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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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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.”
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Political Wire
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.
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 …
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Politico and Political Wire
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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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
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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.
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Politico, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Balloon Juice
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 …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Obamacare repeal in jeopardy as Trump offers 11th-hour concessions — The Republican push to replace Obamacare - backed forcefully by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan —is in jeopardy, as a last-ditch bid by the White House to win conservative support late Wednesday appeared to repel moderates.
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Vox, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's weak closing argument on health care — and why it matters
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Politico, Townhall.com, bradford-delong.com, Urban Institute and New York Times
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Kochs to withhold millions for health care ‘yes’ votes
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RedState, The Guardian, Hot Air, TheBlaze and Washington Post
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
White House moves to tweak health care bill to win over conservatives
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The latest health care cut Republicans are weighing, explained
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Politico
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Mike Lee: Senate parliamentarian told me it's possible to push harder on repealing Obamacare regulations
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Jamie Dupree, Washington Post and Hot Air
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.
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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.
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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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Katie Hopkins / Daily Mail:
Welcome to London: We can say we're not afraid, light candles and make hearts of our hands …
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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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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 …
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Washington Post, Instapundit and NPR
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Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday called for a select committee to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election and potential ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian officials, telling MSNBC's Greta Van Susteren …
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Schiff: There is now ‘more than circumstantial evidence’ of Trump-Russia collusion
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Political Wire
Austin Wright / Politico:
Nunes claims some Trump transition messages were intercepted
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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 …
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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” …
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 …
New York Daily News:
Racist Maryland man who fatally stabbed black New Yorker admits his intent to kill African-American men — The 28-year-old man busted for fatally stabbing a black stranger in Midtown on Tuesday has told cops he came the city from Baltimore to kill African-Americans, sources said.
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