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7:20 PM ET, February 27, 2017

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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — President Trump: Oscars ‘Were Focused so Hard on Politics’ They Could Not Get the Basics of the Ceremony Right  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office, said that the Academy Awards failure on Sunday evening …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — President Trump: New York Times ‘Intent Is so Evil and so Bad,’ ‘They Write Lies’  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive Oval Office interview that the “intent” of the New York Times in its negative coverage of him is “so evil and so bad” and that “they write lies.”
Oriana Schwindt / Variety:
Updated: Oscar Ratings Dip Again Amid ‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land’ Best Picture Mix-Up  —  UPDATED: It was a strange night at the Oscars.  Someone still living was listed in the In Memoriam segment.  First-time host Jimmy Kimmel attempted to bring non-famous people into the Hollywood fold in a very long bit.
USA Today:
PricewaterhouseCoopers on Oscar flub: ‘We made a human error’  —  The accountants did it?  —  We all watched in shock as it happened.  Now we know exactly what happened.  —  PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has handled the accounting for the Academy Awards since 1934, early Monday apologized …
USA Today:
Here's how the worst flub in Oscar history went down
Discussion: Washington Post and Taylor Marsh
TMZ.com:
Oscars — Warren and Faye Fought Over Who Announces Best Picture
Discussion: Mediaite
MJ Lee / CNN:
Freedom Caucus chair would vote against draft Obamacare repeal bill  —  Trump: health care is ‘unbelievably complex’  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told CNN on Monday that he will vote against a draft of the GOP Obamacare repeal bill that was leaked last week.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump: ‘Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated’  —  President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that “nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” and again flirted with the idea that Republicans should let Obamacare “implode” so that Democrats shoulder the blame.
The White House:
Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with the National Governors Association
Wall Street Journal:
GOP's New Plan to Repeal Obamacare: Dare Fellow Republicans to Block Effort
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: ‘Nobody Knew That Health Care Could Be So Complicated’
Bloomberg:
Trump to Propose 10% Defense Increase in Budget Plan, Aides Say  —  Officials say other discretionary programs to face cuts  —  Mnuchin said Sunday that entitlement programs won't be touched  —  President Donald Trump will propose boosting defense spending by $54 billion in his first budget plan …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:   Trump and Paul Ryan Head for a Clash Over the Budget, and Ideology
Stan Collender / Forbes:
Trump Will Have To Break The Law To Pass His Budget
Discussion: Mother Jones
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump to propose 10 percent spike in defense spending, major cuts to other agencies
Axios:
Exclusive: Spicer arranged CIA, GOP intelligence push-back  —  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer personally picked up the phone and connected outside officials with reporters to try to discredit a New York Times article about Trump campaign aides' contact with Russia …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: 'I haven't called Russia in 10 years'
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and RedState
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Second-Ranking Senate Democrat Wants Independent Russia Probes
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
George W. Bush opens up on Trump's war with the media, Russia and travel ban  —  In his first in-depth interview since Donald Trump's inauguration, former President George W. Bush gave his take on the current commander in chief's first month in office, addressing Trump's attack on the media …
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Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
The Sessions Effect: Trump DOJ Reverses Course In Major Texas Voter ID Case  —  For the last six years, the Justice Department has sided with the citizens and civil rights groups fighting Texas' voter ID law, which a federal judge at one point found to be intentionally discriminatory against black and Latino voters.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump's DOJ dropping opposition to Texas voter ID law
Associated Press:
Lawyer: White House to no longer contest Texas' voter ID law
Discussion: Politico
Variety:
Oscars: Australian Producer Jan Chapman Devastated by Mistaken In-Memoriam Photo  —  Another Oscars Gaffe: In Memoriam Video Included Photo of Living Woman  —  Leading Australian producer, Jan Chapman was “devastated” by another mistake in the Oscars telecast.
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Udall floats plan to confirm Gorsuch, Garland to SCOTUS together  —  (CNN)Sen. Tom Udall has an idea that could place both Judge Neil Gorsuch and Judge Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court at the same time.  —  The Democrat from New Mexico presented the plan Monday morning to Gorsuch …
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in talks to be State Department's No. 2  —  Former Utah Gov. and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman is in talks to be deputy secretary of state, U.S. officials said Monday.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Monica Davey / New York Times:
He's a Local Pillar in a Trump Town.  Now He Could Be Deported.  —  WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. — Ask residents of this coal-mining crossroads about President Trump's decision to crack down on undocumented immigrants and most offer no protest.  Mr. Trump, who easily won this mostly white southern Illinois county …
Julie Kelly / The Federalist:
Why I've Decided To Break Up With Bill Kristol  —  The first political campaign I volunteered for was the Bush-Quayle race in 1992.  I had graduated from college a few years earlier and had big dreams of someday being the White House press secretary (I'm still available!).
Axios:
Democrat Joe Manchin gets in with Breitbart  —  On Wednesday Feb 8, West Virginia's Democratic Senator Joe Manchin welcomed the Breitbart News editorial team to his Capitol Hill office for an hourlong off-the-record “get to know you” session.  It was part of a behind-the-scenes process …
Mac Aoidh / The Hayride:
EXCLUSIVE: Frontrunner In HD-8 Race Caught In Compromising Photo  —  UPDATE: Gatti responds.  —  There are four candidates in the race to replace newly-elected Congressman Mike Johnson in the Louisiana House of Representatives, a special election set for March 25.
Mother Jones:
Trump Just Sold a $15.8 Million Condo to a Consultant Who Peddles Access to Powerful People  —  Last week, Donald Trump's company sealed its first big post-inaugural real estate transaction, selling a $15.8 million penthouse to a Chinese-American business executive who runs a company that touts …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Thomas E. Ricks / New York Times:
Are U.S. Immigration Centers the Next Abu Ghraib?
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Atlantic
Samantha Kupferman / JCC Association:
JCC Association of North America Outraged by New Rash of Bomb Threats
Discussion: IJR, Snopes.com and NPR
Dr. Susan Berry / Breitbart:
Transgender Activist: Preference for Kids' Single-Sex Shower Rooms is ‘Prejudiced’
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Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
U.S. State Department tweets, then deletes congratulations for Iran Oscar win
Aidan Quigley / Politico:
Sanders: ‘Entire world is watching’ Trump and Bannon's reaction to anti-Semitism
Discussion: Raw Story
ICE:
ICE arrests convicted criminal alien from the Dominican Republic after detainer not honored
Discussion: Politico and IJR
 Earlier Items: 
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
What Is a Populist?  —  Why does Donald Trump exaggerate …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
After meeting with Trump, governors say he's crafting his own ObamaCare plan
Discussion: Politico
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Unreal: Chicago Names City Street After Terrorist
Olivia Solon / The Guardian:
Scraping by on six figures? Tech workers feel poor in Silicon Valley's wealth bubble
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Donna Brazile: ‘I was scared’
Soumya Karlamangla / Los Angeles Times:
With Obamacare in jeopardy, California considers going it alone with ‘single-payer’ system