ANOTHER DEFEAT -- SEATTLE TIMES A1 -- “Trump vows to fight ruling blocking immigration order … JUDGE IN SEATTLE BACKS STATE ATTORNEY, LIFTS TRAVEL BAN” A1 PDF http://bit.ly/2jKXPmJ
-- SEATTLE TIMES’ JIM BRUNNER, JESSICA LEE AND DAVID GUTMAN: “U.S. District Judge James Robart ruled Friday afternoon in favor of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who sued this week to invalidate key provisions of Trump’s executive order. Robart granted Ferguson’s request for a temporary restraining order ‘on a nationwide basis,’ prohibiting federal employees from enforcing Trump’s order. The judge rejected arguments from Justice Department attorneys who said the travel ban fell well within the president’s national-security powers. … Meanwhile, a contradictory decision came earlier Friday from a federal judge in Massachusetts, who sided with the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton ruled that the president had the authority on national-security grounds to bar citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, according to The Boston Globe. The disparate rulings may eventually be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.” http://bit.ly/2kDDm2k … The judge’s order http://bit.ly/2l48M2R
-- ROBART was appointed by George W. Bush.
-- AP at 10:08 a.m.: "WASHINGTON (AP) - State Department reverses visa cancellations for foreigners after judge puts hold on Trump executive order."
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TRUMP SPEAKS FROM MAR-A-LAGO -- @realDonaldTrump at 7:59 a.m.: “When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot , come in & out, especially for reasons of safety &.security - big trouble!” … at 8:06 a.m.: “Interesting that certain Middle-Eastern countries agree with the ban. They know if certain people are allowed in it’s death & destruction!” … at 8:12 a.m.: “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned! … at 8:39 a.m.: “After being forced to apologize for its bad and inaccurate coverage of me after winning the election, the FAKE NEWS @nytimes is still lost! … at 9:26 a.m.: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK -- MORNING JOE, O’REILLY FACTOR RAISE AD RATES -- MSNBC and Fox News are capitalizing on Donald Trump’s TV watching habits. The cable networks have dramatically increased prices on issue advocacy rates in recent weeks as companies and outside groups try to influence Trump and his top lieutenants. “Morning Joe’s” rates have more than doubled post-election, according to one veteran media buyer. “The O’Reilly Factor” and other prime time programs on Fox News have boosted their rates about 50 percent. “The president’s media habits are so predictable, advertisers migrate to those areas,” said one media buyer.
ONE D.C. CONSULTANT told us some of his clients, including a big bank and major pharmaceutical company, were negotiating this week to buy ads on “O’Reilly” and “Morning Joe” because they knew they had a good chance of reaching the president. “Instead of lobbying through the usual channels, it’s like speaking directly into the president’s ear,” he said. The consultant also said some companies are proactively placing ads in order to avoid a Trump tweet, or in at least one instance trying to prompt Trump to tweet against their competitors. One source at MSNBC acknowledged that rates would likely go up. She said that “with strategically placed ad buys in New York and DC it’s likely the rates would increase ... [and] we would capitalize on increased interest.” Fox News declined to comment.
ALTERNATIVE HEADLINES FROM AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE -- Iran launches missile test. Israel continues settlement building. Russia maintains aggression in Ukraine. U.S. soldier dies during raid in Yemen. President Hillary Clinton says she is rolling back financial regulations because her friends can’t conduct business. Donald Trump says, “I told you what would happen if you elected Clinton president.”
THE CABINET -- “Trump’s pick for Army Secretary drops out,” by Military Times’ Leo Shane III: “President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Army abruptly withdrew his name from consideration late Friday night, citing his inability to get around strict Defense Department rules concerning his family businesses. Vincent Viola, founder of digital stock trading firm Virtu Financial and owner of the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers, had been working through the confirmation process to become Army Secretary since mid-December. In a statement, Viola ... concluded that he would not be able to successfully navigate the confirmation process.” http://bit.ly/2jO8hVR
BEHIND THE SCENES -- “Trump tells Ukrainian politician he won’t lift Russia sanctions,” by Ken Vogel, David Stern and Michael Crowley: “During an unusual private meeting on the sidelines of Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump promised a Ukrainian opposition leader that the United States won’t lift sanctions on Russia until it pulls out of Ukraine ... Within hours of meeting with both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the prayer breakfast, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko relayed the contents of the meeting to separate audiences at the Heritage Foundation and the Hudson Institute.” http://politi.co/2l8ayw6
M.I.A. – “Trump missing top lieutenants across federal government: The work at some agencies has slowed because of the lack of deputies,” by Andrew Restuccia and Josh Dawsey: “President Donald Trump has so far failed to nominate deputies and other top officials to run the day-to-day operations at most federal agencies, creating a vacuum across the government that has businesses, lobbyists and lawmakers in limbo as they wait to see how Trump’s agenda will be carried out. ...
