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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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Michael Scherer / TIME:
Can President Trump Handle the Truth?  —  Generations of American children have learned the apocryphal tale of young George Washington, bravely admitting to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.  The story sprang from a culture that wanted even its fables to serve the ideal of truth.
Discussion: CNBC and Mother Jones
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Defense of His Lies: 'I'm President and You're Not'  —  It is remarkable — and perhaps praiseworthy — that Donald Trump gave a long and detailed interview on the subject of his being a pathological liar.  The interview, with Time's Michael Scherer, covers a wide range of Trump's lies …
Discussion: Raw Story
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
9 bonkers things Donald Trump said in his new exclusive interview with Time  —  “I can't be doing so badly, because I'm president, and you're not.”  —  In an exclusive interview with Time's Michael Scherer, published Thursday, President Donald Trump basically gives three types of explanations …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
President Trump's cascade of false claims in Time's interview on his falsehoods
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Thursday vote on health care bill canceled  —  President Donald Trump and conservative House Freedom Caucus members failed to strike a deal on the GOP Obamacare replacement Thursday, endangering the prospects of passage and all but assuring any immediate vote on the measure would fail.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The health care bill could be Donald Trump's Iraq War  —  Sold on lies, poorly planned, deadly to thousands, and a catastrophe for its authors.  —  If it passes, the American Health Care Act will be Donald Trump and Paul Ryan's Iraq War.  It's been sold with lies.
Discussion: STAT, Politico, Common Dreams and Slate
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Freedom Caucus Closing In On Deal To Rewrite Health Care Bill At 11th Hour  —  Republicans are considering changes that could doom the bill in the Senate and save face in the House.  —  WASHINGTON Just hours before an expected Thursday vote in the House, congressional Republicans …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House leaders postpone vote on their health-care plan  —  House leaders postponed a vote Thursday on their plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, as they and President Trump struggled to meet demands of conservative lawmakers who said they could not support the bill.
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
What the GOP's plan to kill essential health benefits means
Discussion: Daily Wire
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
No Deal on Health Care Bill After Conservative Meeting With Trump
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Obamacare repeal in jeopardy as Trump offers 11th-hour concessions
CNN:
Nunes apologizes to House Intel Committee, member says  — “Basically what he has done is he has scuttled and put a cloud over his own investigation,” Cummings said  —  (CNN)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes apologized to committee members Thursday, a Democrat on the panel told reporters …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Nunes apologizes for going directly to White House with monitoring claims
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: Intel chairman ‘a stooge of the president’
Discussion: Axios
Bwittes / Lawfare:
What The Heck Is Devin Nunes Talking About? A Guide for the Perplexed
Discussion: Vox
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Schumer: Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch nomination  —  As the Senate Judiciary Committee was hearing from witnesses for and against Judge Neil Gorsuch, his Supreme Court nomination was delivered a critical blow: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced he would oppose Gorsuch …
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The Washington Times http / Washington Times:
Schumer says Dems will filibuster Gorsuch
Discussion: Power Line, NBC News and The Resurgent
Jay Caruso / RedState:
Democrats Choose Stupidity: They Will Filibuster Neil Gorsuch Nomination
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers leave Trump White House with no deal  —  GOP lawmakers leaving the White House after a meeting with President Trump said they have not reached a deal that would allow them to support an ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill set for a vote Thursday.
Discussion: Politico
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Centrists balk at GOP ObamaCare bill
Discussion: Vox, Asbury Park Press and RedState
The Hill:
GOP lawmakers say ObamaCare repeal vote may be delayed
Discussion: New York Magazine and rubber hose
Rick Perry / Houston Chronicle:
Did A&M shun due process in the name of ‘diversity’?  —  As Texas' first Aggie governor and as someone who was twice elected Yell Leader of Texas A&M University, I am deeply troubled by the recent conduct of A&M's administration and Student Government Association (SGA) during the Aggie student-body president elections for 2017-2018.
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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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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
'There's a Smell of Treason in the Air'
Discussion: The Nation and Washington Post
Brookings Institution:
Senior Scholar - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs  —  In “Mortality and morbidity in the 21st Century,” Princeton Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton follow up on their groundbreaking 2015 paper that revealed a shocking increase in midlife mortality among white non …
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Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
Death Rates Rise for Wide Swath of White Adults, Study Finds
Discussion: The Atlantic and emptywheel
Jerusalem Post:
‘Dual US-Israeli citizen behind most JCC bomb threat calls’  —  Israeli authorities have arrested an 19-year-old suspect on suspicion of instigating a series of threats to Jewish communities in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand over the past six months.
House Committee on Ethics:
Statement of the Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Representative Duncan Hunter  —  Pursuant to Committee Rule 7(g), the Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics (Committee) determined on March 23, 2017, to release the following statement:
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Hunter under criminal investigation for alleged campaign finance violations
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
4-Year-Old Brings Shell Casing to Preschool.  Principal Suspends Him for 7 Days, Calls Child Services.  —  An Illinois preschool is teaching a 4-year-old boy quite the lesson.  Officials suspended him for a full week—and also called the Department of Children and Family Services on his parents.
Discussion: Facebook, Heat Street and TheBlaze
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Andy Banker / FOX2now.com:
4-year-old suspended for bringing a shell casing to preschool daycare, goes viral on Facebook
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Denison Texas Police Department:
PRESS RELEASE  —  Denison Police Department  —  Chief Jay Burch  —  Date of release: March 22, 2017  —  Subject: Abduction/Sexual Assault Case Unfounded  —  The Denison Police Department has determined that the alleged abduction and sexual assault case reported on March 8, 2017 was a hoax.
Discussion: KTLA and New York Magazine
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Liz Farmer / Dallas Morning News:
Gang rape was a ‘hoax’ by bloody teen who ran into church half-naked, Denison police say
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Root
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Rotten Tomatoes is ‘the destruction of our business,’ says director  —  Director and producing mogul Brett Ratner says film critic aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes is a destructive force in Hollywood.  —  Speaking at the Sun Valley Film Festival last weekend, the Rush Hour director wanted …
Discussion: Mashable and The Verge
 
 
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