BUZZ -- Hillary Clinton's VP pick will be announced next week in an East Coast battleground state. Insiders are saying it will be Friday in Florida.
HAPPY SATURDAY -- Consider this: Over the last week, a man drove a truck through a beautiful seaside town in France, killing 84 people, including two Americans. The government of Turkey -- once a bastion of relative stability in the Middle East -- was briefly overthrown by a failed military coup. On the homefront, Donald Trump spent all week playing coy about his vice presidential choice, eventually tapping Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, only to have someone in his inner circle leak that he was trying to wiggle out of the selection the night before he was set to announce.
Next week, we’ll all go to Cleveland, where Trump -- a man who donated money to his Democratic rival and invited her to his third wedding -- will become the Republican nominee. Meanwhile, Republicans are millions of dollars short of the money they need to pay for the convention, and have asked corporations and Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul, to help bridge the gap. The following week, we’ll all go to Philadelphia, where Democrats will nominate Hillary Clinton, who, despite -- or maybe because of -- more than a decade of public service, has bottom-of-the-barrel-low favorability ratings.
What a world.
HAPPENING TODAY – 11 a.m. ET: Trump takes the stage at the New York Hilton Midtown to introduce Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate. 5 p.m. ET: “Welcome home rally” for Pence at Indianapolis Executive Airport (KTYQ for you aviation buffs). Not on the advisory: Donald Trump.
PRINT HEADLINES – N.Y. Times six col. banner, “Turkey Is Battlefield in a Coup Attempt -- Erdogan Back in Istanbul -- Signs Insurgency Is Failing to Take Hold” ... WashPost, “Coup attempt in Turkey -- Military push ignites violence -- President Erdogan’s supporters fill streets” ... WSJ, “Coup Attempt Shakes Turkey”
-- @dionnissenbaum: “Latest @WSJ headline: Erdogan Reasserts Control in Turkey. Latest @NYT headline: Erdogan Grip on Power Uncertain”
HOW IT PLAYED -- Turkey pushes Pence below the fold in the NYT (http://nyti.ms/2a0NE63) and Washington Post (http://bit.ly/29QoKY7).
TOP TWEETS -- Michael Koplow (@mkoplow): “Erdoğan is back. Cue the reprisals, authoritarian crackdowns, and new presidential constitution, all now with a convenient justification.” ... Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer): “If you thought Turkey was illiberal before, buckle up.” ... Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08): “During my time at the NSC I learned that just when you think things can’t get any worse, you’re an idiot for ever thinking that.”
TICK TOCK -- “How Donald Trump Finally Settled on Mike Pence,” by NYT’s Alex Burns and Maggie Haberman: “Donald J. Trump raged at the leaked reports of his plan to choose Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, as his running mate. ... In a Thursday evening phone call with top aides, he asked for reassurance that Mr. Pence was really right for the job. In conversations late into the evening, Mr. Trump repeatedly hesitated over selecting Mr. Pence, according to people briefed on the tense deliberations, who insisted on anonymity to describe the confidential talks. Even as his emissaries reassured Mr. Pence, Mr. Trump fielded a last-ditch appeal from Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, another finalist, who once again pressed his own case.” http://nyti.ms/29Ci3d6
--@realDonaldTrump: “Look forward to introducing Governor Mike Pence (who has done a spectacular job in the great State of Indiana). My first choice from the start!”
KNOWING PENCE -- “Pence was the anti-Trump in Congress,” by Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan: “It’d be a stretch to call Mike Pence the attack dog Donald Trump said he wanted. But the Indiana governor, Trump’s choice for vice president, definitely had a flair for the dramatic during his dozen years in the House of Representatives, using the kind of soaring — and at times searing — rhetoric he honed as a talk radio host. The son of a gas station owner who grew up a Democrat, the 57-year-old former congressman once declared that he wasn't just a Republican; he was a Christian, a conservative and a Republican’ — pause for effect — ‘in that order.’ Pence didn’t just want to get rid of the Democratic health care law; he wanted to ‘repeal Obamacare — lock, stock, and barrel.’” http://politi.co/29QpcWf
--“Who is Mike Pence? His political life, in photos” – 40 pix http://politi.co/29CHYxE
--“Mike Pence rubs shoulders like a New Yorker — at a Yankees game,” by Page Six’s Emily Smith: “After taping a Friday night segment with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Pence was seen heading up to The Bronx to catch the Yankees versus the Red Sox. Sources say Pence went to the game with Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort, who is a Yankees season-ticket holder. The pair was expected to rub shoulders with New York royalty in the owner’s box.” http://pge.sx/29Cs8Xx
PLAYBOOK IN-BOX – A Playbooker well-wired with contacts in Turkey emails us: “This military action is a direct correlation to President Erdogan’s slow but steady focus on de-constructing the legacy of Ataturk and undoing Ataturk’s dream of a secular Muslim society and to replace it with a Islamic society based on fear. The President’s recent removal of the Prime Minister (with little international focus or concern) which was done against the constitution, his overhaul of the judiciary to put it under his control (that was unconstitutional), his recent speeches on women being ‘half-human’ if they don’t have babies and stay home to focus on having children, his push to create non-secular religious schools, his arrest of thousands of journalists, and his take-over of what was once a thriving free media with only one private, independent media still existing ... and last but not least, his attempt now to change the constitution so he could be President forever. ... All of these ... forced the hand of the Military to want to overthrow the Erdogan regime and try to hold onto the last elements of Ataturk’s Turkey.”
