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8:05 AM ET, March 23, 2017

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CNN:
US Officials: Info suggests Trump associates may have coordinated with Russians  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Comey Is Now the Most Powerful Person in Washington
Discussion: Power Line
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's weak closing argument on health care — and why it matters  —  When you're arguing from political cynicism, you need a better case than this. … Will House Republicans muster the votes to pass the American Health Care Act tomorrow?  I don't know.
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Rep. Daniel Donovan / Staten Island Advance:
Why I will vote ‘no’ on the American Health Care Act  —  Rep. Daniel Donovan will vote “no” on the current Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.  (Staten Island Advance/Rachel Shapiro)  —  Since my first day serving in Congress I made a commitment to weigh the impact …
The Hill:
Freedom Caucus, Trump reach ‘agreement in principle’ on ObamaCare repeal bill  —  Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said Wednesday night he and President Trump have come to an “agreement in principle” on a plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, just one day before a historic House vote on the bill.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Obamacare repeal in jeopardy as Trump offers 11th-hour concessions  —  The Republican push to replace Obamacare - backed forcefully by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan —is in jeopardy, as a last-ditch bid by the White House to win conservative support late Wednesday appeared to repel moderates.
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Kochs to withhold millions for health care ‘yes’ votes  —  Washington (CNN)In a last-minute effort to sink the Republican health care bill, a powerful network of conservative donors said Wednesday it would create a new fund for Republican 2018 reelection races — but they'll only open it up to GOPers who vote against the bill.
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
White House moves to tweak health care bill to win over conservatives  —  White House officials are moving to eliminate broad coverage requirements for health insurers in the Obamacare repeal bill in a bid to win over holdout members of the House Freedom Caucus.
Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:   Keeping Our Promise to Repeal ObamaCare
Jim Newell / Slate:
There's a secret, cynical reason Paul Ryan can't give conservatives what they want on the American Health Care Act.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Mike Lee: Senate parliamentarian told me it's possible to push harder on repealing Obamacare regulations
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The latest health care cut Republicans are weighing, explained
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Hill
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
House Republicans, Deeply Divided, Face Painful Choice on Health Vote
TIME:
Read President Trump's Interview With TIME on Truth and Falsehoods  —  President Trump spoke with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer on March 22 for a cover story about the way he has handled truth and falsehood in his career.  —  This is a transcript of the exchange, with some minor edits.
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Nunes claims some Trump transition messages were intercepted  —  House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes declared Wednesday that members of Donald Trump's transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under inadvertent surveillance following November's presidential election.
Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:   DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Sen. John McCain …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BOOM=> House Intel Chair: We Cannot Rule Out That Sr. Obama Officials Were Involved in Trump Surveillance
Discussion: ABC News and Daily Wire
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
House Intel chairman: Trump's personal communications may have been collected
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Schiff: I have ‘grave concerns’ over Nunes's surveillance claim
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Bloomberg:
Nunes Says Trump Team Conversations Caught in Surveillance
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:   Nunes ‘Unmasking’ Report Vindicates Trump Claims on Surveillance
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats weigh deal to let Gorsuch through  —  A group of Senate Democrats is beginning to explore trying to extract concessions from Republicans in return for allowing Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to be confirmed, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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Democracy Now:
A Driver Fled His Truck to Avoid Freezing to Death. Only One Judge Ruled Against Him: Neil Gorsuch
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Daily News:
Racist Maryland man who fatally stabbed black New Yorker admits his intent to kill African-American men  —  The 28-year-old man busted for fatally stabbing a black stranger in Midtown on Tuesday has told cops he came the city from Baltimore to kill African-Americans, sources said.
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Ashley Southall / New York Times:   Suspect in Manhattan Killing Hated Black Men, Police Say
Daniel Prendergast / New York Post:
Well-dressed suspect in fatal stabbing surrenders to cops
Discussion: Gothamist
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Schiff: There is now ‘more than circumstantial evidence’ of Trump-Russia collusion  —  Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that there is “more than circumstantial evidence now” to suggest that President Donald Trump's campaign may have colluded …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:   Leakgate Finds Its Joe McCarthy
Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:
The Trump Presidency Is Already a Joke  —  But it's no laughing matter.  —  It can reasonably be said that our dear leader is now the most ridiculed man on the planet.  In fact, he may well be the most ridiculed man in history.  For a preening narcissist who takes himself terribly seriously …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
The Guardian:
London attack: police confirm seven people arrested - live  —  Seven arrested in six counter-terrorism raids in London, Birmingham and elsewhere following Wednesday's terrorist attack on London … French authorities have launched an inquiry into the London attack after it became clear three …
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Fox News:
UK Parliament terror attack: 4 people killed, including cop and alleged assailant; 20 injured
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple has acquired Workflow, a powerful automation tool for iPad and iPhone  —  Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks.  We've been tracking this one for a while but were able …
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
President Trump, NBC's Mark Halperin dined in White House  —  President Donald Trump had a private dinner with NBC News senior political analyst Mark Halperin last week, sources with knowledge of the meeting told CNNMoney.  —  The dinner, which took place in the White House residence …
 
 
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John Hayward / Breitbart:
Rep. Massie: ‘Obamacare-Lite’ Is Dead; I've Spoken to 29 Colleagues Who Will Vote ‘No’
Discussion: Vox and Infowars
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama and Trump haven't talked since inauguration
Brookings Institution:
Senior Scholar - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Discussion: Washington Post and NPR
Reuters:
Exclusive: Lead poisoning afflicts neighborhoods across California
Mike Huckabee / Washington Post:
A conservative plea for the National Endowment of the Arts
Discussion: Mediaite and Business Insider
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
17,000 AT&T workers in California and Nevada go on strike
Discussion: RT, KTLA and CBS Los Angeles
George Joseph / The Verge:
NYPD sent video teams to record Occupy and BLM protests over 400 times, documents reveal
Discussion: The Root and Engadget
 Earlier Items: 
Camille Paglia / TIME:
Camille Paglia: Women Aren't Free Until Speech Is
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Preparing Cases Linking North Korea to Theft at N.Y. Fed
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Federal staffers panicked by conservative media attacks
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Prosecutors Are Extracting Data From More Than 100 Locked Phones Seized During Inauguration Day Arrests
Discussion: The Verge
New York Times:
‘Turkish Trump,’ a Hotel Plan and a Tangle of Foreign Ties
 

 
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Counterpoint Research:
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Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge:
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