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10:10 AM ET, March 24, 2017

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Fox News:
Potential ‘smoking gun’ showing Obama administration spied on Trump team, source says  —  Republican congressional investigators expect a potential “smoking gun” establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Intel chair Devin Nunes unsure if Trump associates were directly surveilled  —  The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, R-Calif., does not know “for sure” whether President Donald Trump or members of his transition team were even on the phone calls or other communications …
CNN:
Schiff: New evidence shows possible Trump-Russia collusion  —  Schiff: New Trump-Russia collusion evidence  —  Washington (CNN)The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is claiming that he has been presented with new information on collusion between associates of President Donald …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Political Wire
Peter Hoekstra / Wall Street Journal:
Did Obama Abuse Raw Intelligence?  —  I couldn't have seen those transcripts when I led the House intel committee.  —  By  —  It was remarkable when Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, revealed Wednesday that Trump campaign officials were caught up in the inadvertent collection of intelligence.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Shut down Nunes's investigation — and investigate him for leaking  —  REP. DEVIN NUNES (R-Calif.) on Monday denounced what he described as the illegal leak of classified information concerning conversations between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Nunes: I Had ‘Duty’ To Brief Trump Since He's ‘Taking Lot Of Heat’ In Media
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Times:
Rep. Nunes Is a Lapdog in a Watchdog Role
Discussion: MSNBC
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Bob Woodward: Obama officials possibly facing criminal charges for unmasking scheme
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Balloon Juice
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:   Intelligence Reports Reveal Improper Political Surveillance of Trump, Transition Team
New York Times:
A Brave Front, but Regrets?  On Health Bill, Trump Has a Few  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, the author of “The Art of the Deal,” has been projecting his usual bravado in public this week about the prospects of repealing the Affordable Care Act.  Privately he is grappling with rare bouts of self-doubt.
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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.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The health care ultimatum  —  The big story: So there is a law of political physics that applies to Donald Trump after all.  Actually, this one is basic math, in that House leaders and the White House have never had the majority they assumed they could get, as we approach today's showdown.
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
What the G.O.P. Doesn't Get About Who Pays for Health Care  —  A few years ago, a relative of mine, an electrician who made a good living laying cable alongside highways, told me that his economic future depended on one thing: his back.  He saw what happened to older guys …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Vox
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Axios:
The state of Trumpcare: Failure is an option  —  Here's the reality that President Trump and Republican leaders are facing: They want to repeal Obamacare, but not the popular parts of Obamacare.  But to the most conservative Republicans, and their supporters, repeal means repeal …
Discussion: Forbes and Vox
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House leaders and President Trump press for ‘yes’ as they prepare to vote by late afternoon Friday on health-care reform
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A postponed health-care vote, a big GOP embarrassment and no good options ahead
Alison Kodjak / NPR:
GOP Health Bill Changes Could Kill Protections For Those With Pre-Existing Conditions
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Trump delivers ultimatum to House Republicans: Pass health-care measure on Friday or he'll move on
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 …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The Republican health care plan is totally nuts  —  A pointless, reckless rush to vote on a bad, unpopular, doomed bill.  —  In both its substance and its procedural details, the plan cooked up by the Trump administration and House Republican leadership to overhaul the American health care system is completely insane.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
GOP rep: Once healthcare bill passes, lawmakers can ‘really explain it’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Trump threatens to leave ObamaCare in place if repeal bill fails
Heritage Action for America:
“NO” ON AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT (H.R. 1628)  —  At some point, the House is expected to vote on the American Health Care Act (H.R. 1628), which would partially repeal and replace various components of Obamacare.  The proposed legislation repeals a number of Obamacare provisions …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Republican health-care proposal is breathtakingly unpopular
Media Matters for America:
The Life Cycle Of A Donald Trump Lie  —  On March 4, President Donald Trump declared himself the victim of a scandal on the level of the the Watergate crimes that brought down President Richard Nixon.  In an early-morning tweetstorm apparently triggered by reading a Breitbart article …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka's lawyer, a Democrat, defends herself  —  Attorney Jamie Gorelick had just finished vetting potential cabinet secretaries for Hillary Clinton—and raising money for the failed 2016 Democratic nominee - when Jared Kushner called her last year, seeking legal counsel.
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Associated Press:   Ivanka Trump: A White House force, just not an ‘employee’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Scammers, the Scammed and America's Fate  —  Many people are horrified, and rightly so, by what passes for leadership in today's Washington.  And it's important to keep the horror of our political situation up front, to keep highlighting the lies, the cruelty, the bad judgment.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mulvaney: If Your State Doesn't Mandate Maternity Care, Change Your State  —  Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, one of the top administration officials who had been working to pass the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, on Friday morning brushed off concerns …
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A conservative news crack-up?  Things just got real for some partisan personalities.  —  These should be high times for conservative news outlets, what with like-minded officials and operatives in control of virtually every important office in Washington.  —  And yet the news …
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Nick Parker / The Sun:
GET IN THE CAR, PM Moment Theresa May is bundled into car as shots are heard during London terror attack  —  Lone wolf jihadi Khalid Masood got dangerously close to the PM before he was gunned down  —  THIS is the moment Theresa May was rushed from Parliament by armed guards to a waiting car …
Lionel Barber / Financial Times:
Juncker warns Trump that anti-EU stance risks triggering Balkan war  —  European Commission president delivered admonition to vice-president Mike Pence  —  Read next … Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, has delivered a blunt warning to Donald Trump against encouraging countries …
Discussion: Business Insider and CNBC
 
 
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Tillerson Settle on No. 2 at State Department
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Variety:
Jay Z, Weinstein Company to Make Trayvon Martin Film and Documentary Series (EXCLUSIVE)
Discussion: EW.com, The Guardian and The Root
Washington Post:
Gunman in Ukraine kills Putin foe in attack denounced as ‘state terrorism’
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Guardian
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
RNC paid intel firm for Clinton dirt
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