FLASHBACK -- DEXTER FILKINS in The New Yorker in March 12, 2012, “The Deep State: The Prime Minister is revered as a moderate, but how far will he go to stay in power?” http://bit.ly/29JzCFw
UNDERSTANDING NICE -- “In truck rampage, experts see potential shift toward cruder, deadlier acts of terror,” by WashPost’s Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet: “The use of a 19-ton truck to cut down scores of seaside revelers in Nice, France — if connected to jihadist-inspired terrorism — would represent a dramatic escalation in what experts describe as an emerging trend in attacks: simple, even crude instruments employed to kill ever-larger numbers of people. Thursday’s rampage appears to have set a grisly new standard as one of the deadliest attacks in years in which most victims were killed by nonexplosive means. Instead of guns or bombs, the driver mainly used his vehicle to crush men, women and children who had gathered to watch a fireworks display.” http://wapo.st/2a4CVuo
DAILY DONALD -- “11 steps Trump skipped before announcing Pence as VP,” by birthday boy Shane Goldmacher: “1) Update Trump’s website with the news ... 2) Update Mike Pence's profile on Twitter to say he is on the ticket ... 3) Or update the pinned tweet on the top of Pence's account linking to his reelect page, as people flood there ... 4) Buy Google search ads for floods of searches ... 5) Secure top domains ... 11) In Trump’s initial tweet, he didn't tag @mike_pence so his nearly 10 million followers could follow his VP.” http://politi.co/29KwgDr
--“Trump’s campaign logo mocked on Twitter -- Some said it looked sexually suggestive,” by Nick Gass: “An email sent by the presumptive Republican nominee's Make America Great Again Committee ... features the new insignia: An interlocking blue T and P (for Trump and Pence), with the T going through the white space in the P. ... Twitter lit up with jokes about the interlocking letters looking sexually suggestive. ‘What is the T doing to that P?’ the longtime former Democratic Rep. John Dingell quipped.” http://politi.co/2a4DIvo
--“The Trump/Pence logo is already a meme” http://bit.ly/29KvOUB
--@BrendanBuck: “Is the logo real?”
--“Trump raised $32 million with RNC, but kept only a fraction: Only 14 donors gave the maximum to Trump’s joint committee with the RNC,” by Ken Vogel: “The two fundraising joint committees in which the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign and the RNC are participating — Trump Victory and Trump Make America Great Again Committee — raised $32.4 million between their formation in late May and the end of last month ... Of that, Trump Victory transferred only $2.2 million to Trump’s presidential campaign committee, as compared to $10.1 million to the RNC.” http://politi.co/2a0EiHz
--“Clinton and DNC raised $82 million,” by Ken Vogel: http://politi.co/29OYIp6
TOMORROW’S TIMES TODAY -- “Trump Business Career Shows Persistent Patterns in Bending or Breaking the Truth,” by David Barstow: A “survey of Mr. Trump’s four decades of wheeling and dealing also reveals an equally operatic record of dissembling and deception, some of it unabashedly confirmed by Mr. Trump himself, who nearly 30 years ago first extolled the business advantages of ‘truthful hyperbole.’ Indeed, based on the mountain of court records churned out over the span of Mr. Trump’s career, it is hard to find a project he touched that did not produce allegations of broken promises, blatant lies or outright fraud.” http://nyti.ms/29CgWue
CLEVELAND WATCH -- “Ivanka Trump’s rabbi backs out of convention role,” by Ben Schreckinger: “In an email to his congregation ... Rabbi Haskel Lookstein of the Orthodox Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side, said that he accepted an invitation from Trump’s daughter to deliver the convocation in Cleveland ‘out of respect for her and our relationship.’ But he decided to bow out and explained his reason to the congregation. ‘Unfortunately, when my name appeared on a list of speakers at the convention, without the context of the invocation I had been invited to present, the whole matter turned from rabbinic to political, something which was never intended,’ wrote Lookstein, who also served as the principal of the prominent Orthodox Jewish school Ramaz.” http://politi.co/29NPadP
