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9:50 AM ET, April 4, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Susan Rice Unmasked  —  Obama's security adviser sought the name of at least one Trump official in intelligence reports.  —  Well, what do you know.  On the matter of who “unmasked” the names of Trump transition officials in U.S. intelligence reports, we now have one answer: Susan Rice, Barack Obama's national security adviser.
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New York Post:
Fresh evidence the Russia ‘scandal’ is a Team Obama operation  —  SEE ALSO  —  Do you suspect that the noise over Trump-campaign contacts with the Russians is just a political hit arranged by Obama insiders before they left?  You got fresh evidence of that Monday, with news …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
I hope Susan Rice was keeping tabs on Trump's Russia ties.  —  The right-wing media is really excited about the new scoop from Eli Lake, national security columnist for Bloomberg View.  As connoisseurs of President Trump's Twitter feed know, in the alternative reality inhabited by the president …
Jay Caruso / RedState:
Dear CNN: Why Is a Former Obama Appointee Reporting on Susan Rice Revelation?  —  Eli Lake at Bloomberg wrote an explosive piece that set the political world on fire for a few hours yesterday.  Lake detailed how Susan Rice, President Obama's National Security Adviser sought to “unmask” …
Adam Housley / Fox News:
Susan Rice requested to unmask names of Trump transition officials, sources say
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
Former President Barack Obama's national security adviser Susan …
Wall Street Journal:   Trump Urges Scrutiny of Alleged Spying on His Transition Team
Washington Post:
Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel  —  The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish …
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Ali Watkins / BuzzFeed:
A Former Trump Adviser Met With A Russian Spy  —  Carter Page told BuzzFeed News that he had been in contact with at least one Russian spy working undercover out of Moscow's UN office in 2013.  —  NEW YORK — A former campaign adviser for Donald Trump met with and passed documents …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Kushner's rising profile
NBC News:
Blackwater Founder Repped Trump at Secret Meeting Overseas: Sources
Discussion: CNBC, Washington Post and The Week
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Considers Far-Reaching Steps for ‘Extreme Vetting’  —  Foreigners entering U.S. could be forced to hand over phones, answer questions on ideology; changes could apply to allies like France and Germany  —  Foreigners who want to visit the U.S., even for a short trip …
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Sessions orders Justice Department to review all police reform agreements  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Justice Department officials to review reform agreements with troubled police forces nationwide, saying it was necessary to ensure these pacts do not work against the Trump …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Sweeping Federal Review Could Affect Consent Decrees Nationwide  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a sweeping review of federal agreements with thousands of law enforcement agencies, as lawyers for the Justice Department went to court on Monday to seek a 90-day delay …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mother Jones
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell bets the Senate on Gorsuch  —  When Neil Gorsuch is confirmed to the Supreme Court this week, Mitch McConnell will clinch a place in history after pulling off one of the most audacious gambles in modern political history.  —  Whether he'll be regarded as a hero …
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Erin Kelly / USA Today:
Here are 9 steps the Senate may take to ‘go nuclear’ and approve Gorsuch
Discussion: Axios and Balloon Juice
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Far from idle speculation’: Dem. senator says ‘looming’ impeachment is reason to filibuster Gorsuch
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Do Democrats really want to provoke an unprecedented showdown over Gorsuch?
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Slate, FOX2now.com and IJR
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Republican Health Proposal Would Undermine Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions  —  Throughout the debate to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump and Republican congressional leaders have insisted they would retain a crucial, popular part of the health law …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Pence presents new healthcare offer to Freedom Caucus  —  White House officials presented an offer to the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Monday night as they seek to revive the ObamaCare replacement bill.  —  Vice President Mike Pence  —  and other White House officials presented …
Discussion: RedState
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
With help from Pence, House Republicans suddenly rekindle health-care talks
Discussion: Axios
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Mercedes-Benz pulls ads from 'The O'Reilly Factor' — will others follow?  —  O'Reilly accuser: ‘My voice is not for sale’  —  Mercedes-Benz said Monday that it has “reassigned” its advertisements on “The O'Reilly Factor” following a report about five settlements with women who alleged sexual harassment …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
At Fox News, fear and silence amid O'Reilly controversy
Lili Bayer / The Forward:
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Backed Violent Anti-Semitic Militia  —  As a Hungarian political leader in 2007, Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's chief counter-terrorism adviser, publicly supported a violent racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary militia that was later banned …
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives  —  Whatever the truth about Trump and Russia, the speculation surrounding it has become a dangerous case of mass hysteria  —  So Michael Flynn, who was Donald Trump's national security adviser before he got busted talking out of school to Russia's ambassador …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
‘It went off the rails almost immediately’: How Trump's messy transition led to a chaotic presidency  —  Two days after the November election, leaders of President Trump's transition team presented his inner circle with more than 100 names of candidates for key Cabinet and other senior positions in the new administration.
Discussion: Axios and No More Mister Nice Blog
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Devin Nunes Isn't a Joke Back Home  —  He's become a figure of great fun in Washington, even among his fellow Republicans (e.g., Senator Lindsey Graham, who mocked his “Inspector Clouseau investigation” of the Trump-Russia connection).  HBO comedian John Oliver said he had managed somehow to make …
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Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Amid the storm, Devin Nunes' two worlds render vastly different judgments of him
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Mike Adams / Townhall.com:
Get Back in the Kitchen and Bake Me Another Petition!  —  Dear UNC President Spellings:  —  I am writing today to express my disgust with you over recent remarks you made about me to a “progressive” newspaper reporter.  As you will recall, some feminists had started a petition …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Cummings calls Steve Bannon a ‘white supremacist-type’  —  On the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rep. Elijah Cummings said Tuesday morning that the famed civil rights icon “would be very disappointed” by the political realities of 2017 and especially …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNBC:
Trump signs repeal of US broadband privacy rules  —  U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed a repeal of Obama-era broadband privacy rules, the White House said.  —  Republicans in Congress last week narrowly passed the repeal of the privacy rules with no Democratic support and over the strong objections of privacy advocates.
Discussion: Politicus USA and The Week
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump signs internet privacy repeal
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Fox News Cancels Red Eye  —  Red Eye the TV show has outlived Red Eye the newspaper, by a couple months.  —  The overnight news/comedy show on Fox News has been canceled, TVNewser has learned, with the final show airing this Friday night at 3 a.m.  —  Host Tom Shillue and co-host Andy Levy are expected to stay on with Fox News.
 
 
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
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