memeorandum: States with more Planned Parenthood clinics have fewer teen births and sexually transmitted diseases (Miranda Yaver/Washington Post)

11:45 AM ET, March 27, 2017

Top Items:

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, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Business Insider, IJR, BillMoyers.com, 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

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Senate committee to question Kushner over Russian meetings: report — The Senate Intelligence Committee will reportedly question White House adviser Jared Kushner as part of its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. — The committee wants to question Kushner …

Discussion: RedState, Business Insider and Raw Story

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...

Discussion: Raw Story

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

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and 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: The Slot, Talking Points Memo and NPR

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

Discussion: Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast, Washington Post and Mediaite

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

Discussion: Associated Press

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

Wall Street Journal:
The Tax Reform Damage

Discussion: TheStreet and Reuters

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

Discussion: Associated Press

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

Discussion: Daily Mail and Fox News

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

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

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 Gateway Pundit, The FADER, AOL, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review and zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/*

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

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

Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:

The German Government Denies Reports That Trump Gave Merkel A NATO “Invoice” — “The reports about the mentioned invoice or bill are wrong,” a German government spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. — The German government has denied receiving a “bill” or an “invoice” amounting to billions of dollars “owed” by Germany to NATO.

Discussion: Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The American Conservative, The Times & The Sunday Times, Politico, ThinkProgress, Mother Jones and Balloon Juice

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

Discussion: Political Wire, CNN, New York Magazine and AOL

Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Reportedly Handed Merkel a $374 Billion Invoice for NATO

Discussion: CNBC, Business Insider, The Slot, The Independent, The Daily Caller, Axios 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

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

Maureen Dowd / Vanity Fair:

Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse — Elon Musk is famous for his futuristic gambles, but Silicon Valley's latest rush to embrace artificial intelligence scares him. And he thinks you should be frightened too. Inside his efforts to influence the rapidly advancing field …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

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

Miranda Yaver / Washington Post:

States with more Planned Parenthood clinics have fewer teen births and sexually transmitted diseases — Republicans in Congress have long aimed to cut Planned Parenthood's federal funding. Despite the failure on Friday of the American Health Care Act, many observers expect Congress to try …

Heather J. Carlson / Post Bulletin:

Democrat Walz to run for governor … Tim Walz U.S. Congressman First Congressional District of Minnesota held a town hall style meeting Thursday night February 23, 2017 at Rochester Community and Technical College in Rochester, Minn. This was the first such meeting held by Walz in Rochester since 2011.

Discussion: Politico and Washington Times