TRUMP MORNING TWEET STORM -- @realDonaldTrump at 6:51 a.m.: “100% fabricated and made-up charges, pushed strongly by the media and the Clinton Campaign, may poison the minds of the American Voter. FIX!” ... at 7:45 a.m.: “This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!” ... at 8:23 a.m.:“Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election”.
THAT LAST TWEET illustrates a concern a lot of Republicans and Democrats have: Trump is saying our presidential election system is not on the level. That’s basically unprecedented. When John McCain lost to Barack Obama in 2008, he called to congratulate him “on being elected the next president of the country that we both love” and said “this campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life. And my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Sen. Obama and my old friend, Sen. Joe Biden, should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.”
CAN ANYONE see Trump saying anything like this if he loses? If he doesn’t, that could upend a bipartisan American tradition and a bedrock of any democracy: the peaceful transition of power. This is something that top officials in both parties have been seriously worried about for months. Trump’s recent tactics on the trail have heightened this concern. Republicans who think Trump will lose want to quickly move on if Clinton is the victor. And Democrats know Clinton will be hobbled if a swath of Americans think she is illegitimate.
MATT VISER and TRACY JAN of the Boston Globe nail it. “Trump says the election is rigged -- and his supporters are furious”:“[I]f Trump doesn’t win, some are even openly talking about violent rebellion and assassination, as fantastical and unhinged as that may seem. ‘If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it,’ Dan Bowman, a 50-year-old contractor, said of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. ‘We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. . . . I would do whatever I can for my country.’...’Trump said to watch you precincts. I’m going to go, for sure,’ said Steve Webb, a 61-year-old carpenter from Fairfield, Ohio. ‘I’ll look for . . . well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American,’ he said. ‘I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anything illegal. I’m going to make them a little bit nervous.’” http://bit.ly/2drlcwK
24 DAYS until Election Day.
DAILY DONALD -- “Trump belittles accusers as unattractive, as more come forward,” by WaPo’s Jose DelReal and Sean Sullivan in Greensboro, N.C.: “Donald Trump hurled personal insults Friday at the growing number of women who have accused him of groping and kissing them without their consent, labeling them as ‘horrible,’ ‘sick’ and ‘phony,’ and suggesting that at least two of them were not attractive enough to warrant his attention.
“As Trump spoke about the allegations, supporters who gathered to see him at an afternoon rally here cheered him on, at one point chanting ‘Lock her up!’ while he was talking about one of the accusers -- a slogan usually reserved for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. At another point, he also appeared to disparage Clinton’s looks in recounting their encounter at Sunday’s presidential debate: ‘And when she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn’t impressed.’
“The vitriol provided further evidence of Trump’s intention to wage an unprecedented scorched-earth campaign in the final 3½ weeks before Election Day that seems likely to leave few unscarred in either party. It also came on a day when two more women stepped forward to accuse Trump of groping them without their consent and as new videotapes emerged of Trump speaking in crude terms about sex on 'The Howard Stern Show.'” http://wapo.st/2e5YbRj
BEING THERE -- “The Trump campaign’s new normal,” by Ben Schreckinger in Charlotte, N.C.: “Donald Trump hit back at a woman who accused him of sexual assault by accusing her of being ugly and claimed a Mexican billionaire was orchestrating his downfall. One of his teleprompters fell of its stands and he dismantled another one. Some of Trump’s supporters pummeled a protester and some called for the jailing of another woman who has accused Trump of sexual assault. Another supporter yelled at a television reporter speaking to a camera, ‘Jackass, shut up.’” http://politi.co/2dqquc3 … 32-second video of Trump removing his teleprompter http://bit.ly/2ecAPLB