“[T]he president has named just three deputy secretaries -- at the Commerce Department, Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. The delay in filling these deputy and other high-level political appointee positions could have far-reaching consequences, as deputies act as the chief operating officers at federal agencies. Experts say experienced No. 2s are essential to ensuring the smooth implementation of Trump’s policy proposals.” http://politi.co/2jMdkpO
THE REAL POWER CENTER -- “Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner worked to sink LGBT order,” by Annie Karni: “Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump helped lead the charge to scuttle a draft executive order that would have overturned Obama-era enforcements of LGBT rights in the workplace ... A draft executive order on LGBT rights that outlines how to roll back former President Barack Obama’s protections and expand legal exemptions based on religious beliefs has been circulating among journalists and worried progressive groups this week. But two sources close to Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who have a record of supporting gay rights, said the couple favored putting out a clear statement from the president, promising to uphold the 2014 Obama executive order and stopping the momentum for the turnaround in its tracks.” http://politi.co/2jMeoK6
YA CAN’T MAKE IT UP! -- “Video released by Pentagon to prove Donald Trump’s deadly Yemen raid was successful is a decade old and available online,” by The Daily Telegraph’s Ruth Sherlock: http://bit.ly/2l1wXPq ... In depth account of the raid: http://bit.ly/2kBHnnZ
TRUMP INC. -- “Eric Trump’s business trip to Uruguay cost taxpayers $97,830 in hotel bills,” by WaPo’s Amy Brittain and Drew Harwell: “It was a high-profile jaunt out of the country for Eric, the fresh-faced executive of the Trump Organization who, like his father, pledged to keep the company separate from the presidency. Eric mingled with real estate brokers, dined at an open-air beachfront eatery and spoke to hundreds at an ‘ultra exclusive’ Trump Tower Punta del Este evening party celebrating his visit.The Uruguayan trip shows how the government is unavoidably entangled with the Trump company as a result of the president’s refusal to divest his ownership stake.
“In this case, government agencies are forced to pay to support business operations that ultimately help to enrich the president himself. Though the Trumps have pledged a division of business and government, they will nevertheless depend on the publicly funded protection granted to the first family as they travel the globe promoting their brand. ... Eric Trump’s trip in early January to the coastal resort town appeared to be brief — perhaps as short as two nights, according to a review of local press clips and social media. The bill for the Secret Service’s hotel rooms in Uruguay totaled $88,320. The U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay, paid an additional $9,510 for its staff to stay in hotel rooms to ‘support’ the Secret Service detail for the ‘VIP visit,’ according to purchasing orders reviewed by The Washington Post.” http://wapo.st/2l3OnuR
THE JUICE…
-- BUZZ -- The Trump White House is looking at Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine to run NASA.
-- JOHN CZWARTACKI, a veteran GOP PR operative, is expected to head up the Office of Management and Budget communications operation once Mick Mulvaney is confirmed.
-- TRAFFIC REPORT -- FOR MAR-A-LAGO MEMBERS:Trump’s return to Mar-A-Lago is causing major congestion problems, according to a Playbooker. The Town of Palm Beach put out a news alert on the road closures due to Trump staying there. Traffic was at a standstill Friday afternoon after they closed one of the major roads to get on the island. A Mar-A-Lago executive assistant warned club members in an email with the subject line: “Saturday Bridge Crossing.” “For those of you approaching Mar-a-Lago from off island, it is strongly suggested that you use the Lake Worth Bridge or Okeechobee Bridge. We anticipate congestion at the Southern Boulevard Bridge. Please follow the same security procedures as were in place during the holidays by going to the Bath & Tennis parking lot, and allow ample time to clear. This will begin tomorrow and continue through the weekend. Everyone must have photo identification. Thank you.”
