Good Saturday morning from D.C. All three of us took the 9:39 a.m. regional yesterday from Philly to Washington. Jake grilled in his backyard last night. Anna spent the night in, and Daniel hung out with Ryan Williams at Fritz Brogan’s Hawthorne restaurant on U Street. 101 days until Election Day. The Olympics kick off next Friday -- just six day from now. Hillary Clinton is in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio, today as part of her bus tour.
Donald Trump was in Colorado Springs yesterday, and is spending time with his family today before meeting with members of his policy team this afternoon, his campaign spokesman Jason Miller tells us. He heads Monday to Columbus, Ohio and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mike Pence will be in Carson City, Nevada, for a town hall and then will be in Reno. for a rally Monday night. President Obama is golfing today at Andrews Air Force Base with friends Mike Ramos, Bobby Titcomb and Greg Orne, per a pool report from the Dallas Morning News’ James Lovegrove. Obama heads to Martha’s Vineyard next weekend!
Wikileaks’ release of DNC emails -- followed by the news that hackers accessed a computer system that the Clinton campaign uses -- has Democrats on edge, wondering what else will put on display for public view.
TOP STORY -- “Clinton campaign also hacked in attacks on Democrats – sources,” by Reuters’ Mark Hosenball, Joseph Menn and John Walcott: “The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations ... The U.S. Department of Justice national security division is investigating whether cyber hacking attacks on Democratic political organizations threatened U.S. security ... The involvement of the Justice Department’s national security division is a sign that the Obama administration has concluded that the hacking was state sponsored.” http://reut.rs/2axqbKm
MICHAEL ISIKOFF on Yahoo, “FBI warned Clinton campaign last spring of cyberattack”: “The FBI warned the Clinton campaign that it was a target of a cyberattack last March ... In a meeting with senior officials at the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters, FBI agents laid out concerns that cyberhackers had used so-called spear-phishing emails as part of an attempt to penetrate the campaign’s computers ... [A]gents conducting a national security investigation asked the Clinton campaign to turn over internal computer logs as well as the personal email addresses of senior campaign officials. But the campaign, through its lawyers, declined to provide the data, deciding that the FBI’s request for sensitive personal and campaign information data was too broad and intrusive.” http://yhoo.it/2aybSHj
--NYT’s Eric Lichtblau: “The attack on the congressional committee’s system appears to have come from an entity known as ‘Fancy Bear,’ which is connected to the G.R.U., the Russian military intelligence service, … The same arm of Russia’s intelligence operation was also implicated in the attack on the national committee, in which it gained access to opposition research on Republicans, including the party’s presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump. ‘It’s the same adversary,’ the official involved in the forensic investigation said. ‘These are sophisticated actors.’” http://nyti.ms/2aRK9Pg
HILLARY campaign statement from Nick Merrill: “An analytics data program maintained by the DNC, and used by our campaign and a number of other entities, was accessed as part of the DNC hack. Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised.”
MAUREEN DOWD talks to Trump for tomorrow’s NYT Sunday Review, “Trump’s Thunderbolts”: “In many ways, I like Obama. It’s hard to define. There’s something about him I do like. I’m embarrassed to admit it. I give him a lot of credit. It’s very unique and very hard to do and I give him tremendous credit. He became a two-term president of the United States. He’s got some quality going.”
