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Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Urges Followers to Watch Fox News Host Who Demands Paul Ryan Resign — Judge Jeanine Pirro opened her show demanding that Ryan step down for his “failure” over Trump's health care bill. — President Donald Trump tweeted a message on Saturday encouraging his followers …
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New York Times:
Trump Becomes Ensnared in Fiery G.O.P. Civil War — WASHINGTON — President Trump ignites a lot of fights, but the biggest defeat in his short time in the White House was the result of a long-running Republican civil war that had already humbled a generation of party leaders before him.
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New York Magazine, The FADER, The Moderate Voice, Axios, Politico, Instapundit, Shareblue and FOX6Now.com
Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal:
With GOP Plan Dead, Trump Eyes Other Ways to Reshape Health Care
With GOP Plan Dead, Trump Eyes Other Ways to Reshape Health Care
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The Guardian, Common Dreams, Raw Story, STAT, Mediaite, FiveThirtyEight, Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Bannon wanted to use healthcare vote to make ‘enemies list’
Report: Bannon wanted to use healthcare vote to make ‘enemies list’
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RedState
Harold Pollack / Politico:
Paul Ryan Failed Because His Bill Was a Dumpster Fire
Paul Ryan Failed Because His Bill Was a Dumpster Fire
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The Hill, Washington Monthly, bradford-delong.com and Forbes
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Top Trump TV surrogate to leave high-profile post — Boris Epshteyn, a special assistant to the president who oversees Donald Trump's television surrogate operation, is expected to leave his high-profile post, multiple sources close to the administration told POLITICO.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Boris Epshteyn, Trump TV Surrogate, Is Leaving White House Job — Boris Epshteyn, an official in the White House press office who had a contentious relationship with television producers and was once a frequent presence on TV himself, is leaving his job, according to three people with knowledge of the move.
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CANNONFIRE, Deadline and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Russian state-owned news site applies for White House press pass
Russian state-owned news site applies for White House press pass
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Political Wire
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
How a secret Freedom Caucus pact brought down Obamacare repeal — Speaker Paul Ryan and House leaders had been toiling behind closed doors for weeks assembling their Obamacare repeal bill as suspicion on the far-right simmered to a boil. — So on March 6, just hours after Ryan unveiled …
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Raw Story
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Republicans wonder whether Trump's heart was in healthcare fight
Republicans wonder whether Trump's heart was in healthcare fight
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Raw Story, Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Report: Bannon told conservatives ‘this is not a debate,’ you have to back bill
Report: Bannon told conservatives ‘this is not a debate,’ you have to back bill
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CNN, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, Vox, IJR, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald, This I Will Tell You — We've known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. — You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician? — Don't worry. No one will ever mistake you for a politician.
Letitia Stein / Reuters:
Angry over U.S. healthcare fail, Trump voters spare him blame — The day after the flaming out of U.S. President Donald Trump's first major legislative initiative, his supporters across America were lashing out - at conservatives, at Democrats, at leaders of his Republican Party in Congress.
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Raw Story
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Trump vs. Congress: Now What? — After the president suffered his first defeat on Capitol Hill, can the White House still make good on its legislative promises? — On Monday, Jan. 9, less than two weeks before President Trump's inauguration, the House speaker, Paul Ryan …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Islam and the Jihad in London — It's not non-Western. It's anti-Western. — It was a careful choice of words, Bernard Lewis being nothing if not careful. In 2004, the West audibly gasped when its preeminent scholar of Islam famously told the German newspaper Die Welt …
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Daily Mail and Power Line
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Oliver Jj Lane / Breitbart:
Britain's Mainstream Media Blames ‘Racism’ for Westminster Attack
Britain's Mainstream Media Blames ‘Racism’ for Westminster Attack
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Cindy Carcamo / Los Angeles Times:
Violence erupts at pro-Trump rally in Huntington Beach — Violence erupted at a Make America Great Again rally in Huntington Beach on Saturday after a protester opposed to President Trump allegedly doused a female organizer of the event with pepper spray, sparking a brawl that ended with several arrests.
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Dana Schuster / New York Post:
Huma Abedin ‘working hard’ on marriage with Anthony Weiner — Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner in May of 2016. — Getty Images — Fool me once, shame on you. Fool Huma Abedin four times, and she'll still take you back. — After years of public humiliation by her sext-a-holic husband …
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BizPac Review and The Gateway Pundit
Scott Adams' Blog:
Scott Adams' Blog — Today we are witnessing one of the most important events in political history. But you probably can't see it because the news is talking about healthcare, and how Ryan and Trump totally failed to get enough votes. — The real story is happening in parallel with the healthcare story …
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Instapundit and Althouse
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Trump visits Trump-branded property for 8th consecutive weekend — Sean Spicer said the president planned to spend the weekend working. — During his news conference on Friday, Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to argue that President Trump couldn't possibly have worked harder …
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Post On Politics, Hullabaloo, Public Pool, Shareblue and The Guardian
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George Bennett / Post On Politics:
Melania Trump makes cameo as Palm Beach County GOP raises money at Mar-a-Lago
Melania Trump makes cameo as Palm Beach County GOP raises money at Mar-a-Lago
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Raw Story
Masha Gessen / New York Times:
Don't Fight Their Lies With Lies of Your Own — A student asked me the other day whether I approved of exaggerating for a good cause. The topic had apparently been discussed at an environmental forum, and the question was, essentially, “Does saving the climate justify lying?”
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