-- TRUMP’S WASHINGTON: Milo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart tech editor and provocateur whose speech at Berkeley was canceled amid fiery riots, was at Le Diplomate Friday night. Yiannopoulos maintains ties to some key White House players, including Steve Bannon.
-- THE FOUR SEASONS IS BACK -- SPOTTED FRIDAYmorning: Ivanka Trump, Dina Powell and Indra Nooyi; Ben Rhodes, Tom Nides and Jake Sullivan; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vernon Jordan and Mike Berman, and at four separate other tables: Wilbur Ross, Steve Schwarzman, Michael Wolff, Susan Page; and then a table of Carol Pelton, Heather Podesta, Juleanna Glover, Hilary Rosen, Maria Pica Karp, Niki Christoff, Erin Eagan, Nancy Dorn, and Candi Wolff.
BEHIND THE SCENES -- JOSH ROGIN in WaPo, “The White House-Cabinet battle over Trump’s immigration order”: “On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 28, as airport protests raged over President Trump’s executive order on immigration, the man charged with implementing the order, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, had a plan. He would issue a waiver for lawful permanent residents, a.k.a. green-card holders, from the seven majority-Muslim countries whose citizens had been banned from entering the United States. White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon wanted to stop Kelly in his tracks. Bannon paid a personal and unscheduled visit to Kelly’s Department of Homeland Security office to deliver an order: Don’t issue the waiver. Kelly ... refused to comply with Bannon’s instruction. ...
“At approximately 2 a.m. Sunday morning ... a conference call of several top officials was convened to discuss the ongoing confusion over the executive order and the anger from Cabinet officials over their lack of inclusion in the process in advance. ... One White House official and one administration official told me that Kelly, Mattis and Tillerson presented a united front and complained about the process that led to the issuance of the immigration executive order, focusing on their near-complete lack of consultation as well as the White House’s reluctance to make what they saw as common-sense revisions, such as exempting green-card holders.” http://wapo.st/2jKzIVa
CABINET WATCH -- “DeVos opposition snowballs into avalanche,” by Caitlin Emma and Austin Wright: “Adversaries of Betsy DeVos are mounting a furious last-minute bid to sink her nomination for Education secretary, with tactics that include a ‘tie-breaker telethon’ in Alaska, a flood of emails to U.S. senators and celebrity appeals to millions of Twitter followers. Teachers unions and a ragtag assemblage of other opponents are bombarding congressional offices with tens of thousands of phone calls and more than 1 million emails — a massive but almost certainly doomed effort to vanquish one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks. Sen. Brian Schatz, a Hawaii Democrat, said on Twitter that the last three days had ‘been the busiest in Capitol switchboard history’ by ‘almost double.’ He urged opponents of DeVos to ‘keep it up.’” http://politi.co/2ksBac2
INSTAPIC DU JOUR – Obama supporters in Kalorama who live near the former presidential couple (and Ivanka and Jared) are putting supportive signs all around the neighborhood, according to neighbors – Instapic of one of the “Welcome Home” signs http://politi.co/2kb6nC2
THE BAN -- “Trump officials slow-walked court orders on travel ban,” by Isaac Arnsdorf: “Hours after a federal judge ordered customs officers to provide lawyers to travelers detained at Dulles airport last Saturday, senior Trump administration officials instructed the guards to give the travelers phone numbers of legal services organizations, ignoring a mass of lawyers who had gathered at the airport. Most of the legal services offices were closed for the weekend, effectively preventing travelers with green cards from obtaining legal advice. The move was part of what lawyers contend was a series of foot-dragging actions by the administration that appeared to violate court orders against the Trump’s controversial travel ban.” http://politi.co/2l7zoN9
