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9:35 PM ET, March 16, 2017

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Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
'It's stupefying to watch': Jim Acosta and Jake Tapper stunned by White House's ‘depressing’ wiretap defense  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  CNN's Jim Acosta spoke with “The Lead” host Jake Tapper after Sean Spicer's contentious press briefing on Thursday.
Discussion: Reuters
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Congress' wiretap slap leaves White House fuming  —  Donald Trump suffered the second bipartisan rebuke from Congress over his wiretapping claims in two days — and left it to his embattled spokesman, Sean Spicer, to explain that the president didn't actually mean what he wrote.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Spicer says Trump ‘stands by’ unproven allegation that Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that President Trump “stands by” his allegation that former president Barack Obama ordered wiretapping surveillance of Trump Tower last fall …
Discussion: Political Wire
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Chalian: Trump ‘looked like a third-grader’ in Fox interview  —  President Trump “looked like a third grader” trying to “squirm out of a lie” when asked about his wiretapping claims during a Fox News interview, CNN's political director said Thursday.  —  David Chalian …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House: Trump ‘stands by’ wiretapping claim
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Yochi Dreazen / Vox:
Trump's wiretapping claim was just shot down by the heads of the Senate Intel Committee
The Forward:
EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member  —  Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction …
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Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Sebastian Gorka Denies Reported Affiliations with Vitézi Rend  —  Lord knows I've had my differences with The Forward before.  I have them still, and often.  They rarely unsettle me, if only because robust disagreements, especially on things that matter, are what we journalists should seek, not shun.
Eli Clifton / BuzzFeed:
Top Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka Stonewalled When Asked If He Belongs To A Nazi-Allied Group  —  “Send a request to White House press,” Gorka told BuzzFeed News.  —  Sebastian Gorka, a top national security adviser to President Trump, stonewalled when BuzzFeed News asked about a report that he belongs to a Nazi-allied group.
Jessica Estepa / USA Today:
Jewish organizations call for Sebastian Gorka's resignation for ties to far-right group
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: Sean Hannity once pulled a gun on Juan Williams  —  Sean Hannity is surrounded by jackasses.  —  The Wall Street Journal columnist who called Hannity the “dumbest anchor” on Fox News is a “jackass,” according to Hannity.  The forensic psychologist who suggested a blood vessel had popped inside Hannity's brain is a “jackass.”
Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn Worked for Several Russian Companies, Was Paid More Than $50,000, Documents Show  —  Former Trump national security adviser had business connections with Russia beyond RT that hadn't been previously known  —  President Trump's former national security adviser, Mike Flynn …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Moscow paid $45,000 for Flynn's 2015 talk, documents show
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Trump adviser Flynn paid by multiple Russia-related entities, new records show
Discussion: CNN, ABC News, ThinkProgress and The Week
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A day in the life of a poor American under Trump's proposed budget  —  President Trump introduced a 2018 budget proposal Thursday that includes significant cuts to programs meant to bolster lower-income Americans.  Below, we imagine a worst-case scenario for one such family, living in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mulvaney: Proposed cuts to Meals on Wheels are compassionate to taxpayers
Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Budget Director Suggests Meals On Wheels Doesn't Show Results
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Reuters
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Hawaii judge's ruling could lead to constitutional crisis  —  When a Ninth Circuit panel issued a decision striking down President Trump's original travel ban, I described its opinion as “limited in impact, but full of mischief.”  The biggest piece of mischief, I thought …
Discussion: Constitution Daily
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump's attacks on judges who don't agree with him might be alienating the judges who do
Discussion: ABC News and New York Magazine
IJR:
IJR published an article that does not meet our editorial standards or represent IJR's vision or values.  We have retracted the story, and we deeply regret the error.
