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BREAK JENNIFER JACOBS (@JenniferJJobs): "Zoop: BLOOMBERG announced to the White House his intention to retire as secretary to the Interior. Zinke's decision was taken into account by concerns over court fees and the scrutiny of his trip, his political activities and possible conflicts of interest. The plan is to announce Wednesday. …
"BREAK: Trump was notified to Zinke to withdraw and started looking for a replacement. Among the names that have emerged are Dean Heller of Nevada, Adam Laxalt of Nevada, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Butch Otter of Idaho, Sean Reyes of Utah and others. " The Story of Jennifer Jacobs and Jennifer Dlouhy
– @realDonaldTrump at 9:14 pm:" The Secretary of the Interior, @RyanZinke, will leave the " At the end of the year after serving for almost two years, Ryan has accomplished a great deal during his tenure and I want to thank him for the service he has rendered to our nation … …. "
– FLASHBACK: BEN LEFEBVRE and NICK JULIANO, JUNE 19:" Exclusive: Zinke bound to a real estate contract with the president of Halliburton: In the home town of the secretary of the Interior, a development brings together the head of the country's largest oil services company and a foundation created by the man who governs it. "POLITICO .. Ben Lefebvre," Zinke will leave the in the midst of scandals "
ON MICK MULVANEY … IT DOES NOT APPARE Congressional Relations They have played an important role in The thought of President DONALD TRUMP is process when selecting a chief of staff. MICK MULVANEY, who bears the title of "Acting Chief of Staff," was a radical expense foe when he represented South Carolina in the House. As a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, he opposed the rising debt ceiling and fought against the leaders.
He surrendered to the administration and made a 180. Mulvaney implored the House Republicans to pass an agreement on spending and trump debt limitation cut with Democrats, and was booed when he and Steven Mnuchin did not commit to a spending reduction package. (Read Rachael Bade from 2017). A large number of Republicans have lower jaws while he has abandoned his long-standing positions. Example: He described Trump as a "terrible human being" in the 2016 campaign. ( Daily Beast Report ). The people we spoke to in the White House after this announcement were not very happy with the selection.
DEMOCRATS does not like Mulvaney either. He has no particularly close ties with congressional investigators who will prosecute the president.
NYC'S MAGGIE HABERMAN (@ maggieNYT): "Mulvaney was one of the few personnel leader choices to have openly lobbied for the position, stating to Trump that he was the sole manager of an agency you are mired in a scandal, according to someone familiar with the discussion.
MULVANEY is a good golfer, however. He has a one-digit handicap.
TRAINING LOSS … ELIANA JOHNSON, BURGESS EVERETT and RACHAEL BADE: "Trump plans to delay the border fight until January"
NEW … GEORGIA REP. JOHN LEWIS sent a letter to the Democrats, urging anyone considering voting for him to vote for NANCY PELOSI.
– FROM THE LETTER: "We must never, never forget, face a relentless and stubborn resistance to the true democracy in this country. We must recognize and reject the cynical games that would mock our direction and sow the seeds of mistrust and dissension. Dividing our caucus on this vote in the Chair does not serve any strategic purpose at the moment, except to signal disarray. That's why I have to consider a vote for me as president as a vote for the Republican candidate, who would lead a majority in the House of Democrats. We must unite against this possibility at all costs. " The letter
– PELOSI visited a Christmas tree adorned with photos of her at Dupont. Washington Blade
SPOTTED: Nancy Pelosi at 1C headquarters on a delayed Alaska Airlines flight from DCA to OFS last night.
