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New York Times:
In Spectacular Defeat for Trump, Push to Repeal Health Law Fails — WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks, pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor Friday afternoon …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘Hello, Bob’: President Trump called my cellphone to say that the health-care bill was dead — President Trump called me on my cellphone Friday afternoon at 3:31 p.m. At first I thought it was a reader with a complaint since it was a blocked number. — Instead, it was the president calling from the Oval Office.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Why Steve Bannon Might Be the Winner of the GOP's Health-Care Civil War — With hours to go before the House is set to (finally) vote on Paul Ryan's health-care bill, the Trump administration is putting a full-court press on recalcitrant Republicans to rally votes.
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Axios:
Health care bill might get yanked from House floor — The prospect of pulling the Obamacare replacement bill is now a matter of discussion among House leaders, according to sources familiar with the conversations. As House Speaker Paul Ryan heads to the White House to brief the president …
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Bloomberg:
White House Preparing to Blame Ryan If Health Bill Fails, Official Says — But Trump says ‘yes’ when asked if Ryan should remain speaker — Legislation advances toward crucial House vote on Friday — In public, President Donald Trump is standing by House Speaker Paul Ryan over the Obamacare replacement bill.
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Stuart Varney: ‘The Republican Party is a disgrace’ — Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney scolded the GOP on Friday for struggling to repeal and replace ObamaCare despite controlling the House, Senate and White House. — “I personally believe at this moment in time the Republican Party …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Bannon Tells Trump: ‘Keep a S**t List’ of Republicans Who Opposed You — If TrumpCare dies, the White House won't forget who killed it — and plans on keeping a “s**t list” of Republicans who stood in their way. — According to multiple Trump administration officials speaking to The Daily Beast …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Discussion About GOP Replacement to Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House Intensifies in White House, Congress — Republican officials in Congress and the White House are now openly discussing finding a GOP replacement to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as Speaker of the House …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
GOP health-care bill: House Republican leaders abruptly pull their rewrite of the nation's health-care law — House Republican leaders abruptly pulled a Republican rewrite of the nation's health-care system from consideration on Friday, a dramatic acknowledgment that they are so far unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Obamacare Defeated Trumpcare — With the collapse of the House health-care bill, the cause of repealing Obamacare, a right-wing obsession for seven years and a day, has died. The flame will never be fully extinguished in the hearts of the true believers — after all …
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CNN:
Ryan visiting Trump, not delivering good news on health care
Ryan visiting Trump, not delivering good news on health care
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Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
Planned Parenthood's President: “It's Time For Ivanka To Stand For Women”
Planned Parenthood's President: “It's Time For Ivanka To Stand For Women”
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump unhappy Jared Kushner took a powder on the ski slopes as health care bill floundered
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Ryan pulls ‘fundamentally flawed’ GOP health care bill following call from Trump
Ryan pulls ‘fundamentally flawed’ GOP health care bill following call from Trump
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House: Vote at 3:30; Trump left ‘everything on field’
White House: Vote at 3:30; Trump left ‘everything on field’
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
How Paul Ryan played Donald Trump
How Paul Ryan played Donald Trump
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Breitbart:
Report: Steve Bannon Says American Health Care Act ‘Written by the Insurance Industry’
Report: Steve Bannon Says American Health Care Act ‘Written by the Insurance Industry’
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Bloomberg:
GOP Leaders Not Confident They Have Votes to Pass Health Bill
GOP Leaders Not Confident They Have Votes to Pass Health Bill
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New York Times:
A Brave Front, but Regrets? On Health Bill, Trump Has a Few
A Brave Front, but Regrets? On Health Bill, Trump Has a Few
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
FBI Director Comey visits White House — FBI Director James Comey was at the White House on Friday, days after he confirmed his bureau is investigating ties between associates of President Trump and Russia. — The White House said Comey visited to attend a “routine interagency meeting,” but did not say with whom he met.
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Nunes: Manafort volunteered to interview with Intel panel
Nunes: Manafort volunteered to interview with Intel panel
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Nunes (Kind of) Confesses He Went Off Half-Cocked
Nunes (Kind of) Confesses He Went Off Half-Cocked
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Wall Street Journal:
Ex-CIA Director: Mike Flynn and Turkish Officials Discussed Removal of Erdogan Foe From U.S. — James Woolsey says he attended a September meeting where other participants, including then-Trump adviser Mike Flynn, talked of moving Fethullah Gulen back to Turkey without going through U.S. extradition process
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
After Promising Not To Talk Business With Father, Eric Trump Says He'll Give Him Financial Reports — Eric Trump sits behind a desk on the 25th floor of Trump Tower in New York City, dressed in a slightly less formal version of his father's go-to power uniform—blue suit, white buttoned-down shirt, no tie.
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Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
Confusion over essential health benefits — The post has been revised to take into account feedback on how best to understand the manager's amendment. — Last night, House Republicans released the text of the final manager's amendment to the American Health Care Act …
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
House Dems Warn GOP: Repeal Vote Will Be ‘Tattooed To Their Foreheads’
House Dems Warn GOP: Repeal Vote Will Be ‘Tattooed To Their Foreheads’
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Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones Apologizes For Pizzagate Coverage, Blames Other Media Outlets — Conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones was pressured to air an apology for his role in spreading the false “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, which led to a Jones listener firing a gun inside a Washington, D.C. pizzeria.
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Axios:
Mnuchin: Losing human jobs to AI “not even on our radar screen” — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin joined Axios' Mike Allen this morning at the debut of his News Shapers event series to talk about his new role in the Trump Administration. — On AI supplanting human jobs …
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Glenn Garvin / miamiherald:
Hardball political operative Roger Stone finds himself on the receiving end — Roger Stone, the legendarily hardball Republican operative who for years has lustily embraced such media epithets as the dapper don of dirty deeds and the undisputed master of the black arts of electioneering …
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David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Column Whatever you do, don't say yes when this chatbot asks, ‘Can you hear me?’ — CSA Images/Archive / Getty Images — It's the most cunning robocall scam I've encountered — and the fact that I've fallen for it more than once tells you how successful it can be. — The phone rings.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Republican Waterloo — Seven years and three days ago, the House of Representatives grumblingly voted to approve the Senate's version of the Affordable Care Act. Democrats in the House were displeased by many of the changes introduced by Senate Democrats.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Tea Party Express backs Trump's ObamaCare bill — The Tea Party Express has decided to back the GOP bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare hours before a pivotal vote in the House. — “Admittedly, this is far from a perfect repeal, and no conservative would propose this if it weren't for the reality …
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