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4:30 PM ET, April 3, 2017

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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel  —  White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Susan Rice In Crosshairs as Potential Felon  —  A major development in the Obama spy/leak scandal: former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice has been identified as a person who repeatedly requested that associates of Donald Trump (and perhaps Trump himself) be unmasked in raw intelligence intercepts.
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's risk of impeachment rises  —  Liberal Democrats could yet see their dreams come true.  —  Last week, a new poll from the liberal outfit Public Policy Polling (PPP) asked Americans if President Trump should resign if evidence emerges that his campaign worked with Russia to help defeat Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Washington Times and Hot Air
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Russiagate Scam Will Blow Up In The Democrats' Smug Faces
Jonathan Allen / Roll Call:   Opinion: The S.S. Trump Is Sinking — Find a Lifeboat
Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Nuclear Trigger Finger  —  In the 1944 noir film “Gaslight,” a villain hides his crimes by convincing his innocent wife she's insane, feeding her barely perceptible lies and altering small aspects of her environment until she doubts her own instincts and observations.
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Patrick Leahy / U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont:
Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Nomination Of Neil Gorsuch To Be An Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court  —  Let me begin with the nomination of Rod Rosenstein to be Deputy Attorney General.  Mr. Rosenstein has spent 27 years in the Justice Department and the last 12 years as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senators fear fallout of nuclear option  —  Senators in both parties are speculating that a blowup over President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court could lead not only to the end of the filibuster for such nominations, but for controversial legislation as well.  —  While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Democrats Have Votes to Halt Gorsuch Confirmation, Tally Shows
Richard L. Hasen / Washington Post:
Neil Gorsuch got where he is because of a form of affirmative action
Discussion: Daily Kos and Common Dreams
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Appear Poised to Filibuster Gorsuch Nomination
Discussion: Faithwire
Wall Street Journal:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Rent in Washington: $15,000 a Month  —  Owner is a Chilean magnate who bought house for $5.5 million  —  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's daughter and her White House adviser husband, are paying $15,000 a month to rent their new home …
Discussion: Business Insider
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Visits Iraq on Invitation From Joint Chiefs Chairman  —  Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, made a trip to Iraq over the weekend, visiting the country as the American military is aiding Iraqi forces in their brutal fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.
Los Angeles Times:
Why Trump lies … Donald Trump did not invent the lie and is not even its master.  Lies have oozed out of the White House for more than two centuries and out of politicians' mouths — out of all people's mouths — likely as long as there has been human speech.
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Los Angeles Times:
Our Dishonest President … It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters.  The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
NBC News:
North Korean Defector Tells Lester Holt ‘World Should be Ready’  —  SEOUL, South Korea — A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies.  —  Thae Yong Ho is the most high …
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Financial Times:
Trump ready to tackle North Korea alone — FT exclusive  —  President says US will act unilaterally if China does not pressure Pyongyang … Donald Trump has warned that the US will take unilateral action to eliminate the nuclear threat from North Korea unless China increases pressure on the regime in Pyongyang.
Katie Kieffer / Townhall.com:
Why Isn't Hillary Clinton in Jail?  —  She feels safe enough to “come out of the woods,” exactly the time for a Trump administration special prosecutor to launch a broadside.  —  Mentally strong people don't need five months to overcome setbacks.  Thomas Edison famously said: “I have not failed 10,000 times. ...
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ProPublica:
Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us  —  When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his sons in charge and claimed to distance himself from his sprawling empire.
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Trump Supporter Labeled ‘Fake News’ By ‘60 Minutes’ Beats Everyone To Susan Rice Scoop  —  Mike Cernovich, a journalist who has promoted conspiracy theories and was deemed “fake news” by “60 Minutes,” was the first to break the news that Obama's former national security advisor Susan Rice …
Discussion: Medium
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Contributor files sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News  —  Another Fox News host hit the network with a lawsuit on Monday that includes allegations against former chairman and CEO Roger Ailes.  —  Julie Roginsky, who appeared regularly on the network most notably on news discussion programs …
Discussion: RedState
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox News renews O'Reilly contract: report
Discussion: RedState
The White House:
White House Releases Official Portrait of First Lady Melania Trump  —  The White House is announcing the release of the first official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump, taken in her new residence at the White House.  —  “I am honored to serve in the role of First Lady …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
How to Lose a Majority  —  The very public intra-party fight between President Trump and the Freedom Caucus is just the latest twist in the ongoing fight over the philosophical, strategic and ideological direction of the Republican party.  As has been his mode of operation since his candidate days …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump administration cracks down on visas for computer programmers  —  The Trump administration has quietly issued new policy guidance that would make it harder for companies to use the H-1B visa program to bring foreign computer programmers into the U.S.  —  A policy memo from the U.S. Citizenship …
Discussion: RedState
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump tells Sisi U.S., Egypt will fight Islamic militants together  —  U.S. President Donald Trump moved to reset U.S. relations with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday after the prior Obama administration's strained ties, giving him firm backing and vowing to work together to fight Islamic militants.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump: ‘We are very much behind’ Egypt's el-Sisi
Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post and The Week
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Tucker Carlson's Fighting Words  —  On Fox News, an unlikely star thrives in the tumult of Trump-era politics.  —  Tucker Carlson started wearing a bow tie in 1984, when he was in tenth grade at St. George's, a Rhode Island prep school with a dress code.  He stopped wearing a bow tie on April 11 …
Discussion: The Week and Axios
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump donates first-quarter salary to National Park Service  —  President Trump will donate his first three months of salary to the National Park Service, White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced Monday.  —  “The president has spoken with counsel and made the decision to donate …
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Records show deep ties between FBI and Best Buy computer technicians looking for child porn  —  Technicians for Best Buy's “Geek Squad City” computer repair facility had a long, close relationship with the FBI in “a joint venture to ferret out child porn,” according to claims in new federal court documents …
Discussion: The Verge
 
 
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
White House, conservatives mull deal to revive Obamacare repeal
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
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Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Daily Wire
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
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Stephen Miller / Heat Street:
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Kristin Huang / South China Morning Post:
Chinese engineer ‘marries’ robot after failing to find a human wife
Discussion: Shanghaiist and The Daily Caller
Jim Acosta / Adweek:
These 15 Political Power Players in Media Are Keeping It Real in the Age of Fake News
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TVNewser
Timothy Mclaughlin / Reuters:
Kansas House fails in attempt to override Medicaid veto
Discussion: Mother Jones
 Earlier Items: 
Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
The Rising Retirement Perils of 401(k) ‘Leakage’
Discussion: Mother Jones and naked capitalism
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
EPA's Scott Pruitt Gets Eaten Alive by Fox
Discussion: Washington Post and ThinkProgress
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Sorry, Democrats. Trump's not going anywhere. You wouldn't like who would follow anyway.
Discussion: Hot Air and Scripting News
Peter Berkowitz / Wall Street Journal:
A Lawsuit Accuses Yale of Censoring Even Inoffensive Ideas
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
As Republicans' views improve, Americans give the economy its highest marks since financial crisis