NEWS -- @maggieNYT: Exxon CEO Rex "Tillerson meeting w Trump today, per source."
Good Saturday morning. Read this Washington Post bombshell, and then read Donald Trump’s reaction.
BOMBSHELL -- “Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House,” by Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller: “The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the [DNC] and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances. ...
“In September, during a secret briefing for congressional leaders, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voiced doubts about the veracity of the intelligence, according to officials present. The CIA shared its latest assessment with key senators in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill last week, in which agency officials cited a growing body of intelligence from multiple sources. Agency briefers told the senators it was now ‘quite clear’ that electing Trump was Russia’s goal, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.” http://wapo.st/2goMQhc
-- FROM THE NYT’s David E. Sanger and Scott Shane: “[T]he Russians hacked the Republican National Committee’s computer systems in addition to their attacks on Democratic organizations, but did not release whatever information they gleaned from the Republican networks.” http://nyti.ms/2hirZte
-- “Schumer demands Senate election inquiry on Russia: ‘That any country could be meddling in our elections should shake both political parties to their core,’ the incoming Democratic leader said.” by Burgess and Seung Min Kim: http://politi.co/2h9R7UF
--SEAN SPICER to MICHAEL SMERCONISH on CNN: “The intelligence is wrong because they’re writing that the conclusion that they came to was based in part on the RNC was hacked. It wasn’t hacked.” http://bit.ly/2gm28hS
UNSIGNED STATEMENT FROM TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM -- “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again.’”
TO BE CLEAR, the president-elect is expressing doubt about an assessment made by the Central Intelligence Agency. That’s a big deal. His Electoral College total was also not one of the biggest in history. Or anywhere close. It’s just not true.
TOP TWEETS -- @StevenTDennis: “‘Sounds like they’re nervous about what they might find.’ - Tim Kaine to me on Trump team statement on report on Russia/election” … @FranklinFoer: “While Obama’s FBI director smeared Hillary, Obama sat on evidence of Russian efforts to elect Trump that had basis in evidence.”
TRUMP’S MILITARY -- “Pentagon Prepares Tougher Options on Fighting Militants to Show Trump Team: Proposals include limiting White House operational oversight and giving military more tactical authority,” by WSJ’s Gordon Lubold and Julian E. Barnes: “The Pentagon is drawing up proposals to offer to the Trump administration designed to intensify the U.S. campaign against Islamic State, including reducing White House oversight of operational decisions and moving some tactical authority back to the Pentagon, U.S. military and congressional officials say. The options are being assembled in anticipation of demands by Donald Trump and his team, who have called for a tougher military campaign against the extremist group. Military officials said they are considering presenting options on a number of fronts. They are likely to include easing restrictions on the precise number of American troops needed to carry out a particular mission, and relaxing rules that set the level of Washington review needed before an operation or airstrike may be conducted, officials said.” http://on.wsj.com/2hg5cR7
YOU’RE INVITED! -- Attorney General Loretta Lynch will join us for a Playbook Breakfast on Thursday at the Liaison Hotel (415 New Jersey Ave, NW) on Capitol Hill. Doors open at 8 a.m., and the program starts at 8:30. RSVP http://bit.ly/2h73iS9
MITT WHO? -- ExxonMobil CEO Tillerson emerging as frontrunner for secretary of state,” by Henry C. Jackson, Josh Dawsey, and Eliana Johnson: “ExxonMobil president and CEO Rex Tillerson has emerged as the leading contender for secretary of state, according to two Trump transition aides. Tillerson, an oil executive with extensive experience in international negotiations, rocketed to the top of Trump's short list for Foggy Bottom after former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani withdrew from the process late Friday afternoon. A transition source says Tillerson ‘fits the prototype’ and that Trump ‘likes his style and background.’” http://politi.co/2h9rmnH
D.C. INSIDERS SAY that Tillerson is one of the only Americans who has a personal relationship with Vladimir Putin.
CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS’ appointment to Interior secretary seems likely, but people close to her -- in and around House GOP leadership -- say they’re still in the dark about the appointment.
BUT her colleagues are already vying for her job. RACHAEL BADE emails: “Rep. Mimi Walters was floating between Amtrak train cars Friday, lobbying her colleagues for their support in her bid to succeed House GOP Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). About 30 House Republicans were on their way to New York City for the NRCC’s ‘Bright Lights and Broadway’ retreat — a weekend in the Big Apple where lawmakers and fundraiser bond over dinners and musicals or other shows, but also entertain donors.”