On the DNC hack: “Emails in general are terrible. There’s no security. It happens so often. I’m old-fashioned. I put a letter in an envelope and have it hand delivered. My son is 10 years old, and he has grown up computer literate. They start using computers before they can walk. His computer was locked and he unlocked it. And I said, “Barron, how did you do that?” And he said, “I won’t tell you, Dad.”’ http://nyti.ms/2anWwBO
THE MAP -- “Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Eye Pennsylvania Prize,” by WSJ’s Bob Davis and Dante Chinni (A1 centerpiece in the paper, feature with big photos and graphics online): “Democrats have won Pennsylvania in every presidential election since 1992, and one reason the party chose Philadelphia for its convention is to keep the state in its column. The most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll, taken before the parties’ conventions, shows Mrs. Clinton leads in the state by nine points. Still, Mr. Trump’s ability to connect with white working-class voters, roughly half of the state’s voting population, gives Republicans hope that they can carry the state this year. The Clinton campaign’s challenge is to make sure Mr. Trump doesn’t tally enough votes in white, rust-belt regions to overcome her significant advantage among educated suburbanites and minorities in and near Philadelphia and elsewhere.” http://on.wsj.com/2ajV74h
-- “How Pennsylvania will be won: The fate of the state’s 20 electoral votes will be decided on opposite ends of the Pennsylvania Turnpike,” by Katie Glueck: “Hillary Clinton is focused on turning out the Democratic base in Philadelphia — where Barack Obama won by a 492,000-vote margin in 2012 -- and capturing more moderate Republicans in the surrounding suburbs. In the west, Donald Trump has zeroed in southwestern Pennsylvania’s coal country and the blue-collar towns around Pittsburgh, banking on big turnout among culturally conservative, disillusioned Democrats.” http://politi.co/2aG5njA
PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION -- “Secret recordings emerged and the Chandra Levy case rapidly unraveled,” by WaPo’s Keith L. Alexander and Lynh Bui on A1: “This week, prosecutors and defense attorneys were set to travel to a California meeting, preparing for the retrial of the man charged with killing Washington intern Chandra Levy in 2001. But that travel plan changed abruptly and the murder case crumbled. Lawyers on both sides had learned about recent secretly recorded conversations with the man who was to have been the key witness against Ingmar Guandique, Levy’s alleged killer. On Thursday, prosecutors dropped all charges against Guandique, telling defense attorneys that new information had left them unable to prove their case.” http://wapo.st/2apbJ57
MEDIAWATCH -- GABE SHERMAN in New York Magazine, “Former Fox News Booker Says She Was Sexually Harassed and ‘Psychologically Tortured’ by Roger Ailes for More Than 20 Years”: Former top Fox News booker “Laurie Luhn told the lawyers at Paul, Weiss that she had been harassed by Ailes for more than 20 years, that executives at Fox News had known about it and helped cover it up, and that it had ruined her life. ‘It was psychological torture,’ she later told me … Ailes told her to get down on her knees in front of him, she said, and put his hands on her temples. As she recalled, he began speaking to her slowly and authoritatively, as if he were some kind of Svengali: ‘Tell me you will do what I tell you to do, when I tell you to do it. At any time, at any place when I call. No matter where I call you, no matter where you are. Do you understand?’ ...
“On June 15, 2011, Luhn and Brandi signed a $3.15 million settlement agreement with extensive nondisclosure provisions. The settlement document, which Luhn showed me, bars her from going to court against Fox for the rest of her life. It also precludes her from speaking to government authorities like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the FBI. Not to mention the press. Aware that speaking with New York on the record could pose legal risks, Luhn was insistent that she wanted to tell her story.” http://nym.ag/2ajZTyJ
TRUMP’s new web video, “In Donald Trump’s America” -- narration: “You heard the speech. But behind the glitter lies this stark truth in Hillary Clinton's America, things get worse. Under her dishonest plan, taxes keep rising, terrorism spreads, Washington insiders remain in control, Americans losing their jobs, homes and hope. In Donald Trump's America, people are put back to work, people are safe, the American dream achievable again. Change that makes America great again.” http://bit.ly/2aQKPEd
TODAY IN #NEVERTRUMP -- “A new Hillary demographic: Europe’s center right:Politicians from across the European spectrum flock to the Democrats,” by Politico Europe Brussels Playbook author Ryan Heath with Daniel Lippman: “The shift was evident in the stark contrast in attendance by European politicians at the Democratic convention here in Philadelphia and those who went to the Republican gathering last week ... An opinion sampling of those politicians — from parties normally at each other throats in Brussels, from the Greens to the center-right Christian Democrats — found overwhelming support for Hillary Clinton to be the next president of the United States.” http://politi.co/2andfYv
