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2:50 PM ET, April 3, 2017

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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel  —  White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's risk of impeachment rises  —  Liberal Democrats could yet see their dreams come true.  —  Last week, a new poll from the liberal outfit Public Policy Polling (PPP) asked Americans if President Trump should resign if evidence emerges that his campaign worked with Russia to help defeat Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times
Jonathan Allen / Roll Call:
Opinion: The S.S. Trump Is Sinking — Find a Lifeboat  —  An open letter to House Republicans  —  Opinion: The GOP's Big Health Care Winner — Mitch McConnell Opinion: This Budget Isn't Dead on Arrival Opinion: Put Up Your Own Plan, Democrats  —  If they're smart, House Republicans …
Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Nuclear Trigger Finger  —  In the 1944 noir film “Gaslight,” a villain hides his crimes by convincing his innocent wife she's insane, feeding her barely perceptible lies and altering small aspects of her environment until she doubts her own instincts and observations.
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Appear Poised to Filibuster Gorsuch Nomination  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Monday appeared to secure the votes necessary to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, sending the body hurtling toward a bitter partisan confrontation later this week.
Discussion: Faithwire
CNN:
Senate Dems close to reaching filibuster threshold on Gorsuch
Discussion: The Week
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:   Democrats Have Votes to Halt Gorsuch Confirmation, Tally Shows
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Democrats Should Do Everything They Can To Block Neil Gorsuch
Discussion: National Review
Los Angeles Times:
Our Dishonest President … It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters.  The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
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Los Angeles Times:
Why Trump lies … Donald Trump did not invent the lie and is not even its master.  Lies have oozed out of the White House for more than two centuries and out of politicians' mouths — out of all people's mouths — likely as long as there has been human speech.
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump: ‘We are very much behind’ Egypt's el-Sisi
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Visits Iraq on Invitation From Joint Chiefs Chairman  —  Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, made a trip to Iraq over the weekend, visiting the country as the American military is aiding Iraqi forces in their brutal fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.
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Reuters:
ADVISORY: Story on Kushner visiting Iraq withdrawn
Discussion: Associated Press, Hot Air, IJR and The Week
NBC News:
North Korean Defector Tells Lester Holt ‘World Should be Ready’  —  SEOUL, South Korea — A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies.  —  Thae Yong Ho is the most high …
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Financial Times:
Trump ready to tackle North Korea alone — FT exclusive  —  President says US will act unilaterally if China does not pressure Pyongyang … Donald Trump has warned that the US will take unilateral action to eliminate the nuclear threat from North Korea unless China increases pressure on the regime in Pyongyang.
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Two nail bombs on St Petersburg metro rip through carriages, killing at least 10 as Putin visits city for meeting  —  Two nail bombs on the metro in St Petersburg ripped through train carriages killing at least 10 people today.  —  The incident occurred at two separate locations …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
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Valery Melnikov / Sputnik International:
Blast Hits Saint Petersburg Metro
Discussion: TalkLeft, The Week and Politico
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Trump Supporter Labeled ‘Fake News’ By ‘60 Minutes’ Beats Everyone To Susan Rice Scoop  —  Mike Cernovich, a journalist who has promoted conspiracy theories and was deemed “fake news” by “60 Minutes,” was the first to break the news that Obama's former national security advisor Susan Rice …
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Mike Cernovich / Medium:
Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials  —  Susan Rice, who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has been identified as the official who requested unmasking of incoming Trump officials, Cernovich Media can exclusively report.
ProPublica:
Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us  —  When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his sons in charge and claimed to distance himself from his sprawling empire.
Katie Kieffer / Townhall.com:
Why Isn't Hillary Clinton in Jail?  —  She feels safe enough to “come out of the woods,” exactly the time for a Trump administration special prosecutor to launch a broadside.  —  Mentally strong people don't need five months to overcome setbacks.  Thomas Edison famously said: “I have not failed 10,000 times. ...
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
How to Lose a Majority  —  The very public intra-party fight between President Trump and the Freedom Caucus is just the latest twist in the ongoing fight over the philosophical, strategic and ideological direction of the Republican party.  As has been his mode of operation since his candidate days …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Chaffetz: Oversight Committee looking into Flynn payments from foreign governments  —  (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Monday his committee is looking into payments that former national security adviser Michael Flynn received from foreign governments.
Discussion: RedState
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:   Graham: Flynn asking for immunity ‘is a bit bizarre’
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Tucker Carlson's Fighting Words  —  On Fox News, an unlikely star thrives in the tumult of Trump-era politics.  —  Tucker Carlson started wearing a bow tie in 1984, when he was in tenth grade at St. George's, a Rhode Island prep school with a dress code.  He stopped wearing a bow tie on April 11 …
Discussion: Axios and The Week
The White House:
White House Releases Official Portrait of First Lady Melania Trump  —  The White House is announcing the release of the first official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump, taken in her new residence at the White House.  —  “I am honored to serve in the role of First Lady …
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story and AOL
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Russiagate Scam Will Blow Up In The Democrats' Smug Faces  —  If you're stressed out about this whole Russian nonsense, relax - Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong, and he's not going be impeached, arrested, or ritually disemboweled.  When the truth comes out and it explodes in the Democrats' soft …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox News renews O'Reilly contract: report  —  Fox News has reportedly renewed the contract of longtime host Bill O'Reilly despite recent sexual harassment settlements, according to a Sunday Wall Street Journal report.  —  O'Reilly, who has been the top-rated host in cable news for 15 consecutive years …
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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Timothy Mclaughlin / Reuters:
Kansas House fails in attempt to override Medicaid veto: reports
Discussion: Mother Jones
Eugene Kontorovich / Washington Post:
Federal judge advances lawsuit challenging academic group's Israel boycott
Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
The Rising Retirement Perils of 401(k) ‘Leakage’
Discussion: Mother Jones and naked capitalism
Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Seattle organization creates tiny home village for the homeless
Discussion: KING-TV and The Week
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
EPA's Scott Pruitt Gets Eaten Alive by Fox
Discussion: Washington Post and ThinkProgress
The Guardian:
Lithuania fears Russian propaganda is prelude to eventual invasion
Discussion: Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Sorry, Democrats. Trump's not going anywhere. You wouldn't like who would follow anyway.
Discussion: Hot Air and Scripting News
Gabe Ortiz / Daily Kos:
As Trump's deportation force ramps up, immigration lawyer shortage ‘nearing crisis’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump Is Wimping Out on Trade
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Raw Story
Peter Berkowitz / Wall Street Journal:
A Lawsuit Accuses Yale of Censoring Even Inoffensive Ideas
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Tom Perez won't apologize for insulting Trump and GOP leaders. Here's why.
Discussion: Fox News and Daily Kos
 

 
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