Good Saturday morning. CLICHEUR: SHIRLEY WANG to WBUR: "The Friendship of My Father with Charles Barkley"
BREAK THE LAST NIGHT … THE ABBY GOODNOUGH and of the New York Times […] Affordable Care Act, unconstitutional ": " The problem was whether the mandate of the Health Act always required people to take out coverage after Congress had reduced sanction to zero dollar as part of the tax reform signed by President Trump last December
. "When the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional mandate in 2012, it was based on the congressional taxing power. According to the court, Congress could legally impose a tax penalty on people without health insurance. But in the new case, the 20 claimant states, led by Texas, argued that with the sentence quashed, the individual warrant had become unconstitutional – and that the rest of the law could not be dissociated from it. "NYT
– – DAN DIAMOND EXPLANES:" Obamacare decision provokes new shock for the health care system ": " Friday night's decision raises a number of decisions for the White House: the government is going to he will appeal, how fast will the agencies be enforcing the law? During this time the Trump administration is not sure what it will do, given its legal strategy at this time This summer, Justice Department lawyers were ordered to drop their defense of the law – an almost unprecedented decision that led three lawyers to remove their names from the government's record and pushed the government to Senior Counsel, Joel McElvain, to resign. "POLITICO
– SEEMA VERMA (@SeemaCMS): " The recent decision of a federal court is still ongoing, the exchanges are still open and we will continue with an open registration. There is no impact on the current coverage or coverage of a 2019 plan. "
INSIDE BIDEN'S BRAIN … TOM BEAUMONT OF AP, MEG KINNARD and MEG KINNARD: "Biden considers the problem of age as deeper as he thinks of the 2020 race": "Joe Biden, who plans to run for president, talks with friends and longtime supporters of The question of whether he is too old to look for the White House, according to several sources who spoke to the former Democratic Vice President. …
"Biden's current and past counselors have had frequent conversations about options to mitigate age concerns, including teaming up with a young candidate. to the vice-presidency. According to a source familiar with the discussions, one of the options on offer is the outgoing Texas representative, Beto O. Rourke, who at age 46 is the subject of intense speculation for 2020 after almost defeating GOP Senator Ted Cruz. "AP [19659004] THE FIRST FAMILY …
– ILYA MARRITZ OF WNYC and THE PROPERTY JUSTIN ELLIOTT:" Inauguration of Trump paid by Trump's Company – With Ivanka in the middle " – This year, at the inauguration of President Donald Trump's committee, which had collected and spent unprecedented amounts, people were wondering where all this money went. One of the beneficiaries was Trump himself The inauguration allowed the Trump organization to obtain rooms, meals and event space at the company's hotel, based on interviews and e-mails and internal receipts reviewed by WNYC and ProPublica
"During the planning, Ivanka Trump, president elect eldest daughter and senior executive of the Trump Organization, participated in negotiating the price that the hotel charged to the 58th Presidential Committee of Inaugu A first-rate inaugural planner sent an e-mail to Ivanka and others in the company expressing concern that the hotel was charging excessive fees for its space. events and was concerned about what would happen when this audit was conducted. ProPublica
– BETWEEN PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, MEXICO AND THE REIMAGINATION OF GOVERNMENTS … ANNIE KARNI, NYT: "For Kushner, criminal justice was a personal issue and a rare victim": Following the announcement by President Trump of his support for a bipartite bill on criminal justice reform in Roosevelt Hall, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, arrived at the Oval Office for him. give an idea of the political reality. He was not going to bring the bill to the Senate until next year, McConnell told the president.
"Mr. Trump asked his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the engine of the bill administration, to join the meeting and hear the news himself. When Mr. Kushner entered the Oval Office, Mr. McConnell jokingly said that he had the impression that he had heard everyone that Mr. Kushner knew.
"I have a lot more people". And he did it. Because Mr. Trump agreed that the bill had to wait, according to officials of the administration, Mr. Kushner asked Vice President Mike Pence to explain to the President that to wait for him. 39 next year for a Democrat-controlled chamber to rule on the bill, would most likely result in a version it would not like. Kushner called Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan Murdoch, and Hope Hicks, former director of communications at the White House, who is now a senior executive at Fox, to issue a statement supporting his bill. "NYT
UPDATE – "The former Trump Chief of Staff , Reince Priebus, has been chosen to join the Navy with the support of Dan Lamothe, WaPo's Mattis, : "Reince Priebus, former chief of staff of President Trump and Republican power broker, could join the Navy after a multi-month process in which Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, 3 9 and a board of directors chose him as a reserve officer, according to the defense. officials and a note obtained by the Washington Post.
"Priebus, aged 46, will have to undergo a two-week training in Newport, Rotary, and train once a month as a reservist when he is mandated." WaPo