--“Kochs reject push to meet with Trump,” by Ken Vogel: “Top Donald Trump donors tried to set up a meeting between the GOP presidential nominee and Charles Koch in Colorado Springs on Friday, but Koch aides rejected the entreaties, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the outreach. ... [The donors include] Minnesota media mogul Stanley S. Hubbard and Dallas investor Ray Washburne. ... The Koch brothers and Trump are in town for separate events — Trump for a fundraiser, and the Kochs for the kickoff of the annual summer summit of their donor network at a tony resort in Colorado Springs.” http://politi.co/2akFAuO
CAROLINE McCAIN on Medium, “For This Republican, Never Trump Means ‘I’m With Her’”: “He insulted my grandfather [Sen. McCain] and attacked the very qualities — loyalty, bravery and selflessness — that he and countless other POWs embody. ... My grandfather responded with grace and forgiveness ... But I’ve been nursing a grudge ever since. Trump’s statement, in my view, is unforgivable, and speaks to the kind of man he is: a coward who has never faced danger in his life, an insecure brat who shirked duty for comfort, and a man who is wholly unfit to serve as commander-in-chief.” http://bit.ly/2aQLUfr
ALEX BURNS on A1 of the NYT (Philly dateline), “Clinton’s Portrayal of Trump as Dictator Aims at the Left and Right”: “Democrats marked a decisive turn in their campaign against Donald J. Trump this week, moving to recast the 2016 race not as a conventional battle between left and right but as a national emergency that requires voters of all stripes to band together against a singularly menacing candidate …
“Mr. Trump has routinely praised autocratic foreign leaders for what he characterizes as their steely leadership abilities. He has hailed Saddam Hussein, the executed Iraqi leader, for his skill at maintaining power, and said of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, ‘You have to give him credit’ for consolidating authority. This week, amid reports that Russian-backed hackers had breached the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Trump said he considered Mr. Putin a superior leader to Mr. Obama. Mr. Trump also said on Wednesday that he hoped Russia would hack and release emails that Mrs. Clinton deleted from her time as secretary of state. He said later that the remark was intended as sarcasm.” http://nyti.ms/2apcPxV
TWO BIG RULINGS --“4th U.S. Circuit judges overturn North Carolina’s voter ID law,” by Anne Blythe in Raleigh in the Charlotte Observer: “Federal appellate judges on Friday struck down a 2013 law limiting voting options and requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls, declaring in an unsparing opinion that the restrictions ‘target African Americans with almost surgical precision.’ The three-judge panel of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law was adopted with “discriminatory intent” despite lawmakers’ claims that the ID provision and other changes were designed to prevent voter fraud.” http://bit.ly/2aCoD3b
-- “Judge strikes down Wisconsin voter ID, early voting laws,” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley and Jason Stein: “Finding that Republican lawmakers had discriminated against minorities, a federal judge Friday struck down parts of Wisconsin's voter ID law, limits on early voting and prohibitions on allowing people to vote early at multiple sites. With the presidential election less than four months away, GOP Attorney General Brad Schimel said he plans to appeal the sweeping decision by U.S. District Court Judge James Peterson.” http://bit.ly/2aG700C
SAVING THE SENATE -- “Super PAC backing Kirk airs ads criticizing Duckworth on Syrian refugees” – Chicago Tribune: “The Independent Voice for Illinois Super PAC is headed by former Kirk chief of staff Eric Elk, and it reported more than $1.3 million on hand to start the month after raising $845,000 in the first half of this year.” http://trib.in/2aBhIY1... The ad http://bit.ly/2aiQFm2
-- “Portman camp to woo Clinton voters,” by USA Today’s Deirdre Shesgreen: “Portman’s re-election operation plans to dispatch a dozen volunteers to stand outside Clinton’s campaign events in Youngstown and Columbus, where they will be passing out flyers highlighting the Ohio Republican’s support from three labor unions.” http://cin.ci/2akAqyT
VALLEY TALK -- “Apple CEO Tim Cook to host Hillary Clinton fundraiser,” by BuzzFeed’s Hamza Shaban: “[Tim] Cook, joined by Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, will help raise money for the Hillary Victory Fund, according to an invitation obtained by BuzzFeed News. The fund is a joint fundraising committee that contributes to the Clinton campaign, the [DNC], and 38 state parties. The fundraiser will take place on August 24.” http://bzfd.it/2abHvly
