Happy Saturday! The Democratic convention kicks off Monday -- but the soft beginning is tomorrow, when Sunday shows broadcast from Philly. CBS’s John Dickerson - who scored an interview with President Obama - has won the weekend.
BULLETIN -- “AP-EU--APNewsAlert/17 09:11 AM MUNICH (AP) - German interior minister says ‘no indication of any connection to international terrorism’ to Munich attack.”
KNOWING KAINE -- “Kaine email trove shows media-savvy micromanager,” by Darren Samuelsohn with Donovan Harrell and Dan Spinelli: Hundreds of thousands of emails from his days as governor “show Kaine is no Joe Biden: He’s a media-savvy executive who avoids gaffes by discussing tricky topics with his staff before he speaks with reporters. He pays attention to even the smallest of detail — making his own spreadsheets, editing his online biography — and he doesn’t hesitate to throw around his connections with a certain politician named Barack Obama…He has a mastery of the behind-the-scenes tasks necessary to govern. And he’s proven capable of winning multiple elections in the battleground of Virginia, as well as across the other 49 states after a stint as chairman of the Democratic National Committee during Obama’s first term.” Story detailing 145,000 emails http://politi.co/29RQKf0
--Bonus read: “The 11 emails that explain Tim Kaine”: http://politi.co/2a4734y
TICK TOCK -- NYT’s Amy Chozick, Alan Rappeport and JMart: “As the search narrowed, Mrs. Clinton wanted to test her chemistry on the campaign trail with Mr. Kaine. After their Virginia rally last week, she invited him to her home in Washington for a meeting that lasted until 10:30 p.m. Last Saturday, the day after meeting with other candidates in Washington, she invited Mr. Kaine and his wife to lunch at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., with her family.” http://nyti.ms/2a86OJE
--TRUMP’s pushback -- ‘Corrupt Kaine’ -- Tim Kaine accepted gifts while in office, as revealed in a POLITICO piece by Isaac Arnsdorf on June 30. (The gifts, which included Redskins tix and an $18,000 Caribbean vacation, were legal for him to accept.) http://politi.co/2a2K4pQ.
--Kaine’s flip-flop: He’s already told Clinton that he now opposes TPP. But he was talking up the Pacific trade pact as recently as Thursday: http://politi.co/2akT4cw
HOW IT PLAYED -- DRUDGE banner, “HILLARY RUNS WITH KAINE WHITE GUY ADDED TO TICKET” ... HuffPost banner, “VEEP!” … WaPo (one column, left-hand of A1) “Kane wins Democratic veepstakes as Clinton’s pick” … NYT (two columns, right hand side of A1), “Clinton Names a Senator as Vice-Presidential Pick”
WHAT BROOKLYN WANTS YOU TO READ -- “Even state Republicans have good things to say about Kaine,” by Alicia Petska in the Roanoke Times: “‘Even though we disagree on policy and principle, I respect him,’ said Speaker Bill Howell, R-Stafford, who was in office while Kaine was both lieutenant governor and governor. ‘His character makes it all the more surprising that he would sign up to defend Hillary Clinton for the next three and a half months,’ Howell said, adding Kaine’s addition to the ticket doesn’t ‘change that this election is ultimately a referendum on Secretary Clinton.’” http://bit.ly/2a86XwF
-- Hillary on Medium: “Like me, Tim grew up in the Midwest. During law school, he too took an unconventional path — he took time off and went to Honduras to work with missionaries, practicing both his faith and his Spanish. When he returned to the states and graduated from Harvard Law, he could have done anything. But instead of going to some big corporate firm, he chose to fight housing discrimination as a civil rights lawyer in Richmond. He and his wife joined a church, built a home centered around their faith, and raised three beautiful children. Then, after 17 years of practicing law, Tim ran for city council — and won.” http://bit.ly/29RV6CY
--Senators he is close with: Republicans Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Bob Corker (Tenn.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.). Democrats Mark Warner (Va.) and Ben Cardin (Md.) (h/t master of the Senate, Burgess Everett, who is covering Kaine for us).
--@PhilipRucker: “In terms of resume titles, has a ticket ever had more than Clinton-Kaine? SecState, Sen (2x), Gov, LtGov, Mayor, Councilman, FLOTUS, FLOAR.”