--LATEST ALLEGATIONS: “Woman says Trump reached under her skirt and groped her in early 1990s,” by WaPo’s Karen Tumulty: http://wapo.st/2e62YC2 … “Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant accuses Trump of sexually harassing her in 2007,” by Madeline Conway: http://politi.co/2erzVui … “Donald Trump Kept Calling Lil Jon an ‘Uncle Tom,’ Celebrity Apprentice Staffers Say,” by the Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng: http://thebea.st/2eDptPC
-- @LilJon: “When this ‘Uncle Tom’ incident happened on Celebrity Apprentice in the boardroom several of my castmates and I addressed Mr. Trump immediately when we heard the comment. I can’t say if he knew what he was actually saying or not, but he did stop using that term once we explained it’s [sic] offensiveness. I also want to be clear that I don’t agree with many of the statements Mr. Trump has said during his current run for president.” http://bit.ly/2dVvybw
--“Trump on Lindsay Lohan in 2004: ‘Deeply troubled’ women are ‘always the best in bed,’” by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Nathan McDermott: http://cnnmon.ie/2dCAEnw
HACKED -- “Leaked emails: Clinton allies pondered polling in 2008 on rumors about Obama’s cocaine use, his father’s Muslim faith,” by WaPo’s Ed O’Keefe. http://wapo.st/2dSC1Bh
TRUMP STRATEGERY -- “Donald Trump’s art of war,” by Yahoo’s Hunter Walker: “In a pair of interviews with Yahoo News, a high-level Trump campaign source detailed an aggressive strategy for the last 25 days of the campaign, saying: ‘We’re bringing out tactical nukes now, with thermo nukes later.’ The attacks on the Clintons are also aimed at the ‘suppression of votes’ from millennial women, African-Americans and the ‘idealistic Bernie Sanders supporter,’ according to the source, who says: ‘It’s about the suppression of votes, just to get them to stay home. If we can pick up some votes along the way, that’s fantastic, but it’s really about the suppression of votes.’ Because the Trump campaign is so concerned about keeping down turnout among young women and African-Americans, his team believes that first lady Michelle Obama could be the most potent surrogate in Clinton’s corner. The source tells Yahoo News: ‘She’s a much bigger threat than Hillary Clinton because of her charisma, her connection … I mean she kind of connects like Trump connects right?’” http://yhoo.it/2dQqH7B
WEST WING WEIGHS IN – NYT A12, “Trump as Champion of Working Class? ‘Come On,’ Obama Says,” by Michael Shear in Cleveland: “President Obama on Friday implored voters here to ‘reject a dark and pessimistic vision’ offered by Donald J. Trump and urged a robust turnout on behalf of Hillary Clinton in a state where the presidential candidates are locked in a razor-thin contest. … The president’s searing critique of Mr. Trump is an indication of the Clinton campaign’s hope that it can emerge victorious in Ohio despite recent polling that suggests a very close race in the Buckeye State. Just weeks ago, Ohio — with its many economically struggling communities of mostly white, working-class voters — seemed to be trending toward Mr. Trump, with several polls indicating a small lead for the Republican nominee. Mrs. Clinton went several weeks this fall without visiting the state.” http://nyti.ms/2diRy9W
SHOW ME THE MONEY -- “Clinton has built the biggest big-money operation ever,” by Shane Goldmacher in Beverly Hills, California: “Clinton calls them her ‘Hillblazers,’ campaign bundlers who have given or raised at least $100,000 for her campaign. And she has erected an unparalleled and unprecedented infrastructure of 1,133 such people — nearly double the number of any past presidential candidate, including President Obama four years ago. While Clinton and her advisers like to tout her small online donors, it is these bundlers in more than 40 states and four foreign countries who form the true backbone of her financial operation. Combined, this elite $100,000-and-up club has amassed a minimum of $113 million for Clinton and the Democratic Party — and the actual figure is likely far, far higher than that.” http://politi.co/2ecwZlD
