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riversedge's JournalTrumps Treasury Secretary MNUCHIN on Trump:
The world has gone mad!
AMC Retweeted
Justin Green?Verified account @JGreenDC 40m40 minutes ago
MNUCHIN on Trump: "He's got perfect genes. He has incredible energy and he's unbelievably healthy."
https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/845259219423182848
Russian mafia boss still at large after FBI wiretap at Trump Tower
Amy Siskind ?Verified account @Amy_Siskind
I'm sure it's a coincidence that Russian organized crime operates out of Trump Tower. And banks in Cyprus again.
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/845245779958730753
Russian mafia boss still at large after FBI wiretap at Trump Tower
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story-fbi-wiretap-russians-trump-tower/story?id=46266198
By Brian Ross
Matthew Mosk
Mar 21, 2017, 7:40 AM ET
Mark Lennihan/AP Photo
WatchFBI director refutes Trump's wiretapping claim
There, indeed, was an FBI wiretap involving Russians at Trump Tower.
But it was not placed at the behest of Barack Obama, and the target was not the Trump campaign of 2016. For two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower in New York.
The FBI investigation led to a federal grand jury indictment of more than 30 people, including one of the world’s most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. Known as the “Little Taiwanese,” he was the only target to slip away, and he remains a fugitive from American justice.
Seven months after the April 2013 indictment and after Interpol issued a red notice for Tokhtakhounov, he appeared near Donald Trump in the VIP section of the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Trump had sold the Russian rights for Miss Universe to a billionaire Russian shopping mall developer. .....................................
TEN ESSENTIAL #ACA BENEFITS are on the chopping block TODAY!
If you have not called ALL your senators and Rep, please do so NOW.
Dan Diamond Retweeted
Jake Sherman?Verified account @JakeSherman 3h3 hours ago
The health-care bill tomorrow WILL include elimination of essential health benefits-- one of the freedom caucus asks.
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/844764136877654020
TEN ESSENTIAL BENEFITS
Ambulatory patient services
Emergency services
Hospitalization
Maternity and newborn care
Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment
Prescription drugs
Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices
Laboratory services
Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
Pediatric services, including oral and vision care
TEN ESSENTIAL BENEFITS
Ambulatory patient services
Emergency services
Hospitalization
Maternity and newborn care
Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment
Prescription drugs
Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices
Laboratory services
Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
Pediatric services, including oral and vision care
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/844700541376745474
Paul Ryan FAILED to pass #Trumpcare, his first big test as a Leader of the House..
says Lawrence on Last Word
Trump demands do-or-die Friday vote on healthcare plan
Source: rawstory.com
23 Mar 2017 at 20:48 ET
U.S. President Donald Trump will get a second chance to try to close the deal with Republican lawmakers on dismantling Obamacare in a high-stakes vote on a new healthcare bill rescheduled for Friday.
After a week of calling Republican lawmakers and bringing them into the Oval Office for meetings, Trump was dealt a setback on Thursday when a vote on what was supposed to have been his first legislative victory had to be postponed because of opposition from two flanks in the party.
(READ MORE: House of Representatives cave to Trump demand for healthcare vote on Friday)
Conservatives felt the bill did not go far enough to repeal Obama’s namesake healthcare legislation, and moderates felt the plan could hurt their constituents.
House Republican leaders had signaled they were ready to work through the weekend to figure out a way to reconcile their differences. But Trump sent his top lieutenants to a dramatic meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday night with a message: he was done talking.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-demands-do-or-die-friday-vote-on-healthcare-plan/
So, now it on for Friday.
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/845074875723251713
Graphic on Obamacare and Republican healthcare bill (http://tmsnrt.rs/2n0ZMKf)
Graphic on shifting positions in the U.S. Senate on Republican healthcare bill (http://tmsnrt.rs/2mUE4Xf)
Graphic on poll on Americans’ views of the Republican healthcare bill ( http://tmsnrt.rs/2n7f3e4)
GOP leaders: the WH is done negotiating, Trump wants a vote. The great negotiator FAIL...
This is the banner running across cnn right now.
Trump Would Rather Spend Tax Dollars On Endless Opulent Vacations Than Help Seniors & Vets
I clicked on the Raw story link but nothing like this headline showed up.
https://twitter.com/RonHall46/status/844943513905180674
Wisdom Rocks? @GetWisdomDude
45 Would Rather Spend Tax Dollars
On Endless Opulent Vacations
Than Help Seniors & Vets
http://ln.is/www.rawstory.com/201/4mBDo …
https://twitter.com/GetWisdomDude/status/844649592432013312
Fact Check: Trump Misleads About The Timess Reporting on Surveillance
Source: nytimes
By LINDA QIU MARCH 23, 2017
WASHINGTON —..........................
Here’s an assessment of Mr. Trump’s references to The Times’s reporting.
