Subject: POLITICO Playbook, presented by JPMorgan Chase & Co.: HOW RYAN DECIDED TO DITCH TRUMP – HILLARY TAKES ON Trump’s ‘taco bowl’ tweet – POLITICO launches ‘Nerdcast’ – MARY MATALIN leaves GOP
From: Mike Allen <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 06:08:10 -0600

05/06/2016 08:05 AM EDT

By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; [email-masked]) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; [email-masked])

HAPPY Friday. Sunday is Mother's Day.

PLAYBOOK BREAKFAST: Please join us at 8 a.m. on livestream or C-SPAN 2 for blockbuster Playbook Breakfast with RNC Chair Reince Priebus. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791cb32bbf9c07d01391af12d5125b382313f63cca027f6bcd4

TICK TOCK -- "How Ryan decided to ditch Trump" in interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" -- Jake Sherman: "On Wednesday morning, not even 24 hours after Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, Paul Ryan convened his top advisers for a call. With Congress out of session, Ryan was bouncing between multiple states, raising the piles of money needed to keep House Republicans in the majority. But Donald Trump was on his mind. The speaker could not - at least at this point - support him. And he wanted to talk through how to proceed.

"Ryan never expected Trump to lock up the nomination so quickly. He didn't think Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would drop out of the race in May. In fact, Ryan's orbit was preparing for a contested convention in Cleveland, where he is slated to serve as chairman, effectively the emcee of the Trump coronation." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe7916d6dbe6e6ca323f9e35dc9ec999197819df4afc3cb049c9a

--TRUMP's statement fires back: "I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan's agenda. Perhaps in the future we can work together and come to an agreement about what is best for the American people. They have been treated so badly for so long that it is about time for politicians to put them first!"

DONALD IN D.C. -- "Trump plans Capitol Hill visit," by Jake Sherman and Seung Min Kim: "Trump might be coming to Capitol Hill as soon as next week to begin wooing Republican members of Congress. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions' operation is trying to broker meetings between Trump and Republican factions according to multiple sources familiar with the plans. Trump may even meet with members of Republican leadership ... The outreach is ... a sign that Trump knows he has work to do in Washington now that he is the presumptive nominee." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791000402958445fc9e2d47f60855d5bdfbe95fc96c222f4f75 

MARY MATALIN leaves the GOP and switches parties to register as a libertarian, telling Bloomberg's "With All Due Respect": "I'm a never Hillary and I'm a provisional Trump because I like his attitude, I like his strategic chutzpah. I like that he had the gall to put macro messaging over micro targeting and I like what I know of his economic policy but I just don't know enough.'" 3-min. video http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791af8b7c123a8d6cbfb4a4f1b23fbd953f243c349306eaad03

--"Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump," by NYT's Thomas Kaplan and Maggie Haberman: "'Yes, I'm a Republican, he's a Republican ... He's our nominee. Whoever the nominee would turn out to be, any one of the 17 - he was one of the 17. He won fair and square.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791b0a40421aa071e019f41108ba9adb67c7e02a80658efc825

SHOT -- @realDonaldTrump: "Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe7912bf5507135bee79b5b7c3e845dbc332648cad93b400807b4

CHASER -- @HillaryClinton: "'I love Hispanics!' -Trump, 52 minutes ago http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791c97a179f6275eaa8ccaae8b7644bf672df0537729e1da630 'They're gonna be deported.' -Trump, [Wednsday]" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe7911fd476bab7eea15fb5b66f2fe57bee0d0241a2e97ce6573f

TRUMP to Fox News: "I know Russia well, I had a major event in Russia two or three years ago - Miss Universe contest." The DNC quickly jumped on that, blasting out this video "Trump and Palin's Foreign Policy 'Experience" on Russia http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791f8bfd37ac32f9e62bce860f11fdcd302698341750118627c

SNEAK PEEK - Weekly Standard's new cover, "OMG!" with an illustration of an Uncle Sam type struggling who to vote for http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791a57fac7f47e12263ee54503bc700d905feeea2e19606dd20

