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5:55 AM ET, March 28, 2017

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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump tweets: ‘Russia story is a hoax’  —  President Donald Trump criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's policies on Russia in a series of tweets Monday night, adding, the “Trump Russia story is a hoax.”  —  “Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking …
Discussion: Axios
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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 …
Associated Press:
GOP divided over new course after House health care debacle  —  Still reeling from last week's House health care debacle, Republicans are pivoting to tax cuts and other issues but remain riven into factions and all over the map about how and when to return to their marquee pledge …
Discussion: Politico
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan: House Republicans will continue their push for health-care reform this year
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
ANALYSIS: After defeat, 3 paths ahead for President Trump
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
patribotics:
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 …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Devin Nunes Explains His White House Visit
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:   Storm builds around Intel chair after secret White House trip
Austin Wright / Politico:
Pelosi, Schiff call on Nunes to recuse himself from Russia probe
Discussion: The Hill
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Nunes admits meeting with source of Trump surveillance documents on White House grounds
Discussion: Mediaite, Towleroad and USA Today
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Nunes says he was on WH grounds day before revealing Trump surveillance info
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:   White House's Online Visitor Logs Remain Offline Under Trump
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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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
23 people ask the Justice Department to launch a criminal inquiry into its chief, Jeff Sessions
Discussion: The Root and The FADER
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider and Axios
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.
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 …
Discussion: CNN and Hot Air
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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 …
Fox News:
Schumer goes off on Trump supporter at NYC restaurant, witness says  —  Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., caused a scene at a Manhattan restaurant when he began yelling at a wealthy and well-connected Donald Trump supporter that the POTUS is “a liar.”  —  Schumer, the top Senate Democrat …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
President Trump's attempts to drain the swamp are being undermined by one of his key administrators.  —  Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is more interested in building his political career than he is taking on the Green Blob, insiders report.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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 …
Fox News:
Homeowner's son shoots, kills three would-be burglars  —  Three would-be robbers were shot and killed Monday when an Oklahoma homeowner's son opened fire on them with an AR-15, authorities said.  —  Wagoner County sheriff's deputies were called to the home in Broken Arrow, southeast of Tulsa at around 12:30 p.m. local time.
Discussion: Bearing Arms
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's ever-growing spheres of influence  —  Nunes' White House visit adds new twist  —  Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump left the confines of the White House Saturday night — in the wake of his humiliating health care setback just the day before …
Dan Rather:
We're roughly two months into the Trump Presidency, and it is the worst start to a time in office I have ever seen.  I am not alone in this conclusion.  Many Presidential scholars are saying it's the worst start of any Presidency in the history of the country.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: IJR, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Cheney: Russian election interference could be ‘act of war’
Discussion: Newsmax and AOL
 
 
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CBS Pittsburgh:
Government Says Man's Last Name Too ‘Offensive’ For License Plate
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Michigan and Flint just agreed to replace 18,000 lead-tainted pipes
Discussion: The FADER
New York Times:
Turk in Iran Sanctions Case Adds Rudy Giuliani to Legal Team
Discussion: Raw Story and CNBC
Madeleine Weast / Washington Free Beacon:
Josh Earnest Named NBC News, MSNBC Political Analyst
Julia Harte / Reuters:
U.S. government watchdog to review Mar-a-Lago trips, Trump hotel profits
Discussion: Liberal Values
Chicago Tribune:
Man shot by ICE agent serving arrest warrant on Northwest Side
Discussion: Washington Post
Allison Graves / @politifact:
Is Obamacare in a ‘death spiral’?
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Democrats burned by polling blind spot
Discussion: Axios
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Another record haul for House GOP, building ‘shock and awe’ warchest
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Trump's budget owes a huge debt to this right-wing Washington think tank
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How Trump's presidency is succeeding
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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