--“Sheryl Sandberg leans into her next book, ‘Option B,’ about grieving and healing,” by Re/code’s Kara Swisher: “Tentatively titled ‘Option B,’ a reference to a piece of advice she was given by a close friend after the untimely death of her husband David Goldberg, it has been co-written with well-known Wharton professor and author Adam Grant. The book includes research gathered by Grant, woven in with personal stories of all kinds of loss, including Sandberg’s own.” http://on.recode.net/2a7lGYQ
CLICKERS – “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker – 11 cartoons http://politi.co/2andi6w ... Instagram at the DNC http://bit.ly/2aiPLpT
--“These People Brought Their Daughters To See Hillary’s Historic Acceptance Speech,” by BuzzFeed’s Mary Ann Georgantopoulos, Ben Smith and Dominic Holden -- Cameos by Josh Shapiro, Joe Torsella, Marie Teresa Kumar: http://bzfd.it/2aDyarW
INSTAGRAM DU JOUR -- @bretbaier: “Hanging out in the @instagram#minioval with @jaketapper.” http://bit.ly/2ajKQPj
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
-- “Seven Minutes That Shook the Convention,” by Annabelle Timsit in Politico Magazine. “‘Tonight,’ said Khizr M. Khan, ‘we are honored to stand here as the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, and as patriotic American Muslims with undivided loyalty to our country.’ That was the beginning of a 7-minute speech that became an instant sensation—eloquent, emotional and notably original, coming as it did at the end of four days of highly processed political cliche. Khan, a 66-year-old immigration lawyer from Charlottesville, told the story of his son’s death in combat in Iraq, but he turned that elegy into a viral rebuke of Donald Trump: ‘You have sacrificed nothing!’” http://politi.co/2alD5LV
--“Zen And The Art Of Uber Driving” – Fast Coexist: “John Koopman used to write for a newspaper. Now he’s an Uber driver: ‘Thanks to Uber, I am not poor. I am just ... nobody.’” http://bit.ly/2akD6j9
--“Just Deserts,” by Robert H. Frank in The Hedgehog Review: “[H]ow important is luck? Few questions more reliably divide conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always extremely talented and hard working. But as liberals also rightly note, countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much, or even see much of a rise in their station or status.” http://bit.ly/2aCY27M
--“The Longform Guide to Hillary Clinton”: “From her early political career to the challenges she's faced in 2016 — a reading list on the Democratic nominee for president.” http://bit.ly/2aoed3O
--“The Second-Strangest Campaign of the Season: And it’s taking place in Florida, of course,” by Jason Zengerle in New York Magazine: Alan Grayson is “the only member of Congress whose desk is decorated with a plaque that reads: I HAVE FLYING MONKEYS AND I’M NOT AFRAID TO USE THEM!”” http://nym.ag/2aETNVY (h/t Longform.org)
--“A Moment Like This Used to Get a Black Man Killed: A few words about progress. And grace. And American cool,” by Charles B. Pierce in Esquire: “On stage a young black man, the president of the United States, warmly embraced an older white woman in front of god and all the world. It is now an iconic photograph. If it had occurred on a weed-choked street in Mississippi within the lifetime of many of the people who were cheering the moment, the young man might have been beaten, burned, hung, thrown into a river with a cotton fan tied to his neck.” http://bit.ly/2aodUWy (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--“How Rousseau Predicted Trump,” by Pankaj Mishra in The New Yorker: “The Enlightenment philosopher’s attack on cosmopolitan élites now seems prophetic.” http://bit.ly/2alaFj1
--“Dark Waters,” by Adrian Shirk in The Morning News: “Some of the world’s largest, oldest fish live in Oregon. Why anyone would want to vandalize them, even abduct them, takes explaining.” http://bit.ly/2akCHNM (h/t Longreads.com)
--“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bod,” by Jessica Beuker in Maisoneuve: “Non-sexual nudity is one of the last taboos in Canada. But, as Jessica Beuker discovers, it’s liberating to let it all hang out.” http://bit.ly/2aQKa5U
--“The Miseducation of John Muir,” by Justin Nobel in Atlas Obscura: “A close examination of the wilderness icon’s early travels reveal a deep love for trees, and some ugly feelings about people.” http://bit.ly/2aBgoUV
MEDIAWATCH – NYT’s recent piece about Donald Trump’s comments about Russian intelligence services and Hillary Clinton’s email has become the most-commented on in The Times’s history. More than 9,220 comments on the article were approved by moderators. Thousands more comments were posted on The Times’s Facebook page. Excerpts of some of the comments http://nyti.ms/2aEUy1k ... The original piece http://nyti.ms/2aEUy1k
RATINGS WAR – per NBC: “More Americans turned to NBC News and MSNBC combined for coverage of the 2016 Democratic National Convention than any other broadcast or cable television network. ... [T]he two networks averaged 9.2 million total viewers during primetime coverage of the DNC speeches from July 25 – July 28, including an average of 3.1 million viewers in the key news demographic of A25-54.”