--@BrianStelter: “Just like last week… When @60Minutes had first joint interview with Trump/Pence… the program will have Clinton/Kaine’s first intw on Sunday”
FUN FACT: A reader emails Playbook: “In case you didn’t know, Tim Kaine is an awesome harmonica player. Here is a link to my video of him playing this past March.” http://bit.ly/2ahLnoQ
KRISTOL WATCH -- @BillKristol: “Mike Pence and Tim Kaine are both good guys. Couldn’t we re-shuffle the tickets, and have a choice between Pence-Kaine and Trump-Clinton?”
BUZZ FROM RICHMOND/NOVA -- If Hillary Clinton wins, and Tim Kaine becomes vice president, Gov. Terry McAuliffe will get to appoint someone to the Senate. The buzz in McAuliffe land is that he can appoint a placeholder, like the 77-year-old Chuck Robb, or someone who is a longer-term option like Rep. Don Beyer, Creigh Deeds, Attorney General Mark Herring or Anne Holton, the education secretary who is also Kaine’s wife. Tom Periello, a one-term congressman who is now at the State Department, could also be an option. McAuliffe WILL NOT appoint himself, sources close to him say.
FIRST LOOK -- Lifelong Republicans and Bush ‘43 alums John Stubbs and Ricardo Reyes launched Republicans for Hillary Friday, and told Playbook in an interview they are trying to provide a “home and a safe space for Republicans who are on what is a very personal and in many cases difficult journey to vote for Secretary Clinton,” Stubbs said. The group, which isn’t looking to raise big money or launch a super PAC, say they believe that electing Clinton could save the Republican Party as we know it. “Strategically speaking we will be better off as a Republican Party after four years of Clinton when we can reorganized and look at where we are,” Reyes said. Full op-ed in Washington Post: http://wapo.st/2ahJnvu
HOLLYWOOD COMES TO PHILLY -- Democratic sources are buzzing that the Sofitel Philadelphia is where movie stars will be camping out during the Democratic National Convention next week.
CLEVELAND ROCKS? -- Republicans always have a tough time booking A-list celebrities and musicians, but the contrast in star power between Philly and Cleveland is stunning. Next week, Dems have Snoop Dogg, Keisha, Lady Gaga, The Roots, Fergie and Nelly. To be fair: Republicans had several bands cancel this year.
OBAMA vs. TRUMP – per Nick Gass: Yesterday at a presser with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, he said: “[T]he one thing that I think is important to recognize is this idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people. I hope people, the next morning, walked outside and birds were chirping and the sun was out and this afternoon, people will be, you know, watching their kids play on sports teams and go to the swimming pool and folks are going to work and getting ready for the weekend. And in particular, I think it is important, just to be absolutely clear here, that some of the fears that were expressed throughout the week just don't jibe with the facts.” http://politi.co/2a3HqRr
TRUMP’S AMERICA -- “Donald Trump’s Journey: From Crashing a Party to Controlling Its Future,” by NYT’s Adam Nagourney and Alex Burns on A1: “Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Mr. Trump, said this nominee would put his mark on the party, much the same way other powerful presidential nominees have done. ‘Every successful Republican president – Lincoln, McKinley, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan – has remade the party in his own image,’ he said. ‘We are going to be a middle class of working people again. We are leaving the Bush country-club party.’” http://nyti.ms/2a1dEC0
-- @micahcohen: “Announcement just over Cleveland airport PA: ‘please check your Trump Make America Great Again bag to make sure you have the right one.’”