NEVER MIND – “GOP convention organizers apologize to Sheldon Adelson: A letter to the billionaire donor misrepresented how many corporations had bailed on pledge donations because of Trump,” by Shane Goldmacher, Alex Isenstadt and Ken Vogel: “The last-minute plea for $6 million from Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson to rescue the Republican convention has erupted in controversy, as four of the five signatories to the letter from party organizers never saw it before it was sent and major donors flagged serious errors that forced the convention hosts to apologize.” http://politi.co/29ZxEkP
COUNTERPROGRAMMING — Hillary Clinton’s campaign has invited reporters for drinks and snacks Sunday evening in Cleveland. The happy hour is dubbed “Better than this,” and it asks attendees to “Join the loyal opposition in Cleveland (that would be Hillary for America and the Democratic National Committee),” along with some of its Ohio leadership for the event.
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ALSO: JUST WONDERING!
CLICKER – “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker – 12 funnies http://politi.co/29EcZka
DATA DU JOUR – “Study: Late-Night Trump Jokes Outnumber Clinton Jokes 3-1,” by InsideSources’ Graham Vyse: “[GMU’s] Center for Media and Public Affairs ... [counted] 1105 jokes about Trump ... compared to 315 about Clinton ... told collectively by Jimmy Fallon on NBC, Stephen Colbert on CBS, Jimmy Kimmel on ABC and Trevor Noah on Comedy Central.” http://bit.ly/29IHsx7
BARBARA MORGAN INTERVIEW – “Anthony Weiner’s Tormented Communications Director Relieves Her Horror ... and explains what she learned from one of the more bizarre mayoral campaigns in recent history,” by Vanity Fair’s Abigail Tracy: “As the chaos unfolds [in the film “Weiner”], communications director Barbara Morgan cuts a quietly heroic figure, thanks to her preternatural ability to remain calm no matter how many revolting photographs of her boss’s private parts surface in the media, and no matter how long the awkward silences extend between Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin. ... All these years later, Morgan described feelings of sadness and frustration during her time working on the Weiner campaign. But she never walked back her assertions that he would have made a good mayor.” http://bit.ly/29Cmsgo
SNEAK PEEKS -- In Britain and Europe, The Economist features Theresa May, the no-nonsense conservative who is Britain’s new prime minister. The leaders suggests that she should make the practical case for a minimalist Brexit: http://econ.st/29Ea22T ... The cover http://econ.st/29BfqZ2
--The cover in America and Asia depicts an unhappy Statue of Liberty. The Economist argues that Donald Trump’s nomination as the Republican candidate for president puts a thriving country at risk of a great, self-inflicted wound: http://econ.st/29KukdZ ... The cover http://econ.st/29Ku13a
THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD: “On Monday, the President will award Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Charles Kettles, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry. Then-Major Kettles distinguished himself in combat operations near Duc Pho, Republic of Vietnam, on May 15, 1967 and is credited with saving the lives of 40 soldiers and four of his own crew members. ... On Wednesday, the President will host the White House Summit on Global Development at the Ronald Reagan Building. ...
“On Thursday, the President will welcome the Kansas City Royals to the White House to honor the team and their 2015 World Series victory. In the afternoon, the President will deliver remarks at an Eid al-Fitr reception at the White House. On Friday, the President will welcome President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico to the White House.”
