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9:55 PM ET, March 27, 2017

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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Nunes says he was on WH grounds day before revealing Trump surveillance info  —  Washington (CNN)It has been something of a mystery, the whereabouts of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes on the day before his announcement that he saw information suggesting that communications …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Devin Nunes Explains His White House Visit  —  For the last few days, much of Washington has been obsessed with what Representative Devin Nunes did last Tuesday evening.  That was the night before Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made the explosive allegation …
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Boris Epshteyn Named in July FISA Application; Did Nunes Obstruct Justice?  —  On November 7th, I reported at Heat Street that the FBI had obtained a FISA warrant covering the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.  —  I reported that the FISA warrant had been granted after an earlier …
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Devin Nunes is making it very hard for Republicans to claim they can run an impartial investigation on Russia  —  From the perspective of impartiality, one of the problems with Congress investigating Russia's meddling in the U.S. election and whether President Trump's circle had anything to do with it is Congress itself.
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Storm builds around Intel chair after secret White House trip  —  The storm around House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) intensified Monday after it was revealed that he secretly visited the White House grounds the day before announcing incidental surveillance of President Trump's transition team.
Discussion: Political Wire
Austin Wright / Politico:
Pelosi, Schiff call on Nunes to recuse himself from Russia probe
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:   White House's Online Visitor Logs Remain Offline Under Trump
New York Times:
House Democrats Ask Devin Nunes to Recuse Himself From Russia Inquiry
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Nunes admits meeting with source of Trump surveillance documents on White House grounds
Discussion: USA Today and Towleroad
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
After health care fiasco, Trump's next move may be even more disastrous  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Now that the GOP plan to wipe out Obamacare lies in smoking ruins, President Trump is mulling a new and fiendishly clever scheme: allow the law to collapse, or even further undermine …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan: House Republicans will continue their push for health-care reform this year  —  House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told Republican donors Monday that he intends to continue pushing for an overhaul of the nation's health-care system by working “on two tracks” as he also pursues other elements of President Trump's agenda.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
What If the Health-Care Collapse Saves Trump's Presidency?  —  Friday was the worst day of Donald Trump's young presidency—an unprecedented defeat on his first legislative priority, which also happened to be his party's signature promise for the last seven years and one of his own top campaign promises.
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to New Low of 36%  —  President Donald Trump's job approval rating fell to 36% for the three-day period of March 24-26, following Republican House leaders' failed effort to pass a new healthcare bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act.
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Interesting Timing  —  Perhaps the White House had planned all along for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to make an appearance at today's press briefing to rail against sanctuary cities.  But the timing is consistent with what I've long feared will be the impulse for the Trump administration …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sessions says grants to be withheld from sanctuary cities
Discussion: ABC News and TheStreet
CBS News:
Jeff Sessions calls on sanctuary cities to “enforce our immigration laws”
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
CNN:
First on CNN: Border wall ask: $1 billion for 62 miles  —  Washington (CNN)The Trump administration wants the first $1 billion of border wall funding to cover 62 miles — including replacing some existing fencing along the southern border.  —  The $999 million requested by the White House …
Discussion: Business Insider and Axios
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers  —  Startup from CEO of Tesla and SpaceX aims to implant tiny electrodes in human brains  —  Building a mass-market electric vehicle and colonizing Mars aren't ambitious enough for Elon Musk.  The billionaire entrepreneur now wants …
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Maureen Dowd / Vanity Fair:
Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse
Elana Schor / Politico:
Gorsuch's path to 60 votes closing fast  —  Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's path to 60 votes is rapidly closing — setting the stage for a nuclear showdown in the Senate as soon as next week.  —  Senior Democratic sources are now increasingly confident that Gorsuch can't clear a filibuster …
Discussion: CNN and Hot Air
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New York Times:
Senate Committee to Question Jared Kushner Over Meetings With Russians  —  Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How Trump's presidency is succeeding
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
GOP scrambles to defuse shutdown bomb  —  A top Republican with close ties to the White House tells me that after the GOP failure on healthcare, a government shutdown — looming when a continuing resolution runs out April 28 — is “more likely than not... Wall Street is not expecting a shutdown and the markets are unprepared.”
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Jeremy Binckes / Salon:
Republicans are facing another government shutdown, and they may not be able to stop it
Discussion: Politico, AOL, Axios and Associated Press
Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
DICK CHENEY: ‘No question’ Russia meddled in the US election, and it could be ‘an act of war’  —  In a wide-ranging speech at the Economic Times' Global Business Summit on Monday, former US Vice President Dick Cheney spoke unequivocally about Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
Discussion: Raw Story, IJR and Political Wire
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Cheney: Russian election interference could be ‘act of war’
Discussion: Newsmax and AOL
Axios:
Scoop: Trump wants to make tax reform and infrastructure a package deal  —  The Trump administration is looking at driving tax reform and infrastructure concurrently, according to a White House source with direct knowledge.  —  It's a major strategic shift - infrastructure was likely …
Julia Harte / Reuters:
U.S. government watchdog to review Mar-a-Lago trips, Trump hotel profits  —  A U.S. government watchdog has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the agency said on Monday, after Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about the issue last month.
Discussion: Liberal Values
Dan Rather:
We're roughly two months into the Trump Presidency, and it is the worst start to a time in office I have ever seen.  I am not alone in this conclusion.  Many Presidential scholars are saying it's the worst start of any Presidency in the history of the country.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Cochrane / CBC News:
Liberals to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018  —  Provinces will have right to decide how marijuana is distributed and sold, CBC News has learned  —  The Liberal government will announce legislation next month that will legalize marijuana in Canada by July 1, 2018.
 
 
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Fox News:
Homeowner's son shoots, kills three would-be burglars
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James Delingpole / Breitbart:
President Trump's attempts to drain the swamp are being undermined by one of his key administrators.
Chicago Tribune:
Man shot by ICE agent serving arrest warrant on Northwest Side
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
‘Why Do All the Jihadis Come to Birmingham?’
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Democrats burned by polling blind spot
Discussion: Axios
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Another record haul for House GOP, building ‘shock and awe’ warchest
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Trump's budget owes a huge debt to this right-wing Washington think tank
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Roger Wilkins, civil rights champion in government and journalism, dies at 85
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Melania Trump to make a rare Washington appearance this week
Discussion: New York Magazine and AOL
Cynthia Kroet / Politico:
Germany didn't receive NATO invoice from Trump: government
 

 
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