Mr. Trump accused The Times of altering its headline.
“Here, headline, for the front page of The New York Times, ‘Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aides.’ That’s a headline. Now they then dropped that headline, I never saw this until this morning. They then dropped that headline, and they used another headline without the word wiretap, but they did mean wiretap. Wiretapped data used in inquiry. Then changed after that, they probably didn’t like it. And they changed the title. They took the wiretap word out.”
False. Mr. Trump was referring to an article published online on Jan. 19 and in print on Jan. 20 that disclosed that American law enforcement and intelligence agencies were examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of Mr. Trump.
There were in fact two different headlines on the online and print versions of the article, which is typical. At no point was either headline altered.......................
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/us/politics/fact-check-trump-misleads-surveillance-wiretapping.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Not Backing Down Retweeted
Adam Schiff?Verified account @RepAdamSchiff 6h6 hours ago
.@POTUS: Obama wiretapped me!
FBI: Nope.
NSA: Nope.
DOJ: Nope.
Brits: Nope.
@POTUS: I feel partially vindicated!
1,270 replies 12,804 retweets 24,164 likes
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Impeach Trump? @RubyCodpiece 22h22 hours ago
This is Trump's Watergate and no amount of "Obama wiretapped me!" chicken little bullshit is going to save him.
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Christopher Titus?Verified account @TitusNation 5h5 hours ago
Trump's claiming he WAS wiretapped because foreign agents WERE under surveillance...and Trump was talking to them? So you WERE colluding???
Bowing to conservatives, Trump agreed to remove requirements that health insurance plans offer basi
Always remember that Trump was will to gut these important aspects of #Trumpcare--just to save face and get a bill passed today. #Shame!
TWEET
NYT Politics?Verified account @nytpolitics 2h2 hours ago
Bowing to conservatives, Trump agreed to remove requirements that health insurance plans offer basic benefits. http://nyti.ms/2mZ07w2
https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/844996873589018624
................After all the negotiations, passage seemed, if anything, farther away. Some rank-and-file members balked at the removal of coverage and benefits their constituents depend on. The president scheduled a late-afternoon meeting at the White House with members of the centrist Tuesday Group.
“We’re certainly trying to get to ‘yes,’” said Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. “We’ve made very reasonable requests and we’re hopeful that those reasonable requests will be listened to and ultimately agreed to.”
As Mr. Trump pressed to persuade conservatives to support the measure, the changes he has incorporated have alienated some other Republicans who were already nervous about the bill. Those lawmakers have the potential to cost the bill vital support in the Senate.
“There’s a little bit of a balancing act,” Mr. Spicer conceded.
But he defended the removal of the so-called “essential health benefits” regulations, saying it would accomplish Mr. Trump’s stated goal of reducing health care costs.
“Part of the reason that premiums have spiked out of control is because under Obamacare, there were these mandated services that had to be included,” he said.............................
Sen. Pat Roberts apologizes for 'mammogram' line
Source: CNN
Updated 2:54 PM ET, Thu March 23, 2017
Story highlights
Republicans are considering scrapping 10 "essential benefits" in their repeal of Obamacare
Sen. Pat Roberts' description of why those benefits weren't essential landed him in hot water
(CNN)Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, apologized Thursday afternoon for making an apparent joke about mammograms related to what features are or are not included in Republicans' plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
"I deeply regret my comments on such an important topic," Roberts said in a statement. "I know several individuals whose lives have been saved by mammograms, and I recognize how essential they are to women's health. I never intended to indicate otherwise, and I apologize for my comments."
Roberts, who's known for employing a dry sense of humor, told a Talking Points Memo reporter earlier in the day: "I wouldn't want to lose my mammograms." ........................
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/23/politics/pat-roberts-apology-mammogram/index.html
https://twitter.com/AliceOllstein/status/844951177649360896
Replies:
Anita Creamer?Verified account @AnitaCreamer 4h4 hours ago
@AliceOllstein Apparently, Sen. Roberts has no female constituents -- nor does he realize that men can get breast cancer.
12 replies 104 retweets 696 likes
JCT? @jct_ucb 4h4 hours ago
@AnitaCreamer @joannesmoot @AliceOllstein Too bad for him that breast cancer in men is not a joke. Mammos in men are imp for diagnosis
1 reply 17 retweets 106 likes
Elizabeth? @RegulatoryHell 4h4 hours ago
@jct_ucb @AnitaCreamer @joannesmoot @AliceOllstein Not to mention men w/breast cancer have worse outcomes & limited treatment options.
3 replies 16 retweets 107 likes
Julie=EveryWoman? @TruthEqualsFact 4h4 hours ago
@RegulatoryHell @carmenvellon @jct_ucb @AnitaCreamer @joannesmoot @AliceOllstein It's the only time dicks care, when it's all about them.
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