– FLASHBACK – JULY 28: PLAYBOOK "SPOTTED: REINCE PRIEBUS at Andrews Air Force Base Friday, where he spoke with recruiters while he is exploring the possibility of joining the Navy Reserve, which has a recruiting position at Andrews. He plans to become an intelligence officer, a JAG or work in human resources. "
THE INQUIRIES …
– JEFFREY TOOBIN OF THE NEW YORKER on ADAM SCHIFF: " The plans of Adam Schiff to abolish the red line of Trump: The Democrats controlling the Parliament, the Schiff inquiry to Congress will follow the money "
– The SPENCER HSU of WAPO:" The files to be sealed, US prosecutors ask Maria Butina, perhaps to testify before a grand jury ": " US Prosecutors on Friday asked a federal judge for permission to transfer Maria Butina to jail for ongoing talks, possibly possibly to testify before a large jury, in a file to be sealed and recorded on the public record of his case …
"In a seven-page document filed Friday afternoon in front of a judge, prosecutors have announced that they were applying for relocation under seal r they revealed Butina's movements since the jail of Alexandria City, where she has been detained since July, "may jeopardize the defendant's safety and jeopardize the ongoing investigation." … The request asks to cover movements until 17 January. "WaPo
– ADAM GOLDMAN OF THE NYT: " Mueller Rejects Flynn's Attempt to Appear as FBI Victim "
– CHRIS SOMMERFELDT (NY DAILY NEWS):" A New Jersey AG Investigation on Trump Golf Club after undocumented female employees claimed racially-motivated harassment ": " New Jersey's highest-ranking law enforcement agency "investigates allegations of widespread harassment and immigration fraud at President Trump's Garden State Golf Club after several former and current housekeepers claimed to have been abused, the Daily News reported. Anibal Romero, a Newark-based lawyer, said Friday that the Attorney General's office had recently claimed that five of his clients were regularly threatened and called racial slurs while they were working at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster. "NY Daily News
TELL ME NOW! … ELI YOKLEY OF MORNING CONSULT:" NRCC's new president says GOP is too centered on Nancy & # 39; Pelosi "
ANDREW SEIDMAN OF INVESTIGATOR PHILADELPHIA: "Despite the beliefs of councilors, Bob Brady retains control of the Democratic Party of Philly"
CLICKER – "The caricaturists of the nation during the week in politics ", edited by Matt Wuerker – 12 guardians
READ A GREAT STAY, hosted by Daniel Lippman
– "John Podesta is Ready to Talk About Pizzagate", by Andy Kroll, Rolling Stone: "L & # Former president of the Clinton RS campaign
– "Let me make you famous": how Hollywood invented Ben Shapiro, of Tina Nguyen, Vanity Fair: "With After forming the producer Jeremy Boreing, Brand Shapiro has made the acquisition of the library a lucrative business and the Daily Wire a growing power in the conservative media. But can they survive Trump? "VF
-" The corruption of the Republican Party " George Packer in his debut in the Atlantic:" The GOP is better understood as an insurrection that has carried the seeds of its own corruption from the beginning . "The Atlantic
-" Mario Batali's Empire Following Mario Batali ", Eric Konigsberg in NYMag:" A year after charges against him have emerged, anyone who eats at Babbo is always in his pockets. "NYMag
-" Cold Discovery ", by Drew Austin in Real Life Mag:" What is lost when we "watch Netflix" rather than shows and "listen to Spotify" rather than songs? "Real Life Mag (h / t TheBrowser.com)
– Peter Beinart's" New Authorities Make War on Women ", January / February. Atlantic issue: "Donald Trump's ideological cousins around the world want to reverse the feminist gains of recent decades." The Atlantic
– "The Murder of the Weekly Standard: An Intellectual Crime" and Politics, by John Podhoretz in Commentary Magazine: "There is no real reason for us to attend the disappearance of the magazine, if it is a deep pettiness and a personal desire of bureaucratic revenge on the part of a Machiavellian to the penny who works for his parent company. "Comment … TWS Archive Classics: Matt Labash on Trump and the" Twidiocracy ".. Charles Krauthammer on IBM vs. Garry Kasparov and Andy Ferguson on the Beatles
– "Guide to Advertising Technology" by Elizabeth Anne Watkins in the RGC – according to TheBrowser .com description: «The principals the conclusions are almost all troubling. Advertising platforms reduce publishers' revenues, distort information coverage, collect user data, undermine trust, and blur the boundaries between editorial and advertising. They are opaque, parasitic and "prey" to fraud. "CJR
-" Your taxes help children starve ", Nick Kristof, NYT, Aden, Yemen:" The war in Arabia in Yemen has already lasted three years. Some 85,000 children died. And everything is taken care of by the United States. "NYT
-" GE propelled the American century up to his death ", by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann, of WSJ:" How the company that was once the largest, the manufacturer The seller Insurance, the broadcaster of "Seinfeld", has become a shadow of itself. "WSJ
SPOTTED at Matt and Mercy Schlapp's Christmas party last night in their home in Alexandria: Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Ashley Kavanaugh, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, Don and Shannon McGahn , Laura Ingraham, Stephen Miller, Bill Shine, Sarah and Bryan Sanders, Hogan Gidley, Lindsay Walters, Raj Shah, Julia Hahn, Adam Kennedy, Benny and Katelyn Johnson …
… Garrett and Ashley Marquis, Shahira Knight, Greta van Susteren and John Coale, Vince Coglianese, Mike Allen, Charmaine and Jack Yoest, Laura Schlapp, Mike Allen, Jonathan Hoffman, Marshall Kirk, Tony Marshall, Tony Sayegh Gail Mackin No, Libby Scooter, Katie Waldman, Ninio Fetalvo, Judd Deere and Weston Loyd