BANNON THE AUTEUR -- “Bannon film outline warned U.S. could turn into ‘Islamic States of America’,” by WaPo’s Matea Gold: “The flag fluttering above the U.S. Capitol is emblazoned with a crescent and star. Chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’ rise from inside the building. That’s the provocative opening scene of a documentary-style movie outlined 10 years ago by Stephen K. Bannon that envisioned radical Muslims taking over the country and remaking it into the ‘Islamic States of America,’ according to a document describing the project obtained by The Washington Post. ... Although driven by the ‘best intentions,’ the outline says, institutions such as the media, the Jewish community and government agencies were appeasing jihadists aiming to create an Islamic republic.” http://wapo.st/2k5eI7G
HOT ON THE LEFT -- “Someone created a Bowling Green massacre website and it redirects to ACLU,” by USA Today’s Sean Rossman: “The Bowling Green Massacre Victims Fund website says it is raising money for the victims of the now famous fake tragedy, but any attempt to donate takes visitors to the American Civil Liberties Union’s website. ... The website, which doesn’t clarify who is behind the faux campaign, features a huge photo of a man looking into the distance behind the text, ‘Join us in helping those in this time of need.’” http://usat.ly/2jO5cVP … The website http://bit.ly/2ksmqtz
GOTHAM REPORT – “‘1984’ to Open on Broadway This Summer,” by Variety’s Gordon Cox: “The hit London stage adaptation of ‘1984,’ the George Orwell novel that has suddenly become a bestseller in the age of Trump, will come to Broadway this summer in a production backed by ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ producer Sonia Friedman and Scott Rudin. ... Created by Icke and Duncan Macmillian, ‘1984’ proved a hit in the U.K. in 2014. ... [and] will open June 22” on Broadway. http://bit.ly/2k52nR4
MEDIAWATCH -- JOHN SANTUCCI TO D.C. FOR ABC --From New York: “John Santucci moves to the DC bureau where ABC News has elevated him to senior editorial producer. He spent the last two years as ABC’s embed on the Trump campaign, and he’ll bring his skills to ABC’s booking and reporting on the new administration.
CLICKER – “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,”edited by Matt Wuerker – 12 funnies http://politi.co/2kqyziw
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
--“24 Hours at JFK: The Hour-by-Hour Account of Two Iraqis’ Detainment and Release,” by Reeves Wiedeman in NY Mag: “The detention of Darweesh and Alshawi, followed by the swift response from a group of lawyers, two members of the House of Representatives, and a spontaneous protest movement — all of them feeding off one another’s energy — helped launch a nationwide movement against President Trump’s ban and detentions across the country.” http://nym.ag/2jMmySX
--“Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze,” by Andrew Curry in NatGeo: “Alcohol isn’t just a mind-altering drink: It has been a prime mover of human culture from the beginning, fueling the development of arts, language, and religion.” http://on.natgeo.com/2kqFxnT
--“Against Willpower,” by Carl Erik Fisher in Nautilus Magazine: “Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped.” http://bit.ly/2k52UTb (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--“‘F***’-ing Around,” by Joan Acocella in the N.Y. Review of Books, reviewing “What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves,”
by Benjamin K. Bergen and “In Praise of Profanity,” by Michael Adams: “[A]mong others, the German ficken (to copulate), the Norwegian regional fukka (ditto), and the Middle Dutch fokken (to thrust, to beget children) [are all] apparently descendants of a Germanic root meaning ‘to move back and forth.’” http://bit.ly/2k5bTDC ... Bergen -- $17.73 on Amazon http://amzn.to/2jMk9rc ... Adams -- $17.95 on Amazon http://amzn.to/2l6pB9F
--“Larry Hogan is Having a Grand Old Time as Maryland’s Governor,” by Luke Mullins in Washingtonian: “He navigated an urban crisis, beat cancer, and became America’s second-most popular governor—as a Republican in a blue state. And Democrats have no idea how to respond.” http://bit.ly/2l1J27q
--“Below Deck,” by Lizzie Presser in California Sunday: “Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.” http://bit.ly/2l6hglZ (h/t Longform.org)
--“Whitey on Mars,” by Andrew Russell in Aeon Magazine: “Elon Musk and the rise of Silicon Valley’s strange trickle-down science.” http://bit.ly/2ky05gE
--“Cocaine, tug boats and tip offs: the inside story of the largest drug bust in UK history,” by Greg Williams in Wired UK: “It started with a vague tip-off: a tug boat approaching the UK could be transporting cocaine. What followed was a race against the clock to find £500m in narcotics.” http://bit.ly/2ky7MmZ
