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2:25 PM ET, March 19, 2017

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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Rep. Schiff: ‘Circumstantial Evidence of Collusion’ Between Trump Campaign, Russia  —  WASHINGTON — Despite denials from some top intelligence officials that there was any evidence of collusion between associates of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russian operatives while Moscow tried …
Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Ryan: Health care bill must do more for older people  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday he's seeking changes to the Republican health care bill to provide more assistance to people in their 50s and 60s.  —  “We believe we should have even more assistance — and that's one of the things we're looking …
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
HHS Secretary says passing health care bill through House and Senate ‘a fine needle’ to be thread
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Hill and NBC News
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: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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 …
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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
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
A California waiter refused to serve 4 Latina women until he saw ‘proof of residency’  —  It was girls' day out, and Diana Carrillo had abandoned her desire to eat healthy well before she, her sister and two friends got to the Southern California restaurant.
Discussion: AOL
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
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.
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump's ‘major meeting’ Friday on VA didn't take place  —  President Trump said he would hold a “major meeting” Friday at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., that would be “all about” the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), but the Friday meeting apparently never took place.
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Kristina Webb / Post On Politics:
Trump holds VA meeting at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night
Discussion: RedState and Occupy Democrats
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump makes latest visit to golf club
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump's ‘major meeting’ on veterans affairs doesn't happen
Discussion: Raw Story
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: Townhall.com, AOL and Raw Story
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.
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Democrats: Don't Use Republican Playbook on Gorsuch  —  Democrats long complained about the way Republicans treated President Barack Obama.  When Republicans refused to cooperate on legislation, when they threatened to shut down the government, when they stonewalled his Supreme Court nominee …
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
Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
'It never hurts to say you're sorry,' a GOP House member advises Trump  —  A key House Intelligence Committee member said he has seen no evidence to support President Trump's claim of former President Obama wiretapping Trump Tower and offered that Trump may want to consider some favorite advice by the congressman's father.
Discussion: Politico
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
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.
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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Terence McArdle / Washington Post:
Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90 … Chuck Berry, the perpetual wild man of rock music who helped define its rebellious spirit in the 1950s and was the sly poet laureate of songs about girls, cars, school and even the “any old way you choose it” …
Discussion: National Review and Daily Kos
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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Chuck Berry, Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneer, Dies at 90
 
 
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 3-19-17: Tom Price, Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Joaquin Castro, and Rep. Will Hurd
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Russ Read / The Daily Caller:
30 Countries Are Refusing To Take Back Illegal Immigrants Convicted Of Serious Crimes
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Fox News Insider:
Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement Democrats Changing Rules on Travel Ban Donna Brazile Clinton
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Associated Press:
Former dairy farmer leads Trump-Russia investigation
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Dan Frosch / Wall Street Journal:
Bidding Process for U.S. Border-Wall Construction Begins
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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
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Walter Olson / National Review:
Outrage on Wheels  —  The story that Trump's budget would kill …
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: Daily Wire and IJR
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Senators Ask Trump Adviser to Preserve Any Russia-Related Documents
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
In One Rocky Week, Trump's Self-Inflicted Chaos on Vivid Display
Discussion: Mother Jones and Raw Story
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's White House, New York moderates spark infighting and suspicion
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
 

 
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