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11:10 AM ET, September 22, 2017

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Politico:
Trump publicly backs healthcare effort, privately harbors doubts  —  While the president appears all in some in the White House wonder about Graham-Cassidy's contents and its chances.  —  In public, President Donald Trump is all-in on the Senate's final chance to repeal Obamacare.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, ABC News and Vox
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Cruelty, Incompetence and Lies  —  Graham-Cassidy, the health bill the Senate may vote on next week, is stunningly cruel.  It's also incompetently drafted: The bill's sponsors clearly had no idea what they were doing when they put it together.  Furthermore, their efforts to sell the bill involve obvious, blatant lies.
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval doubles down on criticism of Heller-sponsored measure; state analysis highlights up to $2 billion loss  —  Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday that the flexibility fellow Republican Sen. Dean Heller promised will be good for Nevada in a health-care bill he's sponsoring is a “false choice” …
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The key states that would lose funding under Graham-Cassidy  —  A new estimate obtained by Axios from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projects that Alaska, home to key swing vote Sen. Lisa Murkowski, would lose 38% of federal funding for premium subsidies and Medicaid by 2026 under the Graham-Cassidy proposal.
CNN:
Axelrod: I cried when they passed Obamacare  — David Axelrod: When ACA passed, I was reminded of my daughter's struggle with epilepsy and high cost of her medical care  — The new GOP health-care bill would plunge many Americans into the same situation my family was in, he writes
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
New Effort to Kill Obamacare Is Called ‘the Most Radical’
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Medicaid directors issue warning on new ObamaCare repeal bill
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump cautions GOP to pass Obamacare repeal or face the consequences
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Washington Post:
Federal estimate shows states' big win-loss gap by 2026 under Cassidy-Graham bill
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump aides begin looking for the exits  —  A fast-growing number of White House staffers are starting to look for the exits, even though the one-year mark of President Donald Trump's first term is still months away.  —  Many who joined the administration in January did so with the explicit idea …
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Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Monitored Manafort After He Left Trump Campaign  —  The surveillance came as part of a counterintelligence probe into Russian interference with presidential election  —  U.S. authorities placed Paul Manafort under surveillance after he was ousted as Donald Trump's campaign manager …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump says this is all a hoax.  Mueller, Congress and Facebook disagree.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller and three congressional committees are investigating Russian interference in the election, but President Trump is still telling his fans it's a “hoax.”
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Mueller requested phone records about Air Force One statement
Mark Zuckerberg:
I just went live a minute ago.  Here's what I said:
Bob Grip / WALA-TV:
Roy Moore leads Luther Strange in FOX10 News poll  —  If the Alabama GOP Senate runoff election were held today, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore would defeat incumbent Senator Luther Strange, according to an exclusive, FOX10 News/Strategy Research statewide poll, conducted Wednesday.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: Strange has ‘gained mightily’ since my endorsement
Discussion: ABC News
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Donald Trump Can't Lose
Discussion: CNN
John Verhovek / ABC News:
5 moments that mattered in the Alabama US Senate debate
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Warns of Hydrogen-Bomb Test Over Pacific Ocean  —  Threat made in response to U.S. president's speech before U.N.; Kim Jong Un calls Donald Trump ‘mentally deranged’  —  SEOUL—North Korea's foreign minister said the country could detonate a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean …
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Kim's Rejoinder to Trump's Rocket Man: ‘Mentally Deranged U.S. Dotard’
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Amid new sanctions, Trump calls North Korea's leader ‘madman’ whose regime will face new tests
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Kim Jong Un calls Trump a ‘mentally deranged U.S. dotard’
Discussion: RedState, IJR, Mashable and The Week
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
How Tom Price decided chartered, private jets were a good use of taxpayer money  —  After Tom Price was sworn in as health and human services secretary, the Georgia Republican faced an inconvenience known to millions of Americans: His flight was delayed, an aide said, and he was forced to spend hours at an airport.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Price traveled by private plane at least 24 times  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has taken at least 24 flights on private charter planes at taxpayers' expense since early May, according to people with knowledge of his travel plans and a review of HHS documents.
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Sebastian Gorka Gave A Classified “Tirade” About Radical Islam  —  The former Trump aide delivered a two-and-a-half-hour speech to students at a US Army elite special operations center, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show.  People who were there said it was a fiery speech …
Discussion: Axios
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Coulter: If we're not getting the wall, we may as well have an attractive dignified president  —  Ann Coulter on Wednesday slammed President Trump as less “attractive” and “dignified” than Vice President Pence and doubled down on her recent harsh criticism of the president by advocating replacing him with his second in command.
Discussion: RedState
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
Virginia Republican unleashes most racist attack ad since Willie Horton  —  In this year's Virginia gubernatorial race, Republican candidate and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie is often portrayed as a gentlemanly, clean alternative to the ugliness of Donald Trump.
Financial Times:
Steve Bannon held secret meeting in Beijing  —  Steve Bannon flew to Beijing last week for a secret meeting with the second most powerful Chinese Communist party official, less than a month after the former chief White House strategist declared that America was at “economic war with China”.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Scott Schwebke / Orange County Register:
End-of-world prediction interrupts TV broadcasts in Orange County  —  Some Orange County residents were stunned Thursday, Sept. 21, when television programming was suddenly interrupted for about a minute with an ominous message predicting the end of the world.
New York Times:
Fighting Breaks Out at Turkish President's Speech in New York  —  Violence broke out at a New York hotel Thursday afternoon when protesters disrupted a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.  —  In the middle of Mr. Erdogan's speech, delivered in Turkish, a man …
Brownsville Herald:
De Leon apologizes; Leaked audio clips of foul language, slurs go viral  —  City Commissioner Cesar De Leon was apologetic Wednesday after multiple social media users this week shared audio clips of him using derogatory slurs to describe two assistant district attorneys.
 
 
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TMZ.com:
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Travel Ban Decision Could Set Off New Wave of Turmoil
Discussion: Axios
Reuters:
Kremlin: Russia did not use Facebook adverts to sway U.S. election
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
White House plan for tax cuts moves forward
Discussion: Axios, Political Wire and CNBC
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There and Back Again  —  “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”