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
-- “How the CIA Hoodwinked Hollywood,” by Nicholas Schou in The Atlantic: Since its inception, the agency has wooed filmmakers, producers, and actors in order to present a rosy portrait of its operations to the American public.” http://theatln.tc/29I3l0j
--“Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn,” by Ken Auletta in the Dec. 1978 issue of Esquire: “A legal executioner, he’s the toughest, meanest, vilest, and one of the most brilliant lawyers in America.” http://bit.ly/29V9I3J
--“Incoming: Mike Pence,” by Craig Fehrman in the Jan. 2, 2013 issue of Indianapolis Monthly: “How the governor-elect found his conservative voice and a strategy for winning the race: keep it quiet.” http://bit.ly/2agMxyK (h/t Longform.org)
--“The Trump Before Trump,” by David Frum on the cover of today’s WSJ Review section: “There are lessons for today’s Republican Party in the ill-fated populist insurgency of William Jennings Bryan.” http://on.wsj.com/2aijVFl
--“Who Are All These Trump Supporters?” by George Saunders in The New Yorker: “At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges.” http://bit.ly/29d0rjC
--“Washington And The World Inside the Plan to Undo the Iran Nuclear Deal,” by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan in Politico Magazine: “A year after Obama’s crowning diplomatic achievement, the fight against it is very much alive. And it might be succeeding.” http://politi.co/29EdoDo
--“Trouble in Paradise: Tourism in the Age of Terrorism,” by Der Spiegel staff: “Terrorism is making life difficult for many vacation destinations, with European travelers choosing holidays closer to home. The travel industry is fundamentally changing as a result and many once popular places are facing ruin.” http://bit.ly/29VaCNu (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--“A Manifesto Against ‘Parenting,’” by Allison Gopnik in WSJ: “Caring for children shouldn’t be like carpentry, with a finished product in mind. We should grow our children, like gardeners.” http://on.wsj.com/29JoY1r
--“Helen Gurley Brown, Terry McDonell, and the Glossy Glory Days of Magazines,” by James Wolcott in Vanity Fair: “As two new books take on the strange art of magazine editing — a biography of Cosmopolitan’s Helen Gurley Brown and a memoir from Terry McDonell (of Esquire and Men’s Journal, to name two)—James Wolcott reflects on the age of endless expense accounts and the legacies these magazine giants left behind.” http://bit.ly/29Xe9g9 (h/t ALDaily.com)
--“The Library of Last Resort,” by Kyle Chayka in n+1 magazine: “Whatever early progress the Library of Congress made on the internet has been squandered.” http://bit.ly/29KuPVo
--“Surviving the Long Haul,” by Mary Pilon on MaryReview.com: “For women in the trucking industry, going to work can mean subjecting themselves to catcalling, harassment, rape, and a system built to deny them justice.” http://bit.ly/29V9FoA
MEDIAWATCH – “Ailes seeks to move Carlson case to arbitration,” by AP’s David Bauder: “Ailes, in court papers filed Friday, said Carlson’s contract compelled her to submit to arbitration for employment disputes. His lawyer, Susan Estrich, said Carlson’s lawyers have led a ‘concerted smear campaign’ against Ailes and, in court papers, said the motive is to convince Ailes to pay a large settlement to make the case go away.” http://apne.ws/29XBf3r
COMING ATTRACTIONS – “Jon Stewart Will Be Part of Stephen Colbert’s RNC Show,” by Vulture’s Josef Adalian: “Pro tip for anyone who’s been bummed about the absence of Jon Stewart during this election cycle: Make sure to watch Monday’s edition of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The former host of The Daily Show will appear on Colbert’s CBS 11:35 p.m. program to help kick off two weeks of live editions timed to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.” http://bit.ly/29VotDu
SPOTTED: “NC Gov. Pat McCrory (in coach) awaiting AA takeoff from Charlotte to Cleveland loudly leaving a voicemail to a donor about an invitation to an upcoming fundraiser,” per our tipster. ... Charles Krauthammer, or “Charles the Kraut!” in our tipster’s words, at Nats Park
TRANSITIONS -- Political crowdfunding site Crowdpac just brought on one of DLCC’s top fundraisers -- Irene Shin who is succeeding Obama alum Liz Jaff -- after Jaff’s promotion to head of biz dev. The political team’s new growth also includes Scott Travis -- from Speaker Ryan’s Congressional Leadership Fund. Crowdpac just closed their series A last month and now are opening a new office in DC.
-- Camille Rivera is returning to the Service Employees International Union as its national deputy political director for campaigns as part of the union’s move to gear up for the 2016 election.
CORRECTION: In yesterday’s Playbook, we incorrectly said Josh Schwerin was in speech-writing meetings with Hillary instead of his brother Dan Schwerin. Apologies!
