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Trump tangles with the Navy, and Bloomberg finally gets in


OF ALL THE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS in the TRUMP era, this one is up there.

FIRST, here’s your primer, via MAGGIE HABERMAN, HELENE COOPER and DAVE PHILLIPS on A1 of the NYT today: “The secretary of the Navy and the admiral who leads the SEALs have threatened to resign or be fired if plans to expel a commando from the elite unit in a war crimes case are halted by President Trump, administration officials said Saturday.

“The high-level pushback to Mr. Trump’s unambiguous assertion on Twitter this past week that the commando, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, should remain in the unit was an extraordinary development in what was already an extraordinary case, one with few precedents in the history of presidential relations with the American military.

“The Navy secretary, Richard V. Spencer, later denied that he had threatened to resign but said disciplinary plans against Chief Gallagher would proceed because he did not consider Mr. Trump’s statement on Twitter to be a formal order. Mr. Spencer added that the president, as commander in chief, had the authority to intervene and that it would stop ‘the process.’” NYT

THEN, THIS MORNING, THE PRESIDENT tweeted this: “Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher will be on @foxandfriends this morning at 7:30 A.M. Have no fear, all will end well for everyone!”

GALLAGHER used that appearance to accuse the secretary of the Navy of “meddling” in his case, which he threatened to expose next week.

WSJ: “Trump to Allow Internal Review of Navy SEAL Case,” by Gordon Lubold and Nancy Youssef: “Mr. Trump is allowing the Navy to convene a peer-review board to determine whether Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher will remain in the elite unit, military officials said.

The Navy got word late Friday, officials said, that Mr. Trump would allow it to continue to adjudicate the matter. The board will be the Navy’s final say on the fate of Chief Gallagher, who was cleared of more serious war crimes that took place in Iraq but found guilty of dishonoring his service by posing for a picture with a dead militant.”

NEW YORK GOP REP. LEE ZELDIN -- a combat vet -- to JAKE TAPPER on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION”: “The -- the president of the United States is the commander in chief. It is not easy to earn that trident to become a Navy SEAL or an Army Ranger or Green Beret, a Marine, and so on so forth. A lot of people have taken -- it's great pain, great sacrifice to be able to gain that type of experience, that combat experience, as well as those training badges.

“And for President Trump, or whether it's a past president or a future president, as the commander in chief, it is their prerogative, if they want to defend somebody like -- like this, who has really gone through a lot to earn those types of awards, if he or she wants to weigh in as commander in chief, that is their prerogative.”

SNEAK PEEK … THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK … Monday: PRESIDENT TRUMP will have lunch with the vice president, and meet with the prime minister of Bulgaria. Tuesday: THE PRESIDENT will have lunch with the secretary of State, and participate in the presentation of the national Thanksgiving Turkey. He will go to Sunrise, Fla., for a political rally.

THE PRESIDENT will be in Palm Beach for the Thanksgiving holiday, and will participate in a teleconference on Thursday with members of the military.


MIKE BLOOMBERG has announced he’s getting in the presidential race.

-- NYT’S ALEX BURNS: “At 77, Mr. Bloomberg is one of the oldest candidates in the race, and like Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders he would become the oldest person ever to assume the presidency if elected. Mr. Bloomberg is also, with Mr. Sanders, one of two major candidates for the nomination who are Jewish, and either would be the first Jewish president if elected.

“Should Mr. Bloomberg become the Democratic nominee, it would set up a general election between two party-switching moguls from New York City, though Mr. Bloomberg’s fortune is larger than Mr. Trump’s many times over.” NYT

TEXAS TRIBUNE’S EVAN SMITH with a great question: @evanasmith: “If he doesn’t take contributions and there’s a contribution threshold for debates per the @DNC, how does @MikeBloomberg make the debates?”

RUTH BADER GINSBURG was hospitalized with “chills and a fever.” POLITICO

Good Sunday morning.

THE PRESIDENT ate at his hotel last night. WaPo’s TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA spotted “POTUS and FLOTUS, along with Barron Trump and Viktor and Amalija Knavs” at the hotel.

-- NANCY COOK: “Forget the Oval. The real Trump action is in the residence.”

PETER BAKER ties it together on A1, with this News Analysis: “A Split Decision From Congress Will Leave Voters With Final Say on Trump”: “Every one is playing their assigned role in a drama where the ending seems known in advance as the House of Representatives heads toward a likely party-line vote to impeach the president, followed by a Senate trial that will not convict him.