REPUBLICANS FOR HILLARY? "Hillary forces target Bush donors: Their message to moderate Republicans: She represents your values better than Trump," by Morning Money's Ben White: "Clinton's supporters in recent days have been making a furious round of calls to top Bush family donors to try to convince them that she represents their values better than Donald Trump ... Top targets for the Clinton team include people like Woody Johnson, Jeb Bush's former finance chair and the owner of the New York Jets." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe7919a3338b57fb6de6ef67719af2f8d8d61d0ba375d36a7b35c

TOP TWEETS: @BrendanBuck: "Politics at its best is when you just go with your gut" ... @mattkatz00: "@ChrisChristie says he's going to reach out to @SpeakerRyan to find out 'what his concerns are' about endorsing @realDonaldTrump" ... @samsteinhp:"see a taco bowl summit between Trump and Ryan coming soon. Perhaps Tortilla Coast can host." ... Mashable's Chris Taylor (@FutureBoy): "One great thing about being a journalist is all sorts of random people are in your inbox every day hoping you're well"

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DRIP, DRIP -- "Clinton aide interviewed in email investigation," by AP's Eric Tucker: "The FBI has interviewed Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Clinton, as part of a federal investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791c3878031e388b6c8298b0ef93fd8c5cefa2b3f019c17076d

COMING ATTRACTIONS -- "Democratic advertising blitz awaits GOP's Trump," by AP's Chad Day and Julie Bykowicz: "Priorities USA ... has already reserved $91 million in television advertising that will start next month and continue through Election Day. ... The group's leaders say they're trying to avoid what they see as the core mistake made by Trump's Republican rivals - not pushing hard enough against him until it was too late. ... An Associated Press review of Priorities USA's TV buys ... reveals a formidable 22-week advertising blitz through what the group considers key battleground states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia. ...

"Priorities USA plans to spend about $4 million a week through most of June. The group then slows spending through July ... [and] returns to the airwaves in August and begins unloading $60 million in ads between September and Election Day. ... The heaviest concentration is in Florida, where the group has reserved $23 million in time, mostly in Orlando and in Tampa. The group also plans to spend about $19.5 million in the traditional presidential bellwether state of Ohio." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791e5c86ce9be397774d21ef6cd4fdd61765f8cfc7f0f9dcbf1

-- "Thousands of George W. Bush White House's 'Skull and Bones' files due out," by Josh Gerstein:"More than 1,000 pages of letters, memos, a draft speech and other materials relating to Skull and Bones are set for release in July, unless Bush or President Barack Obama move to block the disclosure." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791f5705403c6901f9769cb5cd20a4fa690547f8e12e84d8cab

CONVENTIONWATCH -- "Bush 41 and Bush 43 plan to skip GOP convention: The last two Republican nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, also plan to avoid the event," by Nick Gass: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe79119e29ab9f6bbbbbfa2d93fe80fa43fbcc25e982691a419ca

--"Trump tasks aide Michael Glassner with convention planning," by Ken Vogel and Alex Isenstadt:"Trump is tasking one of his closest aides - deputy campaign manager Michael Glassner - with putting the presumptive GOP nominee's mark on the party's convention ... Glassner is set to travel next week with a delegation from the campaign to the convention site, Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena, to assess the convention planning and receive a briefing from [RNC] officials involved in convention planning." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe79179221156241c760f0ec9e4f391e65b92dd93616c5b25ed13

--"Facebook won't skip Trump's convention," by Tony Romm: "Facebook will provide 'financial and other support' to the Republican and Democratic conventions this summer - a move that comes as liberal groups continue to push the tech industry to withdraw from the GOP's event in opposition to Donald Trump. The social media giant ... told POLITICO on Thursday its convention efforts include setting up a 'Facebook Lounge,' meant to 'showcase election-related activity happening on our platform.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe79198dd61602d11f01935e83fc642b6ef7a8fbe8f4196dc3ff1