2018 WATCH -- “How a fight for coal miners started the 2018 campaign,” by Burgess Everett: “A seemingly obscure fight in the Senate this week over miners’ pensions quietly marked the beginning of Senate Democrats' attempt to recover from their humiliating defeat in the November election. After getting pummeled in the Rust Belt by Donald Trump and incumbent Republicans, a bloc of lawmakers from purple and red states, led by Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, made the case to Trump's voters that it's Democrats - not Trump and the GOP - who are on the side of the working class.
“Flirting with a government shutdown, they used a must-pass funding bill to try to extract health benefits for retired mine workers - resorting to the budget brinkmanship typically associated with Republicans … Manchin and Brown, along with several other Democrats who took up the cause, are up for reelection in 2018 in states that Trump carried. Another poor performance for the party could hand Republicans a veto-proof, 60-vote majority.” http://politi.co/2gLXM4C
READING THE TEA LEAVES -- “Trump praises RNC short-lister Ronna Romney McDaniel,” by Andrew Hanna: “Trump praised Michigan GOP Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, a front-runner to lead the Republican Party, for her efforts during the presidential election. ‘What a great job. You and your people have done an incredible job,’ Trump said Friday, calling her ‘McDaniels.’ Filling the soon-to-be vacated position at the helm of the [RNC] has evolved into a proxy battle between the establishment and populist wings of the GOP. Reince Priebus has lobbied hard on behalf of McDaniel, the niece of the 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney and one of the men on the short list for Trump’s State Department.” http://politi.co/2h9rDXE
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION -- NYT A15, “Climate Change Conversations Are Targeted in Questionnaire to Energy Department,” by Coral Davenport: “President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended climate change policy conferences, as well as emails and documents associated with the conferences. In question after question, the document peppers Energy Department managers with pointed queries about climate science research, clean energy programs and the employees who work for those programs. ... The requests for lists of specific employees involved in shaping climate policy is irregular and alarming, they said, given that on the campaign trail Mr. Trump clearly showed his skepticism of climate change science and his hostility to climate change policy.” http://nyti.ms/2hi8hOd
HOW THEY GET RICH -- “How the Twinkie Made the Super-Rich Even Richer,”by NYT’s Michael Corkery and Ben Protess. http://nyti.ms/2hpBZ6S
HAPPENING TODAY -- It’s election day in Louisiana. Trump will attend the Army-Navy game in Baltimore.
--@darrenrovell: “President-elect Trump says he will be at Army-Navy game today. Army has a locker set up for him (via @ArmyEquip)” http://bit.ly/2gM9mwt
SURE! -- “Giuliani pulls name from contention for secretary of state,” by Josh Dawsey and Shane Goldmacher: “Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani pulled out of the secretary of state sweepstakes late last month, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team said Friday, as Trump has widened his search to select the nation’s top diplomat. ... The transition team said that he withdrew on Nov. 29, though aides had mentioned him as one of four contenders multiple times after that date. One transition source said Giuliani continued to be the subject of internal discussions for the job through mid-week.” http://politi.co/2hhYZBJ
-- @maggieNYT: “Giuliani, at a dinner at the Harvard Club a few days after the date he is said to have taken name out of contention, said he might be picked”
TOP-ED – “The Torture Report Must Be Saved,” by Carl Levin and Jay Rockefeller in the NYT: “Drawing on our decades of work in the Senate and our chairmanships of the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, we are calling on President Obama to preserve the full torture report as a matter of profound public interest. ... The president could do this simply by allowing departments and agencies that already possess the document to enter it as a federal record, making it much more difficult for a future administration to erase. This simple but consequential action is something that President Obama can do now, and it is something that he can do unilaterally.” http://nyti.ms/2hwKHMy
TRUMP INC. -- “Donald Trump’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ deal may include money from brands,” by CNN’s Dylan Byers: “President-elect Donald Trump’s financial arrangement with ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ could provide him with a cut of the money generated by NBC’s product integration deals for the show ... For years, Trump has received a portion of the revenue from the show’s product integration deals ... If that arrangement is still in place, it is now a potential avenue of influence for companies that want to get the ear of Trump and his administration, and presents a thorny situation for Comcast/NBCUniversal, which controls the deals. ‘If an advertiser wants to curry favor with Trump, that’s the way to do it,’ the source said.” http://cnnmon.ie/2gLHubK
-- @RealDonaldTrump at 6:36 a.m: “Reports by @CNN that I will be working on The Apprentice during my Presidency, even part time, are rediculous [sic] & untrue - FAKE NEWS!” … at 6:27 a.m.: “I have NOTHING to do with The Apprentice except for fact that I conceived it with Mark B & have a big stake in it. Will devote ZERO TIME!”