REMEMBERING MICHAEL ELLIOTT – Time’s Belinda Luscombe: “Michael Elliott, who had the rare distinction of working as an editor for all three prominent newsmagazines, Time, Newsweek and The Economist, died on July 14. He was 65 and had been battling cancer. Elliott, who was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2003 for his services to journalism, was known and loved by all who worked with him for his ability to be fascinated, his generosity and his almost giddy, unbridled gusto. He loved new stories, new people, new places. There was apparently no realm in which his mind did not wish to roam and in which he could find nothing to pique his curiosity.” http://ti.me/2agUynf
RICK STENGEL, who was Time’s editor with Michael as deputy, emails Playbook: “To use one of his favorite expressions -- and he had hundreds of them -- Michael himself was ‘top shelf.’ He was the total journalist: beautiful writer, incisive thinker, superb editor and the only person, outside the State Dept of course, who could get away with using the word Levant. I loved when someone pitched a fun story and he would say, ‘Nothing but readers.’ He always thought about the reader and he was never a cynic -- he always looked for the human angle. That side of him can be seen in his wonderful last act with One.”
SEND YOUR BEST MEMORIES or stories of Michael to daniel@politico.com and we’ll share with readers tomorrow.
TODAY is … Jonathan and Rebecca Collegio’s 10th wedding anniversary
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Boeing turned 100 (h/t Gordon Johndroe, who was on time)
BIRTHDAYS: Jeremy Martin, older bro of Jonathan … Margaret Ashbrook, daughter of Kate and John … Amanda Henneberg, corporate comms director of Instacart, alum of Romney, RNC and McConnell and a diehard Redskins fan (hat tip: Molly) ... senior McConnell aide Neil Chatterjee is 39 ... Politico’s Shane Goldmacher, who celebrated with an MSNBC live shot this morning from Cleveland - pic http://bit.ly/29KHre8 ... Chad Griffin, president of Human Rights Campaign, is 43 (h/t boyfriend Charlie Joughin) ... Anita McBride, former COS to First Lady Laura Bush who served as an advisor to President Bush and is now a WHHA board member extraordinaire (h/ts Stewart McLaurin and Kiah Morrison) ... Secretary Alexis Herman (h/t The Breakfast Club) ... Karin Johanson, the pride of New Jersey AND Wisconsin (h/ts Jon Haber and Teresa Vilmain) ... Phil Roeder ... Martin Chase ... JT Stocks ... Jeffrey Slavin (The Honorable) ... Neil Heinen (h/ts Teresa) ... Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is 7-0 ... Rep. Mike D. Rogers (R-Ala.) is 58 ... Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) is 43 ... Kamyl Bazbaz, in public affairs at NYC tech firm Pramana Collective and a USAID and State alum (h/t Ben Chang) ... former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh is 84 ... John Leovy, chief counsel of Maryland’s Tobacco Enforcement Unit and alum of Daley and Emanuel, is 51 ... Kathy Calvin, president and CEO of the UN Foundation, and a Hart alum ... Betty Hudson, a NatGeo alum ...
... Justin DeJong, VP of internal and external comms at AMA and a USDA alum … Andrea Fischer Newman, Delta’s SVP of gov’t affairs … RNC alum Chris McNulty, now SVP at Causeway Solutions, is 46 ... Rick Limardo ... Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett is 5-0 ... Molly Ritner … Amanda Hallberg Greenwell ... Joe Ward, working in SF for Ritz Carlton, and a younger brother of Jon … Riley “Ripley” Roberts, senior writer for West Wing Writers and a DOJ alum ... Manuel Bonilla … Teri Whitcraft, senior producer of special units at ABC News ... Michael Cwidak-Kusbach, an OFA, Mayor Fenty, and Mayor Buttigieg alum now senior associate at Third Sector Capital Partners, is 31 ... National Journal and AP alum Lila Ibrahim Whatley, currently living in London … Obama WH alum Caroline Hughes Stevens, now living in SF … k-global partner Randy DeCleene, a Cheney alum, is 42 ... Jeffrey Slavin ... Stephen David Simon ... Steven Levine, Univision’s VP of corporate social responsibility ... Dan Cohen is 58 ... Claire E. Peters ... Parker M. Payne ... playwright Tony Kushner is 6-0 ... Will Ferrell is 49 ... Barry Sanders is 48 ... pop singer-musician Luke Hemmings (5 Seconds to Summer) is 20 (h/ts AP)
THE SHOWS, from @MattMackowiak, filing from Cleveland:
--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: John Kerry; Reince Priebus; new NBC / WSJ polling; roundtable: Tom Brokaw, Hugh Hewitt, Sara Fagen and Joy-Ann Reid
