memeorandum: Ivanka Trump to attend women's empowerment summit in Berlin (Betsy Klein/CNN)

11:20 AM ET, March 27, 2017

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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 …

Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Business Insider, Shakesville, NBC News, Raw Story, The Root, The Daily Caller, emptywheel, Lawfare, Axios, Political Wire and Towleroad

Ashley Parker / Washington Post:

Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas — President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans …

Nancy Cook / Politico:

Internal White House battles spill into Treasury — The fight for the direction of Donald Trump's presidency between the Goldman Sachs branch of the West Wing and hardcore conservatives is spilling into the Treasury Department, threatening Trump's next agenda item of overhauling the tax code.

Discussion: Towleroad

Alan Rappeport / New York Times:

Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts — WASHINGTON — Picking themselves up after the bruising collapse of their health care plan, President Trump and Republicans in Congress will start this week on a legislative obstacle course that will be even more arduous …

Discussion: Salon and The Hill

Charles M. Blow / New York Times:

The King of Crash and Burn — In the movie “Iron Man 2” (yes, superhero films are my guilty pleasure, so just bear with me) the villain, a rogue Russian scientist, informs the hero, Iron Man, of his theory on how easily he could be brought down: — “If you could make God bleed, people will cease to believe in Him.

Discussion: Raw Story, The FADER, The Guardian, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Hollywood Reporter and Vox

Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:

White House Opens Door to Democrats in Wake of Health-Bill Failure — Move signals Trump administration is fed up with many factions in House Republican conference — WASHINGTON—The White House sent a warning shot to congressional Republicans that it may increase its outreach to Democrats …

Discussion: Axios

Wall Street Journal:
The Tax Reform Damage

Discussion: TheStreet and Reuters

Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Stop Blaming. Start Governing.

Discussion: Daily Mail and Fox News

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand

Discussion: Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and Balloon Juice

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 …

Discussion: Political Wire, Towleroad, Raw Story and Axios

Juan Williams / The Hill:

If Obama had acted like Trump... Right-wing media to President Obama: We are so very sorry. — That's the message I got last week from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page. — The Journal abandoned efforts to make sense of President Trump's outright fiction that Obama wiretapped him.

Discussion: Raw Story

Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Chairman and partisan: The dual roles of Devin Nunes raise questions about House investigation

Discussion: NBC News

MJ Lee / CNN:

To read Trump's mind, lawmakers read ‘The Art of the Deal’ — (CNN)As members of the House Freedom Caucus plotted to seize control of Donald Trump's health care bill earlier this month, they discovered a key weakness in the President's strategy. — In a memo circulated to members …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and NPR

Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero

Discussion: Breitbart, The Daily Beast and Washington Post

Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The aftermath of the failed health care push

Discussion: Associated Press

Francis Fukuyama / Politico:
Trump's a Dictator? He Can't Even Repeal Obamacare

Discussion: Associated Press

Tara Palmeri / Politico: White House looks to rack up wins after health care calamity

Daniel Politi / Slate:
Bannon Pushed Trump to Use Health Care Vote to Write Up “Enemies List”

Discussion: New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daily Kos, Heat Street, Daily Mail, IJR and Raw Story

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Scott Pelley is pulling no punches on the nightly news — and people are taking notice — With the words “credibility questioned” prominent on the screen, Scott Pelley once again is doing what network evening-news anchors generally don't do: abandoning careful neutrality in favor of pointed truth-telling.

CBS News:
What's “fake news”? 60 Minutes producers investigate

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Mike Cernovich Presents …

Mike Cernovich / Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play:
60 Minutes Preview, Mike Cernovich Calls Out Scott Pelley During Heated Interview

Discussion: Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit

Betsy Klein / CNN:

Ivanka Trump to attend women's empowerment summit in Berlin — (CNN)Ivanka Trump is making her first trip abroad since her father took office, representing the United States at a women's empowerment summit in Berlin late next month. — The trip was first reported by the Associated Press.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Associated Press:
Ivanka Trump to attend women's economic summit in Berlin

Discussion: Political Wire and AOL

Rebecca Flood / The Independent:
Donald Trump printed out made-up £300bn Nato invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel

Discussion: Slate, CNBC, The American Conservative, The Times & The Sunday Times, The Slot, Business Insider, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, ThinkProgress, Axios, Raw Story, Mother Jones, Politico and Balloon Juice

Liam Deacon / Breitbart:

British cultural icon and punk rock godfather John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) has hailed the “joy” of populist, anti-establishment movements across the West. — Mr Lydon backed Brexit, claimed President Donald J. Trump was unfairly smeared by the “left wing” media, and said he wanted to shake …

Discussion: Althouse

Kelly Mclaughlin / Daily Mail:
Get ready for Calexit! Now Nigel Farage and the ‘Bad Boys of Brexit’ set their sights on splitting California in two

Discussion: Hot Air, The Times & The Sunday Times, LewRockwell and SARAH PALIN

Thomas Groome / New York Times:

To Win Again, Democrats Must Stop Being the Abortion Party — When I came to this country from Ireland some 45 years ago, a cousin, here 15 years before, advised me that Catholics vote Democratic. Having grown up in the Irish Republic, I was well disposed to Republican Party principles like local autonomy and limited government.

Discussion: RedState, Shakesville and Althouse

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

The Weekly Standard's Arsenal to Fight Falsehoods: ‘Facts, Logic and Reason’ — When Breitbart News ran a blaring headline last week suggesting that new evidence “vindicates” President Trump's still-baseless claims that former President Barack Obama put him and his team under surveillance ...

Sam Fellman / BuzzFeed:

The Trump Administration Was Silent For Hours After Russia Arrested Hundreds Of Protesters — Thousands of Russians took to the streets to protest corruption under President Vladimir Putin, and the police cracked down. The Trump administration had no comment for 12 hours.

Discussion: NPR, Hullabaloo and BBC