--“The hi-tech war on science fraud,” by Stephen Buranyi in The Guardian: “The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators.” http://bit.ly/2kBKHja (h/t Longreads.com)
--“The Tiny-House Revolution Goes Huge,” by Mark Sundeen in Outside: “Of all the earthy trends to emerge since the crash, none have captured adoration like tiny houses. Nowhere is the quest for simplicity and freedom more pronounced than in the tiny-house movement, which has grown from hipster alternative to mainstream phenomenon faster than an Amish barn raising.” http://bit.ly/2l1AE7Z
--“Embarrassing bodies: what did the Victorians have to hide?” by Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian: “Why did Charles Darwin grow a beard? What was wrong with George Eliot’s hand? Kathryn Hughes examines the physical secrets kept by our 19th-century forebears.” http://bit.ly/2jMiLF6 (h/t ALDaily.com)
--“How Israelis See the Settlements,” by Yossi Klein Halevi on the cover of WSJ’s Review section: “Some want to annex the West Bank, others to separate from the Palestinians—and all view Jerusalem as anything but a settlement.” http://on.wsj.com/2l1QvTT (h/t Jewish Insider)
SPOTTED -- Virginia Rep. Dave Brat yesterday boarding an Amtrak train at Union Station.
TRANSITIONS – SADIE WEINER is now the communications director for N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper in North Carolina. She previously was comms director for the DSCC and is a Kay Hagan alum.
OUT AND ABOUT -- SPOTTED at Tara Palmeri’s welcome back to D.C. party last night at Baby Wale, hosted by Nikki Schwab, Courtney Flantzer, and Brendan Kownacki: Brad Dayspring, Paul Kane, Carol Joynt, Janet Donovan, Todd Flournoy, Dannia Hakki, Neil Grace, Nick Massella, Sophie Pyle
--SPOTTED at Adrian Carrasquillo’s birthday party last night on the rooftop of Hawthorne: Will Rabbe, Ryan Williams, Stephanie Benedict, Daniella Diaz, Sahil Kapur, Taylor Lorenz, Walter Garcia, Darren Sands, Miranda Green, Kelly Cohen
--SPOTTED at a champagne toast yesterday in the Capitol honoring outgoing Energy and Commerce Staff Director Gary Andres: Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Greg Walden (R-Ore.), and Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), Sue Andres, Doug Andres, Hugh Halperin, Monica Popp, Matt Bravo, Jim Barnette, Clay Alspach, Michael Beckerman, Tom Wilbur, Mark Ratner, Chris Hodgson, Tim Pataki, Ben Howard, Mike Bloomquist, Joan Hillebrands, Karen Christian, Tom Hassenboehler, Paul Edattel, Paul Nagle, Marty Riser, and many more.
--Last night at Polish Ambassador Piotr Wilczek’s residence Wolf Blitzer interviewed Washington Wizards’ Marcin Gortat in advance of the team's Polish Heritage Night later today. SPOTTED: EU Ambassador David O'Sullivan, Artur Orkisz, Karen Tumulty, Michael Crowley, Tomas Satoransky, Otto Porter, Coach Scott Brooks, Ernie Grunfeld, Daniel Ochefu, Ian Mahinmi, Alicja Bachleda, Jill Chappell, Jay Shaylor, Matt Dornic, Pete Nonis, Indira Lakshmanan, David Ensor, Kimberly Hulsey, David Short, James Carafano.
NATHAN BOMEY, business reporter for USA Today, has a new book deal with Prometheus for a 2018 release with the draft title “The Post-Fact Era: How Truth Died in the Trumpian Age” http://bit.ly/2jO2pMc
BIRTHDAYS: Hunter Biden (hat tip: Josh Alcorn) ... Matt McDonald, partner at Hamilton Place Strategies and a Bush and John McCain alum (h/t Kevin Madden) … The Facebook is 13 ... Dan Quayle is 7-0 ... Nicolle Wallace (h/t Mark McKinnon) … Albert Fonticiella, VP of corporate services at Edward Marc Brands … John Czwartacki, principal at Next Level Strategies … Jim Nicholson, former Sec. of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, and RNC chairman and currently a senior counsel at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck – he has been very involved helping colleagues and former employees transition into the Trump administration (h/t Christine Burtt) … DNAinfo’s Nicole Levy, a Politico alum ... Martin Meservie ... L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is 46 ... Abby Cable, director of policy and gov’t affairs for Israeli-American Coalition for Action and an AIPAC alum … Thad Inge, gov’t relations for Paychex and SBA alum, is 37 … David Rauf, senior reporter for Hearst in Houston and a Politico and Reuters alum … Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) is 7-0 ... Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) is 56 ...
