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3:30 PM ET, September 22, 2017

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How will the Graham-Cassidy proposal affect the number of people with health insurance coverage?  —  Editor's Note: … On September 13, Senators Graham and Cassidy, together with two other Republican colleagues, introduced legislation that would repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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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.
mccain.senate.gov:
SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON HEALTH CARE REFORM  —  Washington, D.C. ­- U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today on health care reform:  —  “As I have repeatedly stressed, health care reform legislation ought to be the product of regular order in the Senate.
Joe Lawlorstaff / Press Herald:
Sen. Collins says she's leaning against voting for Graham-Cassidy health care bill  —  The Republican from Maine listed serious deficiences in her party's latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.  —  U.S. Sen. Susan Collins all but said she would vote “no” …
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.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Collins ‘leaning against’ GOP health care bill  —  https://apnews.com/41a6c9068d454a15a47e c728fa51a4fc  —  Link copied!  —  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Latest on health care legislation (all times local):  —  Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says she's “leaning against” …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans to Murkowski: Nice State You Have There.  Shame If Something Should Happen to It.  —  Wall Street Journal writer Kimberley Strassel's column typically channels talking points from congressional Republicans, and today's effort is dedicated to putting the squeeze on Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski.
Discussion: The Federalist
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain to vote no on ObamaCare repeal  —  (R-Ariz.) on Friday announced that he will vote against the latest proposal to repeal ObamaCare, potentially dooming the legislation and, with it, the GOP's last shot at passing a health-care overhaul this year.  —  “I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Politico
New York Times:
McCain Announces Opposition to Republican Health Bill, Likely Dooming It  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain of Arizona announced on Friday that he would oppose the latest proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act, leaving Republican leaders with little hope of succeeding in their last-ditch attempt to dismantle the health law.
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval doubles down on criticism of Heller-sponsored measure; state analysis highlights up to $2 billion loss
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins: ‘Leaning against’ supporting new ObamaCare repeal effort
Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Kos
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Study: 21 million fewer Americans would have health insurance under Graham-Cassidy
CNN:
Axelrod: I cried when they passed Obamacare
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
McCain says he will vote ‘no’ on Cassidy-Graham bill, dealing potentially decisive blow to the health-care repeal effort
Discussion: Political Wire
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.”
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Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Monitored Manafort After He Left Trump Campaign
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
A Dizzying Week of Trump-Russia Revelations
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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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Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Inspector general to investigate Price's travel on private charter planes
CNN:
The former FBI director spoke at Howard University.  It did not go well.  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Students at Howard University loudly protested former FBI Director James Comey Friday as he delivered a convocation address.  —  As Comey, making a rare public appearance since leaving …
Discussion: DCist, Daily Wire and TheBlaze
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Protesters disrupt James Comey's Howard University convocation speech
Fox News:
Comey convocation address derailed by angry protesters at Howard University
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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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll finds Moore with eight-point lead on Strange in Alabama
Discussion: RedState
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Donald Trump Can't Lose
Discussion: CNN
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 …
Discussion: The Week, theGrio and Raw Story
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Finalizes New Restrictions to Replace Travel Ban  —  Targeted rules would affect about eight or nine countries, vary based on factors including cooperation with U.S. mandates  —  The Trump administration is preparing to replace its controversial travel ban …
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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: Newsweek, New York Magazine and Axios
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Kim Jong Un Calls President Trump ‘Dotard’ and ‘Frightened Dog’  —  North Korea's leader called President Donald Trump “a frightened dog” and a “gangster fond of playing with fire” in an official statement released Thursday.  —  Kim Jong Un responded to Trump's United Nations speech in a dispatch written in the first person.
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Megyn Kelly: ‘It Is a Relief to Be Out of the Vitriolic Stew That Is Cable News Prime Time’  —  Megyn Kelly will follow in the footsteps of David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon and Dr. Oz Monday morning when she steps on stage of NBC's Studio 6A as host of Megyn Kelly Today.  —  She's also stepping into a new phase of her career.
Discussion: IJR, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Bill Clinton's first novel to become a Showtime TV series in major deal  —  Clinton and James Patterson's upcoming thriller, The President Is Missing, getting series treatment  —  Bill Clinton has landed a major TV series deal.  —  The former president and bestselling author James Patterson …
 
 
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