a question about the risk to his reputation caused by false and ever-changing utterances: “Hey, look, I can't be doing so badly, because I'm President and you're not.”
Discussion: Political Wire
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The crucial health care vote  —  THE BIG STORY: Since there's no Plan B, Plan A may have to wait a bit.  Unless Plan A gets rewritten in ways House leaders have claimed was impossible, and in ways that would mean major changes (no “tweaks,” here) to the bill that's been floating around …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:   DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Sen. John McCain …
Jerusalem Post:
‘Dual US-Israeli citizen behind most JCC bomb threat calls’  —  Israeli authorities have arrested an 19-year-old suspect on suspicion of instigating a series of threats to Jewish communities in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand over the past six months.
Brookings Institution:
Senior Scholar - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs  —  In “Mortality and morbidity in the 21st Century,” Princeton Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton follow up on their groundbreaking 2015 paper that revealed a shocking increase in midlife mortality among white non …
Discussion: Washington Post, Instapundit and NPR
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Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
Death Rates Rise for Wide Swath of White Adults, Study Finds
Discussion: The Atlantic and emptywheel
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats weigh deal to let Gorsuch through  —  A group of Senate Democrats is beginning to explore trying to extract concessions from Republicans in return for allowing Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to be confirmed, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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Democracy Now:
A Driver Fled His Truck to Avoid Freezing to Death. Only One Judge Ruled Against Him: Neil Gorsuch
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:
The Trump Presidency Is Already a Joke  —  But it's no laughing matter.  —  It can reasonably be said that our dear leader is now the most ridiculed man on the planet.  In fact, he may well be the most ridiculed man in history.  For a preening narcissist who takes himself terribly seriously …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Naomi Leach / Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S loopy!  Behold The Big Bend - the incredible U-shaped New York skyscraper dubbed the ‘longest building in the world’ is unveiled  — Oiio studio has unveiled designs for curved skyscraper ‘The Big Bend’ as solution to expensive zoning laws  — Manhattan tower was imagined …
Houston Chronicle:
Rick Perry blasts election of Texas A&M's first gay SGA president  —  U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, a former Texas governor and Texas A&M University Aggies Yell Leader, said Wednesday the election of the first openly gay president of the institution's student body was “stolen” …
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death  —  Last September, a very twenty-first-century type of story appeared on the company blog of the ride-sharing app Lyft.  “Long-time Lyft driver and mentor, Mary, was nine months pregnant when she picked up a passenger the night of July 21st,” the post began.
 
 
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Katie Hopkins / Daily Mail:
Welcome to London: We can say we're not afraid, light candles and make hearts of our hands …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and twitchy.com
Jeff Poor / Breitbart:
GOP Rep Peter King: 99.5 Percent Accurate to Say Obama Admin Surveilled Trump Transition
Discussion: Geller Report
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Turkey's Referendum Could Backfire on Erdogan
Discussion: Instapundit
Mark Landler / New York Times:
In Greeting to Iranian People, Trump Leaves Out Their Government
Nancy Gibbs / TIME:
When a President Can't Be Taken at His Word
John Hayward / Breitbart:
Rep. Massie: ‘Obamacare-Lite’ Is Dead; I've Spoken to 29 Colleagues Who Will Vote ‘No’
Discussion: DCReport and Infowars
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama and Trump haven't talked since inauguration
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
President Trump, NBC's Mark Halperin dined in White House
Reuters:
Exclusive: Lead poisoning afflicts neighborhoods across California
Mike Huckabee / Washington Post:
A conservative plea for the National Endowment for the Arts
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple has acquired Workflow, a powerful automation tool for iPad and iPhone
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Schiff: There is now ‘more than circumstantial evidence’ of Trump-Russia collusion
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Federal staffers panicked by conservative media attacks
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Prosecutors Are Extracting Data From More Than 100 Locked Phones Seized During Inauguration Day Arrests
Discussion: The Verge