... Amelia Chasse, deputy comms director for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and alum of America Rising, Greg Abbott and John McCain, is 31 (h/ts new hubby Lenny Alcivar and Colin Reed) ... Will Dugan, DC field producer for Canada’s CTV and News Channel 8 alum, is 31 (h/t Tim Mak) … Jessica Byrd, EMILY’s List alum and founder of Three Point Strategies ... Edelman’s Ashley Huggins ... Politico’s Terry Ticey ... Florida State Sen. Dwight Bullard is 4-0 ... David Edelman, an NSC alum and former WH senior advisor for technology and economic policy … Connie Partoyan, CEO of Direct Impact and a CMR alum … Seth D. Michaels is 38 … Sara Himeles, DHS and Asana alum … Susan Roth of Roth P.R. and founder of Progressive Communicators of DC … Janice Laurente of the Peace Corps and a USAID alum ... Deborah Steelman Macon … Joe Thompson ... HP Patel ... Chuck Pruitt ... Ann Liston, spending her day getting ready for RAGBRAI... Jason Hitchman (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Jonathan Jordan is 5-0 ... journalist Taimoor Shah ... Michael Halasy is 46 ... Eugene Sepulveda, CEO/director of Entrepreneurs Foundation/Capital Factory in Austin ... Brigham Pierce ... Dan Berger, president and CEO of the Nat’l Assoc. of Federal Credit Unions, is 52 ... former Argentinian President Isabel Peron is 86 ... Olympic gold medal boxer Oscar De La Hoya is 44 (h/ts AP)
THE SHOWS, by Matt Mackowiak, filing from Austin:
-- NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Vice President Mike Pence … House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) … House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Panel: Alex Castellanos, Andrea Mitchell, Danielle Pletka and Tavis Smiley
-- ABC’s “This Week”: Vice Mike Pence … Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) … Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.). Panel: Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), Tom Cole, Matthew Dowd, Sara Fagen and Jen Palmieri
--CBS’s “Face the Nation”: VP Mike Pence … N.J. Chris Christie … NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith … “NFL Today” host James Brown. Panel: Amy Walter, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ruth Marcus and Michael Duffy
--“Fox News Sunday”: VP Mike Pence … Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) … Robert Kraft. Football panel: Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Michael Strahan and Jimmy Johnson … “Power Player of the Week” with J.J. Watt
-- CNN’s “State of the Union” (9 a.m. / 12 p.m.): Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) … Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Panel: Bakari Sellers, Neera Tanden, Sarah Isgur Flores and Jason Lewis
--Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10 a.m): Leon Panetta … Ways and Means Kevin Brady (R-Texas) … Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). Panel: Ed Rollins, Jessica Tarlov and former NFL player and The Brewer Group CEO Jack Brewer
--Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (11 a.m.): Kellyanne Conway … Erin McPike … Kelly Riddell ... Marie Harf … Will Leitch
--CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (8 a.m.): Panel: Julie Pace, Ed O’Keefe, Ashley Parker and Manu Raju
--CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (11 a.m.): Panel: Carolyn Ryan, former “Apprentice” cast member Tara Dowdell and Errol Louis … Michael Wolff … Evan McMullin … Roger Simon
---C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (6 p.m.): Consumer Technology Association president Gary Shapiro, questioned by Bloomberg BNA’s Michaela Ross … “Newsmakers” (SUN 10 a.m. ET): Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), questioned by The Wall Street Journal’s Kristina Peterson and The Los Angeles Times’ Lisa Mascaro … “Q&A” (SUN 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET): Demos president Heather McGhee
--Washington Times’ “Mack on Politics” weekly politics podcast with Matt Mackowiak (download on iTunes or listen atMackOnPolitics.com): Roger Stone … Joe Trippi