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11:05 AM ET, February 27, 2017

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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bush breaks with Trump, calls media ‘indispensable to democracy’
Wall Street Journal:
GOP's New Plan to Repeal Obamacare: Dare Fellow Republicans to Block Effort  —  GOP lawmakers gamble that setting bill in motion to strike Affordable Care Act will help break through intraparty disagreements  —  WASHINGTON—Republican leaders are betting that the only way for Congress …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
A divided White House still offers little guidance on replacing Obamacare  —  A meeting Friday afternoon between President Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, his former rival in the GOP primaries, had no set agenda.  But Kasich came armed with one anyway: his hope to blunt drastic changes …
Discussion: Politicus USA and Vox
Oren Cass / National Review:
No, Obamacare Has Not Saved American Lives  —  The arguments of the law's defenders don't stand up to scrutiny.  —  Repealing the Affordable Care Act, Democrats say, will “make America sick again.”  Bernie Sanders warns “36,000 people will die yearly as a result.”
Discussion: Instapundit
CBS News:
Ohio Gov. Kasich says House conservatives may cause “problem” passing Obamacare replacement  —  As Republicans try to figure out how to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Ohio Gov. John Kasich says they'll encounter “a problem” passing replacement legislation with some House conservatives …
Discussion: Axios and BizPac Review
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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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer is losing his grip  —  Never let it be said that President Trump and his underlings don't work hard, especially when it comes to initiatives aimed at smearing and stymieing the White House press corps.  Let's look at this crew's throughput over just the past three days.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Claim: Reporter laughs at Trump aide's emotion over SEAL death  —  A Sunday Politico story about President Trump's press secretary cracking down on media leaks included a claim that the top-ranked woman in the White House communications office cried in frustration.
USA Today:
Here's how the worst flub in Oscar history went down  —  Oscar got it wrong, wrong, soooo wrong.  The presenters announced the wrong Best Picture; Moonlight was the winner, not La La Land.  —  It was the biggest, most embarrassing, most awkward mistake in the history of the Academy Awards …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Guardian
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Megan Garvey / Los Angeles Times:
Correction: ‘Moonlight’ wins best picture. ‘La La Land’ was read in error
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Balloon Juice
Michael Rothman / ABC News:
‘Moonlight’ wins best picture after ‘La La Land’ mistakenly announced
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:   'There's a mistake. ‘Moonlight,’ you guys won.': An Oscars shocker, in more ways than one
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and Eschaton
New York Times:
Trump to Ask for Sharp Increases in Military Spending, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will instruct federal agencies on Monday to assemble a budget for the coming fiscal year that would include sharp increases in Defense Department spending; major cuts to other agencies …
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New York Times:
Missing: Donald Trump's Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
The DNC isn't enough: Democrats demand more leadership changes  —  ATLANTA — The race for the Democratic National Committee leadership is over, resolved with a Tom Perez chairmanship and a deputy role for Keith Ellison that momentarily quelled even the angriest Bernie Sanders-wing protesters in the room.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: GOP congressman calls for special prosecutor for Trump-Russia
Discussion: Political Wire
Benny Johnson / IJR:
Inside Trump's Secret Dinner: A Side of the President You Don't Ever See  —  The animosity between the press and President Trump has reached a fever pitch in recent days.  Much of the grudge match stems from access, or lack thereof, between the President and the press.
Discussion: AOL, AMERICAN DIGEST and twitchy.com
Patrick J. McDonnell / Los Angeles Times:
On the other side of the wall: Mexicans on the border are ‘psychologically traumatized’  —  Where the 15-foot steel border fence ends, a barrier made of old locomotive rails and barbed wire begins between Arizona and Mexico.  Police from Nogales, Mexico, often respond to incidents along this stretch of the border.
Discussion: The Week
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Molly O'Toole / Foreign Policy:
Trump Administration Seeks to Loosen Hiring Requirements to Beef Up Border Patrol
Philly.com:
‘Beyond belief’: 75-100 headstones toppled at Jewish cemetery  —  Stacy Silver prayed as she drove with her husband to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia's Wissinoming section Sunday: Please don't let my mother and great-grandmother be among the victims.  —  When Silver, 50, of Cherry Hill …
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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Geert Wilders, Reclusive Provocateur, Rises Before Dutch Vote  —  SPIJKENISSE, the Netherlands — He wants to end immigration from Muslim countries, tax head scarves and ban the Quran.  He is partly of Indonesian heritage, and dyes his hair bright blond.  He is omnipresent on social media …
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Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
EU lawmakers, in unusual move, pull the plug on racist talk
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Stan Collender / Forbes:
Trump's Promised Economic Stimulus Won't Happen This Year  —  Donald Trump's insistence that his tax and spending plans will provide an immediate kick to the U.S. economy and Wall Street's belief that the new administration's budget policies will lead to a quick boost in corporate profits …
 
 
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Trump Embraces ‘Enemy of the People,’ a Phrase With a Fraught History
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
These Iowans voted for Trump. Many of them are already disappointed.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and NBC News
Jeremy Herb / Politico:
Nominee for Navy Secretary withdraws
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
A referendum on Trump in Newt's old district