2016-06-18

By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; mallen@politico.com) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; dlippman@politico.com)

Good Saturday morning. TOMORROW is Father’s Day. TODAY is 30 days to Cleveland, 37 days to Philly, and 143 days to Election Day.

SENATE RACE RANKINGS by Politico’s Kevin Robillard, in order of each seat’s likelihood of switching parties: 1. Illinois ... 2. Wisconsin ... 3. Florida ... 4. New Hampshire ... 5. Pennsylvania ... 6. Ohio ... 7. Nevada ... 8. North Carolina ... 9. Missouri ... 10. Arizona ... 11. Colorado ... 12. Iowa ... 13. Kentucky ... 14. Arkansas ... 15. Louisiana http://politi.co/1UCivYD

TRUMP VEEPSTAKES – “Trump’s performance raises hard question: Who’d want to be his V.P.?” by Eli Stokols and Burgess Everett: “Christie and Gingrich are both skilled communicators who could perform credibly on the convention stage and in a head-to-head debate with their Democratic counterpart in the fall. Both also bring the political experience Trump lacks. But there’s another, simpler reason why these two white men, both more representative of the Republican Party’s past than its future, have emerged as finalists: They actually want the job.” http://politi.co/1UhiRpj

CLINTON VEEPSTAKES – “Julian Castro says he’s not being vetted for vice president,” by AP’s Paul Weber in San Antonio: “U.S. Housing Secretary Julian Castro said Friday he isn’t being vetted as a potential running mate for ... Clinton and continued to maintain that he is unlikely to be offered the job. But the 41-year-old rising star among Democrats wouldn’t say one way or the other whether he would accept if Clinton asked him.” http://apne.ws/1tvfnTR

SUMMER ONSLAUGHT – “Democrats to give Trump ‘rude awakening,’” by AP’s Lisa Lerer in D.C. and Julie Bykowicz in New Orleans, with Jonathan Lemire in N.Y.: “Clinton and her Democratic allies have invested at least $27 million in commercials in ... Ohio, Florida and Nevada over the next six weeks ... Those messages will be echoed by hundreds of Clinton workers in those same states and amplified by President Barack Obama and other top Democrats.

“Trump ... has no advertising plans and is just now hiring employees in important states. Republican leaders are far from in agreement on how best to talk to voters about the polarizing billionaire, or if they will at all. And Trump is running out of time: Early voting starts in Iowa in just 3 1/2 months. ‘It’s political malpractice,’ said Mitch Stewart, Obama’s 2012 battleground states director and a Clinton backer. ‘He’s in for a rude awakening. This isn’t a national vote contest where you can be on cable news every day and dominate coverage. This is literally going state by state and coming up with a plan in each.’ ...

“Clinton’s latest spots, highlighting her past advocacy for children, are an attempt to reintroduce [her. But] ... voters are also hearing from Priorities USA, a super political action committee financed by ... Clinton’s staunchest supporters. The goal of those ads: cast Trump as a con-man and bully unprepared to be commander in chief. ... It’s a strategy Democrats successfully used four years ago against Obama's GOP opponent, Mitt Romney. Over that summer, Priorities USA relied on an intensely negative advertising campaign to define Romney as unconcerned with the worries of average Americans.” http://apne.ws/263AUoo

AIR WAR -- Center for Public Integrity’s Dave Levinthal: “[L]ast week alone, Team Clinton aired about 3,400 ad spots — mostly eviscerating Trump — on broadcast and national cable television, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of data from media tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG. The Trump campaign aired no such TV ads at all, while a supportive super PAC managed fewer than 100.” http://bit.ly/1WT9c8F

TOP TWEETS -- @SchreckReports: “On the phone with a former Trump adviser: “I bet if someone offered him $150 million to drop out, he would.” ... @BillKristol replies: “Done. Dinner in NY Monday, private room at Daniel, reservation under name of @Reince. 15 billionaires, $10m each.”

