Good Saturday morning. Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort received a four-point email earlier this week detailing the increased security at the private resort during the Thanksgiving holiday. They “envision” that these measures are short term. But it is believed that Trump will be spending time in Palm Beach during his presidency.
“If your plans include being at Mar-a-Lago from today through Thanksgiving, please be advised that you will be required to go through security check-points. 1. Please pull into the Bath & Tennis overflow parking lot directly across from Mar-a-Lago’s service entrance. The entrance to the lot is on the bend across from the B&T entrance. 2. You will be guided under a tent for a security sweep of your car. Remain in your car. 3. Exit the lot and cross over Southern Blvd. to the Mar-a-Lago service entrance. There you will be directed to the main house to valet your car. You will walk through a security check before entering the house. 4. If you are visiting the Beach Club, please state this to the security guard in order to self-park.
“All exiting will be at the Ocean Boulevard exit. No cell phone or camera use while on property. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. The process is very streamlined and does not take long. We envision that this is a short term measure. Thank you.”
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CASTRO DEAD AT 90 -- NYT: “Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90: Mr. Castro brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere, bedeviled 11 American presidents and briefly pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war,” by Anthony DePalma. http://nyti.ms/2gJDZq1
-- WaPo: “Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator, dies at 90,” by Kevin Sullivan and J.Y. Smith http://wapo.st/2fBQpyA
BANNER HEADLINE on the Miami Herald’s website: “FIDEL CASTRO IS DEAD.” The Herald’s Glenn Garvin: “Fidel Castro, who towered over his Caribbean island for nearly five decades, a shaggy-bearded figure in combat fatigues whose long shadow spread across Latin America and the world, is dead at age 90. His brother Raul announced the death late Friday night. Millions cheered Fidel Castro on the day he entered Havana. Millions more fled the communist dictator’s repressive police state, leaving behind their possessions, their families, the island they loved and often their very lives. It’s part of the paradox of Castro that many people belonged to both groups.
“Few national leaders have inspired such intense loyalty -- or such a wrenching feeling of betrayal. Few fired the hearts of the world’s restless youth as Castro did when he was young, and few seemed so irrelevant as Castro when he was old -- the last Communist, railing on the empty, decrepit street corner that Cuba became under his rule.” http://hrld.us/2fBMAJC
-- @amyfiscus: “Of the 4 bylines on the NYT, LAT and WaPo Castro obits, only one still works at the paper where it was published. Another has himself died.” NOTE: J.Y. Smith of the Washington Post died in 2006. DePalma, the author of the Times obit, left the paper in 2008.
FUN FACT: Fidel Castro was a Rolex buff. http://bit.ly/2fPG1Rh
-- @realDonaldTrump at 8:08 a.m.: “Fidel Castro is dead!”
TRUMP’S MONDAY MEETINGS -- Per Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs): Sandeep Mathrani, the CEO of General Growth Properties; Paul Atkins, the CEO of Patomak Global Partners and the former chairman of the SEC under George W. Bush; Kathleen Hartnett White, the director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation; Rep. Lou Barletta, a conservative Pennsylvania Republican in the House and an early Trump supporter; David L. Steward, the chairman of World Wide Technology; Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma; David A. Clarke, the sheriff of Milwaukee County; and John Allison, the former chairman of BB&T.
DEPT. OF SUBTLETY -- “Rudy Giuliani Lobbies to Be Secretary of State: Former New York City mayor says his experience makes him uniquely qualified,” by WSJ’s Mara Gay and Felicia Schwartz: “In two recent interviews, Mr. Giuliani, 72, said his years of work as an international security consultant make him uniquely suited for the job in the Trump administration, along with the hard lessons he learned as mayor of a city that sustained the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001.