--@IvankaTrump: “Shop Ivanka’s look from her #RNC speech”: http://bit.ly/29Qj7dE
--An online ad for the dress appeared in a otherwise negative WashPost piece http://bit.ly/2a6Jrz0
--Trump online ad pairs a pic of him, the text “Aspire to Greatness,” with a pic of the Space Shuttle taking off. http://bit.ly/29ZYHjQ
PIC DU JOUR -- Philip Bump (@pbump): “This is some photo from the AP.” http://bit.ly/29UismZ
HOT DOC -- “Released emails Suggest the D.N.C. Derided the Sanders Campaign,” by NYT’s Michael D. Shear and Matthew Rosenberg: “In one of the emails, dated May 21, Mark Paustenbach, a committee communications official, wrote to a colleague about the possibility of urging reporters to write that Mr. Sanders’s campaign was ‘a mess’ after a glitch on the committee’s servers gave it access to Clinton voter data. ‘Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess,’ Mr. Paustenbach wrote to Luis Miranda, the communications director for the committee.” http://nyti.ms/2a2Rnhc … See Mark’s email http://bit.ly/2amEnZf
THEY’RE JUST LIKE US -- “Debbie Wasserman Schultz struggled to get 7 tickets to Hamilton,” by Bianca Padró Ocasio: “According to an email thread released Friday on WikiLeaks ... [DWS wrote:] ‘I am planning a trip with my college roommates in December to NYC. It is for our 50th birthdays. Can you help me get 7 tickets to Hamilton from our friend who did the FR?’ she asked DNC finance director Allen Zachary in late May. Zachary said it would be very difficult to get that many tickets, suggesting they sit in separate areas or go on different nights. ‘I’ve never seen an order of 7 fulfilled, I have seen as many as 4. Would you guys be willing to split up 4 and 3?’ he said. ‘We would want to go on the same night but we don't have to sit all together,’ Wasserman Schultz responded. ... The thread ends with the issue unresolved.” http://politi.co/29QZouz
HOT CLICK – “Search the DNC email database” in Wikileaks http://bit.ly/2a1lk1d
CLICKERS – “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker -- 11 funnies http://politi.co/29QYVIQ ... “Longform Podcast #202: David Remnick” http://bit.ly/29SXohM
DEPARTMENT OF NON-SURPRISES -- WashPost comes out against Trump early, “Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy”: “DONALD J. TRUMP, until now a Republican problem, this week became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. ... We recognize that this is not the usual moment to make such a statement. In an ordinary election year, we would acknowledge the Republican nominee, move on to the Democratic convention and spend the following months, like other voters, evaluating the candidates’ performance in debates, on the stump and in position papers. ... But we cannot salute the Republican nominee or pretend that we might endorse him this fall. A Trump presidency would be dangerous for the nation and the world.” http://wapo.st/29QZqSS
PALACE INTRIGUE – “Former Trump Aide [Michael Caputo]: ‘Corey Lewandowski Was A Horrible Campaign Manager,’” by BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski: Caputo said on Kilmeade and Friends on Friday morning[:] ‘The worst decision Donald Trump ever made was hiring him. The best decision he ever made was getting rid of him. When he hired Paul Manafort 12 weeks ago — Paul Manafort’s a volunteer by the way, completely volunteer — Paul Manafort came in to make the changes. Corey was stopping him. Basically sabotaging everything that Paul Manafort was doing for weeks and weeks and weeks.’ Caputo ... [also said:] ‘I know, I was there, I was right there watching him screw Paul Manafort, every day and therefore, screwing his own candidate.’” http://bzfd.it/2a2l5WS
PAGING CNN! -- “MH370 Pilot Flew a Suicide Route on His Home Simulator Closely Matching Final Flight,” by Jeff Wise in NYMag.com: “New York has obtained a confidential document from the Malaysian police investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that shows that the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane vanished under uncannily similar circumstances. The revelation, which Malaysia withheld from a lengthy public report on the investigation, is the strongest evidence yet that Zaharie made off with the plane in a premeditated act of mass murder-suicide.” http://nym.ag/2aByZO9
CALIFORNIA SENATE WATCH -- “Rep. Loretta Sanchez implies Obama endorsed Senate rival because they are both black,” by Phil Willon and Jazmine Ulloa in the Los Angeles Times: “‘I think they have, what he said they have, is a friendship of many years. She is African American, as is he. They know each other through meetings,’” Sanchez said in Spanish during the interview.” http://lat.ms/2a0ouIr