--@seanspicer: “Regarding all of the discussion about the RNC Rules committee - see attached” http://bit.ly/1tuYitd ... SEAN’S STATEMENT: “Donald Trump bested 16 highly qualified candidates and received more primary votes than any candidate in Republican Party history. All of the discussions about the RNC Rules Committee acting to undermine the presumptive nominee is silly. There is no organized effort, strategy or leader of this so-called movement. It is nothing more than a media creation and a series of tweets. Sean M Spicer.”

TOUGH BUT FAIR -- Cover of WashPost Magazine, “The Can-Do Senator in a Can’t-Do Congress: Why, after six year of maddening frustration, Michael Bennet [D-Colo.] wants to return to the Senate,” by Steve Pearlstein -- 14 pages (!) in print mag: “Bennet is the anti-Trump, the anti-Cruz — but also the anti-Hillary, straightforward and authentic. In many ways, he is a throwback to a bygone era, an optimist with impeccable establishment credentials who finds himself miscast for today’s politics of anti-establishment anger and resentment. The Bennets, whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, have been a part of Washington’s Democratic establishment since the Roosevelt administration.

“Michael’s father, Doug, served as a top staffer to Sens. Humphrey, Eagleton and Muskie, ran unsuccessfully for a House seat in Connecticut, held top State Department jobs under Presidents Carter and Clinton and served as president of National Public Radio. ... ‘Dad didn’t push us in any direction — he just set a powerful example,’ said Bennet’s [younger] brother, James, ... editorial page editor of the New York Times.” http://wapo.st/1Pzu90F

FRAME GAME – “U.S. Democrats’ new line on gun control: Do it for national security,” by Reuters’ Richard Cowan and Doina Chiacu: “Democrats pushing for gun curbs after the latest mass shooting in the United States are co-opting a Republican mantra ... Votes on four measures were scheduled Monday in the U.S. Senate, two sponsored by Democrats and two by Republicans.” http://reut.rs/1SaLyMN

ALI DECKARD’S SISTER profiled in tomorrow’s N.Y. Times Business p. 4, “Revalued” column by David Gelles, “Sourcing Organic Cotton From India, for a Cause” (online: “With Organic Cotton and Online Ads, Boll & Branch Helps Indian Farmers”): “Scott and Missy Tannen ... are partners in a three-year-old company, Boll & Branch, that they say is on track to sell $40 million worth of sheets and towels this year and is profitable.” http://nyti.ms/21sjtah

CLEVELANDWATCH – “We’re in the Q [Quicken Loans Arena], it’s official. ... We’re opening up the Q to the Cleveland community this Sunday for Game 7 – we’ll watch together from the Cavs’ HUMONGOTRON (aka the largest indoor LED screen in any NBA arena). And then it’s back to work. We’ll be there around the clock from now until Convention kicks off.” http://bit.ly/1QcZMCV

SPOTTED: Sen. Bob Corker in the lobby at Cap Grille Thursday night … Patron: “Senator, I think you’d be fantastic on the ticket!” ... Corker: “Thanks, but I think I disqualified myself.” ... FBI Director James Comey at the Marine Barracks Parade yesterday, taking pictures with tourists and Marines.

SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE – “Attempt to hold pan-Orthodox synod stalls over disputes” – AP/Moscow: “The Holy and Great Council, set to open Sunday on the Greek island of Crete, was to be the first meeting of all Orthodox leaders since the year 787, when the last of the seven councils recognized by both Orthodox and Catholics was held. The meeting is still on, but with the Russian Orthodox Church and three others staying away, its pan-Orthodox aura has faded. ... [P]reparations [for the gathering] began 55 years ago.” http://apne.ws/1Y0JmR2

BREAKING – Reuters/London: “The man charged with murdering British lawmaker Jo Cox gave his name as ‘death to traitors, freedom for Britain’ when he appeared in court on Saturday accused of a killing that has left next week’s vote on European Union membership in limbo.” http://reut.rs/1QdaN77

COMING ATTRACTIONS -- “Clinton to hold fundraiser with House and Senate Democrats,” by Jake Sherman: “The event will be held [Tuesday] in Washington, and will feature Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) and Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.). From the House side, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.), Rep. Jim Clyburn (S.C.), Rep. Xavier Becerra (Calif.), Rep. Joe Crowley (N.Y.), Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (N.M.) and Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.) will all attend. Tickets cost $2,700, but $27,000 gets you named as a host, and a photo with Clinton.” http://politi.co/1UTYziw

