2 White House officials helped Nunes get intel: report  —  Two White House officials helped House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) acquire information that he says shows President Trump's transition team was incidentally surveilled, according to The New York Times.

House GOP health care peacemaking deteriorates  —  There was an effort yesterday to get House GOP conservatives — the House Freedom Caucus and Republican Study Committee — to meet with GOP moderates — the Tuesday Group — to talk about a path forward after last week's failed health care effort.

Centrist group in House ‘will never’ meet with Freedom Caucus  —  The centrist Tuesday Group affirmed at a meeting Wednesday that it will not meet with the conservative House Freedom Caucus to negotiate changes to an ObamaCare replacement bill, according to Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.).

White House staff shake-up comes in wake of health care debacle  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump on Thursday shook up his senior West Wing staff, days after his administration faced its first major legislative setback in failing to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Nuke 'Em 'Til They Glow  —  The Democrats must learn through pain, specifically the agony of watching Neil Gorsuch take the seat that they stompy-feet insist belongs to Merrick Garland.  For too long, they've packed the bench with liberal partisans committed to exercising raw power as an end-run around democracy and the Constitution.