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Lack of Oxford Comma Costs Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute  —  A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Capitol Hill Republicans not on board with Trump budget  —  Defense hawks, rural conservatives and even some of Donald Trump's most vocal supporters in Congress sharply criticized the president's first budget proposal on Thursday, pushing back on the huge potential hike in defense spending …
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Steep Cuts Face Rebuff in Congress Even With GOP Control
Snejana Farberov / Daily Mail:
Pro-Trump radio host Michael Savage claims he was assaulted while having dinner with his toy poodle Teddy  — Savage, 74, says he was having dinner in Tiburon, California, with his 12-year-old pooch when a man began taunting him by saying, ‘weener, weener’
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR and TMZ.com
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Martha Ross / Mercury News:
Pro-Trump radio host Michael Savage claims he was assaulted outside Marin County restaurant
Discussion: TheBlaze
Nivea Serrao / EW.com:
Chelsea Clinton announces new picture book, She Persisted  —  Count Chelsea Clinton among the many people whom Elizabeth Warren inspired when she refused to be silenced in the Senate.  —  Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton …
Reuters:
Despite budget cuts, Tillerson works to win long-term influence  —  While he has swallowed a big budget cut, had his chosen deputy vetoed, and been dismissed as invisible in his own building, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is playing a patient game to gain influence by avoiding public conflicts …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Whom to trust when it comes to health-care reform?  Trump supporters put their faith in him.  —  NASHVILLE — Soon after Charla McComic's son lost his job, his health-insurance premium dropped from $567 per month to just $88, a “blessing from God” that she believes was made possible by President Trump.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP leaders want details before funding Trump's border wall  —  Republican leaders in Congress want more details from President Trump about his proposed border wall before appropriating significant funding for the project.  —  They have questions about the design and how the administration …
Discussion: Political Wire
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Internal Trump administration data undercuts travel ban  —  At least two sets of internal data that have been available to the Trump administration — but which have never been publicized — appear to undercut the government's argument for a travel ban that it had hoped would take effect Thursday …
USA Today:
Trump fiddles while Earth burns: Our view  —  New administration disrupts programs to curb greenhouse gas emissions.  —  Seemingly every month provides alarming new evidence of human-caused climate disruption.  Last month was the hottest February on record globally, shattering the previous record …
Lauren Goode / The Verge:
Netflix is ditching five-star ratings in favor of a thumbs up  —  And it will show a percentage to “match” you with shows  —  Netflix vice president of product Todd Yellin said in a press briefing today that the video streaming company would be changing its ratings system …
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
McDonald's tweets to Trump: ‘You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President’  —  McDonald's' in a tweet on its corporate account called President Trump “a disgusting excuse of a President” on Thursday morning.  —  The tweet, which was briefly pinned to the top of the account before being deleted …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Suspected Hack Attack Snagging Cell Phone Data Across D.C.  —  An unusual amount of highly suspicious cellphone activity in the Washington, D.C., region is fueling concerns that a rogue entity is surveying the communications of numerous individuals, likely including U.S. government officials …
Discussion: Mediaite
CBS Los Angeles:
ICE Agents Now Going To Courthouses To Arrest Undocumented Immigrants  —  PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been going to courthouses and arresting people in America illegally, sparking outrage from prosecutors and attorneys.
Discussion: The Root
 
 
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Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Centrist Democrats struggle to draft a survival strategy
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Brookings Institution:
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L.A. Daily News:
Fiance of woman killed in crash with undocumented immigrant says President Trump called him
Discussion: Fox News and IJR
Associated Press:
Google adds tool to flag ‘offensive’ search results
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Marcie Bianco / Vox:
Wendy Davis on why women need to drop the “being nice” act
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Henry Olsen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The Democrats' stance on immigration will lead to electoral disaster
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Stephen Bannon Is a Fan of a French Philosopher...Who Was an Anti-Semite and a Nazi Supporter
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Debt ceiling returns, creating new headache for GOP
Sam Knight / The Guardian:
Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen's death
Discussion: Refinery29
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Nervous GOP senators rooting for Ryan to fail