SNEAK PEEK – Tomorrow’s N.Y. Times Mag cover, “Could Hillary Clinton Become the Champion of the 99 Percent? A coalition of progressives has been quietly building a plan to bring Occupy-style ideas into the political establishment. Will the Democratic nominee get on board?”: Gideon Lewis-Kraus looks at the universe of progressive political operatives and intellectuals in Washington and beyond, and how they plan to take some of the energy that we saw around the Bernie Sanders campaign and put it into practice in a possible Democratic administration. Lewis-Kraus profiles the Roosevelt Institute, which has become the center of a network of groups that have been drafting a platform to get more progressive regulators and staffers into a Democratic administration. But the broader theme is the big question: Will Hillary Clinton and her campaign go along with what seems to be a genuine movement among the electorate for more progressive policy ideas? http://nyti.ms/2ajqJ6l ... See the cover http://bit.ly/2a1nVYS
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
--“The Unified Theory of Deliciousness: The Secret Code to Unleashing the World’s Most Amazing Flavors,” by chef David Chang in Wired: “Chang runs Momofuku, which includes 13 restaurants, a bakery, two bars, and a culinary lab.” http://bit.ly/2aglhCB (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--“More equal than others,” by Julian Baggini in The Times Literary Supplement: “[W]e know enough to be sure that billions of [animals] are conscious, form bonds, feel physical and psychological pleasures and pains. To give their welfare no more thought than we do that of rocks would be shamefully callous.” http://bit.ly/29SXeH9 (h/t ALDaily.com)
--“Meet The Workers Who Sewed Donald Trump Clothing For A Few Dollars A Day,” by BuzzFeed’s Karla Zabludovsky and Daniel Wagner: “Employees at a textile factory that made Trump shirts report dangerous, abusive conditions — harsh even for Honduras.” http://bzfd.it/2agk9il
--“Confessions of a killer policeman,” by Raghu Karnad and Grace Jajo in The Guardian: “In a state bloodied by decades of armed rebellion, Thounaojam Herojit became one of India’s most deadly policemen – killing more than a hundred people. This year, he became something rarer still: an executioner who wanted to tell the world about his crimes.” http://bit.ly/2a2lf0g
--“The Olympian and the Terrorist: A Story of Two Belgian Brothers,” by Lukas Eberle in Der Spiegel: “The older brother detonated a bomb at the Brussels airport. The younger one is representing his country at the Olympic Games in Rio. The story of two Belgian siblings who long ago parted ways.” http://bit.ly/29UjsaP
MEDIA DEEP DIVE – WashPost A1, “The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories,” by Manuel Roig-Franzia, Scott Higham, Paul Farhi and Krissah Thompson: “News of Carlson’s firing, and the lawsuit she filed shortly thereafter, have now prompted 25 women to come forward with what they describe as similar harassment claims against Ailes that stretch across five decades back to his days in the 1960s as a young television producer ... Interviews with four of those women portray the 76-year-old television powerhouse as a man who could be routinely crude and inappropriate, ogling young women, commenting about their breasts and legs, and fostering a macho, insensitive culture.” http://wapo.st/2a1czdD
--“With Roger Ailes Out, Will Fox News’s Influence on Politics Change?” by NYT’s Nick Corasaniti: “For more than two decades, the network helped legitimize political issues like birtherism and ‘death panels’ and usher into the mainstream the shock-jock language embraced by Mr. Trump. Without Mr. Ailes guiding the network, conservatives and Republican politicians are left wondering whether the talk might soften under new leadership. ... ‘My bosses, whoever they have been, including Tim Pawlenty, Joni Ernst, Marco Rubio,’ [Alex] Conant ... said, ‘the No. 1 comment they get on the campaign trail is “I saw you on Fox.”’ With cameos by Corey, Tommy Vietor, Rick Tyler, Rick Santorum and Axe http://nyti.ms/2aByu6W
-- “NBC News Wins Across the Board on All Four Nights of the 2016” RNC: “According to Nielsen Media Research data, NBC News’s coverage of the 2016 RNC averaged 4.6 million viewers during its four nights of coverage (July 18 – 21), +47% more than ABC (3.1 million) and +53% over CBS (3 million). In the news demo, NBC averaged 1.7 million A54-54 viewers, leading ABC by +600,000 (+55%) and CBS by +786,000 (+86%).”
--@alexweprin: “An average of 29.9 million people watched Donald trump accept GOP nomination during 10 PM hour [Thursday] night on broadcast, CNN, FNC, MSNBC.”
WHITE HOUSE WEEK AHEAD: “On Monday and Tuesday, the President will attend meetings at the White House. On Wednesday, the President will travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to deliver remarks at the Democratic National Convention. Further details on the President’s travel to Pennsylvania will be available in the coming days. On Thursday and Friday, the President will attend meetings at the White House.”