--NYT A15, “Marco Rubio, Reversing Plans, Is Leaning Toward Running for Senate Again,” by Jeremy W. Peters: “One adviser who described the senator as ‘all in’ said Mr. Rubio’s staff members had already begun scouting a site for a possible announcement. ... Ever restless, strategic and ambitious — and only 45 years old — Mr. Rubio has spent the past few weeks discussing with his friends and colleagues the difficulties he would face maintaining his political profile if he left the Senate. He would like to run for the presidency again, either in 2020 or 2024, and is concerned that his opportunities would be far more limited if he were no longer in office.” http://nyti.ms/1W5x0oN

TOMORROW’S TIMES TODAY -- “Words of Obama’s Father Still Waiting to Be Read by His Son: Letters written long ago by Barack Obama Sr. shed new light on a young Kenyan whose ambitions helped change the course of U.S. history. But for the president, they may also revive old pain,” by Rachel L. Swarns: “The archivist stumbled across the file in a stack of boxes on the second floor of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. The yellowing letters inside dated back more than half a century, chronicling the dreams and struggles of a young man in Kenya.

“He was ambitious and impetuous, a 22-year-old clerk who could type 75 words a minute and translate English into Swahili. But he had no money for college. So he pounded away on a typewriter in Nairobi, pleading for financial aid from universities and foundations across the Atlantic. ... ‘It has been my long cherished ambition to further my studies in America,’ he wrote in 1958. His name was Barack Hussein Obama, and his dispatches helped unleash a stream of scholarship money that carried him from Kenya to the United States. There, he fathered the child who would become the nation’s first black president, only to vanish from his son’s life a few years after his birth.” http://nyti.ms/1YyF9SW

--“Cecile Richards, Barbara Bush and the Sisterhood of Political Progeny,” by Philip Galanes in the NYT’s “Tables for Three” column in Sunday Styles -- GALANES: ‘Let’s start with Nora Ephron, who said that, as a kid, she dreamt of being the president’s daughter because of all the attention she’d get, especially from boys. Did that indirect spotlight appeal to you?’ BARBARA BUSH: ‘I really didn’t notice it. I was so young. When I was 8, I asked a friend when her grandfather’s inauguration was. I had just been to my grandfather’s, and I assumed everybody had one.’” http://nyti.ms/1UUi6PV

CLICKERS -- “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker – 10 keepers http://politi.co/1Uh595G ... “Who led a nearly 15-hour gun-control filibuster? And 11 other questions from the news,” by Diana D’Abruzzo http://politi.co/23hQ844

– “What I Saw in Syria,” by NYT’s Declan Walsh: “A reporter’s photographs and cellphone videos from a road trip in one of the world’s most violent war zones.” http://nyti.ms/24XIfQy

NEW ON INSTAGRAM -- @SenatorShaheen kicked her account off on Wednesday featuring shots from her Experience NH event, including Max the Moose and Kodak the Bear visiting from the Granite State (aka the new power duo on the Hill). http://bit.ly/1Uoy2de

GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:

--“The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife,” by Ariel Sabar in The Atlantic: “A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story requires a big leap of faith.” http://theatln.tc/21q91jy (h/t TheBrowser.com)

--“Can Netflix Survive in the New World It Created?” by Joe Nocera in tomorrow’s N.Y. Times Magazine: “Netflix, since its streaming service debuted in 2007, has had its annual revenue grow sixfold, to $6.8 billion from $1.2 billion. More than 81 million subscribers pay Netflix $8 to $12 a month, and slowly but unmistakably these consumers are giving up cable for internet television.” http://nyti.ms/23fK2Bh

--“The War on Stupid People,” by David H. Freedman in the July/Aug. issue of The Atlantic: “American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth.” http://theatln.tc/1XZ0zub