--“Yahoo News Delivers Record-Breaking Coverage of the 2016 Political Conventions With Over 50MM Page Views, and Over 35MM Streams” http://bit.ly/2alDpsa
SPOTTED on Friday in the mad rush to leave Philly: on the Amtrak 9:39 a.m. Friday train from Philly to DC, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), wearing a “God is Good All the Time” lapel pin, where he discussed the best Al Green songs with the train conductor ... On the same train: Paul Begala in purple golf shirt ... Jon Allen fast asleep, cradling his phone in his hand ... Todd and Lindsey Schulte ... At 30th Street Station in Philly as passengers waited for a 30 minute delayed Acela to Washington: Sen. Al Franken, Bob Schieffer, and Ron Fournier ...
... On the Amtrak platform in Philly: John Heilemann, Kristen Welker ... Phil Rucker on the Acela from Philly to D.C. ... Economist DC bureau chief David Rennie ordering at Saxbys coffee at 30th Street Station ... “People standing in line at the Acela Club waiting room at Philadelphia to shake Khizr Khan’s hand. Rep. John Lewis also in the room.” ... David Dinkins saying hello and smiling to everyone on the Amtrak regional to NYC … Gavin Newsom flying solo in coach on an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia to SFO.
BROOKE BROWER, longtime MSNBC producer and all-around great guy, is leaving MSNBC after 11 years. Both Chuck Todd and Phil Griffin sent notes to employees yesterday. Chuck said: “Brooke has been more than a great producer for me, he's been a partner, a confidante and most importantly a good friend … [A]fter a decade+ of covering every second of every major political story, Brooke's going to take a well-deserved break from daily and hourly grind that is TV news production in the 21st century.”
PHIL GRIFFIN: Brooke has played an important role in our political coverage during that period, first as a producer for “Hardball,” then leading “The Daily Rundown,” contributing to “First Read,” and launching “MTP Daily.” … We will miss Brooke, but know more success lies ahead and wish him the best in his next chapter.
WHITE HOUSE WEEK AHEAD – “On Monday, the President will travel to Atlanta, Georgia to deliver remarks at the 95th National Convention of DAV (Disabled American Veterans). ... The President will also attend a DNC roundtable. On Tuesday, the President will host Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Mrs. Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore at the White House for an Official Visit and State Dinner. The President and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will also hold a press conference. ...
“On Wednesday, the President will participate in a Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) town hall at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. On Thursday, the President will travel to the Pentagon to chair a National Security Council Meeting on the counter-ISIL campaign and receive an update from his national security team on the efforts to degrade and destroy the terrorist group. ... On Saturday, the First Family will travel to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.”
RNC ALUMNI -- FRED BROWN, formerly a spokesman for the RNC and originally from Alaska, has joined the Republican Jewish Coalition as Communications Director, replacing Mark McNulty who will is going to law school in the fall. http://bit.ly/2aD5xf7
--IMGE has hired Jarrett Ray as Senior Digital Strategist for their email marketing team after being Director of Online Fundraising at the RNC. They are “also announcing several promotions, a brand new IMGE home website, and that we’re soon moving into bigger and newly renovated office space.” http://bit.ly/2aD5eRc
RUBIO ALUMNI – Emily Bouck, a long-time Rubio staffer left his Senate office last week, “to start as the Director, Policy & Advocacy at Service Year Alliance, where she’ll join the organization’s efforts to make a service year a common expectation and opportunity for young Americans of all backgrounds. Emily was most recently the Deputy Legislative Director for Sen. Rubio and worked for his office for over 6 years, where she started as an intern.”