HOT DOC -- Someone chartered a United 747 from Cleveland to Sacramento Friday. Any idea who? http://bit.ly/29QOwwG
SPOTTED on the two-hour delayed United flight Friday morning from Cleveland to DCA: Robin Sproul, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, Wolf Blitzer, all in first class. In the cattle section: John Harris, Jonathan Alter, Steve Clemons, Katty Kay, Chris Cillizza, Jack Smith, Meredith McPhillips, Cally Baute, Katie Glueck, Steve Shepard, Kyle Cheney. ... On the United flight from CLE to PHL: Kevin McCarthy and Ben Carson, sitting in First Class … Bob Dole celebrating his birthday with his wife at Marcel’s … Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Bob Schieffer comparing notes in Cleveland at the Marriott on Thursday … John Boehner, back in D.C. after his trip to Cleveland, on the patio at Trattoria Alberto
OVERHEARD: On the 3:45 p.m. AA flight from CLE to DCA, Tammy Haddad telling Sean Spicer to pause and pose for a photo as he walked down the aisle to his seat. Also on flight: David Gregory, Peter Alexander, SE Cupp.
OBAMA ALUMNI – NATHANIEL PERKINS, most recently COS and senior advisor to the director of the WH Office of Legislative Affairs, emails friends and colleagues: “I just joined Mapbox, a fast-growing software company based in DC with offices in SF, Peru, India, and Berlin, where I’m working to help scale and support their team.”
WELCOME TO THE WORLD – Ed O’Keefe, SVP of premium content at CNN, and wife Allison Davis O’Keefe, a CBS News alum now a photographer and co-founder of Bartolome + Chey, late last month welcomed Alton Davis O’Keefe, 7 lbs., 6 ounces, 20 inches. Pic http://bit.ly/2a6GVJ9
-- Katie Wilson McBreen, NRF VP of comms and a Cheney and Chamber alum, and “Cardigans and Couture” blogger, and her physician husband Brian welcomed daughter Kallan Williams McBreen to the world on Thursday. “Pronounced, KAL-en (like the Cal in California or McCallan scotch as her dad says), the name is of Gaelic and Scottish origin and pays tribute to Brian’s Irish heritage. Williams is Katie’s mom’s maiden name and ensures that like her ‘Tutu’ she will be a person of great strength, love, kindness and integrity. ... She weighed in at 8 lb 3 oz and already has her dad’s height, measuring 21 ½ inches in length. Let’s hope she gets her mom’s sense of style!” Pic http://politi.co/2ajpHqR
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Sarah Hummell, national GOTV director for the D Trip, an OFA-OH/Org for Action/Pell for Governor alum (h/t Devin Driscoll) ... Stephan Tisher ... Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) is 51 ... Whitney Headlee
BIRTHDAYS: Nancy Hamlin (hat tip: John and Ann) ... David Brock (h/t Brad Woodhouse) ... Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is 8-0 ... Monica Lewinsky is 43 ... Don Imus is 76 ... Adam Mohabbat ... Fritz Brogan ...CNN publicist Liza Pluto, celebrating post-RNC and pre-DNC with a quick 24-hour detour in DC (h/t Richard Huddock) ... The Economist’s Lane Greene is 41 ... Matt Shilling, Bush 43 WH alum now executive director of Indifly (h/t Abbey) ... John Mihalec, former White House speechwriter for President Ford, is 69 ... wine critic Robert Parker, Jr. is 69 ... Politico’s Kat Borgerding, who helps bring you Playbook each day … Sujata Thomas, a Fareed Zakaria alum … Fritz Brogan, Rick Scott alumnus and bar owner/advance man ... Melinda Wittstock ... Food52’s Catherine O’Donnell ... Carolyn Vadino, VP of comms at Stroz Friedberg and former Deputy Spox at the U.S. Mission to the UN (h/t Ben Chang, filing from Dewey) … Gawker’s Alex Pareene, a Salon alum ...
