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12:20 PM ET, March 19, 2017

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Kristina Webb / Post On Politics:
Trump holds VA meeting at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night  —  SATURDAY UPDATE: The White House said President Donald Trump held a meeting to discuss the Department of Veterans Affairs while at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night.  —  “This evening President Trump had another meeting, including dinner …
Discussion: RedState and Occupy Democrats
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump's ‘major meeting’ Friday on VA didn't take place
Discussion: Post On Politics
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump makes latest visit to golf club
Discussion: Washington Post
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump's ‘major meeting’ on veterans affairs doesn't happen
Discussion: Raw Story
The Huffington Post:
George W. Bush Gave Us Donald Trump.  Now He Wants To Be Forgiven.  —  But Americans shouldn't forget so easily.  —  We've all seen the picture.  It's the opening of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and George W. Bush is sharing a brief snuggle with Michelle Obama.
Discussion: Eschaton
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
What the Senate Should Ask Judge Gorsuch  —  When Judge Neil Gorsuch faces the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, will we see a series of crisp, clear exchanges on the nature of the Constitution, the role of precedent, the limits of Presidential power?  Or will see what one legal scholar called …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Al Franken may be the perfect senator for the Trump era — a deadly serious funnyman
Discussion: The Last Tradition
Dan Barry / New York Times:
Jimmy Breslin, Legendary New York City Newspaper Columnist, Dies at 88  —  Jimmy Breslin, the New York City newspaper columnist and best-selling author who leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than 50 years with brick-hard words and a jagged-glass wit, died on Sunday.
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Graham keeping the heat on Trump's wiretapping claims  —  (R-S.C.) says he still plans to “to get to the bottom” of President Trump's claims that Trump Tower was wiretapped by the Obama administration during the 2016 election.  —  “We owe it to [Trump]; we owe it to the American people …
Discussion: RedState
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Philly Cinco de Mayo celebration canceled over immigration crackdown fears  —  El Carnaval de Puebla, a major Cinco De Mayo celebration in Philadelphia, has been canceled following recent federal immigration crackdowns, organizers said.  —  Edgar Ramirez told a local NBC affiliate …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump, Working-Class Zero  —  It's not unknown, of course.  —  In ancient Egypt, there was the symbol of the ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail.  Nerve-addled octopuses sometimes consume their own arms.  —  But we've never watched a president so hungrily devour his own presidency.
Associated Press:
Former dairy farmer leads Trump-Russia investigation  —  Devin Nunes once said all he wanted to do was work on a dairy farm.  —  Now the man from the rural Central Valley of California is running one of the most scrutinized, complex and politically fraught congressional investigations in recent memory.
Discussion: Politico
Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Chuck Berry, Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneer, Dies at 90  —  Chuck Berry, who with his indelible guitar licks, brash self-confidence and memorable songs about cars, girls and wild dance parties did as much as anyone to define rock ‘n’ roll's potential and attitude in its early years, died on Saturday.
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Terence McArdle / Washington Post:
Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90
Discussion: Daily Kos and National Review
Jennifer Frederick / Billboard:
Chuck Berry, a Founding Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Dies at 90
Discussion: NBC News
Arizona Republic:
Anti-Trump billboard artist receives death threats  —  Artist Karen Fiorito knew backlash was bound to come.  And it has.  —  Commissioned by a downtown Phoenix art gallery in January to create a billboard art piece that would comment on President Donald Trump's administration …
Discussion: AOL, Raw Story and Townhall.com
Hassan Aden:
Details of my CBP Detention at JFK Int.  Airport:  —  After spending a lovely weekend in Paris celebrating my mom's 80th birthday, I happily boarded my flight to return to the United States-something I have done countless times for 42 years after becoming a U.S. citizen.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Fear, hope and deportations  —  VALLEY VIEW, Tex. — At 4:30 a.m. on a windy Monday, Tamara Estes swallows vitamin B12 for energy and krill oil for her arthritic fingers.  Even with her nightly Ambien, she is always up before the sun, getting ready for a job that reminds her of what infuriates her about America.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
New York Times:
In One Rocky Week, Trump's Self-Inflicted Chaos on Vivid Display  —  WASHINGTON — Minutes before President Trump was to take the stage in Nashville last week to make his case for the health care overhaul he had promised, he received some unwelcome news that shifted his script.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Raw Story
New York Times:
G.O.P.'s Health Care Tightrope Winds Through the Blue-Collar Midwest  —  DEFIANCE, Ohio — James Waltimire, a police officer on unpaid medical leave, has been going to the hospital in this small city twice a week for physical therapy after leg surgery, all of it paid for by Medicaid.
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Tomi Lahren Likely On Her Way Out At The Blaze  —  You'll Never Guess Who This Trump Dossier Source Met With  —  Two High School Students Charged In Rape Of 14-Year-Old Girl  —  Both recently arrived in the U.S.  —  30 Countries Are Refusing To Take Back Illegal Immigrants Convicted Of Serious Crimes
Discussion: IJR, Mediaite, BizPac Review and RedState
Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Paris Orly airport shooting: Attacker was ‘radicalised Muslim’ man known to French intelligence services  —  Paris prosecutor says Ziyed Ben Belgacem yelled he wanted to die in the name of Allah and that ‘whatever happens, there will be deaths’  —  Sturgeon urges rest of UK to move to Scotland to escape May's Brexit
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Dan Frosch / Wall Street Journal:
Bidding Process for U.S. Border-Wall Construction Begins
Discussion: Political Wire, NPR and New York Times
Anu Partanen / New York Times:
The Fake Freedom of American Health Care
Fox News Insider:
President Trump on ‘Watters’ World' on Obama, Leaks & Mainstream Media Reporting
Walter Olson / National Review:
Outrage on Wheels  —  The story that Trump's budget would kill …
Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
Bergdorf blonde: Hillary and Huma spotted after day at top store's salon …
Pam Key / Breitbart:
Hillary Clinton: I Am Ready to ‘Come Out of the Woods’
Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed:
You Can Now Be Fined For Falling Behind On Student Loans Even If You're Trying To Catch Up
Discussion: Daily Kos
Chris Enloe / TheBlaze:
Bernie Sanders lectures America for ‘worshipping wealth’ — promptly gets annihilated for hypocrisy
Discussion: IJR
 Earlier Items: 
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Senators Ask Trump Adviser to Preserve Any Russia-Related Documents
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
What will it take for the president to retract his tweets about Obama?
Lauren Dezenski / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren finally busts out of her media bubble
Discussion: twitchy.com
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions faces rowdy town hall
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Axios
Associated Press:
YOUNG AMERICANS: MOST SEE TRUMP AS ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Kevin Hardy / USA Today:
People are canceling their Iowa vacations because of Steve King's words
Discussion: Shareblue
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's White House, New York moderates spark infighting and suspicion
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Suzette Hackney / USA Today:
Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’
Discussion: AOL, Hullabaloo and The Root