“But if the outcome of the showdown on Capitol Hill at the moment appears foreordained, the ultimate verdict still is not. Unlike Presidents Richard M. Nixon or Bill Clinton, Mr. Trump faces an election after his impeachment battle, meaning that the voters will serve as the court of appeals rendering their own final judgment on whether he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.” NYT

WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE SHOULD BE READING … REPUBLICANS stick with TRUMP, via WaPo’s Phil Rucker

… AND WAPO’S DAN BALZ: A snapshot from Wisconsin highlights Democrats’ challenges on impeachment”: “The [impeachment] testimony was damaging to the president. Yet the Wisconsin survey showed modest but nonetheless perceptible shifts in the direction favoring Trump, on the question of whether he should be impeached and also in head-to-head matchups against leading Democratic presidential candidates. …

“The Marquette poll found 40 percent of registered voters favoring impeachment of Trump and his removal from office, compared with 44 percent in October. At the same time, 53 percent oppose impeachment and removal, compared with 51 percent the previous month.” WaPoThe Marquette poll

FOX NEWS’ MARIA BARTIROMO asked REP. DEVIN NUNES (R-Calif.) if he was in Vienna with Viktor Shokin, the corrupt former Ukranian prosecutor, to get dirt on JOE BIDEN, as CNN has reported:

-- NUNES: “I really want to answer all of these questions and I promise you I absolutely will come back on the show and answer these questions. But because there is criminal activity here, we’re working with the appropriate law enforcement agencies, we are going to file all this -- everyone’s going to know the truth, everybody is going to know all the facts but I think you can understand that I can’t compete by trying to debate this out with the public media when 90 percent of the media are totally corrupt. And because this is criminal in nature and because it is so bad, so slanderous, we’ve got all the facts on our side and we are going to file in federal court because I'm not going to sit here and try to compete against the media that I have no chance of winning this. I will win in court and they’ll have a chance to cooperate and they’ll have to show how they work with somebody who has been indicted which is likely conspiring to obstruct justice.”

BIG YEAR-END NEWS … CAITLIN EMMA: “Agreement reached on spending bill allocations”: “Top appropriators in Congress have reached a deal on spending levels for a dozen bills that fund the day-to-day operations of the federal government, two individuals familiar with the negotiations said today.

“The agreement on the toplines for the bills is important because it means Congress can move ahead with work on spending for fiscal 2020 and avoid a potential government shutdown in four weeks.”


SUNDAY BEST …

-- JAKE TAPPER asked HOUSE INTEL CHAIRMAN ADAM SCHIFF (D-Calif.) about waiting for more testimony from people like MICK MULVANEY on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION”: “Yes, we’d love to have these witnesses come in. But we’re not willing to simply allow them to wait us out, to stall this proceeding when the facts are already overwhelming. … We do need to consider that if we allow this obstruction to succeed -- we allow them to draw us out endlessly in the courts -- then it does make the impeachment clause a non entity. It means Congress will forever be incapable of doing any oversight. Why should any future president answer a congressional subpoena?”

-- CHUCK TODD asked SCHIFF about having the whistleblower testify on NBC’S “MEET THE PRESS”: “We had a deep interest in having the whistleblower testify until two things happened. One, we were able to prove everything in the whistleblower complaint with witnesses that had firsthand information, and second, the president and his allies effectively put that whistleblower's life in danger. The president said the whistleblower and others should be treated as a traitor or a spy and we ought to use the penalty we used to use for traitors and spies, and that's the death penalty. So, here's the thing, Chuck, we don't need the whistleblower's secondhand evidence anymore. It would only serve to endanger this person and to gratify the president's desire for retribution, and that is not a good enough reason to bring in the whistleblower.”

-- REP. ERIC SWALWELL (D-CALIF.) to CHRIS WALLACE on “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” about the “urgency” of the impeachment probe: “Most importantly the president invoked an upcoming election. And voters, you know, in just a few months are going to be voting in the upcoming caucuses. And so there’s an urgency to make sure the election and the ballot box, you know, have integrity. And if he’s asking a foreign government to interfere in an election, you know, we are, you know, on the clock to make sure that that election is protected.”

WICHITA EAGLE FRONT PAGE: “Democrats sense that inquiry politically wounded Pompeo,” by Bryan Lowry and Michael Wilner … Front page PDF

THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE notes on its front page that REP. CONOR LAMB (D-Pa.) is still neutral on impeachment

DEPT. OF NOT SO GOOD FOR THE PRESIDENT … WSJ: U.S. Firms Pull Back on Investment: Capital spending by S&P 500 companies grew less than 1% in the third quarter, and would have fallen without Apple and Amazon,” by Theo Francis and Thomas Gryta: “Many of the biggest U.S. companies are moderating their spending on equipment and other capital investment, as an uncertain business environment prompts some to postpone or shelve otherwise promising projects. That could pose a continuing drag on economic growth.

“The pullback began as trade tensions escalated last fall, leaving companies unsure about their supply chains, pricing and profits. It has continued amid signs of slowing global growth and increasing consumer concerns about the future. Household names like Harley-Davidson Inc., AT&T Inc. and Target Corp. are joining small businesses in putting the brakes on investment.