--“The Invisible Forces Behind All of Our Decision-Making,” by Jessica Gross on Longreads: “Jonah Berger, a professor of marketing at Wharton, has spent more than 15 years investigating social influence. ... In his new book, ‘Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces the Shape Behavior,’ Berger focuses on the immense sway others have over the choices we make—whether we’re imitating or differentiating from them—often in ways we aren’t aware of.” http://bit.ly/1Xt7lHK ... $16.19 on Amazon http://amzn.to/1PzrtjB

--“The Tragedy of Muhammad Ali: Why didn’t he stop fighting in time?” by James Rosen of Fox News in National Review: “Ali’s story is chiefly a cautionary tale. Classifying him as a tragic figure is neither myopic nor an act of bad faith. To the contrary, this view properly treats Ali’s slow destruction of himself as a transgression against God’s vision, not the fulfillment of it; exalts man over myth, husband and dad over icon, real life over historical legacy.” http://bit.ly/263geNr

--“The All-American iPhone,” by Konstantin Kakaes in Technology Review: “Political candidates opposed to free trade say Apple should make phones in the United States. Let’s see what that would look like.” http://bit.ly/1rt6qcy

--“Fully Loaded,” by Josh Harkinson in Mother Jones: “Inside the shadowy world of America’s 10 biggest gunmakers.” http://bit.ly/1YwMGl8 (h/t Longreads.com)

--“Home Free,” by Jennifer Gonnerman in The New Yorker: “How a New York State prisoner became a jailhouse lawyer, and changed the system.” http://bit.ly/1UTZjUT

--“Zika: The Epidemic at America’s Door,” by Janet Reitman in Rolling Stone: “Zika may have already infected 80,000 Americans, just in Puerto Rico, and Congress has refused to act — what if Miami or New York is next?” http://rol.st/1UeZUhD

--“How Intel Makes a Chip,” by Max Chafkin and Ian King in Bloomberg Businessweek: “The development of a microprocessor is one of the riskiest, costliest, and most technically complex feats in business.” http://bloom.bg/1WQusMn

TRANSITIONS -- MEGAN CAIRNS joins Mercatus Center as its new Social Media and Ads Manager. The American Spectator alum comes from Freedom Partners, where worked on the Koch network’s digital operation for over 3 years.

--SARAH CORLEY had her last day yesterday as comms. director for Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) and on June 27 will be joining the arts world as media relations manager at the Phillips Collection (America’s first museum of modern art).

WELCOME TO THE WORLD: Erin Madigan White, comms. director at TIME and Fortune, and Jason White, manager of U.S. news partnerships at Facebook, on Wednesday welcomed their third child, Alwyn Marie, 8 lbs., 12 oz. and 21.5 inches. Pic http://bit.ly/1QcYhV7

OUT AND ABOUT IN NYC: At Town Hall on Thursday, a comedy night – “Levity and Justice” - was held for LPAC (the Lesbian Political Action Committee) effort to elect Clinton. Headlined by Rosie O'Donnell with appearances by comics Kate Clinton and Judy Gold, the event raised over $600,000 for the lesbian superPAC. Billie Jean King (a founder of LPAC) and Rosie O’Donnell each donated $50k from the stage. They were matched by board chair Laura Ricketts (daughter of GOPer Joe Ricketts) and Obama fundraisers Karen Dixon and Nan Schaefer. Page Six item http://pge.sx/1SaGcBj

--PLAYBOOKERS who were SPOTTED at the event: Hilary Rosen, Campbell Spencer, Urvashi Vaid, Amanda Hite, BETTY, Claudia Slacik, Lisa Sherman, and LPAC Executive Director Beth Shipp.

THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD: While in Yosemite today, the President will deliver remarks at the Sentinel Bridge. ... On Sunday afternoon, the First Family will depart Yosemite Valley en route Washington ... On Monday, the President will deliver remarks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit at the Washington Hilton in Washington ... On Tuesday, the President will travel to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland to visit with wounded service members. ...

“On Thursday, the President will travel to San Jose, California, to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, the seventh installment of the Summit and final of his presidency, which will showcase America’s diverse entrepreneurial spirit and feature entrepreneurs from across the globe. The President will remain overnight in San Jose. On Friday, the President will participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit before traveling to Seattle, Washington to attend an event for Governor Jay Inslee and a DCCC event. The President will remain overnight in Seattle. On Saturday, the President will return to Washington.”