-- “Senate GOP faces late cash crunch,” by Alex Isenstadt, Seung Min Kim and Kevin Robillard: “Republicans are set to be massively outspent on TV ads in seven of the eight states that are likely to decide control of the chamber. The spending disadvantage could badly hinder the GOP’s prospects, and it has led to growing frustration among the party's top strategists - many of whom are convinced it’s long past time to cut Trump loose and focus almost exclusively on preserving the Senate majority.” http://politi.co/2e9sy6x
THE SPEAKER -- “Ryan uses dark imagery to warn of Democratic Washington,” by Rachael Bade in Madison, Wisc.: “In a speech to College Republicans just off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Friday, Ryan painted a dark picture of America under President Barack Obama — and argued how much worse it would get under a President Hillary Clinton and Democratic Congress. It was a striking warning from a politician who's taken pains to project sunny optimism in his politics. The pessimistic take on the state of the union under Democratic rule signals that Ryan -- who many suspect is eyeing his own run for the White House in 2020 -- is acutely aware of the anger among the GOP base that Trump rode to the nomination.” http://politi.co/2eryv2M
-- THE PAUL STREET JOURNAL -- also called the Wall Street Journal -- continues to pine for Paul Ryan. http://on.wsj.com/2e6bm4B
--“10 Competitive House Races,” by NYT’s Emmarie Huetteman: http://nyti.ms/2e9BdG4
-- ProPublica’s FEC Itemizer is tracking donations over $500,000. http://bit.ly/2dSy0Nc
-- “Super PAC to Billionaire: We Need More Money to Save a Republican Senate: An errant email from a PAC supporting Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania highlights Republican anxiety: ‘Trump has taken a real hit this week,’” by ProPublica’s Robert Faturechi and Lauren Kirchner: http://bit.ly/2diWICL
FOR YOUR RADAR -- “CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia,” by NBC News’ William Arkin, Ken Dilanian and Robert Windrem: “The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Current and former officials with direct knowledge of the situation say the CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging ‘clandestine’ cyber operation designed to harass and ‘embarrass’ the Kremlin leadership.
“The sources did not elaborate on the exact measures the CIA was considering, but said the agency had already begun opening cyber doors, selecting targets and making other preparations for an operation. Former intelligence officers told NBC News that the agency had gathered reams of documents that could expose unsavory tactics by Russian President Vladimir Putin.” http://nbcnews.to/2ef1uSA
N.Y. POST cover, “COLD WAR 2.0 -- Blabbermouth Biden boasts: ‘We’re gonna secretly attack Russia!’” http://nyp.st/2dSsgmC
SCOOP -- Snapchat’s Peter Hamby scored an interview with President Barack Obama yesterday after POTUS’s Hillary Clinton event in Cleveland. The interview is slated to run in the next couple of weeks. Hamby has now interviewed Obama and Vice President Joe Biden -- and Snapchat has a $25 billion valuation.
--“Snapchat Beats Instagram and Facebook as the Top Social Platform for Teens,” by AdWeek’s Lauren Johnson: “According to investment firm Piper Jaffray’s new ‘Taking Stock With Teens’ report, 80 percent of teens use Snapchat at least once a month, up from 74 percent in the fall of 2015. ... Just 52 percent of respondents in Piper Jaffray’s study ... said that they use Facebook once a month, down from 56 percent in fall 2015.” http://bit.ly/2dTHhXM ... The study http://politi.co/2dQxNZG
NEW AD -- Senate Majority PAC is up with an ad in Pennsylvania tying Sen. Pat Toomey to Donald Trump. http://bit.ly/2e9rAHz
HAPPENING TODAY -- DONALD TRUMP is holding rallies in Portsmouth, N.H. and Bangor, Maine.
TIM KAINE is in Florida ahead of the new Oct. 18 voter registration deadline. He is attending a block party in Miami with Pusha T.