“‘I probably have traveled in the last 13 years as much as Hillary did in the years she was secretary of state,’ Mr. Giuliani said, in a reference to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost the presidential race to Mr. Trump. ‘My knowledge of foreign policy is as good, or better, than anybody they’re talking to,’ he said.” http://on.wsj.com/2fPFezK
-- “Alaskan Bob Gillam wants to be U.S. Interior secretary,” by Alaska Dispatch’s Erica Martinson: “Alaska millionaire investor Robert B. Gillam is making a serious play for the position of Interior Secretary in president-elect Donald Trump’s administration … ‘I recognized that suddenly it was possible for me to serve in a role that has otherwise been one of career politicians,’ Gillam wrote in a personal statement detailing his desire to take the top land and energy development role.” http://bit.ly/2fBXqiA
TRANSITION WATCH -- “Donald Trump Selects Donald McGahn as White House Counsel: President-elect also picks Kathleen Troia ‘KT’ McFarland as deputy national security adviser,” by WSJ’s Mike Bender and Joe Palazzolo: “Mr. McGahn, 48 years old, has been a partner since 2013 at the Jones Day law firm, where he has focused mostly on political law. He first met with Mr. Trump in 2014 as the New York businessman was exploring a potential presidential campaign. ‘Don has a brilliant legal mind, excellent character and a deep understanding of constitutional law,’ Mr. Trump said in a statement. ‘He will play a critical role in our administration.’
“Mr. Trump also named Kathleen Troia McFarland as deputy national security adviser on Friday. She will work with retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was named national security adviser. Ms. McFarland, known as ‘KT,’ had been a Fox News national security analyst and worked in the Pentagon during the Reagan administration. She unsuccessfully ran for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination in New York in 2006.” http://on.wsj.com/2grLXjf
-- FLASHBACKS, Feb 25. 2015: “Schock lawyers up,” by Anna Palmer, John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman: “Rep. Aaron Schock has hired two prominent Washington defense attorneys and a public relations firm to respond to the swirling controversy and a potential ethics probe over how he has financed his lavish lifestyle … Schock has hired William McGinley and Don McGahn of the Washington law firm Jones Day to lead his legal team. Veteran GOP communications operatives Ron Bonjean and Brian Walsh are helping manage his response, according to sources close to the matter.” http://politi.co/2g33Ckt Jones Day no longer represents Schock. The former congressman, who was indicted earlier this month on 24 criminal counts, is represented by McGuire Woods.
--K.T. McFarland on FoxNews.com, Nov. 4: “Russia has restarted the Cold War and is pushing up against us and our allies in Northern Europe, Central Europe and the Middle East.” http://fxn.ws/2fA1S1k
--BUT, per Bloomberg, she also wrote on FoxNews.com in Sept. 2013: “The world knows that Vladimir Putin is the one who really deserves that Nobel Peace Prize. It turns out that leading from behind left a big opening up front. Putin stepped right in. And Obama still hasn’t figured it out.” http://bloom.bg/2g35Xfr ... Her op-ed http://fxn.ws/2fki9cd
A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POSITION -- “Trump adviser meeting pays off for Suga,” by Nikkei’s Tsuyoshi Nagasawa: “Retired American military intelligence officer Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn met [Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide] Suga while on a visit to Japan in mid-October, when he stressed the need to review and reassess the U.S. security alliance with Japan. Donald Trump wants to pursue a better bilateral alliance, Flynn is alleged to have said to the Japanese government spokesman. … In his meetings, Flynn is said to have claimed Trump’s controversial campaign-trail remarks were merely part of the rhetoric needed to secure an election win, according to informed sources. His actual policies after taking office would be different from what he said to galvanize his support base, Flynn predicted.” http://s.nikkei.com/2fk3ded
INSIDE THE NEW WHITE HOUSE -- “Trump’s team of rivals: Fighting spills into public,” by Eliana Johnson and Annie Karni: “The fight is less about elevating the brash and self-promoting Giuliani, according to sources close to the transition, and more about stopping Romney either by selling Trump on the Sept. 11 hero or pushing a third candidate, possibly Gen. David Petraeus, the former CIA director and engineer of the Iraq surge, a half dozen people close to the process told POLITICO. ... [T]here are indications advocates for both candidates may be losing – and that the Trump team is looking to Petraeus ... A source close to the transition said that Trump – a military history buff who idolizes World War II firebrand George Patton -- has always liked the general, who was discussed as a potential vice presidential running mate.” http://politi.co/2fjZGfU
-- “[Laura] Ingraham wants to be more than just Trump’s flack,” by Annie Karni: “The popular conservative radio talk show host is willing to accept the position of White House press secretary in Donald Trump’s administration, but she wants a bigger title, a role in policymaking and a seat at the decision-making table with the president. ... Trump’s inner circle is also tossing around the possibility of Fox News analyst Monica Crowley as press secretary.” http://politi.co/2gdSXAW
TRUMP INC. -- “Trump’s presidency, overseas business deals and relations with foreign governments could all become intertwined,” by WaPo’s Ros Helderman and Tom Hamburger: “Days after Donald Trump’s election victory, a news agency in the former Soviet republic of Georgia reported that a long-stalled plan for a Trump-branded tower in a seaside Georgian resort town was now back on track. Likewise, the local developer of a Trump Tower planned for Buenos Aires announced last week, three days after Trump spoke with Argentina’s president, that the long-delayed project was moving ahead. Meanwhile, foreign government leaders seeking to speak with Trump have reached out to the president-elect through his overseas network of business partners, an unusually informal process for calls traditionally coordinated with the U.S. State Department.
“All of it highlights the muddy new world that Trump’s election may usher in — a world in which his stature as the U.S. president, the status of his private ventures across the globe and his relationships with foreign business partners and the leaders of their governments could all become intertwined. In that world, Trump could personally profit if his election gives a boost to his brand and results in its expansion overseas. His political rise could also enrich his overseas business partners — and, perhaps more significantly, enhance their statuses in their home countries and alter long-standing diplomatic traditions by establishing them as new conduits for public business.” http://wapo.st/2fk6I4h
THE RECOUNT -- “Historic recount will have to move quickly,” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber: “Wisconsin will begin a historic presidential recount next week and the state could risk losing its ability to have its 10 electoral votes counted if it doesn't meet key deadlines next month. Hitting a Dec. 13 deadline could be particularly tricky if Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein is able to force the recount to be conducted by hand, Wisconsin’s top election official said.
“Stein and independent presidential candidate Roque ‘Rocky’ De La Fuente separately filed recount requests late Friday, the last day they were able to do so. Stein received about 31,000 votes and De La Fuente about 1,500 out of 3 million cast. One or both of them will have to pay for the recount because they lost by more than 0.25%. The cost could top $1 million. Stein is also planning to ask for recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, which have deadlines next week. She has raised $5 million for the recounts in recent days -- more than she raised during her campaign leading up to the Nov. 8 election.” http://bit.ly/2gs2fMU
VICTORY LAP – RNC memo from Reince Priebus, “Historic Victory”: “President-elect Donald J. Trump won over 2,600 counties nationwide, the most since President Reagan in 1984. Additionally, he won over 62 million votes in the popular vote, the highest all-time for a Republican nominee. ... President-elect Donald J. Trump won over 200 counties nationwide that Obama won in 2012. This was the most counties won by a Republican since 1984.” http://bit.ly/2gg9qot
PELOSI WATCH -- “Pelosi, facing challenge, releases new leadership slate,”by Heather Caygle: “[Nancy] Pelosi (D-Calif.) has nominated Reps. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) to jointly lead the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee … Pelosi’s three picks could help answer criticism that current leadership doesn’t have enough junior members and lawmakers who come from non-coastal areas and are more reflective of working-class voters. Reps. John Delaney (D-Md.) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.) have also circulated letters this week soliciting support for their bids to lead DPCC, but it’s unclear whether either member will try to challenge the current slate.
“Pelosi plans to nominate Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) to serve as top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. Her nomination slate also keeps her allies in several key positions. She is renominating Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) to lead the [DCCC]. This comes after the party gained a half-dozen House seats in November, far short of expectations. And Pelosi has renominated Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro to co-chair the Steering and Policy Committee. The minority leader has chosen another strong supporter, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), to fill the other steering spot.” http://politi.co/2fytktj
-- WHAT THIS MEANS: Another example of Pelosi understanding that there’s frustration in her ranks, and is moving to decentralize power. Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, who is challenging Pelosi, only has a handful of public supporters.
DEMOCRATIC RESET -- “Democrats wrestle with Rust Belt dilemma: Party leaders in fast-growing states warn against obsessing over Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,” by Gabriel Debenedetti: “One month ago, Democrats viewed Arizona and Georgia as winnable states for the first time in decades. And demographic trends seem to have put Texas in play as well. ... Now, party officials in the fast-growing, so-called purple states that so recently looked within reach — all of which also fell to Trump — are increasingly wary that national party leaders will redirect their focus toward Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, denying them the critical attention and resources that might otherwise accelerate their movement toward swing state status.” http://politi.co/2fk83rS
BREITBART’S HIT LIST -- “Beware: Meet Top 6 #NeverTrump GOP Insiders,” by Breitbart’s Neil McCabe. http://bit.ly/2fPJ1Nx
MARK MCKINNON on The Daily Beast, “It’s Storytelling, Stupid: What Made Donald Trump Smarter Than Hillary Clinton”: “Winning campaigns create a narrative architecture that ties it all together into something meaningful and coherent, as I articulated last year in a short New York Times op-documentary. ... The reality TV star understands the power of narrative. He identified a threat: outside forces trying to change the way we live. And an opportunity: make America great again. He established victims: blue-collar workers who have lost jobs or experienced a declining standard of living. He suggested villains: Mexican immigrants, China, establishment elites. He proposed solutions: build a wall, tear up unfair trade deals. And the hero was revealed, Donald Trump. What was Hillary Clinton’s story?” http://thebea.st/2fyzidP ... Mark’s great op-doc http://nyti.ms/2gs7RXC
FAKE NEWS UPDATE -- “We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned,” by NPR’s Laura Sydell: Jestin Coler “was amazed at how quickly fake news could spread and how easily people believe it. He wrote one fake story for NationalReport.net about how customers in Colorado marijuana shops were using food stamps to buy pot. ‘What that turned into was a state representative in the House in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something that had just never happened,’ Coler says.” http://n.pr/2grzXOH (h/t @SahilKapur)
CLICKER – “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker – 11 keepers http://politi.co/2guVAPD
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman, filing from Oahu, Hawaii:
--“How Magnus Carlsen is Making Chess Cool and Wearing his Rivals Down,”by David Cox in Vice: “[W]hile past greats like Kasparov and the mercurial former American world champion Bobby Fischer have thrilled chess fans with their daring attacks, brilliantly intricate combinations which risk all in search of dramatic victories, Carlsen’s talent is unique, a combination of patience, tenacity and resilience which combine to make him the most feared player in the game.” http://bit.ly/2gbSTli
--“Him,” by Timothy Snyder, author of “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning,” in Slate: “His election that November came as a surprise…” http://slate.me/2fZbUtM ... $11.04 on Amazon http://amzn.to/2fvweyU
--“All-American Killer: How the AR-15 Became Mass Shooters’ Weapon of Choice,” by Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson: “An assault rifle designed for the battlefield has become a windfall for the gun industry and common in mass shootings.” http://rol.st/2gGTqPU
--“Inside a Moneymaking Machine Like No Other,” by Katherine Burton in Bloomberg Businessweek: “The Medallion Fund, an employees-only offering for the quants at Renaissance Technologies, is the blackest box in all of finance. ... Medallion has managed to pump out annualized returns of almost 80 percent a year, before fees.” http://bloom.bg/2ffBcET
--“Hitler’s Babies: Anti-Semitism, America, and the Jews,” by Tablet Magazine’s Alana Newhouse: “Over the past year, Jews have been harassed online with horrifying energy—regularly called ‘oven dodgers,’ our faces Photoshopped onto dead bodies from gruesome Holocaust pictures, gleefully warned to prepare for our next coming genocide.” http://bit.ly/2fhH5RC
--“‘None of the old rules apply’: Dave Eggers travels through post-election America” – The Guardian: “The word surreal is overused and often wrongly used, but in the case of the Washington Post Election Night Live party, the word was apt. First of all, it was a disco. ... The food was by chefs José Andrés and the brothers Voltaggio. The Washington Post has a right to celebrate – the paper is thriving and its political coverage extraordinary – but this felt like Rome before the fall.” http://bit.ly/2fZn01T
--“If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots?” by Nathan Heller in The New Yorker: “We can think of ourselves as an animal’s peer—or its protector. What will robots decide about us?” http://bit.ly/2goySLg (h/t ALDaily.com)
--“The 50,000-Watt Quartet,” by David Henry in Oxford American: “WLAC, the 50,000-watt clear channel CBS radio affiliate—‘fifteen-ten on everybody’s dial’—[was] famous for broadcasting late-night blues, r&b, gutbucket jazz, and gospel programs from the twelfth floor of the Third National Bank building in downtown Nashville from the mid-1940s through the early ’70s. ... On a summer’s night, WLAC’s 50,000 clear-channel watts might bounce from Alberta to Argentina, from Iceland to Navy destroyers off the west coast of Africa.” http://bit.ly/2gousE6
--“How not to be a chucklehead,” by Nakul Krishna in Aeon Magazine: “Saturday mornings with J L Austin in postwar Oxford were a golden time for wordplay, silly jokes and serious philosophy.” http://bit.ly/2ffD9B4 (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--“A Blade Strikes Steel, and the Blast Shocks a Nation’s Energy System,” by Christopher Leonard on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek: “Two accidents in Alabama show how heavily millions rely on the Colonial Pipeline for gasoline.” http://buswk.co/pipeline ... The cover http://bit.ly/2fvsEEU
--“White Nationalists See Trump as Their Troll in Chief. Is He With Them?”by Josh Harkinson in the Jan/Feb 2017 issue of Mother Jones: “Inside the extremist movements seeking to capitalize on his victory.” http://bit.ly/2ffD5kL (h/t Longreads.com)
--“Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media,” by Wisconsin radio veteran Charles Sykes in POLITICO Magazine: “You think the truth took a hit last year? It’s about to get worse. A lot worse.” http://politi.co/2gbZYCx
SPOTTED: White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and his family leaving Matchbox on 14th Street yesterday as his Secret Service detail looked on.
TRANSITIONS – Kristin Shapiro is leaving Williams and Connolly to start a new job as assistant general counsel to the House of Representatives.
BIRTHDAYS: Gabe Brotman is 27 ... Chris Hughes ... Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) ... Neal Conan, former host of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” now a macadamia nut farmer and news analyst at Hawaii Public Radio, is 67 ... former CIA director Porter Goss, a Hotchkiss grad, is 78 ... Dannia Hakki, co-owner of PR firm Moki Media ... Matt Frei, Channel 4 Europe editor and presenter and a BBC alum ... Politico’s Randon White ... Douglas Smith, Obama/Clinton administration alum now managing partner at Kent Strategies ... Mark Weisenmiller is 53 ... Reuters’ Randy Mikkelsen ... Lynn Aronoff ... Sarah Wildman ... Fahad Shah ... Erica Brettell ... Wes Allison is 48 ... Marcia Coyle, chief Washington correspondent for National Law Journal ... James Devitt ... Doug Winslow ... Ray Glendening, SVP at Direct Impact/Burson-Marsteller, is 37 ... Andy McGuire (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... No Labels COS Sasha Borowsky, celebrating with a quiet dinner with boyfriend Eli Kaplan, founding partner of Rising Tide Interactive (h/t Dennis Craig) ...
… Tyler Threadgill, VP at Mercury ... Jake Kuryk Bernstein, SVP of marketing and comms at CarePoint Health, and an Obama WH and DHS alum ... Amy Shlossman, former COS at DHS and OMB, now CEO of American Red Cross Cascades Region ... Vicente Garcia, associate director of external relations at the Atlantic Council … Valerie Holford, a comms consultant for nonprofit organizations ... Scott Tannen -- dad to Sophie, Brooke and Hailey … Jamie Corley, who recently co-founded TheBridge tech and politics newsletter with Christyn Lansing ... Jeff Ballabon … Kate Vasiloff, research manager at the Global Business Travel Association … Alicia Jennings … Todd Deutsch, senior account supervisor at Edelman and a Heitkamp and Tim Johnson alum … Brittany Heyer, refugee and migration intern at Save the Children ... Greg Davis ... Rich Little is 78 … Tina Turner is 77 (h/ts AP)
THE SHOWS, by @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin:
--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Kellyanne Conway … Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) … Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan ... Panel: Matt Bai, Helene Cooper, Mark Murray and AEI’s Danielle Pletka
--ABC’s “This Week”: Kellyanne Conway … Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ... Panel: Dan Balz, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Cenk Uygur and Carol Lee
--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Dr. Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech professor who helped uncover water contamination in Flint, Michigan. … 2016 Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes … Vin Scully … McShin Foundation’s John Shinholser and Honesty Liller … Humans of New York’s Brandon Stanton … Equal Justice Initiative executive director Bryan Stevenson … report from U.S. troops in Iraq with CBS News’ Holly Williams. Panel: Molly Ball, Ed O’Keefe, Ramesh Ponnuru and Ruth Marcus
--“Fox News Sunday”: Reince Priebus … Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan ... Panel: Gerald Seib, Julie Pace, Michael Needham and James Rosen … “Power Player of the Week” segment with Ayrshire Farm’s Sandy Lerner
--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10 a.m. ET / 9 a.m. CT): Jerry Moran … R. James Woolsey … Anthony Scaramucci … Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) ... Panel: Ed Rollins, Steve Moore and Jessica Tarlov. (Substitute anchor: Fox Business' Melissa Francis)
--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (11 a.m. ET / 10 a.m. CT): Erin McPike … Mollie Hemingway … Michael Tomasky … Tucker Carlson … NYT technology columnist Farhad Manjoo … Fox News’ Carley Shimkus … Sports on Earth senior editor and New York Magazine’s Will Leitch
--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8 a.m. ET): Panel: Ed O’Keefe, Lisa Lerer, Nia-Malika Henderson and Manu Raju
--CNN’s “State of the Union” (9 a.m. ET / 12 p.m. ET): Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) … Kellyanne Conway. Panel: Bakari Sellers, Alice Stewart, Andre Bauer and Debbie Dingell (Substitute anchor: CNN’s Dana Bash)
--CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” (SUN 10 a.m., 1 p.m. ET): Susan Rice … Tom Steyer … author Steven Johnson (“Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World”) … author and physician Siddartha Mukherjee (“The Gene: An Intimate History”)
--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11 a.m. ET): Ezra Klein and Charles C.W. Cooke … author and Gadfly executive editor Tim O’Brien (“TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald”) and author Michael D’Antonio (“The Truth About Trump”) … Associated Press incoming executive editor Sally Buzbee … Katrina vanden Heuvel and ProPublica president Richard Tofel
--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT): Jorge Castañeda … Xavier Becerra … La Raza’s Clarissa Martinez and National Immigration Law Center’s Marielena Hincapié … author Gloria Alvarez (“El Engaño Populista”) … “Los Tigres del Norte” director and frontman Jorge Hernandez
--C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30 p.m. ET): Pandora Media general counsel Steve Bene, questioned by Politico’s Alex Byers … “Newsmakers” (SUN 10 a.m. ET): Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, questioned by The Hill’s Sarah Kliff and AP’s Lauran Neergaard … “Q&A” (SUN 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET): Author, historian and Pepperdine University’s Edward J. Larson (“George Washington, Nationalist”)