“Some companies have warned it could continue into next year, when the presidential and congressional election is expected to add even more uncertainty to business decision-making.” WSJ

PALM BEACH POST FRONT PAGE: “Mar-a-Lago, an oasis of support, fundraising: President is expected to arrive Tuesday for Thanksgiving and a week later for GOP gathering”

ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION FRONT PAGE: “Trade war whipsaws state wood commerce: Industry fights layoffs, worries for future as exports to China crash” AJC story

WHAT JOHN CORNYN IS READING … DALLAS MORNING NEWS: “Texas Democrats worry Senate field too weak to beat Republican incumbent John Cornyn,” by Gromer Jeffers Jr.: “After Beto O’Rourke came close to beating Ted Cruz in their thrilling 2018 Senate contest, Texas Democrats hoped they could use that momentum to oust John Cornyn in 2020.

But less than four months from the March primary, the Democratic race for Senate is a sleepy affair, with the major candidates struggling to find traction with voters, spark energy in the party’s base and offer a formidable alternative to Cornyn.

“Four of the top five candidates got into the race late by today’s standards, and some of them still haven’t built out their field and fundraising operations. Their social media presence, a must in modern campaigns, is not big-league quality. Voters aren’t paying attention to the race.” DMNFront page PDF

2020 WATCH …

-- PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: “Older black voters in South Carolina love Joe Biden. Their kids are another story.”: “While older black voters back him, younger ones are more uncertain. Many elected Democrats in the state have yet to endorse, a sign to some political operatives that they’re still unsure whether Biden has what it takes.

“‘Look, nobody’s passing the plate during an altar call because Joe Biden just gave a speech,’ [State Sen. Marlon] Kimpson said. ‘But you know what? People are exhausted and I think that plays in favor of someone who has experience, who’s deliberate, methodical, and safe.’” Philly Inquirer A1 PDF

THE PRESIDENT’S SUNDAY … Nothing on the schedule.






BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman (@dlippman), filing from Del Mar, Calif.:

-- “Greta Thunberg: How one teenager became the voice of the planet,” by Amelia Tait in Wired UK: “When adults wouldn’t listen, Greta Thunberg started to strike. Now millions of school children around the world follow her. Thunberg’s generation is our best chance of saving the world.” Wired

-- “The Creator of the Shitty Media Men List Isn’t Done,” by Nona Willis Aronowitz in Vice: “Moira Donegan could have been known solely as the woman who made the document that brought #MeToo to media. Instead, her life has been shaped by the consciousness-raising the list came out of.” Vice

-- “The Grocery Store Where Produce Meets Politics,” by The New Yorker’s Alexandra Schwartz: “The legendary Park Slope Food Co-op carries sustainable food, low prices, and New Yorkers’ opinions in bulk.” New Yorker

-- “The designers and the don: How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel,” by USA Today’s Gus Garcia-Roberts: “Federal prosecutors ... [alleged] that by agreeing to decorate roughly two dozen of [Cali Cartel leader José Santacruz Londoño’s] properties – including a ‘postmodern hacienda’ and an apocalypse-ready compound as the kingpin’s pursuers closed in on him – the designers had transformed his American cocaine profits into objects of value in Colombia.” USA Today (h/t Longform.org)

-- “The Mister Rogers No One Saw,” by Jeanne Marie Laskas in the NYT Magazine: “Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.” NYT Magazine

-- “How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13 million from the Sacramento Kings,” by ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz – per Longform.org’s description: “How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.” ESPN


-- “Long Island Divided,” by Newsday’s Ann Choi, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow and Arthur Browne: “25 undercover testers trained. 93 real estate agents tested. 240 hours of meetings secretly recorded. 5,763 house listings analyzed. A three-year Newsday investigation uncovered widespread evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents on Long Island: 19% of the time against Asians. 39% of the time against Hispanics. 49% of the time against blacks.” Newsday

-- “How Natural Wine Became a Symbol of Virtuous Consumption,” by Rachel Monroe in the New Yorker: “The mainstreaming of natural wines has brought niche winemakers capital and celebrity, as well as questions about their personalities and politics.” New Yorker

-- “The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years,” by Slate’s Dan Kois and Laura Miller: “Slate’s books team selects the definitive works of reporting, memoir, and argument of the past quarter-century.” Slate (h/t TheBrowser.com)

-- “How The Kremlin’s Assassins Sowed Terror Through The Streets Of London While British Authorities Scrambled To Stop Them,” by BuzzFeed’s Heidi Blake in an excerpt of her new book “From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West”: “Putin’s enemy Boris Berezovsky knew the Kremlin was trying to kill him in London, but to the frustration of British authorities, he refused to lie low — or to stop trafficking teenage sex workers into the country on his private plane.” BuzzFeed ... $20.81 on Amazon

-- “Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai,” by Mark Harris in Technology Review: “These ships could be unwilling test subjects for a sophisticated electronic warfare system, or collateral damage in a conflict between environmental criminals and the Chinese state that has already claimed dozens of ships and lives. But one thing is for certain: there is an invisible electronic war over the future of navigation in Shanghai, and GPS is losing.” Technology Review (h/t TheBrowser.com)

-- “The Invention of Thanksgiving,” by Philip Deloria in The New Yorker: “Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.” New Yorker




Send tips to Eli Okun and Garrett Ross at politicoplaybook@politico.com.

