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8:00 PM ET, April 11, 2017

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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Spicer apologizes for claiming Hitler didn't use chemical weapons  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday apologized for claiming that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons, seemingly minimizing the atrocities of the Holocaust.  —  The statement immediately drew fire from Democrats …
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Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Eric Trump Says Syria Strike Was Swayed By ‘Heartbroken’ Ivanka  —  Donald Trump's decision to bomb Syria was influenced by his daughter, Ivanka, being “heartbroken and outraged” at the country's alleged chemical weapons attack, one of the president's sons told a British newspaper.
Joy Lee / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on White House Press Secretary's Statements on Holocaust  —  Washington, D.C. - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's statements regarding the Holocaust:  —  “While Jewish families across America celebrate Passover …
CNN:
Spicer: Hitler ‘was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing’
Simon Johnson / Telegraph:
Ivanka Trump encouraged my father to launch air strikes against Assad in Syria after chemical …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: 'We're not going into Syria'
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Putin: US plans to fake chemical weapons in Syria
Discussion: Politico, CNN, Reuters, RedState and ABC News
John Bowden / The Hill:
Alex Jones knocks Sean Spicer for ‘ignorant’ Holocaust comments
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
Nick Giampia / Fox Business:
Assad is Worse Than Hitler: Syrian Chemical Weapon Survivor
Discussion: Washington Post
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Reflexive partisanship drives polling lurch on Syria strikes
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
United passenger David Dao says he's still in the hospital  —  This image made from a video provided by Audra D. Bridges shows David Dao, the passenger who was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago on Sunday.  (Associated Press)  —  David Dao, a Kentucky physician …
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David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Column United passenger threatened with handcuffs to make room for ‘higher-priority’ traveler  —  Geoff Fearns, an Irvine investment manager, was threatened with being handcuffed when he refused to vacate his first-class seat on a United flight to Los Angeles.  (Valerie Fearns)
Discussion: CBS Boston, IJR and East Bay Times
USA Today:
United Airlines CEO doubles down, says employees followed procedures, flier was ‘belligerent’  —  LOUISVILLE — The intense firestorm roaring against United Airlines and its unrepentant CEO raged on Tuesday after his letter to the airline's employees lauded the behavior of the flight's crew when a …
Daily Mail:
PICTURED: The internal medicine specialist father-of-five who was beaten and dragged off an overbooked United flight as CEO pens ‘tone deaf’ email DEFENDING staff  — The 69-year-old Vietnamese-American is married to a pediatrician who has a clinic in Elizabethtown, Kentucky - about 40 miles south of Louisville
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
United CEO, facing boycott calls, defends booting passenger so crew could take his seat  —  United Airlines' chief executive is defending his employees after a passenger who refused to give up his plane seat to a crew member was pulled screaming into the aisle by security, battered …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page  —  The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Sessions tells prosecutors to bring more cases against those entering U.S. illegally  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors across the country Tuesday to make immigration cases a higher priority and look for opportunities to bring serious felony charges against those who cross …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Sessions Announces Illegal Aliens Who Illegally Re-Enter The U.S. Will Be Charged With a Felony
Ted Hesson / Politico:
Sessions signals immigration crackdown: ‘This is the Trump era’
Sean Moran / Breitbart:
Justin Amash: ‘We Need a Change in Direction from this Speaker or We Need a New Speaker’  —  Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI) said that if the House of Representatives does not change course, Republicans might need a new Speaker.  —  The Michigan conservative responded to a question …
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and Infowars
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Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows pursues health care deal with Speaker Ryan
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump and Paul Ryan are the problem — a staff shake-up won't fix anything
Jim O’Sullivan / BostonGlobe.com:
Remember Mitt Romney's ‘binders full of women?’  They're real.  And we got them.  —  In the world of important political documents — from the Magna Carta to the Pentagon Papers — there are also those known for more pedestrian reasons.  Count Mitt Romney's “binders full of women” in that category.
Maya T. Prabhu / Post and Courier:
Attendees chant ‘you lie’ at U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson during Graniteville town hall … GRANITEVILLE — U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson received some protests Monday like other Republican congressmen nationwide during town halls this year, getting drowned out at times with loud boos and receiving 30 seconds of “You Lie” chants.
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Ben Billmyer / Associated Press:
Town hall meeting erupts into shouts, boos as Congressman Joe Wilson addresses healthcare repeal
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
The Latest Test for the White House?  Pulling Off Its Easter Egg Roll  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump received an urgent warning in February, informing him of a crucial date he was about to miss.  —  “FYI manufacturing deadlines for the Easter eggs are near,” said a Twitter post directed at Mr. Trump …
Bloomberg:
Tillerson Asks Why U.S. Taxpayers Should Care About Ukraine  —  Offhand remark an unexpected moment as foreign ministers meet  —  Top diplomat still finding footing in protocol-rich meetings  —  With one offhand remark, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left European diplomats befuddled at a gathering in Italy.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Pennsylvania congressman to be named drug czar by Trump  —  Pennsylvania Congressman Tom Marino is expected to step down from his seat to take on a new role in the Trump administration.  Multiple sources tell CBS News that Marino will head up the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), assuming the informal title of drug czar.
Discussion: Washington Post, Hit & Run and STAT
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump: I want to pass health care before doing tax reform  —  President Donald Trump still wants to pass a health care bill before he turns to tax reform.  —  “We're going to have a phenomenal tax reform, but I have to do health care first,” Trump said, according to an excerpt of an interview …
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
China Threatens To Bomb North Korea's Nuclear Facilities If It Crosses Beijing's “Bottom Line”  —  With everyone putting down new and/or revised “red lines”, be it on Syria or North Korea, it was now China's turn to reveal its “red” or rather “bottom line”, and in a harshly worded editorial titled …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
What Reset?  White House to Call Out Russia's Fake News on Syria  —  President Donald Trump's Russian reset is in big trouble.  —  That's one message of a four-page dossier on the Syrian government's April 4 chemical weapons attack that killed up to 100 people and injured many more.
Discussion: Hot Air
Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Errors prompt Trump to halt reports shaming ‘sanctuary cities’  —  After just three weeks, the Trump administration has stopped publishing a weekly report designed to publicly shame “sanctuary cities” that fail to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts after local police agencies complained …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Retirement Talk Focuses on Pivotal Justice Kennedy  —  80-year-old Kennedy keeping mum on whether he'll step down  —  Trump appointment would create solid conservative majority  —  Justice Anthony Kennedy reclaimed his position as the man in the middle of the U.S. Supreme Court …
Discussion: Hot Air
Paul A. Djupe / Washington Post:
How fights over Trump have led evangelicals to leave their churches  —  The 2016 presidential contest highlighted just how deeply divided the United States is over both politics and religion.  The vast majority of white evangelicals (81 percent) voted for Trump.
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show and Raw Story
 
 
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Jenna Bush Hager: Barbara Bush has eight toes
Discussion: IJR and Washington Post
Media Matters for America:
Wash. Post Doesn't Disclose Writer Supporting Syria Strike Is A Lobbyist For Tomahawk Missile Manufacturer
Discussion: Mediaite and Snopes.com
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Rolling Stone Settles With University Administrator Featured In Retracted Campus Rape Story
Richard Whitmire / USA Today:
Dreamers aren't about to self-deport: Richard Whitmire
Discussion: Daily Kos
Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
How today's liberal kids are going to ruin college
New York Times:
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Not Convinced Obama Wasn't In On Trump Spying
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
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New York Times:
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