KNOWING BANNON -- “Stephen Bannon found inspiration in ancient thinkers, Ronald Reagan and Nazi propaganda,” by the LA Times’ Matt Pearce: “In the 1990s, long before Stephen K. Bannon became the chairman of Breitbart News and one of Donald Trump’s top advisors, he was just another guy in Beverly Hills who liked Shakespeare and wanted to make movies. The Navy veteran and former Goldman Sachs investment banker was a feverish reader who kept books neatly stacked on the floor of his condo that couldn’t fit on his shelves.
“Bannon had the tastes of a liberal arts major, sampling ideas from ancient civilizations all over the world. He liked Sun Tzu’s ‘Art of War’ and the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu holy book, according to his former longtime writing partner, Julia Jones. ‘Before 9/11, he was different,’ said Jones, a liberal who fondly remembered discussing philosophy with Bannon … But Bannon, who kept a photo of Ronald Reagan over his desk, started down a more hard-line path of conservative thought after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to those who knew him during his time in Hollywood.” http://lat.ms/2hxc74P
FAKE NEWS UPDATE -- “Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies,” by NBC News’ Alexander Smith and Vladimir Banic in Veles, Macedonia: “On Saturday, one local nightclub was barely keeping up with demand, as dozens of teens and young adults ordered ice buckets filled with large $35 bottles of vodka. In this new era, the purveyors of fake news are the coolest kids in the schoolyard. ‘Since fake news started, girls are more interested in geeks than macho guys,’ says one 17-year-old girl standing at the bar. The most successful fake-news publishers have ‘bought themselves houses, apartments, maybe invested in some real estate or in some businesses,’ according to Dimitri. ‘They have bought themselves cars, they have bought ... their girlfriends better cars, better places to live,’ he says. Keen to feed off this gold rush, the nightclub even plans to organize a club night on the same day that Google pays out its advertising money.” http://nbcnews.to/2hpjU8D
BUSINESS BURST -- “Staggering subscriber losses for ESPN raise questions about the entire TV ecosystem,” by WaPo’s Brian Fung: “ESPN was thrust into the spotlight in November when the ratings company Nielsen predicted the sports juggernaut would lose 621,000 cable subscribers that month. Nielsen estimated the sports network would lose another 555,000 subscribers in December. The staggering losses have led to calls by analysts for Disney to spin off or sell the beleaguered network, which has lost 9 million subscribers in three years … The challenges ahead are not unique to ESPN. The pay-TV industry as a whole has seen many consumers trim back their cable subscriptions in favor of online video services — or, fed up with the rising cost of TV, forgo cable altogether.” http://wapo.st/2gLSzKc
ALEX CONANT’s debut on WSJ.com, “Four Steps for Businesses to Reply to a Trump Twitter Attack–Before It Happens”: http://on.wsj.com/2ho9Vk0
FOR THE RECORD -- “What Kellyanne Conway really said about mothers working in the White House,” by POLITICO Staff: “Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway was interviewed by POLITICO Playbook co-author Anna Palmer at POLITICO’s Women Rule Summit in Washington, DC on Dec. 7. Below is an excerpt of her remarks regarding her potential role in a Trump White House.” http://politi.co/2gLRnqd
CLICKERS – “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker – 13 keepers: http://politi.co/2hnZcpQ
– “The Millions Trump’s Businesses Made From His Campaign,” by Bloomberg’s Bill Allison, Michael Keller and Blacki Migliozzi: “While he put $66.1 million of his own money into his campaign and received an additional $264 million from small dollar donors, more than $14.6 million worth of campaign funds went back into Trump’s businesses in the form of air travel, event rentals and even $8,040.01 to Trump’s bottled water company, Trump Ice LLC.” http://bloom.bg/2hcTTGC
MEDIAWATCH -- “The Atlantic hires BuzzFeed’s Rosie Gray,” by Kelsey Sutton: “Rosie Gray, one of BuzzFeed News’ most prominent political reporters, will join The Atlantic to cover global affairs and U.S. politics, the magazine announced Friday. ... She will start in the new year. ... Gray’s departure is a major loss for BuzzFeed News, which has seen a series of departures from its politics desk in the past few months.” http://politi.co/2gKhT39