ENGAGED -- Jill Chappell, senior editorial producer for Wolf Blitzer for CNN’s “The Situation Room” to Ramy Adly – “Ramy proposed at the Westin Hotel in Mt Laurel, New Jersey where CNN had put me during the DNC convention coverage. ... We met last August. Ramy is a professional Oud (a Middle Eastern type of guitar) player and immigrated from Egypt 3.5 years ago. He had a concert at the Kennedy Center and our mutual friend who works at the Arab League had a private concert on his rooftop the week before Ramy’s concert. ... He teaches the Oud online full time to students from over 27 countries around the world and plays concerts at the State Department, Embassy's, Festivals, etc.” Pic http://bit.ly/2aghxPu
WELCOME TO THE WORLD – IAN WALTERS, comms director for the American Conservative Union and CPAC and a blues artist/musician, and Carin Walters, director of CPAC and events at ACU, have welcomed Violet Marie Bautista Walters, who was born July 19 at 8:33 p.m. at 8 lbs 8oz. “Pretty sure Paul Ryan was taking Cleveland stage as she emerged. We just had a talk with violet, and she is ok if the govt. doesn’t pay for her college.” Proud grandparents are Jim and Lisa Hudson of Elk River, Minn. and Ralph Z. Hallow (Wash Times) and Millie Hallow (NRA) of Crofton, MD. Pic http://bit.ly/2axv06D
27th ANNIVERSARY: Diane and Paul Begala
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): John Raffetto, CEO and partner at RH Strategic ... (was Thursday): Brad Crowell, DOE’s assistant secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
BIRTHDAYS: Jim Rutenberg! ... Shane Harris, senior correspondent at The Daily Beast ... Dave Kochel, Iowa guru, Mitt and Jeb alum and rock star, celebrating in Beaver Creek, Colo. ... Chris Battle ... Carl Lavin, the pride of Canton, Ohio (hat tip: Austin) ... Medicare is 51 (h/t Tom O’Donnell, director of the LBJ Washington Center) ... Arnold Schwarzenegger is 69 … Anita Hill is 6-0 ... former MLB Commissioner Bud Selig is 82 ... RNC national spokesman Michael C. Short … Eleanor Smeal is 77 ... former Rep. Pat Schroeder is 76 ... Michelle Bernard ... Mario H. Lopez, president of Hispanic Leadership Fund ... Rebecca Kutler, longtime CNN executive producer based in the DC bureau … CFTC Chairman Tim Massad is 6-0 ... King Mohammed VI of Morocco (h/t Jordana Merran) … Chelsie Gosk, social media at Airbnb and a New Yorker alum … Freeman Klopott, comms director for DASNY and a Bloomberg alum … Meredith Simpson … Megan Rodriguez, project director of GOPAC and an MBA candidate at USC Marshall School of Business … Fran McCarthy (h/t Jon Haber) ...
… Tony Maciulis, head of news video at Yahoo and longtime producer for Katie Couric, is celebrating the big 4-0 with a clambake on the beach in Amagansett, N.Y. after two weeks on the road covering RNC and DNC (h/t April Andrews) ... Mark Beatty, 270 Strategies founding partner and 2012 Obama deputy battleground states director. “He’s embarking on a momentous year, having at long last moved in with his longtime girlfriend, fellow Obama alum turned Google media guru Melissa Nitti, this week.” (h/ts colleagues Lynda Tran and Heather Purcell) ... Bill O’Leary, UMass/Hopkins/Georgetown Biz School alum, former Bill Clinton staffer, and now head of the gov’t affairs practice at Russell Reynolds, the global search firm (h/t Ben Chang) ... Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) is 5-0 ... Politico’s Tyler Weyant and Alexa Velickovich ... Isaac-Davy Aronson, segment producer for the Rachel Maddow Show and a WNYC alum ... Garry Malphrus, member of the Board of Immigration Appeals ... HuffPost’s Ashley Alman ... Maggie Easterlin Cutrell, account supervisor at Stratacomm and a Burson alum ...