--Guardian's @Bencjacobs: "Bob Dole will attend the convention in Cleveland and only be the only former GOP nominee there" ... @JeffreyNussbaum: "Repub convention 2012 was 'The Convention Without Walls' #RNCinCLE can delete the 'out' #ironyalert" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe7914e9b6a7455ecc27d4655a63d005c318267191630e1a0324a

2016 PLAYERS -- "New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP," by BuzzFeed's Tarini Parti: "Trump's campaign announced Thursday that Steve Mnuchin, co-founder of Dune Capital Management and OneWest Bank Group LLC, would serve as the presumptive Republican nominee's national finance chair. Although Mnuchin has given to Republicans, his financial ties to the Democratic Party and liberal causes appear to be significantly deeper. ...

"Mnuchin has given more than $125,000 since 1998 to candidates and committees that disclose their donors - more than half of which went to Democrats ... He contributed to Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Chris Dodd in the 2008 presidential election cycle. He also gave to Obama and Clinton's Senate campaigns, and supported Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and the [DSCC]." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe79123f80514968a22a469098bf97e34786036d68f5abf7b46bf

SUNDAY SO FAR - CNN's "State of the Union": Gov. Jan Brewer, Amanda Carpenter, Nina Turner, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.)

--NBC's "Meet the Press": Chuck Todd tapes Trump today at Trump Tower

--ABC's "This Week": George Stephanopoulos talks to Trump

--CBS' "Face the Nation": Taping Hillary in Oakland today

--"Fox News Sunday": Brit Hume, Julie Pace, Kimberley Strassel, Charles Lane

-- CNN's "Inside Politics" from 8 to 9 a.m.: Jonathan Martin, Molly Ball, Ryan Lizza, MJ Lee - anchored by John King

SIDEWIRE IN THE NEWS -- "This App Is The Antidote To This Insane Presidential Campaign," by Fast Company's David Lidsky: "Sidewire [co-founded by Tucker Bounds] ... is rolling out Sidewire Chats, a product that makes it easier for the people in its community to initiate and host an exchange around a topic. ... [I]f you had had to predict a tech front-runner as the campaign heated up, you'd have bet on live streaming video or Snapchat ... But in this election, where the next surprise is seemingly never more than an hour away, what if chat conversations become the new media?" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791a2ee92d6aff51cccdcb259248d445ca087b1ded7c5305b86

FUTURE OF MEDIA - "New York Times to Start Delivering Meal Kits to Your Home," by Bloomberg's Gerry Smith: "It's all the food that's fit to eat. This summer, the New York Times will begin selling ingredients for recipes from its NYT Cooking website as the newspaper publisher seeks new revenue sources to offset declines in print. The Times is partnering with meal-delivery startup Chef'd, which will send the ingredients to readers within 48 hours. ... In recent years, New York Times Co. has started businesses around live conferences, a wine club and an online store that sells hats, shirts and other trinkets with Times logos. The paper also runs a growing travel unit, 'Times Journeys,' in
 which tourists pay thousands of dollars to see countries like Iran or Cuba, many of which are led by Times foreign correspondents." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791eb5f4734d76710b8ed2419da959c5297355cf7e44297509f

--"LinkedIn Exploring Its Own Version Of Facebook's Instant Articles," by BuzzFeed's Alex Kantrowitz: "Sources ... [said] that LinkedIn has discussed the product with various publishers in recent weeks as it tests the waters." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe7913ed83591794215d9ab79303aa538fb308811c179add218e7

TRANSITIONS -- "NFL hires ex-Murdoch aide Natalie Ravitz," by Joe Pompeo: "Ravitz, who was the News Corp. and 21st Century Fox chairman's chief of staff from 2012 to mid-2015, has been named senior vice president of communications at the NFL. Ravitz, who had previously worked as a press secretary and senior adviser to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and in former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education department, will report to Joe Lockhart, a former White House press secretary for Bill Clinton who joined the league in January as executive vice president of communications." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe7915894c83639923000fb886109caa94e9ba2ebe06cbe81d70d

--TJ Ducklo will be joining the Bloomberg Media communications team as communications director for Bloomberg Politics working closely with co-managing editors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann beginning on Monday. He has previously been a spokesperson for the MPAA, Viacom, and DC's 2024 Olympic Bid. 