BIRTHDAYS: Dina Habib Powell (hat tips: 10,000 Women, 10,000 Small Businesses, Warren, Devon, daughters Kate and Ava Powell, CoCo, Amy Little Thomas, Marit Babin, Autumn and Jim, Betsy and Jonathan, John, plus all the Peeps) ... Bloomberg’s Nick “Young Nick” Johnston (h/ts Billy, Neil) … WashPost’s Fred Barbash, a CQ, Politico and Reuters alum … Charlie Herman, business and economics editor at WNYC … Joanne Lipman, chief content officer at Gannett and former editor of Conde Nast Portfolio … Niall Stanage, associate editor at The Hill, is 42 ... David Wood (Mr. Beth Frerking), Pulitzer winner and HuffPost senior military correspondent ... Kate Knudson ... Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) is 65 ... Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) is 67 ... Megan Mitchell ... Bipartisan Senate alumni birthday: former Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa.) is 79 and former Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) is 66 ...

... Will Kinzel, RNC and Boehner alum, now managing director of gov’t affairs at Delta ... David Drucker, senior congressional correspondent at Washington Examiner and the pride of Malibu, is 45 (h/ts Sean Spicer) ... Romney alum John Whitman, now deputy comms director for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (h/t Drew Florio) ... John McCarthy of Future Civic Leaders: The Democratic strategist, fundraiser, and socialite is celebrating in his ancestral homeland of Ireland (h/ts Christopher J. Hale and Fran Holuba) ... Ajashu Thomas, deputy press secretary at DOT (h/t Jasmine Mora) ... Clare Bresnahan, executive director of She Should Run, is 30 (h/t Jill Bader) ... Politico’s Blanca Renedo is 28, celebrating in Brussels (h/t Gabe Brotman) ... Kevin Landrigan, legendary chief political correspondent of Concord’s NH1 TV ... Chris Allen, VP and director of competitive intelligence of Global Strategy Group ... Bob Scutari, general sales manager at KRON4 in SF and WJLA alum ... Politico’s Jennifer Carignan and Claire Okrongly ... Bert Gomez, Univision’s VP of gov’t relations ... Tom Readmond ... Michael Van Der Galien ...

... former Hardballer Jeremy Bronson, now a TV writer/producer ... former CNNer Meryl Conant Governski, now an associate at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP ... Zach Wilkes … Jason Kello ... Daniel Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action, is 33 ... Levi Drake ... Max Stahl, director of political engagement at Democracy Matters, is 28 ... Lisa Barron ... AJ Goodman ... Ron Rosenblith, surrounded by family and friends celebrating 70 fabulous years ... Dick Mark ... Debbie Shore (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock is 77 ... Sir Paul McCartney is 74 ... Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses) is 53 ... country singer Blake Shelton is 40 ... actress Willa Holland is 25 (h/ts AP)

THE SHOWS, from @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin:

--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Paul Ryan (taped); Loretta Lynch; roundtable: José Diaz-Balart, Mark Halperin, Gwen Ifill and Katy Tur

--ABC’s “This Week”: Michael McCaul; Loretta Lynch; roundtable: Molly Ball, LZ Granderson, Rich Lowry, Tony Perkins, Kristen Soltis Anderson

--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Donald Trump; Loretta Lynch; Wayne LaPierre; Dianne Feinstein; Michael Morell and Fran Townsend; roundtable: Ruth Marcus and Michael Gerson

--CNN’s “State of the Union” (9am ET / 12pm ET): Loretta Lynch; Paul Manafort; Ron Johnson; roundtable: Ana Navarro, Jeffrey Lord, Nina Turner and Xavier Becerra (substitute anchor: CNN’s Dana Bash)

--“Fox News Sunday”: Loretta Lynch; Corey Lewandowski; roundtable: Brit Hume, Amy Walter, George Will and Juan Williams; “Power Player of the Week” with National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet

--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8am ET): Roundtable: Maggie Haberman, Jeff Zeleny, Jonathan Martin and MJ Lee

--CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”: (SUN 10am, 1pm ET): Vladimir Putin; Kazakhastan president Nursultan Nazarbayev; Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (from the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum)

--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10am ET / 9am CT): Peter King; House of Lords member Lord Taylor of Warwick; Jerry Moran; roundtable: Ed Rollins, Susan Ferrechio and Ric Grenell

--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (SUN 11am ET / 10am CT): Heidi Przybyla; Wash Times’ Kelly Riddell; Julie Roginsky; Bill Hemmer; Sharyl Attkisson; Guy Benson

--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11am ET): NPR’s Michael Oreskes and The Daily Beast’s John Avlon; Moral Courage Project founder Irshad Manji and Carl Bernstein; roundtable: Dana Milbank, Bernstein and Avlon; The Daily Beast and GQ Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi; The Orlando Sentinel’s John Cutter

--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10am ET / 1pm PT) Brother of Orlando massacre victim (Jean Carlos Mendez) Alvin Mendez; Mario Díaz-Balart; Loretta Sànchez; Otto Reich and Bill Richardson; Peru president-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

--C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30pm ET): Tech Knowledge director Fred Campbell and Free Press policy director Matt Wood, questioned by WaPo’s Brian Fung ... “Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET): Courageous Conservatives national spokesman Steve Lonegan and The Family Leader president and CEO Bob Vander Platts (from Urbandale, IA), questioned by Wash Times’ Stephen Dinan and Politico’s Steven Shepard ... “Q&A” (SUN 8pm & 11pm ET): Author and AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins (“Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age”)

--MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton”: (SUN 8-9am ET): Ben Cardin; Politico’s Annie Karni; Democratic strategist Tara Dowdell; Reason Magazine’s Matt Welch; author Glozell Green (“Is You Ok?”)

--“MSNBC Live”: (SUN 9-10am ET): Author and Terror Asymmetrics Project executive director Malcolm Nance (“Defeating ISIS”); Real Clear Politics’ Caitlin Huey-Burns; political analyst Amy Holmes (hosted by MSNBC’s Frances Rivera live from New York)

--MSNBC’s “AM Joy”: (SUN 10am-12pm ET): Author and Terror Asymmetrics Project executive director Malcolm Nance (“Defeating ISIS”); U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward (R-AZ); former Bush 41 spokesman Gian-Carlo Peresutti; SiriusXM host and The Daily Beast’s Dean Obeidallah; Victory Fund president Aisha Moodie-Mills; actress and comedian Judy Gold; Log Cabin Republicans founder Richard Tafel

--MSNBC’s “The Place for Politics”: (SUN 12-2pm ET): Business Insider’s Josh Barro; Howard Dean; Elise Jordan; MSNBC terror analyst and Flashpoint’s Laith Alkhouri; Tony Perkins (hosted by MSNBC’s Alex Witt live from New York)

--PBS’s “To the Contrary” with Bonnie Erbé: (airs all weekend): Roundtable: Donna Edwards, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Independent Women’s Forum’s Sabrina Schaeffer and Republican strategist Rina Shah Bharara

--SiriusXM’s “No Labels Radio” (SAT 6pm ET, SUN 1PM ET): Guest Host and No Labels vice chair Charlie Black moderates an in-studio panel featuring No Labels executive director Margaret Kimbrell and Politico’s Hadas Gold. The panel will discuss the 2016 Presidential Election, the Orlando mass shooting, and the Cyber Act of War Act with Mike Rounds and the new book An Independent Mission to save Our Democracy with Larry Pressler

--Sinclair’s “Full Measure” with Sharyl Attkisson (SUN 10am ET on WJLA and airing on Sinclair stations nationwide): Scott Thuman (a birthday boy yesterday) reports on identifying and stopping terror threats on American soil.

--Hearst / Sony’s “Matter of Fact” with Fernando Espuelas (airing Sunday in most markets): New America Foundation’s Dr. Nadia Oweidat; Christie Todd Whitman; Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy; civil rights leader and former UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta

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