ANDREW KACZYNSKI PROFILE -- tomorrow’s N.Y. Times Sunday Styles section, “A Onetime BuzzFeed Wunderkind, Now at CNN,” by Sridhar Pappu: “Through most of his time at BuzzFeed, Mr. Kaczynski was known to reach into a bag of raw spinach as he focused on work, munching leaves as he watched analog-age footage on his screen or listened to old episodes of Howard Stern’s radio show, where Mr. Trump was a frequent and freewheeling guest. Recently he switched to eating garbanzo beans from a can as he goes about his work ... Mr. Kaczynski ended up leaving school for journalism. At BuzzFeed he earned a reputation as a gadfly whose research methods (which he keeps secret) went far beyond those of the usual reporter with a Lexis-Nexis password … Having received a diagnosis of pancreatitis at 19, Mr. Kaczynski neither smokes nor drinks. To keep up his health, he runs from five to six miles each morning while wearing a 12-pound training vest. Even then he is doing his job, listening to the hours of old audio he has loaded onto his iPhone.” http://nyti.ms/2dVGvty
WHAT TRUMP TOWER IS READING -- “The Man Providing Trump’s Alibi Has A Long History In UK Political Sex Scandals,” by BuzzFeed UK political editor Jim Waterson: “The British man who has provided an alleged alibi for Donald Trump over allegations of sexual assault was previously involved in providing UK tabloid newspapers with secretly filmed footage of a politician having sex, ran a failed antiques business which was investigated by police after it went bankrupt, and was involved in a landmark libel case during the 1980s over claims he was ‘promiscuously homosexual.’ In addition, Anthony Gilberthorpe has also previously made a series of unsubstantiated claims that he provided underage male prostitutes for politicians at the Conservative party’s annual conferences.” http://bzfd.it/2dVqROR
--“Stone ‘happy to cooperate’ with FBI on WikiLeaks, Russian hacking probes,” by Darren Samuelsohn: “A longtime Donald Trump confidant said Friday he is unfazed by calls for a federal investigation into allegations he's colluding with WikiLeaks and Russian intelligence to sabotage Hillary Clinton's campaign. In an interview with POLITICO, Roger Stone said the FBI hasn't contacted him to discuss his relationship with WikiLeaks and a series of anti-Clinton public statements that Democrats interpret as evidence he was well aware of the hacking into campaign chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account. ‘I have not’ heard from the FBI, Stone said. ‘But I’d be happy to cooperate if they decided to call me.’” http://politi.co/2diVcQM
HILLARY STRATEGERY -- “Hillary Clinton’s campaign to target women voters wary of Donald Trump,” by CBS News’ Hannah Fraser-Chanpong: “Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is launching a new, nationwide push to lock in women voters this weekend, in an effort to capitalize on startling and troubling claims being made about her opponent, Donald Trump. The campaign will put on hundreds of events on Saturday and Sunday to contact women voters and commit them to vote, according to a press release, like ‘women-to-women phone banks’ and canvasses. In four cities in Colorado, female Clinton supporters will gather for ‘organizing launch’ events while, across many other battleground states, female surrogates like Anne Holton, Sen. Kristin Gillibrand and actress Connie Britton will get out the vote.” http://cbsn.ws/2eglMeD
MILESTONE -- “Global deal reached to limit powerful greenhouse gases,” by AP’s Bradley Klapper and Ignatius Ssuuna in Kigali, Rwanda: “Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal, announced Saturday morning after all-night negotiations, to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major effort to fight climate change. The talks on hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, were called the first test of global will since the historic Paris Agreement to cut carbon emissions was reached last year … The agreement, unlike the broader Paris one, is legally binding. It caps and reduces the use of HFCs in a gradual process beginning by 2019 with action by developed countries including the United States, the world's second-worst polluter.” http://apne.ws/2ehqr0U
JACK SHAFER in POLITICO MAGAZINE: “Is the Press Treating Trump Worse Than It Did Bill Clinton?”: http://politi.co/2de8Idx
WEST COAST WATCH -- “Q/A: California Senate candidates Loretta Sanchez and Kamala Harris on policy, politics and the state of their race,” by LA Times’ Sarah Wire: http://lat.ms/2e7pJmv
VALLEY TALK – “Twitter suitors vanish as Salesforce rules out bid,” by FT’s Richard Waters, Hannah Kuchler and James Fontanella-Khan: “The boss of Salesforce.com has ruled out his company as a bidder for Twitter, all but bringing an end to attempts to find a buyer for the struggling internet company. ... Salesforce had been the only serious contender left in the race after Twitter opened itself to takeover offers ... Twitter’s advisers are still seeking other potential bidders ... The sale process is virtually dead.” http://on.ft.com/2eeLSOP