--“Wall Street Journal reshuffles Washington bureau,” by Peter Sterne: “The Journal has finalized the line-up for its White House team for when Donald Trump takes office: Jeanne Cummings, Carol Lee, Peter Nicholas, Mike Bender and Damien Paletta. The paper also announced the creation of a new team to focus on covering the intersection between business and government. Ted Mann, the Greater New York reporter who helped to break the Bridgegate story, is moving from New York to Washington to join the team, which will be led by editor Susan Benkelman. Other reporters in the group include Brody Mullins, Kate O’Keeffe, John McKinnon and Will Mauldin.” With a full memo from Jerry Seib and Paul Beckett http://politi.co/2he3r74
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
--“After the Islamic State,” by Robin Wright in The New Yorker: “As the caliphate crumbles, rival movements struggle for the soul of Sunni jihadism.” http://bit.ly/2gGcs8c
--“The Soccer-Star Refugees of Eritrea,” by Alexis Okeowo in The New Yorker: “Athletes from the national team plan a mass defection.” http://bit.ly/2gtPQaw
--“‘BRAAAM!’: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack,” by Adrian Daub in Longreads.com: “How Inception changed the way we listen to movies.” http://bit.ly/2he8YKO
--“Life After Zika,” by Alex Ronan with photographs by Peter Bauza: “A young family struggles to care for their daughter. Their story in pictures.” http://thecut.io/2hv5IqY (h/t Longform.org)
--“Intake,” by Rosalind Adams in BuzzFeed: “Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients intoprofits.” http://bzfd.it/2h78ZzP
--“Trumped and Abandoned,” by Susan Faludi in The Baffler: “The angry white male in the political wilderness”. http://bit.ly/2hfW2Bx
--“The Last Unknown Man,” by Matt Wolfe in The New Republic: “He appeared out of nowhere. He had no name, no memory, no past. He was the only person the FBI ever listed as missing even though they knew where he was. How could B.K. Doe remain anonymous in the modern age’s matrix of observation?” http://bit.ly/2fyh6E2
--“Tom Ford on Sex, Death, and Penetration,” by Taffy Brodessar-Akner in GQ: “Make one good movie and maybe it’s an accident. But two? With the bold, unsettling ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ menswear’s most cinematic designer proves he’s just as potent in the world of cinema.” http://bit.ly/2hv5MXF … Trailer http://bit.ly/2hiEbtL
--“The Heroes of San Bernardino: 1 Year After the Attacks” – ABC News: “One year after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, the ABC News Investigative Unit and ‘Nightline’ are looking back, revealing never-before-seen photos and videos and hearing from the first responders, the victims and the everyday people who prevented a terrifying day from getting any worse.” http://abcn.ws/2gjREiW
--“I Didn’t Come Here to Lose’: How a Movement Was Born at Standing Rock,” by Wes Enzinna in the Jan./Feb. issue of Mother Jones: “#NoDAPL didn’t just stop a pipeline. It sparked a new call for Native American rights.” http://bit.ly/2gjNAPO
--“What Would William F. Buckley Have Made of Donald Trump?” by Christopher Buckley in Vanity Fair: “It’s tricky, channeling your father’s ghost. But whatever Trump is, he’s not a conservative—he’s a party of one.” http://bit.ly/2hfdshc
--“The People Who Shaped Islamic Civilization,” by Nicolas Pelham in 1843 Magazine: “A new book celebrates the achievements of early Muslims, and dispels some myths along the way.” http://bit.ly/2gm3JZK
--“Advice for Young Muslims,” by Omar Saif Ghobash in Foreign Affairs: “How to survive in an age of extremism and Islamophobia.” http://fam.ag/2gjO48z
--“The forgotten shipwreck: 500 drowned in the Mediterranean on April 9. No one investigated until now,” by Reuters’ Stephen Grey and Amina Ismail as part of the series “The Migration Machine”: “The single biggest loss of life in the Mediterranean this year shows how authorities in Europe and elsewhere routinely allow those behind migrant deaths to get away with it.” http://reut.rs/2hnWNLJ (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--“The Woman Who Might Find Us Another Earth,” by Chris Jones in tomorrow’s N.Y. Times Magazine: “The star-crossed life of Sara Seager, an astrophysicist obsessed with discovering distant worlds.” http://nyti.ms/2hnYIQu
SPOTTED -- Peter Hamby on the 5 p.m. Acela from D.C. to New York … John Bolton getting off the 8 a.m. Acela to DC Saturday morning … Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) at the Regal Gallery Place movie theater, taking in the 6:35 p.m. showing of “Allied” Friday evening (trailer: http://bit.ly/2hf4u3E) … Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last night at the D.C. Christmas pop up bar, Miracle on 7th Street … Employees standing at attention as Bill Marriott Sr. toured lobby Christmas decorations Friday morning at the D.C. St. Regis hotel. (Marriott recently merged with Starwood) ... Patti Solis Doyle, Adam Parkhomenko and Tracy Sefl at a back table at Urbana on Thursday night until closing time.
THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD -- “On Monday, the President will attend meetings at the White House. On Tuesday, the President will sign the 21st Century Cures Act. The President and Vice President will also deliver remarks at this event.
“On Wednesday, the President will host two Hanukkah receptions at the White House. The First Lady will also attend. On Thursday, the President will attend meetings at the White House. On Friday, the President will attend meetings at the White House. In the evening, the First Family will depart the White House en route Honolulu, Hawaii.”
OUT AND ABOUT – Pool report from Sarah Wheaton: “Kamran Mumtaz conjured a crowd of friends, reporters, congressional aides, and Obama administration alumni as he worked his magic on the wonks and operators of this city to toast his disappearing act. He is transforming himself into the ultimate football fan as communications director for the NFL.” He was previously in global gov’t affairs at Citi and worked for Mayor Michael Bloomberg in City Hall.
SPOTTED at Joe’s: Peter Cherukuri, Ryan Tracey, Adam Rice, Eric Dash, Crystal Carson, Nell Callahan, Nihal Krishan, George Hornedo, Robin Lloyd, Brad Bosserman, Lisa Leonard, Stacey Radnor, Ryan Erickson, Michael Moroney, Kendra Kojcsich, Dave Blumenthal, Carol Danko, Tara Jeffries, Lenwood Brooks, Hillary Anderson, Jack Smith, Lisa Leonard, Ian McKendry, Naz Durakoglu, Nick Owens, Russ Grote, Sara Capra, Devon Wardlow, Lizzie Ulmer, Dominic Hawkins, and Ian Hartman-O’Connell.
-- Bluebonnet Fundraising, Inc. celebrated its second annual tree lighting last night. SPOTTED: Caroline Wren, founder; Alex Stroman, Matt Boyle, Rob Lockwood, Martina Egerer, Dan Knight, Sergio Gor, David Catanese, Alden Wood, Taylor Mason, Zeke Miller, Kevin McEvoy and Tyler Lane.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD – Nicholas Derby Roosevelt, resilience engagement coordinator for the City of Phoenix and Stacia Stolzenberg Roosevelt, assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at ASU, have welcomed Elliott Stolzenberg Roosevelt. FDR is Nick’s great great grandfather, so Elliott is FDR and Eleanor’s great great great grandson. Pics http://politi.co/2hbt8SA ... http://politi.co/2hmisUN ... http://politi.co/2h3Wl4o
TRANSITIONS -- Michael Abramowitz, currently “director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education and a distinguished former journalist at the Washington Post, will become president of Freedom House on February 6, 2017,” per a release. http://bit.ly/2gvXlOe … Michael Marinaccio, who had his last day Friday as creative director at the NRSC, is starting next week as senior digital director at the Chamber of Commerce. ... BakerHostetler has hired Greg Orlando as a senior advisor on the federal policy team – he most recently worked as a senior aide to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation. ...
... Liz Wolgemuth has been promoted to senior comms director and speechwriter for Sen. Lamar Alexander, while Margaret Atkinson was promoted to comms director. ... Jim Jeffries is leaving Alexander’s office and in January will join Seattle-based Vulcan, Inc., as head of executive comms for Paul Allen. ... Sen. Jon Tester announced that Aaron Murphy, his former comms director, will be his chief of staff.
