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Mike Allen / Axios:
1 big thing: Trump, baffled and brooding — Trump, during an opioid and drug abuse listening session Wednesday n the Cabinet Room with Chris Christie, Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos / AP's Evan Vucci — President Trump brought his chaos …
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
An Obamacare adviser walks into the Trump White House... Multiple sources tell me that former Obama adviser Zeke Emanuel was at the White House Thursday, meeting with staff about what comes next on health care. I'm told the meeting included a discussion of funding for reinsurance …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump's failing presidency has the GOP in a free fall — In the aftermath of the GOP health-care debacle came a revealing act of candor. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan admitted that his party, which controls the House, Senate and White House, is not yet a “governing party” because it could not …
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NBC News:
Michael Flynn's Immunity Request Rejected By Senate Intelligence Committee — The Senate Intelligence Committee turned down the request by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's lawyer for a grant of immunity in exchange for his testimony, two congressional sources told NBC News.
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Senate Intelligence Committee turned down Flynn's request for immunity: NBC — The Senate Intelligence Committee has turned down former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's request for immunity.
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Schiff heads to White House to review controversial intelligence
Schiff heads to White House to review controversial intelligence
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Grassley asks State for details on Clinton's security clearance — (R-Iowa) is asking the State Departments for details on the security clearances of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — and her top aides. — Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, sent a letter this week …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spends his first weeks isolated from an anxious bureaucracy
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spends his first weeks isolated from an anxious bureaucracy
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Diplomats instructed to ‘avoid eye contact’ with Tillerson: report
Diplomats instructed to ‘avoid eye contact’ with Tillerson: report
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Avert your eyes: AP reporter says sensational WaPo claim on Tillerson “not true”
Avert your eyes: AP reporter says sensational WaPo claim on Tillerson “not true”
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Senator Claire McCaskill:
Gorsuch: Good for Corporations, Bad for Working People — This is a really difficult decision for me. I am not comfortable with either choice. While I have come to the conclusion that I can't support Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court—and will vote no on the procedural vote and his confirmation …
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Associated Press:
Democratic Supreme Court opposition grows; Schumer warns GOP — Senate Democratic opposition to Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee swelled Friday as Democrats neared the numbers needed to block Judge Neil Gorsuch with a filibuster. — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer …
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Joanna L. Grossman / Vox:
Vice President Pence's “never dine alone with a woman” rule isn't honorable. It's probably illegal. — An employment lawyer weighs in. — “I don't work with women. If they're attractive, I'm too tempted. And if they're not attractive, what's the point?”
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Fox News:
Intelligence official who ‘unmasked’ Trump associates is ‘very high up,’ source says — The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday.
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes Is Just the Errand Boy in the Trump-Russia Scandal
Devin Nunes Is Just the Errand Boy in the Trump-Russia Scandal
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Just Security
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The road to single-payer health care — Repeal-and-replace (for Obamacare) is not quite dead. It has been declared so, but what that means is that, for now, the president has (apparently) washed his hands of it and the House Republicans appear unable to reconcile their differences.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The Freedom Caucus's new health care demand: let insurers charge sick people more
The Freedom Caucus's new health care demand: let insurers charge sick people more
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Washington Examiner, Mother Jones and Axios
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
GOP lawmaker: The Bible says ‘if a man will not work, he shall not eat’ — One lawmaker is citing a godly reference to justify changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.) recently quoted the New Testament to question the strength of current work requirements.
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The Guardian:
Michael Flynn: new evidence spy chiefs had concerns about Russian ties — US and UK officials were troubled by Moscow contacts and encounter with woman linked to Russian spy agency records — US intelligence officials had serious concerns about Michael Flynn's appointment …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Five questions investigators want to ask Michael Flynn
Five questions investigators want to ask Michael Flynn
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
1 in 3 voters give President Trump a grade F — WASHINGTON — After more than two months in office, America's new president, Republican Donald Trump, got a grade of F from 1 in 3 voters, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. — By contrast, the same number graded predecessor Democrat …
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Richard Greenberg / NBC News:
Obama Officials Made List of Secret Russia Probe Documents To Protect Them … LATEST POSTS FROM INTEL DESK — Obama administration officials were so concerned about what would happen to key classified documents related to the Russia probe once President Trump took office that they created …
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Richard Greenberg / NBC News:
Obama Officials Made List of Russia Probe Documents To Keep Them Safe
Obama Officials Made List of Russia Probe Documents To Keep Them Safe
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Michael Cabanatuan / San Francisco Chronicle:
President Jerry Brown? 'Don't rule it out' — Gov. Jerry Brown went to Concord on Thursday to promote a plan to fix the state's roads and highways, acknowledging that the $52 billion plan may be a “heavy lift” for some motorists but promising he's motivated only by a desire to improve transportation.
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Jerry Brown on running for president: 'Don't rule it out'
Jerry Brown on running for president: 'Don't rule it out'
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Prince of Oversight — When Donald Trump's now-notorious Access Hollywood tape first leaked in October last year, Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz reacted to the news the way he usually does—he got himself in front of a camera, and fast. — Within hours after the story broke …
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Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Exclusive: Evelyn Farkas Statement for The American Spectator: Video ‘A Wild Misinterpretation’ of Her Comments — To American Spectator readers: — As it happens in the world of coincidence, Evelyn Farkas, who served President Obama as deputy assistant secretary of defense …
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Reuters:
Top Venezuela official breaks with government, protests mount — Venezuela's powerful attorney general on Friday broke ranks with President Nicolas Maduro's government after the judiciary annulled congress, a rare show of internal dissent as protests and international condemnation grew.
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Stephanie Coontz / New York Times:
Do Millennial Men Want Stay-at-Home Wives? — Millennials, generally defined as people born between 1982 and 2000, were supposed to be the generation that forged what has been called “a new national consensus” in favor of gender equality. Indeed, in February the prominent Columbia professor …
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Mistakes, He's Made a Few Too Many — Crisis will inevitably strike, so America needs stability and strength. Will Trump be ready? — Near the end of the campaign I wrote a column called “Imagine a Sane Donald Trump,” lamenting that I believed he was crazy, and too bad.
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Shannon Dooling / WBUR:
ICE Arrests Green Card Applicants In Lawrence, Signaling Shift In Priorities — Federal immigration officers arrested five people in Lawrence on Wednesday when they showed up for scheduled appointments at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office.
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