SPOTTED at a party for Neal Katyal and Sam Koppelman’s new book, “Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump,” ($13.49 on Amazon) hosted by George Conway, Retired Gen, Mike Hayden, Eric Holder, Rob Reiner and Nicolle Wallace at Juleanna Glover’s home: Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Josh Lederman, Shane Harris, Ruth Marcus, Natasha Bertrand, Dana Milbank, Kristen Holmes, Lois Romano, Stephanie Cutter, Marcus Brauchli, Naomi Nix, Alan Davidson, Julia Ioffe, Jane Mayer, Adam Kushner, Wajahat Ali, Nicole Elkon and Neal Wolin, Melissa Moss and Jonathan Silver, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Jamie Kirchick, Norm Ornstein, Katie Benner, Steve Chaggaris, Nihal Krishan, Adam Green and Bill Bishop.

WEEKEND WEDDINGS … “Paige Esterkin, Jonathan Bronitsky,” via NYT: “Mrs. Bronitsky, 29, is the senior adviser for policy development and research at United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington. ... Dr. Bronitsky, 35, is the chief speechwriter to William P. Barr, the United States attorney general, and the groom is a senior adviser at the Department of Justice. ... His articles on politics and history have appeared in various publications including National Review, National Affairs, Modern Age and the Weekly Standard.” With a pic, NYT

-- “Alexandra Lane, Fielder Valone,” via NYT: “The bride, 28, is a regional finance director at the [DSCC] in Washington. She graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ... The groom, who is 31 ... is a historian of modern Germany and the Holocaust. He is a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received a Ph.D. in modern European history from Indiana University. He was also a Fulbright scholar.” With a pic, NYT

TRANSITIONS -- Katherine Emerson is joining Bayer as director of political affairs. She previously was director of public policy and political strategy at the National Corn Growers Association. … Anne Gordon is now tax counsel for Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.). She previously was manager of Washington national tax services and international tax at PwC.

BIRTHDAYS: Jared Cohen ... Sally Susman, EVP and chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer … former Agriculture Secretary/former Rep. Dan Glickman is 75 (h/t Doug Farrar) … Krystal Ball is 38 ... Marlin Fitzwater, former press secretary for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, is 77 … Tyler Goodspeed, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (h/t Rachael Slobodien) ... POLITICO’s Shia Kapos, Kelsey Miller, Darius Tahir, Katie Davis and Sarah Dickson … Tom LoBianco … Cristina Cox … Mark Steitz … Kathy McGough (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Rachel Kriegsman ... NYT’s Marc Santora ... Lepi Jha Fishman … Meaghan Smith, SVP at SKDKnickerbocker (h/t Scott Mulhauser) ... Ginger Stanley ... Ben Burger ... AP’s Nasser Karimi ... Chris Putala (h/t wife Allison Kaminsky Putala) ... former Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas) is 68 … Robin Lyons … Frank Ahrens … Ted Sorrell …

… Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Penn … Gary Beck of HHS’ Office of External Affairs (h/t Caitlin Oakley) … Alejandro Mayorkas, a partner at WilmerHale, is 6-0 … Nikki Clifton, VP of corporate public affairs at UPS (h/t Robert Chiappetta) … Simcha Lyons … Kavya Balaraman … Matt Chisholm … Jordana Merran … Jeff Ballabon … Sherry Ettleson … Alpex International’s Lee Godown (h/ts Jon Haber) … Brent Swander … Benjamin Deitchman … Patrick Burchette is 43 … Hugh Grindstaff … Suzy DeFrancis … Rachel Witkin of “Hardball” … Chris Crane, who recently married Lindsey Edinger of Kirkland & Ellis -- pic … Terry Walsh … Maria Ory … Marceline White … Lindsey Schulte … Susan Lyon … Patrick Reimherr … Jonathan Lang … Jed Link … Amanda Anderson … Jim Landry … Dave Rapallo … Meghan Graf … Jeremy Pevner … Jonathan Black … Paul Tagliabue is 79 … Brooke Jamison … Ned McCann … John Kamis … Gordon Fischer



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