Subject: POLITICO’s Huddle: HOW OBAMA COULD SAVE THE IRAN DEAL, SANS CONGRESS — Schumer phones it in, assures left he won’t whip against the deal — CLINTON AGREES TO TURN OVER SERVER —Graham: don’t shut down government over Planned Parenthood — SPEIER EYES REVENGE PORN BILL.
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:04:10 -0600

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POLITICO ROOSTER: HOW OBAMA COULD SALVAGE THE IRAN DEAL ... even if Congress votes against it and overrides his veto. Michael Crowley reports: "Obama has broad powers to act alone - even against the will of Congress - say experts and former administration officials familiar with internal deliberations. Using his executive branch authority, Obama could effectively halt many U.S. sanctions on Iran, they say, in a bid to persuade Tehran to meet its end of the bargain. 'It might not be everything,' said a former administration official familiar with Iran policy. But the president's powers 'can get you a lot of the way' toward sanctions relief for Tehran."

We can already hear lawmakers squawking. "Such a move would be audacious, and sure to enrage members of Congress. 'Oh boy, the Hill will be in Defcon 1 mode,' said a Senate foreign policy aide. It could also provoke a constitutional showdown over presidential powers, sources warned, although Obama has invoked his executive authority to defy Congress on immigration and climate change. While not disputing that Obama has some power to blunt Congress' sanctions, a senior administration official challenged the idea that he could offer Tehran enough meaningful relief to win its compliance with the nuclear deal." 
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CHUCK SCHUMER WORKING THE PHONES ON IRAN. But not whipping against the deal; rather, assuring his colleagues he won't do so. Bres reports: "With liberal groups furious over his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, Sen. Chuck Schumer has been quietly reaching out to dozens of his colleagues to explain his decision and assure them he would not be whipping opposition to the deal, according to Democratic senators and aides."

"After news of his decision to vote 'no' on the Iran agreement first leaked Thursday night, Schumer (D-N.Y.) has spoken to 20 to 30 fellow Democrats about why he will vote with the GOP leadership against the deal, sources said. Schumer had been planning to make these calls on Friday, before his position on Iran became public, but was not able to do so because it had leaked the night before. In these conversations, Schumer has been walking through his position on the Iran agreement.... Schumer, though, is not lobbying his colleagues to vote against the agreement when the Senate takes up a 'resolution of disapproval' next month." 
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GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING. IT'S AUGUST 12, 2015. And you're halfway to Friday. Thanks for reading Huddle during recess. Always reachable here 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS: Recess, recess, recess.

AROUND THE HILL: Empty offices, bored interns.

ICYMI, EVENING NEWS DUMP-

CLINTON TO TURN OVER EMAIL SERVER. About an hour after an inspector general said Clinton had "top secret" information on her unsecured homebrewed email server, and just as Donald Trump was lighting up the internet predicting he'll win the Latino vote, Clinton's campaign dropped this little news bomb with CNN: "Hillary Clinton has instructed her attorney to hand over her private email server and a thumb drive of all her work-related emails to the Justice Department in an effort to blunt an expanding probe into the use of a private email account."

"Clinton, now the Democratic presidential front-runner, 'directed her team to give her email server that was used during her tenure as (Secretary of State) to the Department of Justice, as well as a thumb drive containing copies of her emails already provided to the State Department,' her spokesman, Nick Merrill, told CNN early Tuesday evening. 'She pledged to cooperate with the government&#39;s security inquiry, and if there are more questions, we will continue to address them.' Merril said in the meantime, Clinton&#39;s team 'has worked with the State Department to ensure her emails are stored in a safe and secure manner.'" 
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Why the change of heart? Clinton's team has been pushing back against Republicans' insistence that she turn over her server for months. But when the FBI gets involved, and an inspector general finds at least two highly classified "top secret" messages, well, that changes things. AP intelligence writer Ken Dilanian, for example, reports that "Kendall gave the thumb drives, containing copies of roughly 30,000 emails, to the FBI after the agency determined he could not remain in possession of the classified information contained in some of the emails.' 
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Hill Republicans cheered the news: "It's about time," said Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). But they also vowedit's not the end of their questions: "It's a welcome development, but it's hard to believe that the Clinton private server and the thumb drives in the possession of Ms. Clinton's personal lawyer have just recently been turned over to the authorities," said Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) . "That's a long time for top secret classified information to be held by an unauthorized person outside of an approved, secure government facility. I look forward to the FBI answering my questions ... and hold accountable anyone who broke the rules." 
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BACK IN THE DISTRICT-

