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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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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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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Rush Limbaugh Show and Axios
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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Mother Jones
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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Breitbart, New York Magazine, Politico, The Atlantic, Axios, TheBlaze, New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, Townhall.com, Hot Air and Daily Kos
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 …
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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CNN:
Ryan visiting Trump, not delivering good news on health care — Washington (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan is at the White House to brief President Donald Trump on the GOP health care bill, and it is not to deliver good news, a Republican source tells CNN. — Efforts on Capitol Hill …
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The Atlantic, IJR, Hot Air, Mediaite and Joe.My.God.
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.
Bloomberg:
GOP Leaders Not Confident They Have Votes to Pass Health Bill — Speaker Ryan heading to White House to brief president — House vote is scheduled to be held on Friday afternoon — House GOP leaders aren't confident they have enough votes to pass their embattled health-care bill …
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Axios, ABC News, The Daily Caller, CNBC, New York Magazine, Political Insider blog, Refinery29 and Mediaite
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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Stuart Varney: ‘The Republican Party is a disgrace’
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RedState
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
FBI Director Comey visits White House
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The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Ryan pulls ‘fundamentally flawed’ GOP health care bill following call from Trump
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Politico
Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress:
68 times Trump promised to repeal Obamacare
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Talking Points Memo
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House: Vote at 3:30; Trump left ‘everything on field’
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Hot Air, New York Times and Joe.My.God.
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.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Nunes (Kind of) Confesses He Went Off Half-Cocked
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Hullabaloo, Common Dreams, Washington Post and CNN
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Manafort volunteered to speak before House Intelligence Committee in its Russia probe
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Progress Pond
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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Washington Post, grubstreet, The Slot, Joe.My.God., Mashable and The Daily Caller
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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Daily Wire, Raw Story and Mediaite
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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CNBC, Occupy Democrats, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Business Insider and Axios
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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emptywheel, The Daily Caller and CANNONFIRE
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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Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Balloon Juice, Common Dreams, Mother Jones, Health Affairs Blog, Vox, Los Angeles Times and CBO's Publications
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
House Dems Warn GOP: Repeal Vote Will Be ‘Tattooed To Their Foreheads’ — House Democrats warned their Republican colleagues against voting for the American Health Care Act on Friday, pointing to the speed with which it was pushed through the chamber and its unpopularity in a recent poll.
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Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
As Trump administration grants approval for Keystone XL pipeline, an old fight is reignited — President Trump announced Friday morning the granting of a permit for construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, calling it “the first of many infrastructure projects” that he would approve in order to put more Americans to work.
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RedState
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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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