memeorandum: Democrat O'Rourke to take on Cruz for Senate in 2018 (Elena Schneider/Politico)

2:45 PM ET, March 29, 2017

Top Items:

Antiabortion activists face 15 felony charges over undercover videos that targeted Planned Parenthood — David Daleiden, right, leaves a courtroom after a hearing in Houston last year. (Pat Sullivan / AP) — Two antiabortion activists whose controversial undercover videos accused Planned …

Discussion: Fox News, ThinkProgress, Rewire, Faithwire, Refinery29, IJR, The Lid, Mother Jones, New York Magazine and KTLA

Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:

Two activists who filmed undercover videos of Planned Parenthood charged with 15 felonies — The two antiabortion activists who mounted a hidden-camera investigation against Planned Parenthood officials have been charged with 15 felonies for violating the privacy of health-care providers …

Discussion: Associated Press, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, The Gateway Pundit and NBC News

David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:

PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S POLITICAL CRONIES FILE DISCREDITED CHARGES AGAINST DAVID DALEIDEN — The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news. They tried the same collusion with corrupt officials in Houston, TX and failed: both the charges and the DA were thrown out.

Discussion: OC Weekly, Washington Times, RedState, FOX2now.com, KQED News, Daily Wire, AOL, LifeNews.com, twitchy.com and TheBlaze

YouTube:
Planned Parenthood Abortionist: “Pay Attention to Who's In the Room” to Deal With Infants Born Alive

Discussion: Townhall.com, TheBlaze, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris:
Attorney General Xavier Becerra Announces Charges Filed Against David Robert Daleiden for Criminal Invasion of Privacy

Discussion: Hit & Run, Washington Free Beacon and Instapundit

Andrew Dalton / USA Today:
Felony charges for 2 who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood

Discussion: Shareblue, Associated Press, IJR and The Slot

Steven Shepard / Politico:

Poll: Health care debacle takes toll on Trump — Voter perceptions of President Donald Trump's job performance have eroded following the failure of a long-promised health care bill through Congress, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. — Trump's approval rating dropped …

Discussion: Axios, CBS News, Politicus USA, Mediaite, Business Insider and Washington Times

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Reeling Republicans desperate for a win on Gorsuch — Mitch McConnell told his leadership team in private this week what's becoming increasingly obvious on Capitol Hill: Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch probably won't get 60 votes to avoid a filibuster. — But the Senate majority leader …

Discussion: Raw Story

Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Red state Dems say no to Gorsuch, refuse to surrender stolen Supreme Court seat without a fight

Discussion: Townhall.com and Politico

Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
The Fundamental Dishonesty of the Gorsuch Hearings

Discussion: SCOTUSblog and electionlawblog.org

Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination is on track to change the Senate — and further divide the country

Discussion: Shareblue

Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:

How the White House and Republicans Blew Up the House Russia Investigation — The evidence is now clear that the White House and Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, have worked together to halt what was previously billed as a sweeping investigation of Russian interference in last year's election.

Discussion: Vox, Axios, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, NBC News, Daily Kos, CANNONFIRE, Occupy Democrats, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and New York Times

Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:

Devin Nunes Could Be Facing an Ethics Probe for Spilling Secrets — The controversy surrounding House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes may just be getting started. Nunes could soon be staring down the barrel of a House Ethics Committee investigation, lawyers familiar with the House's rules tell The Daily Beast.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, New York Times, RedState, Washington Post, Just Security, BillMoyers.com, National Review, Axios, Raw Story, Hot Air and NewsHounds blog

Aidan Quigley / Politico:
Nunes tries to blame Democrats for troubled Russia probe

Discussion: RedState, Hot Air, Mediaite, Raw Story, New York Magazine, Shareblue, Joe.My.God., Washington Times, The Hill and Talking Points Memo

Circa:
2011 NSA minimization procedures submitted to the FISA Court

Discussion: RedState

Houston Chronicle:

Beto O'Rourke to challenge Ted Cruz in Texas' 2018 Senate race — WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat and ex-punk rocker who pulled a stunning upset to win his House seat six years ago, plans to declare his candidacy on Friday for the Senate seat held by Ted Cruz, according to Democratic sources in Texas.

