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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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Juan Williams / The Hill:
If Obama had acted like Trump... Right-wing media to President Obama: We are so very sorry. — That's the message I got last week from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page. — The Journal abandoned efforts to make sense of President Trump's outright fiction that Obama wiretapped him.
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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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas — President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans …
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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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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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How to Build on Obamacare — “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” So declared Donald Trump three weeks before wimping out on his promise to repeal Obamacare. Up next: “Nobody knew that tax reform could be so complicated.” Then, perhaps: “Nobody knew that international trade policy could be so complicated.”
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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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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The King of Crash and Burn
The King of Crash and Burn
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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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dems delay Senate panel vote on Supreme Court nominee — Democrats are delaying for one week an initial committee vote on Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court. — Sen. Chuck Grassley — (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee, said Democrats had requested …
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Jasper Craven / VTDigger:
Leahy will not vote for Trump's Supreme Court nominee — WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., will not support Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. — A week ago, Leahy was undecided. After four days of hearings, Leahy told VTDigger in an interview Sunday night …
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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.
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MJ Lee / CNN:
To read Trump's mind, lawmakers read ‘The Art of the Deal’ — (CNN)As members of the House Freedom Caucus plotted to seize control of Donald Trump's health care bill earlier this month, they discovered a key weakness in the President's strategy. — In a memo circulated to members …
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Francis Fukuyama / Politico:
Trump's a Dictator? He Can't Even Repeal Obamacare
Trump's a Dictator? He Can't Even Repeal Obamacare
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero
Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
AG Jeff Sessions takes aim at sanctuary cities, says DOJ will cut funding — Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a surprise appearance at today's White House press briefing, slamming cities that are working to actively ignore the federal law to turn over people who are living in the country illegally.
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The Washington Times http / Washington Times:
AG Sessions says he'll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars
AG Sessions says he'll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars
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Maureen Dowd / Vanity Fair:
Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse — Elon Musk is famous for his futuristic gambles, but Silicon Valley's latest rush to embrace artificial intelligence scares him. And he thinks you should be frightened too. Inside his efforts to influence the rapidly advancing field …
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Cynthia Kroet / Politico:
Germany didn't receive NATO invoice from Trump: government — There is no ‘debt account at NATO,’ says German government spokesman. — A spokesman for the German government on Monday denied media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump handed a multibillion-euro invoice to Chancellor Angela Merkel …
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Thomas Groome / New York Times:
To Win Again, Democrats Must Stop Being the Abortion Party — When I came to this country from Ireland some 45 years ago, a cousin, here 15 years before, advised me that Catholics vote Democratic. Having grown up in the Irish Republic, I was well disposed to Republican Party principles like local autonomy and limited government.
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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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
NBC News signs former White House press secretary Josh Earnest — Former White House press secretary Josh Earnest has been named an NBC News and MSNBC political analyst. — The announcement was made Monday morning on NBC's “Today” show. — “Josh recently completed a ten-year run with President Obama …
Andrew M Harris / Bloomberg:
13 States File Brief to Court Supporting Trump's Travel Ban — GOP-led states support Trump bid to unblock 90-day visa freeze — President has authority under Constituion, states contend — Texas and a dozen other mostly Republican-led states are throwing their support behind …
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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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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Internal White House battles spill into Treasury — The fight for the direction of Donald Trump's presidency between the Goldman Sachs branch of the West Wing and hardcore conservatives is spilling into the Treasury Department, threatening Trump's next agenda item of overhauling the tax code.
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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Melania Trump to make a rare Washington appearance this week — Get ready for the Beltway equivalent of a rare-bird sighting: Melania Trump is expected this week in Washington, where she's being billed as the “special guest” at the International Women of Courage awards ceremony at the State Department on Wednesday.
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