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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Nunes says he was on WH grounds day before revealing Trump surveillance info — Washington (CNN)It has been something of a mystery, the whereabouts of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes on the day before his announcement that he saw information suggesting that communications …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Devin Nunes Explains His White House Visit — For the last few days, much of Washington has been obsessed with what Representative Devin Nunes did last Tuesday evening. That was the night before Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made the explosive allegation …
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Storm builds around Intel chair after secret White House trip — The storm around House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) intensified Monday after it was revealed that he secretly visited the White House grounds the day before announcing incidental surveillance of President Trump's transition team.
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Devin Nunes is making it very hard for Republicans to claim they can run an impartial investigation on Russia — From the perspective of impartiality, one of the problems with Congress investigating Russia's meddling in the U.S. election and whether President Trump's circle had anything to do with it is Congress itself.
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Boris Epshteyn Named in July FISA Application; Did Nunes Obstruct Justice? — On November 7th, I reported at Heat Street that the FBI had obtained a FISA warrant covering the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. — I reported that the FISA warrant had been granted after an earlier …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
White House's Online Visitor Logs Remain Offline Under Trump
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
After health care fiasco, Trump's next move may be even more disastrous — THE MORNING PLUM: — Now that the GOP plan to wipe out Obamacare lies in smoking ruins, President Trump is mulling a new and fiendishly clever scheme: allow the law to collapse, or even further undermine …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan: House Republicans will continue their push for health-care reform this year — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told Republican donors Monday that he intends to continue pushing for an overhaul of the nation's health-care system by working “on two tracks” as he also pursues other elements of President Trump's agenda.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
What If the Health-Care Collapse Saves Trump's Presidency? — Friday was the worst day of Donald Trump's young presidency—an unprecedented defeat on his first legislative priority, which also happened to be his party's signature promise for the last seven years and one of his own top campaign promises.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How to Build on Obamacare — “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.”
How to Build on Obamacare — “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.”
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Allison Graves / @politifact:
Is Obamacare in a ‘death spiral’?
Is Obamacare in a ‘death spiral’?
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts
Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to New Low of 36% — President Donald Trump's job approval rating fell to 36% for the three-day period of March 24-26, following Republican House leaders' failed effort to pass a new healthcare bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Interesting Timing — Perhaps the White House had planned all along for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to make an appearance at today's press briefing to rail against sanctuary cities. But the timing is consistent with what I've long feared will be the impulse for the Trump administration …
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
AG Jeff Sessions takes aim at sanctuary cities, says DOJ will cut funding
AG Jeff Sessions takes aim at sanctuary cities, says DOJ will cut funding
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CNN:
First on CNN: Border wall ask: $1 billion for 62 miles — Washington (CNN)The Trump administration wants the first $1 billion of border wall funding to cover 62 miles — including replacing some existing fencing along the southern border. — The $999 million requested by the White House …
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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers — Startup from CEO of Tesla and SpaceX aims to implant tiny electrodes in human brains — Building a mass-market electric vehicle and colonizing Mars aren't ambitious enough for Elon Musk. The billionaire entrepreneur now wants …
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Maureen Dowd / Vanity Fair:
Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse
Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Gorsuch's path to 60 votes closing fast — Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's path to 60 votes is rapidly closing — setting the stage for a nuclear showdown in the Senate as soon as next week. — Senior Democratic sources are now increasingly confident that Gorsuch can't clear a filibuster …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dems delay Senate panel vote on Supreme Court nominee
Dems delay Senate panel vote on Supreme Court nominee
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New York Times:
Senate Committee to Question Jared Kushner Over Meetings With Russians — Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How Trump's presidency is succeeding
The Daily 202: How Trump's presidency is succeeding
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Axios:
GOP scrambles to defuse shutdown bomb — A top Republican with close ties to the White House tells me that after the GOP failure on healthcare, a government shutdown — looming when a continuing resolution runs out April 28 — is “more likely than not... Wall Street is not expecting a shutdown and the markets are unprepared.”
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Jeremy Binckes / Salon:
Republicans are facing another government shutdown, and they may not be able to stop it
Republicans are facing another government shutdown, and they may not be able to stop it
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Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
DICK CHENEY: ‘No question’ Russia meddled in the US election, and it could be ‘an act of war’ — In a wide-ranging speech at the Economic Times' Global Business Summit on Monday, former US Vice President Dick Cheney spoke unequivocally about Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
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David Cochrane / CBC News:
Liberals to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018 — Provinces will have right to decide how marijuana is distributed and sold, CBC News has learned — The Liberal government will announce legislation next month that will legalize marijuana in Canada by July 1, 2018.
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Iain Marlow / Bloomberg:
Trudeau to Legalize Marijuana by July 2018, CBC Reports
Julia Harte / Reuters:
U.S. government watchdog to review Mar-a-Lago trips, Trump hotel profits — A U.S. government watchdog has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the agency said on Monday, after Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about the issue last month.
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Axios:
Scoop: Trump wants to make tax reform and infrastructure a package deal — The Trump administration is looking at driving tax reform and infrastructure concurrently, according to a White House source with direct knowledge. — It's a major strategic shift - infrastructure was likely …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
60 Minutes Interview Shows How Unprepared The Mainstream Media Is For Pro-Trump Media — You can't confront the pro-Trump Upside Down media without an understanding of its cardinal rule: the New Right media isn't just an opposition force, it's a parallel institution that insists on its own reality.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Democrats burned by polling blind spot — As they investigate the forces behind the party's stunning losses in November, Democrats are coming to a troubling conclusion. The party didn't just lose among rural white voters on Election Day, it may have failed to capture them in its pre-election polling as well.
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