Elena Schneider / Politico:
Democrat O'Rourke to take on Cruz for Senate in 2018

Discussion: Axios

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Trey Gowdy Stands Up For Nunes: I Don't Care If Info Came From White House Or Waffle House If It's True

Discussion: Washington Monthly and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Interior secretary hints border wall could be on Mexican land — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday said America can't give away the Rio Grande to Mexico in the process of building President Trump's signature border wall, implying the structure could wind up standing partially on Mexican land.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Occupy Democrats, CNN and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Corbin Hiar / E&E News:
Zinke looks West for deputies and priorities, rejected VA job

Discussion: RedState and Talking Points Memo

Corbin Hiar / E&E News:
Zinke looks West for deputies and priorities, rejected VA job

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Caller, ThinkProgress, Politico, Daily Kos, Dallas Morning News and Raw Story

The Hill:

How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans — The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons. False reassurance is given …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Clayton Cramer

Ryan Hutchins / Politico:

Former Christie ally sentenced to 24 months in Bridgegate scandal — NEWARK — Bill Baroni, a former Republican state senator and ally of Gov. Chris Christie, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for his role in the George Washington Bridge lane closures, a bizarre political stunt …

Discussion: ABC News

New Jersey Online:
Bridgegate sentencing: Bill Baroni receives 2 years jail time in scandal

Discussion: Political Wire and New York Magazine

ABC News:

Woman in custody after ‘criminal’ incident near Capitol; police say ‘no nexus to terrorism’ — U.S. Capitol Police have apprehended a female driver after she nearly hit several officers and struck another vehicle near the U.S. Capitol, police said this morning.

Discussion: New York Post, Geller Report, Breitbart, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Daily Wire, Bearing Arms, RedState, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Hatch: I may retire if Romney runs to replace me — (R-Utah) says he would consider retiring if Mitt Romney ran to replace him. — Hatch told National Journal in a Wednesday interview that he hasn't made a decision yet on whether he will run for reelection in 2018.

Discussion: RedState

National Journal:
Wednesday Q+A With Sen. Orrin Hatch

Discussion: Political Wire, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze

Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:

2 Black Women Sue Fox News, Claiming Racial Discrimination — Fox News, whose chairman, Roger Ailes, was ousted last year after a string of sexual harassment claims, is facing new allegations of discrimination. — In a lawsuit filed Tuesday night in State Supreme Court in the Bronx …

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Root, Raw Story and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:

Sean Spicer's kiss of death: ‘Phenomenal’ — The health care debacle, the travel ban setback, difficulties with Mexico, a slew of empty positions across the government — all are symptoms or causes of President Donald Trump's rocky first few weeks in office.

Discussion: Politico, ABC News, AOL and National Review

Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:

Chelsea Clinton: ‘I Am Not Running for Public Office’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Since the election, there's been endless chatter that Chelsea Clinton might follow in her parents' footsteps. But in an interview with Variety, she quashed those rumors. — “I am not running for public office,” Clinton said.

Discussion: Politico and AOL

New York Times:

President Trump Risks the Planet — That didn't take long. — Only 10 weeks into his presidency, and at great risk to future generations, Donald Trump has ordered the demolition of most of President Barack Obama's policies to combat climate change by reducing emissions from fossil fuels.

Discussion: The White House, Vox, Washingtonian, Motherboard, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Post, Business Insider and The FADER

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Why Democrats Have a Shot in a Georgia District Dominated by Republicans — In a special election, anything can happen. — “Anything” may already be happening in the special election in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, heralded as a key test of whether Democrats can capitalize on President Trump's unpopularity.

Discussion: Washington Post, National Review, Red Alert Politics and Daily Kos

Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:

Trump's poll numbers are low. But the people who put him in office say it's not time to judge him — yet — Trump supporter David Ambrulavage attends a minor league hockey game at the Mohegan Sun Arena — where Donald Trump held a rally during the election — in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times)

Discussion: IJR

Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:

Tom Perriello Is Not Bernie Sanders — The first time I saw Tom Perriello, he was walking slowly down a light-soaked hall at Reagan National Airport, hands stuffed in his pockets, head bent in a textbook example of an attentive listening posture. He was talking with two airport workers …

Discussion: Washington Post and The Daily Caller

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Secretary Tillerson brings pool reporters to Turkey, Belgium — Two pool reporters are traveling with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his current trip to Turkey and Belgium after blocking pool reporters from his first trip to Asia earlier this month.

Discussion: Axios, more at Mediagazer »

Graham Moomaw / Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Anti-establishment GOP candidate in Virginia governor's race looks to ride Confederate nostalgia to Richmond — Republican gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart called for supporters to display a Confederate battle flag during a March 18 rally in Roanoke streamed online via Facebook Live.

Discussion: Washington Post and Politicus USA

Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg:

Domino's Will Begin Using Robots to Deliver Pizzas in Europe — Will use Starship's sidewalk droid in Holland, Germany — Adds to Starship's partnerships in food, parcel delivery — Starship Technologies, the London-based company that has created six-wheeled self-driving delivery robots …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

CBS Sacramento:

Holocaust Survivor Has Strong Words For ICE Director, Sheriff At Immigration Forum — SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A holocaust survivor had strong words at an immigration forum in Sacramento County on Tuesday. — The forum was hosted by Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones and acting Immigration …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Raw Story, Occupy Democrats and AOL