SPORTS BLINK -- “Nevada legislature clears the way for Raiders to move to Las Vegas,” by Fox Sports’ Andre Vergara: “The Raiders moved one step closer to Las Vegas on Friday as the Nevada legislature passed the stadium bill 28-13. A cadre of lobbyists for the project worked hard to firm up enough of the shaky votes to meet the necessary two-thirds threshold and scraped by with the minimum amount of support Friday when lawmakers called for a quick vote without the customary speeches.” http://foxs.pt/2dVzcC0
-- “LPGA happy to let USGA make Trump course decision,” by Reuters’ Peter Rutherford in Incheon, South Korea: “LPGA chief Mike Whan says the Tour will back golf authorities no matter what decision they make about hosting the 2017 US Women's Open at a course owned by presidential nominee Donald Trump amid a storm over sexually aggressive comments he made about women.” http://reut.rs/2ehY4Q0
MEDIAWATCH -- “Billy Bush Nearing Settlement of NBC Fight,” by Hollywood Reporter’s Matthew Belloni: “‘NBC and Billy Bush are nearing a deal for the embattled Today co-host to resolve his differences with the network, Bush's lawyer tells The Hollywood Reporter. It is expected that Bush will leave the network as part of the multimillion dollar settlement ... ‘The parties are negotiating a resolution of their differences at their highest level, and I am personally optimistic that the matter will be resolved upon terms satisfactory to both parties,’ says [Bush’s lawyer Marshall] Grossman. ... Bush is said to make about $3 million a year under his Today deal. Late Friday, the New York Post reported Bush is ‘likely’ to receive a $10 million settlement, but Grossman says that report is false. ‘There’s no $10 million settlement and that number has not even been discussed,’ Grossman tells THR.” http://bit.ly/2eDpe6W
CLICKER – “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,”edited by Matt Wuerker – 10 cartoons http://politi.co/2dQlfSh
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
--“Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans,” by Sarah Smarsh in The Guardian: “Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.” http://bit.ly/2dQqJOb (h/t Longreads.com)
--“Cable News Charnel: Mayhem as a guide for living,” by Alex Pareene in The Baffler: “To the cable news camera, structural oppression is harder to capture than a burning cop car. Spectacle still rules cable news.” http://bit.ly/2e4icrq
--“Leonard Cohen Makes it Darker,” by The New Yorker’s David Remnick: “At eighty-two, the troubadour has another album coming. Like him, it is obsessed with mortality, God-infused, and funny.” http://bit.ly/2e4rJib
--“Turkey’s Thirty-Year Coup,” by The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins: “Did an exiled cleric try to overthrow Erdoğan’s government?” http://bit.ly/2e0lWcb
--“The Deepest Dig,” by Brooke Jarvis in California Sunday magazine: “The bottom of the ocean is the most remote, least understood place on Earth. But that isn’t stopping us from mining it.” http://bit.ly/2egtKoU (h/t Longform.org)
--“Generation Adderall,” by Casey Schwartz in tomorrow’s N.Y. Times Magazine: “Like many of my friends, I spent years using prescription stimulants to get through school and start my career. Then I tried to get off them.” http://nyti.ms/2dhJoyy
--“If we don’t act now, all future wars may be as horrific as Aleppo,” by Paul Mason in The Guardian: “In the world’s war zones, medical facilities are being routinely bombed by Americans, Russians and Saudis. We need more than words from the UN to end this scandal.” http://bit.ly/2e0eHkm
--“Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster,” by Tim Harford in The Guardian: “We increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills?” http://bit.ly/2dQsGKf
--“The Fury and Failure of Donald Trump,” by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: “Win, lose or drop out, the Republican nominee has laid waste to the American political system. On the trail for the last gasp of the ugliest campaign in our nation's history.” http://rol.st/2e0gSVf (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--“Special Investigation: Inside the Deadly Rhino Horn Trade,”by Bryan Christy in NatGeo: “Here’s how a pair of South Africans could undermine the international efforts to protect the vulnerable animals.” http://on.natgeo.com/2dhGlGD
--“Prince of Peace,” by Lauren Markham in VQR: “San Salvador’s upstart mayor, Nayib Bukele, has promised a new way forward for a city besieged by decades of violence. His biggest obstacle, however, may not be the city’s gangs, but the city’s idea of itself.” http://bit.ly/2dpWZH7
--“Addressing the Troops” – Lapham’s Quarterly: “General Patton makes a statement” in 1944 in East Anglia. http://bit.ly/2dTFfXV
GREAT WEEKEND LISTENS, curated by Jake Sherman:
-- JACKIE GREENE in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 14, 2016. http://bit.ly/2diSScJ
-- Trey Anastasio and the L.A. Philharmonic perform “Petrichor” on Sept. 26, 2014. This is now on Phish’s new album. http://bit.ly/2e2WMtj
SPOTTED -- Mark McKinnon filming yesterday in Sonoma on Capitol Hill … McCarthy Chief of Staff Tim Berry at Starbucks on Newark and Wisconsin Saturday morning … Jeb Bush on an American BOS-MIA flight yesterday morning ... On Friday’s 8 a.m. SWA flight to St Louis: Nats play by play announcer, Bob Carpenter, seated with the parents of Max Scherzer. “Lots of baseball talk.” ... Jose Andres at the Trump Hotel yesterday.