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant turned 62 … (was Wednesday): Julie Scott Allen, SVP at District Policy Group and the pride of Great Barrington, Mass. (hat tip: David, who was on time)
BIRTHDAYS: Mike Shields, who’s starting Convergence Media (h/t Sean Spicer) … Symone Sanders, former national press secretary for Sanders campaign and now a CNN political commentator, is 27 ... Fox News’ Mike Emanuel, the pride of Westfield, N.J., is 49 ... Brian McGuire, COS for Majority Leader McConnell … Mercury CEO Kieran Mahoney ... Kieran Mahoney, CEO of Mercury (h/t Jon Haber) ... San Francisco Chronicle breaking news reporter Michael Bodley (h/t Colby Bermel) ... Justin Ahn, UCSD alum and #DCEats aficionado, is 3-0 (h/t Sophia Kim) ... Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) is 67 and was recently spotted rocking his jean jacket around the Capitol: http://bit.ly/2huYBP8 ... Meg Whittemore, comms director for Sen. Perdue, who recently returned from her honeymoon in Italy ... Charlie Watkins, son of Dree and Peter ... Politico Magazine’s Katie Fossett ... former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is 6-0 ... Greg Rothman … Misha Belikov, research analyst at Point72 Asset Management ... Google’s Steve Johnston ... Mitchell Rubenstein, comms manager at Capital One ... N.Y. Daily News’ Erin Durkin ... Robert Maguire ...Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) is 47 ... Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) is 56 ... Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is 63 ... Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) is 66 ... Ryan Beene, Washington reporter for Automotive News ... Jackie Etter-Krause, senior media strategist at Centro, and a WJLA/NewsChannel8 alum ... Jen Cox ... Gigi Anders ... Lisa Rowan ...
… Kip Wainscott, senior director of cabinet affairs at The White House and alum of OFA, DOJ and Perkins Coie … Chris McGrath, Washington liaison officer for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and a Reid alum … Bill Baroni, former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, is 41 … Tom Zampino ... former Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter is 86 ... David French, SVP of gov’t relations at National Retail Federation … Ellie Bartow ... Kristin Wilson Keppler, senior producer at CNN and an NBC alum ... Matthew Gagnon, CEO of Maine Heritage Policy Center, is 36 ... Doug Rosenthal … Don McDowell of Iowa … Susan Milligan, political writer for U.S. News & World Report ... David Kieve, partner at Hilltop Public Solutions … Laura De Castro … Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List … Doug Badger ... Scott MacKay ... Jess Peterson, founder and president of Western Skies Strategies … Gloria Loring is 69 … Hope Hodge Seck ... Mitchell Schwartz … Rick Siger ... Michelle Mayorga … Wayne Smith (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
THE SHOWS, by @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin:
--“Fox News Sunday”: President-elect Donald Trump. Panel: George Will, Julie Pace, Jason Riley and Charles Lane
--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Reince Priebus … California Gov. Jerry Brown … Mike Rowe. Panel: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Steele, Rick Stengel and Kimberley Strassel
--ABC’s “This Week”: Reince Priebus … Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) … Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) … CREW chair Norman Eisen and CREW vice chair Richard Painter. Panel: E.J. Dionne, Sarah Huckabee, Rich Lowry and Jamal Simmons
--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Kellyanne Conway … Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) … Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) … Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). Panel: Jamelle Bouie, Michael Duffy, Lisa Lerer and Michael Gerson
--CNN’s “State of the Union” (9 a.m. ET / 12 p.m. ET): Vice President Joe Biden. Panel: Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Jennifer Granholm, Dana Loesch and Marc Morial
--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10 a.m. ET / 9 a.m. CT): House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) … Kellyanne Conway … Frank Luntz … House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. Panel: Ed Rollins, Richard Fowler and Caitlin Huey-Burns
--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (SUN 11 a.m. ET / 10 a.m. CT): Erin McPike … Amy Holmes … Ruth Marcus … Newt Gingrich … Dan Abrams
--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8 a.m. ET): Panel: Jennifer Jacobs, Mary Katharine Ham, Matt Viser and Manu Raju
--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11 a.m. ET): Panel: Jeffrey Lord, Poynter’s Kelly McBride and Carl Bernstein … Sean Spicer … Jill Abramson
--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT): Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) … José Fuentes … Gael García Bernal … author Gloría Álvarez … author Dr. Juan Rivera
---C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30 p.m. ET): Verizon Executive Vice President, Public Policy and General Counsel Craig Silliman, questioned by WSJ’s John McKinnon … “Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET): Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), questioned by Bloomberg News’ Billy House and CQ Roll Call’s Paul Krawzak … “Q&A” (SUN 8pm & 11pm ET): American Urban Radio Networks’ April Ryan, Princeton University’s Eddie Glaude, Jr. and David Maraniss