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11:15 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 …
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.
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Nunes: Manafort volunteered to interview with Intel panel … President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has volunteered to interview with the House Intelligence Committee's probe of Russia's interference in last year's election, Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) announced Friday.
Discussion: Politico, TalkLeft and Raw Story
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Nunes: I Had ‘Duty’ To Brief Trump Since He's ‘Taking Lot Of Heat’ In Media
Discussion: Daily Kos
CNN:
Schiff: New evidence shows possible Trump-Russia collusion
Discussion: Political Wire
Peter Hoekstra / Wall Street Journal:
Did Obama Abuse Raw Intelligence?
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
New York Times:
Rep. Nunes Is a Lapdog in a Watchdog Role
Discussion: MSNBC
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.
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: The Atlantic, Daily Kos and Vox
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
GOP rep: Once healthcare bill passes, lawmakers can ‘really explain it’  —  Voter opposition to the Republican healthcare bill is the result of misunderstanding, and lawmakers will be able to “really explain it” once it becomes law, Rep. Chris Collins said Thursday.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The Republican health care plan is totally nuts
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Axios:
The state of Trumpcare: Failure is an option
Discussion: Slate and Forbes
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Republican health-care proposal is breathtakingly unpopular
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A postponed health-care vote, a big GOP embarrassment and no good options ahead
Madeline Farber / Fortune:
The GOP Health Care Bill Would Require New Moms on Medicaid to Find Work 60 Days after Childbirth  —  On Monday, House Republicans introduced the “manager's amendment,” a set of changes to the GOP health care plan, the American Health Care Act (AHCA).  The tweaks—which, among other things …
Discussion: Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
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Alison Kodjak / NPR:
GOP Health Bill Changes Could Kill Protections For Those With Pre-Existing Conditions
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 …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Administration Orders Tougher Screening of Visa Applicants  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is making it tougher for millions of visitors to enter the United States by demanding new security checks before giving visas to tourists, business travelers and relatives of American residents.
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Wall Street Journal:   Trump, Tillerson Settle on No. 2 at State Department
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 …
Ann Friedman / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Just like her mother, Chelsea Clinton never gets a break  —  Chelsea Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on Sept. 19, 2016.  (Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)  —  This week, Variety magazine announced that it would honor former first daughter Chelsea Clinton …
Chris Erskine / Los Angeles Times:
Mammoth got so much snow this winter it called in the National Guard for help  —  Some of the National Guard members sent to Mammoth to help with snow removal.  (California National Guard) (California National Guard)  —  Hey, Mammoth Lakes, add this group shot of the National Guard to your winter scrapbook.
Barney Breen-Portnoy / Algemeiner.com:
With Only Two Democrats Voting in Favor, Senate Confirms David Friedman as Next US Ambassador to Israel  —  Attorney David Friedman was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to be the next US ambassador to Israel.  —  President Donald Trump's nomination of Friedman was approved by a 52-46 vote.
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’
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
North Carolina School System Pulls Book About a Boy in a Dress  —  The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system in North Carolina was going to use a book about a boy who likes to wear dresses as part of a first-grade lesson on what to do when someone is bullied.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
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 …
 
 
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Ian Johnston / The Independent:
Climate change helped cause Brexit, says Al Gore
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Maria Santana / CNN:
Source: ICE is targeting ‘sanctuary cities’ with raids
Discussion: The Slot and ImmigrationProf Blog
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mulvaney: If Your State Doesn't Mandate Maternity Care, Change Your State
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Washington Post:
Nunes's grandstanding proves he can't lead the Russia investigation
Discussion: Politicus USA and The Atlantic
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Lionel Barber / Financial Times:
Juncker warns Trump that anti-EU stance risks triggering Balkan war
Discussion: Business Insider and CNBC
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
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Discussion: Daily Wire
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A conservative news crack-up? Things just got real for some partisan personalities.
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