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May 15, 2016
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Welcome to the CNN Politics Nightcap and good Sunday evening from Washington. Donald Trump is under fire amid reports about his private conduct with women. And Sherrod Brown defended Hillary Clinton's left flank over trade. Your bartender is Eric Bradner (http://www.cnn.com/profiles/eric-bradner?cid=nl_pol_071915_profile?sr=nl_pol_072215_bradner) . The tip jar: [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked]) .

** Trump's allies downplay importance of how he treated women
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Donald Trump's allies spent Sunday defending the presumptive Republican nominee's treatment of women. The Republican National Committee's chairman, Reince Priebus, said on ABC's "This Week" that "these are things that he is going to have to answer for." And then, he argued that Trump's personal failings shouldn't have a bearing on whether he's elected. Priebus said: "I also think there are things from many years ago and I think that, you know, as Christians, judging each other I think is -- is problematic."

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions made a similar case on the same program. "People have not expected purity on (Trump's) part. What they're concerned about, they're deeply concerned about is this: somebody strong enough to take on Washington," he said.

What thrust Trump's treatment of women to the forefront was a report by The New York Times' Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey that carried this lead: "Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes." Another must-read on Trump and women comes from CNN's Maeve Reston and Scott Glover (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/13/politics/trump-women-2016-campaign/index.html) .

Was Trump posing as his own publicist, "John Miller," and bragging about his own sexual dalliances in the 1990s (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html) ? Nope, Trump's convention manager, Paul Manafort, claimed (while mostly trying to move on from the question about an unusual practice that Trump's admitted in the past) in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union." (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/donald-trump-paul-manafort-john-miller/index.html)

** The third-party problem: Conservatives can't find a candidate
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Mitt Romney asked Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse and got a hard "no." Billionaire Mark Cuban says he was asked, and turned it down, too. The anti-Donald Trump contingency of the GOP just can't seem to find a candidate willing to run against Trump and Hillary Clinton -- no matter how hard Bill Kristol, Erick Erickson, Mitt Romney and others push the idea that it's a huge platform to advocate conservative ideas. The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Robert Costa look at the effort (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-gop-effort-to-draft-an-independent-candidate-to-derail-trump/2016/05/14/1b04682e-1877-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html) .

Reince Priebus didn't mince words about how strongly he opposes a third-party campaign on "Fox News Sunday." Here's what the Republican National Committee chairman said: "They can try to hijack another party and get on the ballot, but, look, it's a suicide mission for our country because what it means is that you're throwing down not just eight years of the White House but potentially 100 years on the Supreme Court and wrecking this country for many generations."
Buzzing

Bill Kristol isn't giving up (https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/731834982918987776)  on his effort to recruit a third-party candidate to take on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Last Call

** Commencement roundup: Obama knocks Trump at Rutgers
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President Barack Obama took aim at Donald Trump while delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University, telling graduates to tout their knowledge, not brag about their ignorance. "In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue," he told the more than 12,000 graduates in New Brunswick, New Jersey. "It's not cool to not know what you're talking about. That's not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That's not challenging political correctness. That's just not knowing what you're talking about. And yet we've become confused about this." From CNN's Allie Malloy (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/obama-donald-trump-rutgers-university/index.html) .

Biden and Boehner at Notre Dame: Two Catholics, Vice President Joe Biden and former House Speaker John Boehner, were awarded the 2016 Laetare Medal at Notre Dame University. "We used to treat each other with respect," Biden told the audience in South Bend, Indiana. "John and I aren't old school. We're the American school. ... Progress only comes when you deal with your opponent with respect. Listening as well as talking." More from Allie (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/joe-biden-john-boehner-notre-dame/) .

** The time Ben Carson revealed Trump's vice presidential short list
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The Washington Post's Ben Terris found the quality that makes Ben Carson perhaps the worst surrogate ever: He just doesn't keep candid thoughts to himself. Terris reports about a scene (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-ben-carson-the-worst-or-the-best-surrogate-of-all-time-yes/2016/05/13/0afc3c52-17ac-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-lifestyle%3Ahomepage%2Fcard) in Columbus, Ohio, where he'd just told Carson a poll found him the best-liked of Donald Trump's potential running mates -- leading Carson to spill the beans on who Trump is considering.

The must-read excerpt: " 'Who else was on the list?' (Carson) asked quietly, maintaining his usual inscrutable calm. The most favorably regarded contenders after himself, he was told, were John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Chris Christie. 'Those are all people on our list,' he said. 'Well, not you,' (Carson's wife) Candy reminded him sharply. That the Trump campaign might want their potential VP picks held close to the vest didn’t seem to occur to Carson."

** Sherrod Brown backs Clinton over Trump on trade
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Sure, Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown share a lot of positions on trade. Both hate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, bash NAFTA and often complain about currency manipulation. But Brown told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/sherrod-brown-hillary-clinton-vice-president-trade/index.html) that it's Hillary Clinton whose trade policies would better protect American jobs. "When they see the big picture on jobs, the big picture on manufacturing, the big picture on trade, they're going to see a few shallow words from Trump," Brown said. "But they're going to see a lifelong commitment ... from Hillary Clinton."

About that veep thing ... Brown's answer on whether he'd like to be Clinton's No. 2: "I will put real effort into helping to elect Hillary Clinton. As I said, I love this job, and I'm just not going to give you a different answer."
Straight Up

** "We’re pretty busy but we could be lured into a new path."
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-- Newt Gingrich, the Donald Trump-backing former House speaker, on "Fox News Sunday" about whether he and his wife, Callista, would be open to joining Trump's ticket.
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Closing Time

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Donald Trump thinks he "has all the answers (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279955-former-defense-secretary-gates-trump-thinks-he-has-all) " and needs no advice. ... Trump broke with President Barack Obama on the "Brexit (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/donald-trump-obama-brexit/index.html) ." ... Conservative media personality Glenn Beck will meet this week (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/glenn-beck-to-meet-with-mark-zuckerberg-223186) with Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook officials amid reports the social media app kept right-leaning media outlets' reports from trending.
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