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY: Jim Dornan, Vice President, Policy and Business Development at 720 Strategies . A funny fact about Jim: "I lived for three months in Mongolia, a few years after the fall of the wall, teaching democracy to IRI for the newly liberated country. One of the most rewarding experiences of my life has been to see people being able to pray for the first time. In addition, I have been fluent in Mongolian for a few years and can hardly say a word now. Playbook More Questions and Answers
BIRTHDAYS: Donna Brazile … Andrew Cote, WH Social Assistant for
President and Commander of the Maritime Security Force of the United States. WHC Communications Agency … Meridith Webster … Lauren French, Director of Communications for Representative Joe Crowley (DN.Y.) … Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) At 64 … Jeff Le … Matt Paul (tip: Ben Jenkins) … David Adler, BizBash CEO (h / t Tammy Haddad) … Danyell Tremmel … Griff Jenkins from Fox News is 48 … Bobby Moran and Isabel from POLITICO … Anna Jager … Heather Booth. .. Erin Dwyer (c / ts Jon Haber) … SKDKnickerbocker Bill Knapp (c / t Hilary Rosen and Kelley McCormick) … Alison Omens … Patrick Oakford … Spike Mendelsohn is 38 … Raquel Zaki … Ruy Teixeira … Emmanuel Chan … Israel "Izzy" Ortega … Deborah Koenigsberger … Steve Duno … Kristen Scholer, former Cheddar Presenter … old amb. in Italy John Phillips is 76 years old …
… Ret. General John R. Allen, today President of Brookings, is 65 years old (Wendy Anderson) … Tony Kreindler is 49 years old … Jordan Richardson … Lenny Young, COS for Representative Julia Brownley (D -Calif.) … Katie Hunt … Gavin Ross … Google's Frannie LaSala (h / t Riva Sciuto) … Theana Kastens … Diane Kepley … Devon Kearns, Communications Manager politics on Facebook .. Tara Corrigan, COO of the Messina band (Ty Ty Matsdorf) … Emily Pierce … Rita Lenane … Sarah Sullivan … Abby Matousek … Jimmy LaSalvia is 48 … Julie Winkelman .. Mark Siedlecki … Schuyler Softy … Mark Patterson … Andy Polesovsky … Jan Eberly … Brian Haley … Karen Hicks … Tim Dickson is 61 … Carson Pfingston … Maggie Brickerman … Laura Nevitt … Tanya Bjork … Maggie Gau (Teresa Vilmain)
THE SHOWS, of @MattMackowiak, Austin depot:
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CBS
"Front to the nation ": Stephen Miller … The s enema Amy Klobuchar (D-Min.) … Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) … Anny Davis … Trevor Potter … Paula Reid. Panel: Ben Domenech, Kelsey Snell, Margaret Talev and Ed Wong
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NBC
"Meet the Press": New poll NBC News / WSJ … Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) … Julián Castro . Panel: David Brody, Eliana Johnson, Gene Robinson and Katy Tur
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ABC
"This Week": Rudy Giuliani … Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) … Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Bad.). Panel: Peter Baker, Molly Ball, Roland Martin and Matt Schlapp
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CNN
"State of the Union": Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) … Elijah Cummings (D-MD). Panel: Amanda Carpenter, Bakari Sellers, Urban David and Jen Psaki
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Fox
"Fox News Sunday": Bill Gates … Rudy Giuliani. Panel: Brit Hume, Julie Pace, the former Marc Short and Juan Williams
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CNN
"Inside Politics": Panel: Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Abby Phillip, Josh Dawsey and Rachael Baden
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Fox News [19659082] "Sunday morning": Dem. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) … Representative Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) … Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) … Michael Mukasey. Panel: Steve Moore and Art Laffer
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Fox News
"MediaBuzz": Emily Jashinsky … Susan Ferrechio … Capri Cafaro … Jim Geraghty … Adrienne Elrod
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CNN
"Fareed Zakaria GPS": Panel: Zanny Minton Beddoes and David Miliband ("Rescue: The Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time") … David Sanger … Charles Duhigg … Ray Dalio
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CNN
"Reliable Sources": Joan Walsh, Matt Lewis and Will Bunch … Olivia Nuzzi and Oliver Darcy … Edward Felsenthal
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Univision
"Al Punto": Former and former employees of the Trump National Golf Club, Victorina Morales and Sandra Diaz, and Lawyer Anibal Romero … Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) … Father José Eugenio Hoyos … Director of "Roma" Alfonso Cuarón … former Vice President of Peru, Raúl Diez Canseco
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C-SPAN
"Communicators": Ajit Pai, interviewed by Margaret Har ding McGill … "News writers: Brock Long, interviewed by Ron Nixon and Camila DeChalus … " Q & A ": Author and Sarah Churchwell of the University of London ("Behold America")
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MSNBC
"Kasie DC": Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) … Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) … Lanny Davis … Marc Lotter … Julia Ioffe … Matt Aiming … Sam Stein … Shawna Thomas … Kimberly Atkins … Clint Watts … Joyce Vance … Julia Ainsley [19659083] Washington Times
"Mack on Politics" weekly policy podcast with Matt Mackowiak (download from iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher or listen to MackOnPolitics.com): Alistair Campbell
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