… Kate Harris, special advisor at State and a Treasury alum (and best skier) … Colleen Murray, corporate comms lead at Square and alum of Treasury, Shaheen, Franken, and Stabenow … Glen Chambers, Sen. Blunt’s chief of staff … Jim Green, SVP of gov’t affairs and public policy at Salesforce … Jonathan Spalter, chairman of Mobile Future, spending his day dreaming of his epic cheese head moment in the WI delegation in Philly ... Asher Grady ... Bonnie Eggers (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Nate Beeler ... Emily Sanders Elam ... Dave Koenig, VP of tax at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, is 57 ... Robert Basmadjian ... Stephen Gallo is 33 ... Paul Dickson ... Wesley Boatwright is 52 (h/t Hager) ... George McDowell (h/t Willard) ... Edd “Kookie” Byrnes is 83 ... movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 77 ... Paul Anka is 75 ... Delta Burke is 6-0 ... Hilary Swank is 42 ... Olympic gold medal beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor is 39 ... actress Joey King is 17 (h/ts AP)
DESSERT -- “No pot for Snoop Dogg at DNC Concert,” by Page Six’s Emily Smith: http://pge.sx/2aD7YxZ
THE SHOWS from @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin:
--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Paul Manafort; Julian Assange and Garry Kasparov; roundtable: David Brooks, Alex Castellanos, Hallie Jackson and Doris Kearns Goodwin (airing at different times due to the Women’s British Open)
--ABC’s “This Week”: Donald Trump; Joe Biden; Gen. John Allen (Ret.); roundtable: Kristen Soltis Anderson, Jonathan Karl, Cenk Uygur, Greta Van Susteren and Alex Wagner
--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Bernie Sanders; Paul Manafort; Reince Priebus; David Axelrod; new results from the CBS News 2016 Battleground Tracker poll; roundtable; Reihan Salam, Amy Walter, John Heilemann and Dana Milbank
--“Fox News Sunday”: Hillary Clinton; roundtable: George Will, Julie Pace, Karl Rove and Juan Williams
--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10am ET / 9am CT): Eric Trump; Daniel Malloy; Steve Scalise; Marine Corps University’s Sebastian Gorka; Frank Luntz; roundtable: Steve Moore, Ed Rollins and Jessica Tarlov
--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (SUN 11am ET / 10am CT): Susan Ferrechio; The Washington Times’ Kelly Riddell; Joe Trippi; Guy Benson; New Leader Council’s Krystal Ball; pollster Lee Carter; The Hill’s Joe Concha
--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10am ET / 1pm PT): Luis Gutierrez and RNC director of Hispanic communications Helen Aguirre Ferré; Tim Kaine; Xavier Becerra; undocumented DREAMer activists Astrid Silva and Karla Ortiz; Henry Cisneros; Eric Garcetti; Chelsea Clinton
--CSPAN’s “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30pm ET): Visit to ‘CES on the Hill’ tech fair, including an interview with tech startup developer Chet Kanojia
--CSPAN’s “Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET): Terry McAuliffe, questioned by Politico’s Gabriel Debenedetti and WaPo’s Anne Gearan
--CSPAN’s “Q&A” (SUN 8pm & 11pm ET): Author and journalist Joshua Kendall (“First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama”)
--PBS’s “To the Contrary” with Bonnie Erbé: (airs all weekend): Roundtable: Former Judge and federal prosecutor Debra Carnahan, GOP strategist Jennifer Higgins, civil rights lawyer Jenifer Rajkumar and political commentator Amber Smith
--SiriusXM’s “No Labels Radio” (SAT 10am ET & 6pm ET, SUN 1PM ET): Guest hosts and No Labels leaders Margaret Kimbrell and Sasha Borowsky host a special millennial episode of No Labels Radio. They will discuss the Republican and Democratic National conventions with Politico’s Daniel Lippman, the explosion of data analytics in politics with FiscalNote’s Timothy Hwang, and the notion that Washington is leaving millennials behind with co-author and the Manhattan Institute’s Jared Meyer (“Disinherited: How Washington is Betraying America’s Young”). Available for download at www.nolabels.org.
--Sinclair’s “Full Measure” with Sharyl Attkisson (SUN 10am ET on WJLA and airing on Sinclair stations nationwide): Sharyl Attkisson reports on illegal immigrants already in America and the crimes they’re committing in so-called sanctuary cities. Scott Thuman reports from Philadelphia where the Democratic convention ends, and the real presidential campaign begins. And service animals are everywhere these days. We look at the loopholes, in ‘emotional support animals.’