... Melissa Brown, deputy digital director of FP1 Strategies and an ACU alum, also one of DC’s best sailors and equestrians, is 25 (h/ts Sarah, Sophie, Maddy, John, Daniel) ... Marshall Schraibman of Hamilton Place Strategies (h/t Sabrina Siddiqui) ... Square’s Joey Rault ... DOT’s Aaron Moore is 32 … former Rep. John Hall ... Tracie Pough ... Dan Pink … Josh Gross of Glover Park Group ... Elizabeth Mills … Jim Thompson … Brooks Emanuel ... Melinda Wittstock ... Michael Bruce Hill ... Katherine Boucher ... Cathy Whaley ... actress Gloria DeHaven is 91 ... Woody Harrelson is 55 ... Slash is 51 ... retired MLB All-Star Nomar Garciaparra is 43 ... Danielle Bradbery (“The Voice”) is 20 (h/ts AP)
THE SHOWS from @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin:
--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Donald Trump; Bernie Sanders; roundtable: Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell and Michael Steele (live from Philadelphia)
--ABC’s “This Week”: Paul Manafort; Robby Mook; Bernie Sanders; roundtable: Donna Brazile, Matthew Dowd, Tom Cole and Keith Ellison
--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: President Barack Obama; roundtable: Jamelle Bouie, Ron Brownstein, Ramesh Ponnuru and Nancy Cordes
--“Fox News Sunday”: Joel Benenson; roundtable: Brit Hume, Anne Gearan, George Will and Amy Walter (live from Philadelphia)
--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10am ET / 9am CT): Clinton campaign senior spokesperson Karen Finney; Karl Rove; Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Jr.; roundtable: GOP strategist Tony Sayegh, Susan Ferrechio and Democratic strategist Richard Fowler
--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (SUN 11am ET / 10am CT): Tucker Carlson; Kirsten Powers; James Rosen; Bill Hemmer; Martha MacCallum; Lisa Boothe; Julie Roginsky; Joe Trippi
--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10am ET / 1pm PT): Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles executive director Alfonso Aguilar and DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda; Al Cardenas; State Sen. Ralph Alvarado (R-KY); Mijente and the #Not1More campaign’s Tania Unzueta and United We Dream’s Julieta Garibay; former Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Fortuño
--“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)
--PBS’s “To the Contrary” with Bonnie Erbé: (airs all weekend): Roundtable: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Independent Women’s Forum executive director Sabrina Schaeffer, The George Washington University’s Lara Brown and Republican strategist Rina Shah
--SiriusXM’s “No Labels Radio” (SAT 10am ET & 6pm ET, SUN 1PM ET): Discussion of the upcoming Democratic convention in Philadelphia, which will be radically different—in both tone and substance—from last week’s GOP gathering in Cleveland. We’ll look back at past Democratic conventions for clues about what to expect for this one. 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 on the government spending billions of your tax dollars to put one million electric cars on the road by the end of 2015 -- wait till you see how that turned out. Scott Thuman reports on a harrowing story of a young man radicalized in Belgium, his flight to fight for ISIS and his father’s heroic mission through imprisonment and torture, to reunite and bring him home.
--Hearst / Sony’s “Matter of Fact” with Fernando Espuelas (airing Sunday in most markets, check local listings): WaPo’s Rebecca Sinderbrand; former Gore speechwriter Eric Schnure; AEI’s Michael Rubin; report on Twitter trolls; Fernando’s commentary on this pivotal election
--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8am ET): Roundtable: Jonathan Martin, Julie Pace, Jeff Zeleny and Maeve Reston (live from Philadelphia)
--CNN’s “State of the Union” (9am ET / 12pm ET): Robby Mook; Donald Trump, Jr.; roundtable: Van Jones, Andre Bauer, Neera Tanden and Kellyanne Conway (live from Philadelphia)
--CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”: (SUN 10am, 1pm ET): Roundtable: David Frum, AEI’s Danielle Pletka, The Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Moore and author and WSJ’s Bret Stephens (“America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder”); author and Harvard University’s Iris Bohnet (“What Works: Gender Equality by Design”); NYT’s Rebecca Ruiz; attorney and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson
--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11am ET): Media roundtable: Dylan Byers, Bill Carter and American University’s Jane Hall; author and NY Mag’s Gabriel Sherman (“The Loudest Voice in the Room”); media roundtable: Dan Rather, Amy Goodman, Carl Bernstein and Jeff Greenfield