OUT AND ABOUT -- SPOTTED at last night’s Meridian Ball, co-chaired this year by UAE Amb. Yousef Al Otaiba and Panama Amb. Emanuel Gonzalez-Revilla: Michelle Fields, Jamie Weinstein, Miranda Green, and Byron Tau on the dance floor, Michelle Kosinski, Pete Nonis, Tony Podesta, Robb and Blair Watters, Kevin Chaffee, Jared Parks, Ben Chang, Brian Hook, Deesha Dyer, Jeremy Bernard, Carlos Gutierrez, Josh and Ali Rogin, Kristina Peterson, Melissa Brown, John Arundel, Jay Solomon, Suzanne Kianpour, Virginia Coyne, Lauren Culbertson, Jonathan Capehart and Nick Schmit, Tony Blinken and Evan Ryan; Meridian President and CEO Ambassador Stuart Holliday and Gwen Holliday, Lee Satterfield and Patrick Steel, Capricia Marshall, Tracy and Adam Bernstein, Amb. Mike Hammer and Margret Bjorgulfsdottir, Fran Holuba, Victoria Esser, Clara Brillembourg and Astri Kimball (the two co-chairs of Meridian’s Rising Leaders Council). 2015 Daily Beast story by Shane Harris, “Inside the Meridian Ball, Where D.C.’s Elite Really Likes to Party” http://thebea.st/2dRS9Sk
PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD: “On Monday, the President will visit Benjamin Banneker Academic High School to highlight the progress his Administration has made over the last eight years to improve education across the country, including right here in Washington, DC where a greater share of students in recent years are being prepared for success in college and throughout their careers.
“On Tuesday, the President and the First Lady will welcome Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife, Mrs. Agnese Landini, of Italy to the White House for an Official Visit with a State Dinner. The visit will be an opportunity for the United States and Italy to celebrate the depth and breadth of their relationship and exchange views on the future of Europe. The visit is also intended to advance cooperation across a range of shared interests, from addressing climate change and the global refugee crisis to promoting global security and inclusive economic growth. On Wednesday, the President will attend meetings at the White House.
“On Thursday, the President will travel to Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida to deliver remarks about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the progress made in ensuring that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care. The President will also attend an event for Hillary for America, and later, return to Washington. … On Friday, the President will attend meetings at the White House.”
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Lorie Slass ... Ira Shapiro ... Melissa Maxfield (h/ts Jon Haber) ... Politico’s Erin Aulov
BIRTHDAYS: Rick Berke, the pride of Bethesda ... Bonnie Nieuwstraten ... Josie Martin, Jeremy and Jill’s soccer star, is 10 ... Stu Loeser … Politico’s Heather Caygle, the pride of Tuscaloosa (NOT TAMPA!) … Sidewire guru Jon Allen (h/t birthday girl Lis Smith) ... Jenni Lim (hubby tip: Tim Lim) ... Lynn Cutler ... Liz Smith, the pride of Bronxville (h/ts Jon Haber) ... Christy Setzer, president of New Heights Communications and a Dean, Dodd and Gore alum, celebrating with family in Boston (hubby tip: Tyler Prell) ... Darby Bukowski ... Joao Costa … Kathleen Strand … Joanne Cronrath Bamberger ... Jim Larrison … Alexis Krieg, proud American U & Delta Gamma grad, Warren campaign vet, and currently director of comms for Madeleine Albright, celebrating on the trail campaigning in Pennsylvania for HRC with the boss (h/ts Jeff Solnet and Ben Chang) … Liz Kenigsberg, VP at SKDKnickerbocker and a Shaheen alum … John Doty, Washington director for Rep. Jerry Nadler (h/t James Owens) ...
