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6:30 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 …
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.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:   White House's Online Visitor Logs Remain Offline Under Trump
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Intel chair Nunes met source of new surveillance documents at White House
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Juan Williams / The Hill:
If Obama had acted like Trump...
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
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.”
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.
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: Business Insider and Raw Story
Associated Press:
The Latest: Senate intel panel confirms Kushner's offer
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas
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.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
AG Jeff Sessions takes aim at sanctuary cities, says DOJ will cut funding  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a surprise appearance at today's White House press briefing, slamming cities that are working to actively ignore the federal law to turn over people who are living in the country illegally.
Discussion: Politico, Vox and Common Dreams
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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”
The Washington Times http / Washington Times:
AG Sessions says he'll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks Announcing Sanctuary Jurisdictions
Jeremy Binckes / Salon:
Republicans are facing another government shutdown, and they may not be able to stop it  —  Republicans run both houses of Congress and the White House, but the government still may shut down  —  Republicans are having trouble realizing that “as the heads of the government, they actually …
Discussion: Politico, New York Magazine, AOL and Axios
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Axios:
GOP scrambles to defuse shutdown bomb
Discussion: Daily Mail and New York Magazine
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dems delay Senate panel vote on Supreme Court nominee  —  Democrats are delaying for one week an initial committee vote on Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court.  —  Sen. Chuck Grassley  —  (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee, said Democrats had requested …
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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: IJR, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Cheney: Russian election interference could be ‘act of war’
Discussion: Newsmax and AOL
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 …
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 …
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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.
Paul GutierrezESPN / ESPN:
Owners vote 31-1 to OK Raiders move; Dolphins vote against  —  PHOENIX — The Oakland Raiders will move to Las Vegas after garnering enough votes from NFL owners on Monday to relocate to Southern Nevada.  —  EDITOR'S PICKS  —  No betting on the Super Bowl in Nevada?
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 …
 
 
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Hulu Nabs Sarah Silverman Topical Show ‘I Love You, America’ From Funny Or Die
Discussion: Mediaite, Engadget and Mashable
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Another record haul for House GOP, building ‘shock and awe’ warchest
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Trump's budget owes a huge debt to this right-wing Washington think tank
Iain Marlow / Bloomberg:
Trudeau to Legalize Marijuana by July 2018, CBC Reports
Discussion: The FADER, The Daily Caller and AOL
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Roger Wilkins, civil rights champion in government and journalism, dies at 85
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
WikiLeaks denies Roger Stone's claim of backchannel to the group
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Melania Trump to make a rare Washington appearance this week
Discussion: New York Magazine and AOL
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew M Harris / Bloomberg:
13 States File Brief to Court Supporting Trump's Travel Ban
Discussion: Politico
Joe Concha / The Hill:
NBC News signs former White House press secretary Josh Earnest
Discussion: TheBlaze and IJR
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 and Common Dreams
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Attorney's Office Under Investigation After 700 Lawyers Were Spied On in Prison
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow posts 8-day slide, longest since 2011, as Street weighs tax reform prospects
Discussion: Daily Mail and NBC News
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Internal White House battles spill into Treasury
 

 
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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
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