"GRAHAM: NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS TRUMP PLANNED PARENTHOOD," by Niels Lesniewski, on the road in Greenville, S.C.: "A potential President Lindsey Graham would propose defunding Planned Parenthood, but the South Carolina Republican said using a government funding crisis as leverage in an abortion debate would undermine national security. 'Let me just be clear about me and Planned Parenthood. If I were president, I would never submit a budget with one dime for Planned Parenthood,' Graham said. 'I am not going, as Senator Graham, to shut the government down because of this fight. I will vote to defund Planned Parenthood, I will do everything I can to stop funding Planned Parenthood, but what
 Sen. [Ted] Cruz is suggesting is to shut the government down because of this dispute.'" 
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SHEA-PORTER EYES REMATCH IN N.H. Jess Bidgood for the New York Times: "New Hampshire's First Congressional District is one of the nation's dwindling number of genuine swing districts - and, in recent elections, it has bounced back and forth between the same two candidates, with the incumbent losing each time. Now, it appears that the Democrat in the tug-of-war, Carol Shea-Porter, will seek the seat once again, raising the intriguing possibility of yet another rematch."

"Ms. Shea-Porter was first elected when she was a little-known social worker in 2006. She and Frank Guinta, a Republican and the former mayor of Manchester, N.H., have faced off three times - in 2010, 2012 and 2014 - trading the seat as their parties traded fortunes nationally in each election. Mr. Guinta was victorious in 2014, but his term has not exactly been smooth. This year, he settled a 2010 campaign finance violation with the Federal Election Commission, which led members of his own party, including Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and even the conservative editorial page of The New Hampshire Union-Leader, to call for his resignation." 
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NO. OF THE DAY: 14 PERCENT. That's the percentage of Americans who approve of the way Congress is doing its job, per a new Gallup survey released this a.m. - a fun reminder of the good favor you folks carry with the public. On the bright side, that favorable rating is up from 9 percent during the government shutdown in October 2013.
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SPEIER LEADS GROUPS WRITING LAW CRIMINALIZING REVENGE PORN. National Journal's Kaveh Waddell: "Just months after revenge porn came under John Oliver&#39;s withering spotlight, Congress is getting into the act with legislation to ban the practice outright. With the recent addition of Texas, Oregon, and Vermont, half of U.S. states (plus Washington, D.C.) now have a law that addresses nonconsensual pornography. But because the laws vary so widely-some criminalize the practice entirely, while others only punish people who post compromising photos with an intent to harass the subject-some think Congress should put forward a law that would criminalize the practice of posting nonconsensual
 explicit images online on a federal level."

"After members return from August recess, a group of lawmakers led by Rep. Jackie Speier of California will introduce legislation that would make it illegal to distribute explicit images without the consent of the subject. The House bill was coauthored by Speier, who is a Democrat, and a yet-unnamed Republican. A mirror bill will be introduced in the Senate. Speier, a San Francisco-area representative and longtime advocate of both privacy and women&#39;s rights, says she considers the legislation a privacy issue rather than a sexual-harassment issue." 
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REMEMBER LARRY CRAIG? The former Idaho Senator is arguing that he doesn't have to pay back campaign money used on legal bills after being in arrested in a 2007 airport sex sting, per Todd Ruger of CQ Roll Call: "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit set oral arguments for Oct. 7 in the Idaho Republican's appeal. Craig is challenging a lower court order from nearly a year ago that he pay $242,533 to the Treasury Department - $197,533 from the Craig Committee and a $45,000 penalty - for using campaign money for legal representation on a disorderly conduct charge."

"The Federal Election Commission, which filed the lawsuit against Craig in 2012, is not backing down at the appeals court. Government attorneys plan to argue that Craig's appeal isn't just about money, but threatens a decades-old restriction on illegally converting campaign money for personal use... Craig has argued in court filings that such a disgorgement or repayment is contrary to FEC policy and precedent, 'and improperly punitive.'" 
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SNAPS FOR TECHNOLOGY. Rep. Robert Pittenger yesterday evening became the first lawmaker to broadcast a town hall using Facebook's live video feature from Mooreville, N.C.(H/t: Andy Stone, facebook's policy communications guy).

TUESDAY&#39;S TRIVIA WINNER. Everyone! So Huddle realized about 60 seconds after clicking send yesterday that naming the wealthiest presidents of the 20th century is sort of a tricky question. Based on wealth at the time? Compared to average income back then? Or overall? Google it and you'll get different answers, from Hoover and LBJ to JFK and Teddy Roosevelt-all depending on how you define wealth. Our bad for a crappy question.

TODAY&#39;S TRIVIA, much more cut-and-dry, comes from Shelby Boxenbaum, legislative counsel for Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.): There are only three instances of women statues on the National Mall. Name them. Email 
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