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9:05 AM ET, March 27, 2017

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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 …
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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: The Hill
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Internal White House battles spill into Treasury
Discussion: Towleroad
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 …
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
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Bannon Pushed Trump to Use Health Care Vote to Write Up “Enemies List”  —  Following the embarrassing collapse of Trumpcare, everyone is asking the same question, What went wrong?  And while there are several different angles to answer the question, there seems to be one constant …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Reince Priebus Defends Paul Ryan Amid Failure
Associated Press:
GOP controls federal government but struggles to govern
Discussion: Politico
Fox News:   Judge Jeanine Pirro: Paul Ryan must go. Now
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, looking for a flicker of hope after his Republican majority fell to pieces last week, predicted that the opposition party would eventually give in: “I honestly believe the Democrats will come …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Stop Blaming. Start Governing.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Fox News
Thomas Groome / New York Times:   To Win Again, Democrats Must Stop Being the Abortion Party
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
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Chairman and partisan: The dual roles of Devin Nunes raise questions about House investigation  —  The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was on his way to an event in Washington late Tuesday when the evening's plans abruptly changed.  After taking a brief phone call, Rep. Devin Nunes …
Discussion: NBC News
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 ...
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.
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero  —  HIGHLANDS, N.C. — House insurgent Mark Meadows embarrassed the White House and forced his fellow Republicans to turn tail on a seven-year pledge to tear down Obamacare.  —  His constituents are throwing him a party.
Los Angeles Times:
Reporter and photographers say they were assaulted by Trump supporters at Huntington Beach rally  —  An OC Weekly reporter and two photographers said Sunday that they were physically assaulted by pro-Trump demonstrators at a Make America Great Again rally in Huntington Beach and are seeking …
Discussion: Hot Air, BizPac Review and RedState
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Report: Ryan pleaded on one knee for ObamaCare repeal vote  —  The Washington Post detailed the House GOP's fight over the ObamaCare repeal and replacement plan this week, rounding up the dramatic details of leadership's fight to win support for the measure.  —  At one point, the paper said, House Speaker Paul Ryan
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly 1 out of every 3 days he has been president, Trump has visited a Trump property  —  For the eighth weekend in a row, President Trump has visited a property that bears his name.  He has done so on 21 of the 66 days he has been in office, meaning that for the equivalent of three full weeks …
Discussion: WiredPen and twitchy.com
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New York Times:   Trump Puts a Presidential-Size Spotlight on His Brand
Mike Cernovich / Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play:
60 Minutes Preview, Mike Cernovich Calls Out Scott Pelley During Heated Interview  —  During a contentious debate on the nature of truth and what is “fake news,” Mike Cernovich told Scott Pelley what story 60 Minutes would publish before the episode had aired.  Find an excerpt of this interview below:
Discussion: Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Marc Bennetts / Politico:
Massive opposition protests challenge Putin  —  Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, arrested during Sunday's large demonstration, seeks to tap into frustration with corruption.  —  MOSCOW — Russian police detained Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin critic who wants to take on Vladimir Putin …
Discussion: Politico
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David Filipov / Washington Post:
Russian police arrest anti-corruption leader Navalny, hundreds more in nationwide rallies
Discussion: Bloomberg and New York Magazine
The Guardian:   Opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained amid protests across Russia
 
 
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Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
The Art of the Possible in an Age of Recrimination
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Can Religious Charities Take the Place of the Welfare State?
Discussion: Instapundit
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump administration weighs deeper involvement in Yemen war
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Icahn Raises Ethics Flags With Dual Roles as Investor and Trump Adviser
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa / Business Insider:
There's a reason why it's ‘been decades since significant tax reform has passed’
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Elaina Plott / Washingtonian:
Mary Katharine Ham Is Not Here to Entertain You
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
White House blame game intensifies as Trump agenda stalls
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Rebecca Flood / The Independent:
Donald Trump printed out made-up £300bn Nato invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel
Eli Watkins / CNN:
John Kasich says he's not running for office again
Discussion: Political Wire
Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
The far right turned this Muslim woman into a ‘monster’ online. That's despicable.
Discussion: ABC
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Graham: Left is ‘going insane’ after Trump's win
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why Trump's approval ratings don't matter
Stan Collender / Forbes:
Passing Tax Reform Will Be As Difficult As Repealing Obamacare