--ABC’s “This Week”: Guests to be announced
--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Paul Manafort; Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams; Newt Gingrich; Haley Barbour; new results from the CBS News Battleground Tracker Poll with CBS News’ Anthony Salvanto; conservative roundtable with Kimberley Strassel, Ben Domenech and Matt Schlapp; media roundtable: Bob Schieffer, Ed O’Keefe and Peggy Noonan
--“Fox News Sunday”: Paul Manafort; Reince Priebus; roundtable: Brit Hume, Julie Pace, Bret Baier and Kirsten Powers
--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10am ET / 9am CT): Tom Cotton; Steve Scalise; Peter King; former FBI Assistant Director Jim Kallstrom; roundtable: Ed Rollins, The Daily Caller’s Jamie Weinstein and Real Clear Politics’ Caitlin Huey Burns
--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (SUN 11am ET / 10am CT): Heidi Przybyla; Steve Hayes; Kirsten Powers; Katrina Pierson; Bill Hemmer; Martha MacCallum; The Washington Times’ Kelly Riddell; Bloomberg’s Megan Murphy; James Rosen
--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8am ET): Roundtable: Jonathan Martin, Jackie Kucinich, Manu Raju and Maeve Reston
--CNN’s “State of the Union” (9am ET / 12pm ET): Reince Priebus; roundtable: Corey Lewandowski, Ana Navarro, Bakari Sellers and Nina Turner
--CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”: (SUN 10am, 1pm ET): Roundtable: Conrad Black, historian Nell Irvin Painter and historian Sean Wilentz; George Osborne
--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11am ET): Jeff Greenfield; Bob Schieffer; David Folkenflik; roundtable: Matt Lewis and Scottie Nell Hughes; Amy Goodman and MTV’s Jamil Smith
--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10am ET / 1pm PT) RNC’s Helen Aguirre Ferré; former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin and Republican analyst Adolfo Franco; Juliàn Castro; actress Kate del Castillo; actress Zoe Saldana
--C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30pm ET): National Telecommunications & Information Administration Administrator Lawrence Strickling, questioned by Telecommunications Reports’ Lynn Stanton ... “Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET): DCCC executive director Kelly Ward, questioned by WaPo’s Sean Sullivan and Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman ... “Q&A” (SUN 8pm & 11pm ET): Author and former NYPD deputy inspector Corey Pegues (“Once a Cop: The Street, the Law, Two Worlds, One Man”)
--“MSNBC Live”: (SUN 9-10am ET): Ben Carson; Sarah Isgur Flores; MSNBC’s Jane Timm; WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin; Democratic pollster Fred Yang (hosted by MSNBC’s Alex Witt from New York)
--MSNBC’s “AM Joy”: (SUN 10am-12pm ET): Michael Steele; Hugh Hewitt; Joan Walsh; Al Cardenas; MTV’s Jamil Smith; Cleveland City Councilman Anthony Brancatelli; Nina Turner (live from Cleveland)
--“MSNBC Live”: (SUN 12-2pm ET): Robert Costa; Courageous Conservatives PAC’s Steve Lonegan; Sanders campaign spokeswoman Symone Sanders; Jeremy Peters; Republican Women for Hillary founder Jennifer Lim; Elise Jordan; Howard Dean; Trump campaign senior adviser Ed Brookover; DeRay Mckesson; Colorado Republican delegate Regina Thomson (hosted by MSNBC’s Ari Melber live from Cleveland)
--PBS’s “To the Contrary” with Bonnie Erbé: (airs all weekend): Roundtable: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rina Shah Bharara, Independent Women’s Forum’s Julie Gunlock; journalist Anushay Hossain
--SiriusXM’s “No Labels Radio” (SAT 10am ET & 6pm ET, SUN 1PM ET): Retrospective of conventions past as Republicans prepare to gather for what could be one of the most contentious and controversial conventions in recent decades. Available for download at http://www.nolabels.org.
--Sinclair’s “Full Measure” with Sharyl Attkisson (SUN 10am ET on WJLA and airing on Sinclair stations nationwide): Sharyl reports from the border of Mexico visiting some of the most remote areas including incredible video of drug cartel smugglers crossing the border ... And a visit with one happy campaign cartoonist, who shares some of his work during this presidential campaign as he prepares to attend the upcoming conventions.
--Hearst / Sony’s “Matter of Fact” with Fernando Espuelas (airing Sunday in most markets, check local listings): Sean Duffy; Princeton University’s Dr. Eddie Glaude; Real Clear Politics’ Carl Cannon