--Jim David joins Hamilton Place Strategies "as a managing director from Kekst and Company where he advised Fortune 500 companies, leading alternative asset managers, and other clients on a range of business-critical communications issues, including shareholder activism, bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory matters, and crises." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791758708fa8ab3cfe71ed819dcc8b07a6109770781cbacc486

SNEAK PEEK - "Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime," by Philip Galanes in his "Tables for Three" column in the upcoming N.Y. Times Sunday Styles section -- Obama: "I just spoke to a group of young interns who rotate out every six months." ... Cranston: "And you crushed their spirit?" Obama: "I told them, if you had to choose a moment in human history to live ... you'd choose now. There's power in nostalgia, but the fact is the world is wealthier, healthier, better educated, less violent, more tolerant, more socially conscious and more attentive to the vulnerable than it has ever been." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=363e8426b6bbe791c7c562451e62c161340c68a7840cbf3f8af0e09d7a5518cf

BIRTHDAYS: Jim Gartman, the Rush Limbaugh of Three Lakes, Wis., and the Sean Hannity of Florida (Pack tip: John and Joan) ... Tucker Eskew ... Tony Blair is 63 ... Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) is 82 ... Sheena Arora, SVP at Revolution Agency, celebrating with dinner and drinks in Shaw with a few friends (h/t Rodell Mollineau) ... Politico's David Rogers ... NYT columnist Joe Nocera ... Politico Albany bureau chief Jimmy Vielkind ... Music mogul legend Steve Lindsey is 6-0, celebrating with his wife Stephanie and kids Tallulah, Fox and Hallelujah -- over the years Steve has worked closely with Leonard Cohen, Dr. Dre and more recently, signed and developed the artist phenom Bruno Mars (h/ts
 niece and documentarian Nadia Szold and nephew Daniel Lippman) ... Dani Lever, spokeswoman for Gov. Cuomo (h/t Devora Kaye) ...

... Seth Freedland, former speechwriter to the Secretary at Commerce, currently working at Nike's Strategy & Messaging Center of Excellence. Seth plans to host a barbecue bash in the lush vegetable garden of his Portland, Oregon townhouse. The fare will feature Seth's famous homemade baked goods, cans of local Oregon IPAs, and pints of the famous Salt & Straw ice cream (h/t Obama admin./O'Malley for President alum and also currently at Nike, Danny Gaynor) ... Rosa Puech ... Jim Ramstad ... Mark Armour (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ...

... Lincoln Rose Pierce Smith, daughter of Jamie Smith and Eric Pierce, on his Mom and Dad's 16th wedding anniversary ... Woodfen McLean (h/t Dad and Mom, Joe and Kiki McLean) ... Jennifer Longmire-Wright, donor events manager in development at NPR ... Cara Philbin, account manager at ConnellyWorks and an NPR alum ... Laura Evans, Fox 5 News anchor and consumer reporter ... Stefan Friedman, partner at Mercury ... Mark Armour ... Treasury alum Benjamin Levine, now focusing on global economics and finance at the NSC ... ABC News' Lisa Ferri ... Rebecca Powell Marx ... Natasha Mozgovaya ... Paul Schmitz ... Bob McCall, producer/social media producer at CBS News ... Jim Williams ... Bill Dolbow
 ... White House alumnus John Roberts ...

... George Clooney is 55 ... Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays is 85 ... Bob Seger is 71 ... Mark Bryan (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 49 ... Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters) is 45 ... Tiffany Coyne ("Let's Make a Deal") is 34 ... Gabourey Sidibe is 33 ... actress-singer Naomi Scott is 23 (h/ts AP)

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