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With the weight of the world quite literally resting on his shoulders, President Trump still manages to carve hours out of his schedule to watch TV. Most of those hours, Bloomberg reported Thursday, are devoted to Fox News:

Long a voracious consumer of cable news, Trump has cut back how much he watches CNN and MSNBC in recent weeks, having sworn off the latter network's Morning Joe after criticism from its hosts, according to a senior White House aide privy to the president's viewing habits.

Instead, the president now spends hours some mornings watching Fox News, switching occasionally to CNBC for business headlines, along with a daily diet of newspapers and press clippings, said the official, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. On the evenings when he doesn't have a dinner or briefing, Trump will spend most of his TV-viewing time watching Fox News shows hosted by Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, the aide said. [Bloomberg]

Trump's loyal viewership is already giving advertisers some ideas. Trump has been known to repeat often verbatim what he hears on cable news, and the public's increased interest in politics in the age of Trump has already given networks' ratings a healthy boost. "If you're a lobbying outfit, buying commercials on Fox News may be as effective as campaign donations to the right member of Congress," said Mark Feldstein, a broadcast journalism professor at the University of Maryland.

But what's good for advertisers isn't necessarily good for the president. "On one hand, it's always good for a president to have independent sources of information from the hermetically sealed bubble that exists in the White House," Feldstein said. But to the extent that he's getting news from cable television, which isn't the most reliable source of information, he's getting pretty distorted information."

Read more about Trump's love of Fox News over at Bloomberg. Becca Stanek

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Sen. Rand Paul on Obamacare: 'Conservatives Will Be Listened to or There Won't Be a Repeal' CNSNews.com Paul spoke hours after House Speaker Paul Ryan said Republicans "have an obligation" to step in front of the collapsing Obamacare law and "replace it with a better system. But Ryan's better system and President Donald Trump's -- includes tax ... Rand Paul: Conservatives Have The Votes To Kill 'Obamacare-Lite'Daily Caller Congressional GOP Leadership's Obamacare Partial Repeal Plan in TroubleRand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee Band ...Breitbart News Rand Paul: GOP Must Deliver 'Complete Repeal' of ACALifeZette Rare.us -Politico all 930 news articles »

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Sen. Rand Paul on Obamacare: 'Conservatives Will Be Listened to or There Won't Be a Repeal' - CNSNews.com

"Conservatives will be listened to or there won't be a repeal," Paul said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. "We're not just going along with whatever they try to shove down our throats. We're going to be a big part of this."

He criticized a leaked draft of a GOP Obamacare replacement plan to rework the Affordable Care Act's subsidies into refundable tax credits.

"Refundable tax credits, this means you get back money you didn't pay. Somebody else's money," Paul said. "So I don't think we can dress up Democrat ideas and put a Republican stamp on them, call them a tax credit and say that we're giving them something different than what Obamacare was doing."

He said that Republicans "shouldn't dress up a new government entitlement program" as a policy shift.

"What we should be for is lowering insurance premiums, lowering the rates and letting working class people get good insurance at a less expensive cost," he said. "We are bankrupt as a country because we're overextended already on the entitlement programs that we have without adding new ones."

House Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows (R-NC) and House Republican Study Committee Chair Mark Walker (R-SC) said they would have trouble voting for a bill resembling the recently leaked draft.

Sens. Paul, Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) signaled their support for Meadows and Walker in tweets posted Monday night, and two outside conservative groups, Club for Growth and FreedomWorks, announced their support as well on Tuesday.

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Rand Paul: 'There Won't Be A Repeal' Of Obamacare Without Conservatives - TPM

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Monday on the The Mike Gallagher Show, while discussing the investigations into Russias hacking during last years presidential election, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said evidence of wrongdoing before following through with a call for a special prosecutor.

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Paul said, Law enforcement ought to look into whether it happened. I wouldnt really want a special investigator if all were hearing is gossip in the media and nobodys presented any proof that there have been connections or that any law has been broken for that matter.

He continued, Ive been arguing that we shouldnt politicize this thing, Republican or Democrat. We dont need a political discussion of this. We need a law enforcement look and if there is any kind of problem law enforcement should pursue it obviously no matter which partys involved. But I would say is People are very, very confused on this.

He added, So I think before people jump to sort of the hysteria of a special prosecutor, why dont we have somebody present evidence of some sort of wrongdoing before we go forward?

(h/t The Hill)

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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul will be closely listening tonight when President Donald Trump delivers his first budget speech to Congress.

The address is expected to focus partly on the federal Affordable Care Act, which was championed by former President Barack Obama.

While there has been some discussions about keeping portions of the ACA, Senator Paul said he will accept nothing less than a full repeal of the law.

We have a bill on the senate side that is replacement. It is basically the Conservative consensus ideas that have been out there for a long time. So I think we can vote on it the same day. On the house Mark Sanford and the house freedom caucus have endorsed a similar bill, Paul said.

Paul is encouraging Congress to vote on ACA repeal and replacement legislation on the same day. You can hear President Trumps address to Congress on WKMS tonight starting at 8:00 p.m. CST.

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