… Brian O. Walsh, the pride of Ringwood, NJ and currently at RedPrint Strategy, is 4-0 ... Lionel Levine ... Holly Arthur, VP of comms at Portland Cement Association … Takaaki Abe, deputy Washington bureau chief at Nippon TV (NTV) ... Bill Hoagland ... Amaya Tune, national media director at AFL-CIO ... Doug Poretz … Vincent Morris ... Kye Ross ... Gigi Stone Woods ... Joanne Cronrath Bamberger ... Kathleen Strand, head of external relations at McKinsey ... Eric Roe ... John Hanlon ... Anna Faris ... Susan Ralston ... Lynn Cutler, the pride of all of Iowa ... Bob Balkin ... Milagros Teresa Masini ... Matt Gannon ... Jim St. George (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Lee Iacocca is 92 ... Britain’s Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is 57 ... chef Emeril Lagasse is 57 (h/ts AP)
SUNDAY SHOWS -- by @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin:
--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Joe Biden ... Mike Pence ... new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll results ... Panel: Chris Cillizza, Hugh Hewitt, Joy Reid and Kristen Welker.
--ABC’s “This Week”: Tim Kaine ... Newt Gingrich ... Gen. David Petraeus ... Panel: Yamiche Alcindor, Dan Balz, LZ Granderson and Kristen Soltis Anderson.
--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Mike Pence ... Tim Kaine ... new results from the 2016 CBS News “Battleground Tracker” polls from Nevada, Utah, and a cross sample of the 13 battleground states with CBS News’ Anthony Salvanto ... discussion about the future of the GOP with Russell Moore, Tammy Bruce, Alfonso Aguilar and Matt Schlapp ... Panel: Jon Meacham, Bob Woodward, David Ignatius and Maureen Dowd.
--“Fox News Sunday”: Mike Pence ... Tim Kaine ... Media Panel: Cincinnati Enquirer’s Chrissie Thompson, Miami Herald’s Patricia Mazzei and Time Warner Cable News’ Tim Boyum ... Panel: Charles Hurt, Jennifer Griffin, Monica Crowley ... Joe Trippi ... “Power Player of the Week”: Fox News’ Chris Wallace. (substitute anchor: Fox News' Bret Baier)
--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10am ET / 9am CT): Newt Gingrich ... Frank Fahrenkopf ... Frank Luntz ... Jim Nicholson ... Ed Rollins.
--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (SUN 11am ET / 10am CT): Heidi Przybyla ... Guy Benson ... Krystal Ball ... Katrina Pierson ... Amy Argetsinger ... Mark McKinnon.
--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8am ET): Panel: Julie Pace, Jennifer Jacobs, Jonathan Martin and Mary Katharine Ham.
--CNN’s “State of the Union” (9am ET / 12pm ET): Nancy Pelosi ... Rudy Giuliani. Panel: Paul Begala, Alice Stewart, Bakari Sellers and North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers.
--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11am ET): Trump biographer Panel with Tim O’Brien, Michael D’Antonio and Brad Thomas ... Margaret Sullivan and David Frum ... Glenn Greenwald.
--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10am ET / 1pm PT): Trump campaign surrogate Lt. Col. Sergio de la Peña (Ret.) ... Elizabeth Warren ... Bill de Blasio ... novelist Isabel Allende ... actor and ACLU Ambassador for Immigrants’ Rights Demiàn Bichir ... Sprint Corporation CEO Marcelo Claure
---C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30pm ET): University of Michigan mobility transformation center director Huei Peng …“Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET): Emily’s List executive director Jessica O’Connell, questioned by RCP’s Emily Goodin and Politico’s Kevin Robillard … “Q&A” (SUN 8pm & 11pm ET): Maureen Dowd
--SiriusXM’s “No Labels Radio” (SAT 10am ET & 6pm ET, SUN 1PM ET): No Labels Radio host Jon Huntsman is joined by Politico’s Daniel Lippman, Sen. Steve Daines, Clinton adviser Brigadier General John Douglass (Ret.) and WaPo polling director Scott Clement. Available for download at http://www.nolabels.org.