--Hearst / Sony’s “Matter of Fact” with Fernando Espuelas (airing Sunday in most markets, check local listings): Linda Sanchez; WaPo’s Karen Tumulty; NEA president Lily Eskelson Garcia; report on whether celebrities made a difference at the Republican and Democratic Conventions; Fernando offers his final thoughts on the growing controversy over Russian cyber-espionage against the U.S. Is Donald Trump playing with fire?
--MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton”: (SUN 8-9am ET): Eleanor Holmes Norton; E.J. Dionne; Rick Tyler; Freddie Gray family attorney Billy Murphy; Essence’s Vanessa de Luca; Vox’s Liz Plank; New York Democratic Party executive director Basil Smikle; Susan Del Percio
--“MSNBC Live”: (SUN 9-10am ET): Adam Schiff; Philly Inquirer’s Tom Fitzgerald; Nina Turner; Amy Holmes; Jonathan Alter; The Atlantic’s Vann Newkirk (hosted by MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle from Philadelphia)
--MSNBC’s “AM Joy”: (SUN 10am-12pm ET): The Hill’s Niall Stanage; former Clinton White House aide and Columbia University’s Keith Boykin; Voto Latino’s Maria Teresa Kumar; Jonathan Capehart; American Urban Radio Networks’ April Ryan; The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons; Esquire’s Charlie Pierce (live from Philadelphia)
--“MSNBC Live”: (SUN 12-2pm ET): Jack Markell; Jill Stein; NYT’s Jeremy Peters; Honor the Earth’s Tara Houska; Howard Dean; Elise Jordan; Morning Call’s Laura Olsen; Sam Clovis; Bob Casey; Ed Rendell; Philly Inquirer’s Harold Jackson; Bill Richardson (hosted by MSNBC’s Alex Witt from Philadelphia)
--MSNBC’s “AM Joy”: (SUN 10am-12pm ET): Michael Steele; Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles’ Alfonso Aguilar; Jonathan Capehart; New York Magazine’s Benjamin Wallace-Well; MSNBC’s Trymaine Lee
--MSNBC’s “Joy Reid”: (SUN 10am-12pm ET): Brooklyn NAACP president L. Joy Williams; Perry Bacon; Al Sharpton; actress, director, speaker, writer Jasmine Guy; Arise 360’s Lola Ogunnaike
--MSNBC’s “The Place for Politics”: (SUN 12-2pm ET): Politico’s Gabe Debenedetti; former O’Malley senior advisor Gabriela Domenzain; Women for Women International founder and CEO Zainab Salbi; Muslim-Christian Understanding’s Suhail Khan; Republican strategist Tom Doherty (hosted by MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin live from New York)
--Bloomberg Radio’s “Politics, Policy and Power” hosted by Amy Morris and Alan Bjerga (SAT 6am, SUN 4pm): Discussion of President Obama’s trip to Saudi Arabia with Bloomberg News’ Angela Greiling Keane; discussion of the presidential campaigns with Bloomberg Government’s Loren Duggan
--WUSA 9 CBS Washington, DC’s “Capital Download” with Derek McGinty and Susan Page: (SUN 8:30am ET): Michael Hayden; roundtable: NPR’s Susan Davis and The Boston Globe’s Christopher Rowland
--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8am ET): Roundtable: Jackie Kucinich, Nia-Malika Henderson, Jeff Zeleny and Matt Viser
--CNN’s “State of the Union” (9am ET / 12pm ET): Tim Kaine; Jeff Sessions; father of deceased Muslim U.S. soldier Khizr Khan; roundtable: Bakari Sellers, Amanda Carpenter, Marsha Blackburn and Xavier Becerra (substitute anchor: CNN’s Jim Acosta)
--CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”: (SUN 10am, 1pm ET): Author, Washington Post columnist and Legatum Institute’s Anne Applebaum (“Gulag: A History”) and author and journalist Masha Gessen (“The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy”); NYT’s David Sanger; Pennsylvania-based Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen
--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11am ET): Trump campaign communications director Jason Miller; Julian Assange; BBC News’ Kim Ghattas; Dan Rather; Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan and The Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik