Good Saturday morning. Check out the Ireland’s Farmer’s Journal’s headline about Donald Trump’s election. County Clare is where he owns a golf course. http://bit.ly/2ftmPJy
SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING, when we told you Donald Trump wasn’t as burn-the-house-down as his campaign seemed, we have seen several plain examples of this.
-- HE WANTS TO KEEP THE CORE OF OBAMACARE. In an interview with Monica Langley and Gerard Baker of the WSJ: “Mr. Trump said he favors keeping the prohibition against insurers denying coverage because of patients’ existing conditions, and a provision that allows parents to provide years of additional coverage for children on their insurance policies. ‘I like those very much,’ Mr. Trump said … On health care, Mr. Trump said a big reason for his shift from his call for an all-out repeal was the meeting at the White House with Mr. Obama, who, he said, suggested areas of the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, to preserve. ‘I told him I will look at his suggestions, and out of respect, I will do that,’ Mr. Trump said in his Trump Tower office. ‘Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced,’ Mr. Trump said.” http://on.wsj.com/2fLk6Oy
-- AND/BUT: On 60 Minutes, Trump said there will not be any period of time between repeal and replace -- if he goes that route. Video clip http://cbsn.ws/2eroG4s
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-- HIS TRANSITION TEAM IS FULL OF INSIDERS. Members of Congress: Reps. Lou Barletta (Pa.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Tom Marino (Pa.), Devin Nunes (Calif.), Chris Collins (N.Y.). Family members: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump. Donors: Silicon Valley macher Peter Thiel, Goldman Sachs alum Steven Mnuchin, hedge fund chief Anthony Scaramucci and conservative megadonor Rebekah Mercer. Other political figures: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Florida AG Pam Bondi. And Breitbart boss Stephen Bannon, who admittedly is nobody’s idea of an establishment insider.
-- “Trump shakes up his power structure,” by Shane Goldmacher, Alex Isenstadt and Glenn Thrush: http://politi.co/2erjltV
-- HE’S KEEPING SMART AND SAVVY D.C. INSIDERS CLOSE TO HIS TEAM. For example, RICK DEARBORN, the executive director of the Trump transition effort, is the leading candidate to run the Trump legislative affairs shop, according to several sources. Given that Trump has never been in government, this is a hopeful sign for top Capitol Hill Republicans. Legislative affairs is key for any president getting congressional buy in for their legislative priorities -- and will be even more key for Trump, who has never had to navigate the ins and outs of Capitol Hill.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RICK: He’s a close confidant of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, and has worked for him since 1997, most recently as his chief of staff. He also served six and a half years as Sessions’ legislative director before serving as assistant secretary of energy for congressional and intergovernmental affairs. He also worked for former Wisconsin Sen. Robert Kasten, former Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott and was director of congressional relations for the Heritage Foundation.
TOP CAPITOL HILL REPUBLICANS are also eager for Trump to hire David Urban, a veteran Republican operative who served as chief of staff for former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter (when he was a Republican). Urban is almost certainly under consideration to serve as a senior aide in the West Wing -- something that would be seen as a smart move inside Senate and House Republican leadership circles. He also enjoys close relationships with top Democratic lawmakers. Urban declined to discuss working in a Trump administration.
Urban came on board early for Trump, spending nearly three months in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention before returning to his home state of Pennsylvania to run Trump’s ground game there. Urban, a partner at the lobbying firm American Continental Group, said he put Trump’s family to work in Pennsylvania. He planned speeches on child care in the Philly suburbs. And Melania Trump gave her only campaign speech to woo women voters in the Keystone State. The campaign knocked on more than 200,000 doors a day in the lead up to Election Day.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH URBAN -- HOW TRUMP WON PA:“Secretary Clinton, her campaign, they did a good job … They got their vote out. They did a good job getting the numbers they thought they needed in Philly and the suburbs because that’s all that’s traditionally been needed to win. We just got more. We redrew the map in Pennsylvania.” The Trump victory was the “great white whale” that hadn’t happened in nearly 30 years.
-- CLINTON’S MESSAGE DIDN’T WORK: “The economic elitism of the other side — the Clinton Foundation, the notion of this pay to play, hyper elites, the Davos crowd isn’t a message that resonates. As many times as Secretary Clinton went to Scranton and portray[ed] herself as the daughter of a factory worker who makes lace tablecloths, I don’t think anybody was buying it.”
-- HOW THEY WON: “There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania. We overperformed dramatically in many of these counties that have big populations — 60, 70, 80 percent of people turned out. So when you get an extra 2,000 votes in 60 counties, that’s enough to put you over.”
-- VOTERS VOTED FOR TRUMP, NOT THE GOP: “I think if President-elect Trump remains on the ballot they will remain. Those are Trump voters … I think it is totally a Trump phenomenon.”
TRUMP’S MASSIVE INAUGURATION LIFT -- Greg Jenkins, who served as executive director of the Bush inaugural committee in 2004/2005, emailed Playbook laying out the enormous task ahead for Trump in putting together a successful fete in roughly two months.
-- The 2005 Inauguration by the numbers: Jenkins had 600 people on staff divided into 12 divisions, from finance to legal to events. Every dollar must be raised privately -- in 2004 it cost $42 million. And some 3,000 journalists from around the world need to be credentialed for four days of events.
-- How it works: “The military district of Washington takes care of the parade, but the inaugural director has to decide what elements are in the parade, from what states,” Jenkins told Playbook. “You have no idea how much lobbying governors and senators did to me to get one of their high school marching bands included.” And while a joint committee on Capitol Hill takes care of the actual swearing in, Jenkins recalled that the arguments between the Hill and the inaugural committee “over exactly who signs what and who says what can get pretty intense.”
-- Who’s in charge? Trump has asked his longtime friend and major donor, billionaire private equity investor Tom Barrack, to serve as chairman of the inauguration committee. Barrack, who served in Reagan’s Interior Department, has a fascinating side career in rescuing troubled celebrities -- including Michael Jackson. Read about that here: http://nym.ag/2f2SUaa
KANDER FOR DNC CHAIR? -- The field of possible candidates for Democratic National Committee chairman could be getting even more crowded. Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Jason Kander, who lost to Sen. Roy Blunt, is among those whose name continues to pop up in our inboxes. One source from the campaign wrote: “Kander would be interested in the chairmanship if that’s what the Democratic Party wanted.”
-- Jaime Harrison, South Carolina Democratic Party chair, is also giving it a hard look. “I’m blown away from the tons of calls, emails and texts urging me to run for DNC Chair … praying about it. I’ll decide soon!” Harrison wrote on his Facebook wall Friday evening.
TRUMP ON THE CLINTONS -- From “60 Minutes” airing this Sunday -- “So, Hillary called, and it was a lovely call, and it was a tough call for her, I mean, I can imagine. Tougher for her than it would have been for me. I mean, for me, it would have been very, very difficult. She couldn't have been nicer. She just said, ‘Congratulations, Donald, well done.’ And I said, ‘I want to thank you very much, you were a great competitor.’ She is very strong and very smart.” LESLEY STAHL: “You know, you said you might call President Obama for advice. Would you think of calling President Clinton for advice?” DONALD TRUMP: “Well, he’s a very talented guy, I mean, this is a very talented family. Certainly, I would certainly think about that.” Clip http://cbsn.ws/2fLmIvU
SAM STEIN: “Hillary Clinton On Loss: ‘These Have Been Very, Very Tough Days’”: Hillary Clinton acknowledged on a call with her campaign staff and volunteers on Friday that her election loss had taken an emotional toll. But she encouraged those listening to stay engaged in the political process once the despair of Tuesday passed. ‘I’m not going to sugarcoat it: These have been very, very tough days,’ Clinton said. ‘This is a tough time for our country. I think we have seen how people have been reacting to the events of this election and I know we have got to be reaching out to each other to keep it clear in our own minds that what we did is so important. It looks like we are on the path to winning the popular vote, and that says volumes about the importance of your work and the lasting impact it will have.’” http://huff.to/2eS8Sqg
BEING THERE -- From a former Hillary staffer: “There are two little girls around 6 years old with Hillary signs, look to be daughters of a local mom standing nearby, who stood outside HQ and yelled ‘don’t stop believing never give up’ every time a staffer left with all their stuff.”
DOH! -- “Trump transition website lifts passages from nonpartisan nonprofit,” by Nancy Scola: “President-elect Donald Trump’s official government website, GreatAgain.gov, lifts the work of a nonprofit organization that provides research on presidential transitions, with some passages being duplicated whole-cloth. ... The Trump website was launched late Wednesday and replicates material on the copyrighted site of the Center for Presidential Transition, which is a project of the Washington-based nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service.” http://politi.co/2flPuT6
DAY FOUR -- “Trump team rivalries spark infighting: Veterans of the Trump campaign see many of the same old patterns emerging again,” by Ken Vogel, Nancy Cook and Alex Isenstadt: “The tensions played a role in a Friday shakeup in which the president-elect replaced his transition team chief Chris Christie with his running mate Mike Pence. Sources familiar with the move say it was precipitated partly by clashes between Christie’s allies and rival factions on the transition team, as well as Trump’s influential son-in-law Jared Kushner. Those rifts and others are complicating what was an already a herculean task for Trump’s team: building a massive new government for a man who has never held public office. ... A handful of sources in and around the Trump transition team said there was no evidence that the president-elect had even reviewed any of the binders of policy and personnel proposals produced by the team. Trump’s only contact with the transition staff, the sources said, had come through Christie.” http://politi.co/2eNb4fj
TODD PURDUM in Vanity Fair, “The Fall of the House of Clinton: How a political dynasty lost its way”: “It’s worth asking how a family name that once personified skill, adroitness, empathy, and effectiveness—and, yes, slipperiness and a legalistic tendency toward evasiveness—in modern politics came to embody the opposite of all the good qualities while amplifying and exaggerating the bad ones. ... [T]he overriding problem was Clinton’s lack of any message as clear and disciplined as her husband’s was in 1992 ... When I asked a long-serving Clinton aide this week if there was anything she could have done to keep from losing, he replied without missing a beat, ‘Sure: give people a reason to vote for her.’” http://bit.ly/2eRPhX4
TRUMP INC. -- “Trump Organization planning ‘immediate transfer’ to kids, executives,” by Darren Samuelsohn: “Donald Trump is moving quickly before he's sworn in as president to get out of the real estate, golf course and hotel business. In a statement Friday, Trump's main business venture said it was ‘in the process of vetting various structures with the goal of the immediate transfer of management of the Trump Organization and its portfolio of businesses’ to the president-elect’s three oldest adult children as well as ‘a team of highly skilled executives.’ … Along with being the heirs to Trump's vast U.S. and international business holdings, his children Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric, were also named on Friday to the 16-person executive committee running their father's transition efforts. The move raised eyebrows, as it furthered the stark overlap between Trump’s political and business interests.” http://politi.co/2ftATTb
--“Watchdogs question Trump’s plans to keep his empire in the family: Short of selling his businesses, they say, he won’t be able to reassure the American people that he’s not acting in his own interests,” by Katy O’Donnell: “Trump’s empire includes over 500 entities, with hotels, real estate and branding deals scattered across five continents. As president, he’ll be able to steer policies affecting the Trump Organization ranging from lowering corporate taxes to establishing better relations with a country where the Trump brand is expanding. His lawyer, Michael Cohen, confirmed Thursday that Trump plans to turn the family business over to his adult children Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric through what Cohen called a ‘blind trust.’ ‘That’s not a blind trust, that’s a seeing trust,’ said Norm Eisen, former ethics czar under President Barack Obama.” http://politi.co/2f2z0MR
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE -- “Manchin slams Reid on Trump comments: ‘An absolute embarrassment’,” by Burgess Everett: “West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin sharply criticized his own party leader on Friday evening, calling Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's reaction to Donald Trump's election ‘an absolute embarrassment to the Senate as an institution, our Democratic party, and the nation.’ … On Friday Reid called Trump a ‘sexual predator who lost the popular vote,’ perhaps the harshest reaction to Trump’s victory uttered by a congressional Democratic this week.
“Manchin said that Reid’s remarks were ‘wrong!’ and immediately moved to distance himself from the Democratic leader … ‘I want to be very clear, he does not speak for me. As difficult as it is for anyone to lose an election, the American people have spoken and Donald Trump is our President-elect. Senator Reid’s words needlessly feed the very divisiveness that is tearing this country apart,’ Manchin said. ‘We are Americans first, not Democrats or Republicans first. Unfortunately, there are some who forget that at times like these it is wrong to put party and politics above our country.’” http://politi.co/2eNjSBY
AYOTTE SPEAKS -- NH1’s Paul Steinhauser has the interview: http://bit.ly/2fKyDrz
OUCH! -- “Eric Trump heckled by teens while walking streets of NYC,” by Page Six’s Oli Coleman: “Eric Trump and his wife, Lara Yunaska, were harangued on the streets of Manhattan on Thursday night. The pair — who were on foot and had no apparent security — stopped by Quality Italian on 57th Street around 9:30 p.m., where a table of friends congratulated Eric on his father Donald Trump’s stunning win in Tuesday’s election. The couple left about five minutes later, but as they crossed Sixth Avenue a group of about eight teens yelled, ‘Eric — f - - k your father!’” http://pge.sx/2g560Ir
COVER DU JOUR -- Bob Staake’s new New Yorker cover, “The Wall”http://bit.ly/2eRNFwx
CLICKER – “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker – 18 keepers http://politi.co/2fts1ge
PLAYBOOK ELECTION PREDICTION CONTEST RESULTS – From our more than 850 entries, only 23 Playbookers predicted that Trump would win. Our winner who got the most swing states right as well as Senate race results is Zack Dareshori, who works in Horizon Pharma’s D.C. office as a federal government affairs and policy research fellow. The Wellesley, Massachusetts, native and 2015 grad of Gettysburg College is looking to work in the Trump administration or on Capitol Hill in health policy (dareza92@gmail.com).
Why did he predict Trump would win? “I was volunteering for Lloyd Smucker’s congressional campaign up in PA-16 before the election. I was making calls and knocking doors 12 hours per day and was working out of the Lancaster County Republican Committee office ... I noticed a lot of hesitance from voters to admit support for Trump. I heard one story of a Trump field organizer going up to a house and meeting a couple that said they were both strong Hillary supporters.
“After the husband left for work, the wife waved the organizer over and told him she was a Trump supporter and he was the first person she had ever told. Trump was so decried by the media that many of his supporters were ashamed to admit it to anyone including a pollster or even online in the age where there is so much buzz over digital information being hacked. What I was hearing from the media and from the polls did not match up with what I was seeing on the ground and I knew this couldn’t just be a local phenomenon. I had a strong feeling Trump would take PA and would have a wider margin of support than the polls were showing throughout the country.”
Congrats to our runners up as well: Travis Martinez, who works at the National Restaurant Association in their policy shop; Elizabeth Yoder; and Jim Withgott, a retired publishing executive living in West Hartford.
POLITICO CONGRESS TEAM EXPANDS – Carrie Budoff Brown, Mike Zapler and Bres email the staff: “Elana Schor has reported on Congress since 2005, covering Senate leadership and financial services for The Hill before joining The Guardian’s D.C. bureau. She transitioned to energy policy in 2009, coming to Politico in 2014 from E&E News. ... Kyle Cheney covered Massachusetts politics and government for six years before joining Politico Pro as a health care reporter in 2012. After mastering all things Obamacare, he joined Campaign Pro in 2014 and was a key player in our coverage of the midterms that year.
“He moved to the politics team in mid-2015, and was a world-beater on the Republican delegate fight beat and again on the battleground states project during the general election. Austin Wright joined Politico as a web producer in 2011 after a stint as a middle school English teacher. A founding member of Pro Defense, he wrote the Morning Defense newsletter and covered defense issues on Capitol Hill and then at the Pentagon.”
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
--“Autocracy: Rules for Survival,” by Masha Gessen in N.Y. Review of Books: “I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I have learned a few rules for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect. ... Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. ... Rule #2: Do not be taken in by small signs of normality. ... Rule #3: Institutions will not save you. ... Rule #4: Be outraged. ... Rule #5: Don’t make compromises. ... Rule #6: Remember the future.” http://bit.ly/2fJh5OO (h/t Longreads.com)
--“President Trump’s First Term,” by The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos back in September: “His campaign tells us a lot about what kind of Commander-in-Chief he would be.” http://bit.ly/2dcPOTP
--“What Was Conservatism?” by Jennifer Burns in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Forty years ago, George H. Nash created the field of conservative intellectual history. What can he tell us about the right today?” http://bit.ly/2g41rxT (h/t ALDaily.com)
--“Losing the thread,” by Virginia Postrel in Aeon Magazine: “Older than bronze and as new as nanowires, textiles are technology — and they have remade our world time and again.” http://bit.ly/2eQFH70
--“The Case Against Democracy,” by Caleb Crain in The New Yorker: “If most voters are uninformed, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare?” http://bit.ly/2fYENrx
--“Revenge of the Forgotten Class,” by ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis: “Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were playing with fire when they effectively wrote off white workers in the small towns and cities of the Rust Belt.” http://bit.ly/2eLBaPP
--“Explaining It All To You,” by Nathan J. Robinson in Current Affairs: “The persistence of Vox…” http://bit.ly/2fL9vBe (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--“Scenes from a Donald Trump Victory Party,” by Mattathias Schwartz in The Intercept: “‘We’re the fucking establishment now. You and I. We’re not …’ the young red hat, encircled by his squad, pantomimed the old establishment with a swaying, limp-wristed dance. ‘We won. F*** them.’” http://bit.ly/2epS0bx (h/t Longform.org)
--“Venezuela, A Failing State,” by William Finnegan in The New Yorker: “Once the richest country in South America, it now has the world’s highest inflation rate and is plagued by hunger and violent crime. How did this happen?” http://bit.ly/2fJtuSw
GREAT WEEKEND LISTENS, curated by Jake Sherman:
-- THE BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB. An Anna Palmer pick. http://bit.ly/2fm4wZ9
-- GRATEFUL DEAD today in 1972 at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Hall in Kansas City. http://bit.ly/2f2PlRx
ALEX TROWBRIDGE, who was part of the team who made the buzzy Bloomberg Politics videos, is starting with Stephen Colbert on Nov. 30.
SPOTTED: Rob Reiner and Kathleen Sebelius at separate tables at Centrolina last night.
PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD – “On Monday, the President will depart Washington, DC en route Athens, Greece. ... On Tuesday, the President will arrive in Athens, where he will see President Pavlopoulos and meet with Prime Minister Tsipras. Later, the President will hold a press conference with Prime Minister Tsipras. Afterward, the President will attend a state dinner with President Pavlopoulos. ... On Wednesday, the President will take a tour of the Acropolis. Later, the President will deliver remarks at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center. Afterward, the President will depart Athens, Greece en route Berlin, Germany ... On Thursday, the President will meet and then hold a press conference with Chancellor Merkel. Later, the President will attend a dinner with Chancellor Merkel. ...
“On Friday, the President will meet with Chancellor Merkel, President Hollande of France, President Rajoy of Spain, Prime Minister Renzi of Italy, and Prime Minister May of the United Kingdom. Later, the President departs Berlin en route Lima, Peru ... On Saturday, the President will attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit, where he will hold a bilateral meeting with President Kuczynski. Later, the President will hold a Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative town hall. Afterward, the President will attend a gala dinner. ... On Sunday, the President will attend meetings at APEC and then hold a press conference. Later, the President will depart Lima en route Washington, DC.”
WEEKEND WEDDING -- Ashley Johnson and Greg Scanlon eloped in a redwood grove in Big Sur, California, last weekend. They met in D.C. during an O’PAC going-away party for her roommate and his office-mate Carly Harris. Ashley worked in the congressional office of Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.); Greg was the research director for the Democratic Governors Association. They moved to San Diego two years ago, where she works for public affairs firm Southwest Strategies and he founded Point Loma Strategic Research. SPOTTED: Various birds and woodland creatures. Pic http://bit.ly/2f1akUQ
COMING ATTRACTIONS – David Chavern and the News Media Alliance are hosting a toast to the 2016 political press corps and their efforts this election on Sat., Nov. 19 at 6 p.m. at Juleanna Glover’s house. RSVP: rsvp@newsmediaalliance.org
BIRTHDAYS: Dr. Elena Allbritton (h/t Alexis Williams) ... Jeff Zients ... Tyrone Gayle, a Hillary for America alum and frequent birthday hat-tipper, is 29 … Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) is 67 … Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer is 47 -- read his post on “What a Trump Administration Means for U.S. Leadership”: http://bit.ly/2fKHkRj ... USA Today’s Nancy Trejos … Norman Y. Mineta is 65 ... Stephanie Kotuby, senior editorial producer for “PBS NewsHour” … Katie Harbath, Facebook Politics and Government team member, and the pride of Green Bay ... Rex Elsass ... Katie Stuntz … Ryan Coyne, an O.G. of IJ.com, is 29 ... Edelman alum Mark SooHoo, managing director for digital health at Burson-Marsteller … Politico Europe’s Bennett Richardson … Jenn Ridder, Denver native and western political director at the DCCC, celebrating a big birthday with friends and counting down the days to ski season (Steamboat opens over Thanksgiving) (h/t James Owens) ... Luca Spinelli … ThinkProgress’ Kira Lerner … Leo DiBenigno … Joe Johnston … Loop88’s Dave Weinberg ... Takaaki Mizuno is 58 … Kevin Gundersen, director of gov’t relations at Huntsman, is 35 … David Lawrence ... National Journal’s Alex Brown … Michelle Perry ... Kamal Marell and Jay Lumpkins, both Clemson track teammates with Tyrone Gale ... Amber Cottle ... Vinny Minchillo ...
… Maria Cardona, principal at Dewey Square Group … Ross Baird, executive director at Village Capital ... Scott Beauchamp ... Mediaite’s Alex Griswold ... Olivia Lange, a student at Stanford’s GSB and a Boston Consulting Group and World Food Programme alum ... Erica Sackin, director of political comms at Planned Parenthood Federation of America ... Laura Mandy Mszar ... Gina Hill ... Sheila O’Connell, the pride of Cedar Rapids and Van Hollen campaign alum … Mica Strother … Pam Oatis, the pride of Dundee, Michigan (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Carol Gluck, professor of history at Columbia and expert on Japan, is 75 ... Neal Shusterman, author of young-adult fiction and winner of the National Book Award for “Challenger Deep,” is 54 ... Naomi Wolf, author, journalist and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton, is 54 ... Nina Brosh, Israeli fashion model and actress, is 41 (h/ts Jewish Insider) ... Jake Orta of Rep. Sean Duffy’s office ... Crozer Connor of Rep. Mike Thompson’s office ... Frank Mazza of Sen. Toomey’s office ... former Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) is 83 ... Al Michaels is 72 … Neil Young is 71 … Sammy Sosa is 48 … figure skater Tonya Harding is 46 … Ryan Gosling is 36 … Anne Hathaway is 34 (h/ts AP)
SUNDAY SHOWS, by @MattMackowiak filing from Austin:
--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Guests to be announced
--ABC’s “This Week”: Rudy Giuliani … Keith Ellison … Thomas Friedman. Panel: Van Jones, Bill Kristol, Mary Matalin and Katrina Vanden Heuvel
--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Newt Gingrich … Bernie Sanders. Panel: Jamelle Bouie, Peggy Noonan, Michael Gerson and Jeffrey Goldberg. Panel with CBS News 2016 campaign journalists back from the trail
--“Fox News Sunday”: Kevin McCarthy … Kellyanne Conway. Panel: George Will, Julie Pace, Ben Domenech and Charles Lane
--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures”: (10am ET / 9am CT): Newt Gingrich … Jason Chaffetz … Mohamed El-Erian … Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel. Panel; Ed Rollins, Real Clear Politics’ Caitlin Huey-Burns and Hank Sheinkopf
--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (SUN 11am ET / 10am CT): Erin McPike … Kirsten Soltis Anderson … Julie Roginsky … Rich Lowry … Mo Elleithee … Sharyl Atkisson … Frank Luntz
--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8am ET): Panel: Maggie Haberman, Jennifer Jacobs, Manu Raju and Dan Balz
--CNN’s “State of the Union” (9am ET / 12pm ET): Paul Ryan … Rudy Giuliani … Michael Moore. Panel: Nia-Malika Henderson, Sara Murray, Sean Spicer and Rep. Xavier Becerra
--CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” (SUN 10am, 1pm ET): Panel: Conrad Black, David Remnick, Dan Senor and Neera Tanden. Polling panel: FiveThirtyEight’s Harry Enten and NYT’s Nate Cohn. Foreign Policy panel: Ian Bremmer, Anne-Marie Slaughter and R. James Woolsey
--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11am ET): Panel: Dan Rather, Mollie Hemingway, Jeff Greenfield and Fusion.net editor in chief Dodai Stewart … Nate Silver. Media panel: Orange County Register columnist, radio host and CNN commentator John Phillips, Vox’s Elizabeth Plank and Daily Beast editor in chief and CNN commentator John Avlon. Constitutional and First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams
--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10am ET / 1pm PT): National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference president Rev. Samuel Rodriguez. Panel: Rosario Marin, Adolfo Franco, José Parra and Fernand Amandi. United We Dream’s Cristina Jimenez and Arizona DREAM Act Coalition’s Erika Andiola … immigration lawyer Jessica Dominguez … singer-songwriter Espinoza Paz
---C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30pm ET): Audi of America president Scott Keogh … “Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET): Luke Messer, questioned by National Journal’s Daniel Newhauser and WaPo’s Mike Debonis … “Q&A” (SUN 8pm & 11pm ET): Author and historian Candice Millard (“Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill”)