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3:30 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 …
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: Politico and Raw Story
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Intel chair Nunes met source of new surveillance documents at White House
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
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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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
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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How to Build on Obamacare  —  “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.”  So declared Donald Trump three weeks before wimping out on his promise to repeal Obamacare.  Up next: “Nobody knew that tax reform could be so complicated.”  Then, perhaps: “Nobody knew that international trade policy could be so complicated.”
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 …
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.
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Jasper Craven / VTDigger:
Leahy will not vote for Trump's Supreme Court nominee  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., will not support Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court.  —  A week ago, Leahy was undecided.  After four days of hearings, Leahy told VTDigger in an interview Sunday night …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dems delay Senate panel vote on Supreme Court nominee
Associated Press:
Dems force 1-week delay on panel vote on Supreme Court pick
Discussion: Politico and ABC 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: NPR, Talking Points Memo and The Slot
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Francis Fukuyama / Politico:
Trump's a Dictator? He Can't Even Repeal Obamacare
Discussion: ABC News and Associated Press
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
White House Opens Door to Democrats in Wake of Health-Bill Failure
Discussion: RedState and Axios
Cynthia Kroet / Politico:
Germany didn't receive NATO invoice from Trump: government  —  There is no ‘debt account at NATO,’ says German government spokesman.  —  A spokesman for the German government on Monday denied media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump handed a multibillion-euro invoice to Chancellor Angela Merkel …
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Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The German Government Denies Reports That Trump Gave Merkel A NATO “Invoice”
The Washington Times http / Washington Times:
AG Sessions says he'll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday he'll begin punishing sanctuary cities, withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money — and even clawing back funds that had been doled out in the past.
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
AG Jeff Sessions takes aim at sanctuary cities, says DOJ will cut funding
Discussion: Politico
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.
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.”
Discussion: CNBC, Daily Mail, New York Magazine and AOL
Joe Concha / The Hill:
NBC News signs former White House press secretary Josh Earnest  —  Former White House press secretary Josh Earnest has been named an NBC News and MSNBC political analyst.  —  The announcement was made Monday morning on NBC's “Today” show.  —  “Josh recently completed a ten-year run with President Obama …
Discussion: TheBlaze and IJR
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 …
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Breitbart Denied Capitol Hill Permanent Press Credentials  —  On Monday morning, the Standing Committee of the Senate Press Gallery denied Breitbart's request for permanent press credentials for the Hill, stating that they needed “more answers” before considering the right-wing website's request again.
 
 
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Half in US Are Now Concerned Global Warming Believers
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Georgia Dems normally raise $10,000 for this House seat. This April they'll have $3 million.
Discussion: Axios
Joshua Barone / New York Times:
Ai Weiwei's Latest Artwork: Building Fences Throughout New York City
Discussion: Curbed NY - All and Althouse
Joseph Curl / Daily Wire:
Muslim in Sweden Gets 40 Hours Community Service For Raping Girl, 13
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Attorney's Office Under Investigation After 700 Lawyers Were Spied On in Prison
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Todd Venezia / New York Post:
‘Fearless Girl’ will stay on Wall Street until 2018
Christy Gutowski / Chicago Tribune:
Wife of cop charged in Laquan McDonald killing says sheriff yanked job offer
Discussion: CBS Chicago and The Root
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Colorado mosque vandalized with Bible
Discussion: RedState
Heather J. Carlson / Post Bulletin:
Democrat Walz to run for governor
Discussion: Politico and Washington Times
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: John Podesta May Have Violated Federal Law By Not Disclosing 75,000 Stock Shares
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Scott Pelley is pulling no punches on the nightly news — and people are taking notice
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The Weekly Standard's Arsenal to Fight Falsehoods: ‘Facts, Logic and Reason’