Subject: POLITICO Playbook, presented by Uber: TRUMP TOWER intrigue: 3 power centers – OBAMA POLLS RISING, giving him more ’16 juice – FBI probes NYC mayor fundraising – HANDY DANDY: List of Hollywood endorsers, Hillary v. Bernie -- B’DAY: Joe Scarborough
From: "Mike Allen" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 09:50:10 -0600

04/09/2016 11:48 AM EDT

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

Good Saturday morning. It's the 100th day of 2016. How're those resolutions going?

INSIDE THE CAMPAIGNS - "Political 'Hunger Games' roils Trump's inner circle: Front-runner's adult children huddle with their father as staff divides among three competing aides," by Ken Vogel, Ben Schreckinger and Eli Stokols: "[S]taffers are increasingly dividing themselves into competing factions aligned with ... embattled campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who still commands deep loyalty among many of the people he hired; deputy campaign manager Michael Glassner, who has a growing group of supporters; and newly hired strategist Paul Manafort, who was elevated this week and is building his own fiefdom. ... 

"The day after Cruz won Wisconsin, Trump met privately with Manafort, then Lewandowski was informed of the new campaign structure in which Manafort has primary authority on many strategic decisions previously handled by Lewandowski or his allies. ... Ivanka Trump and her brothers Eric and Don Jr. have been huddling with their father in his office at Trump Tower as he attends to his business holdings ... But Trump's allies worry that the efforts to build a more serious campaign organization may be coming too late. ... 

"There are signs of trouble for Trump in the upcoming states ... In California, Trump's aides are still looking for a campaign manager, and in New Jersey, the second-highest ranking staffer left this week. The states hold potentially determinative primary elections on June 7, the last day of voting. 'There is nothing,' said a person familiar with Trump's footprint in California. ... In Indiana, where early voting began this week ahead of a May 3 primary that's also a big prize, volunteers are complaining about the weak organization. ... 

"Lewandowski ... remains tasked with overseeing Trump's campaign events and traveling with the candidate ... Manafort has taken over some hiring decisions that had been the purview of a Lewandowski loyalist, Stuart Jolly ... Joy Lutes, who is seen as close to both Lewandowski and Glassner, has emerged as a power center in her own right, executing an ongoing round of firings, and reaching out to former campaign staff suspected of leaking to the press. ... 

"Manafort in a Friday TV appearance left the unmistakable impression that he was in charge. 'I work directly for the boss,' Manafort said bluntly on CNN. 'I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41245f9016c83f0c76850d6320a65d1d4a8cabb51f569b2f51

--"RNC spokesman: GOP convention will be 'phenomenal,'" by Eliza Collins: "RNC ... chief strategist Sean Spicer [told Wolf Blitzer:] 'We're gonna have ... the most secure and best convention that will be put on.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c416bd4a2dcf847e8026f4fec9e225897b18f268d032d018126 

TRAIL PIC -- @jaketapper: "With @BernieSanders kicking it Brooklyn-style. Watch @CNNSotu for more" (with the Brooklyn Bridge behind them) http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41552f4f487d8cbb3c2d3ea37f5ade996a83a47a61996bba27 ON tomorrow's "State of the Union," Tapper has an exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton, plus Bernie Sanders gives a tour of Brooklyn.

BIG APPLE CAMPAIGN -- "The New York press gang gets a real primary to chew on," by Joe Pompeo and Kelsey Sutton: "If you're the New York Daily News, it's not every day you get to tell Ted Cruz to 'TAKE THE F U TRAIN' on your front page. ... For New York's local press gang, the days leading up to the primary are shaping up like the Twelve Days of Christmas. That's because for the first time in a long, long time, New York is going to have a primary that actually matters-and not just because it involves Donald Trump. ... 

"Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders and Westchester-via-Pennsylvania Avenue resident Hillary Clinton [are] battling to be the face of progressivism for the Democratic party; an evangelical Texan [is] nipping around the edges at the delegate count of the Big Apple's bawdiest power broker.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41ed23d1386941e75ce4227d39b6b1184e8071dfdaddc7614b 

OUT AND ABOUT in NYC -- @maryaliceparks: "First on ABC - @BernieSanders headed now to @Lin_Manuel's @HamiltonMusical (motorcade rushing to make it on time)".

TOP TWEETS: L.A. Times' Shashank Bengali (@SBengali): "Great job, sad sign of the times: Washington Post hiring a full-time war correspondent" ("conflict-zone correspondent") http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c410cd99f679ed119b443af55e0658b01f10901274d62095e45 ... @maggieNYT: "Folks have often underestimated or misunderstood the durability of @RogerJStoneJr with Trump. Has happened for years."

N.Y. POST cover, "Corruption scandal grows ... PREET PROBES MAYOR: Campaign donations targeted" - "FBI probing Mayor de Blasio's fundraising activities," by Jamie Schram and Larry Celona: "US Attorney Preet Bharara now has Mayor de Blasio in his cross hairs - investigating his campaign fund-raising activities as part of a widening probe into NYPD corruption, sources said yesterday. 

"The feds are looking at how the mayor solicits campaign cash from members of the real-estate industry - and the fund-raising activities of his former campaign treasurer, Ross Offinger." See the cover. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c4109049854df4385a3ac35c72b2d04703f5e81dea2e6e2866b ... Read the story. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41fe97971e2b684ec94edb56ee2c44fcf4abeae8d37d3fb972

N.Y. DAILY NEWS cover, "HE SAID, SEE SAID: Holy hell brewing over whether Bernie 'lobbied' for Vatican visit" - Larry McShane: "Sanders, declaring he was a 'big, big fan' of kindred spirit Pope Francis, announced ... he was asked to attend the April 15 papal conference on social, economic and environmental issues [in Vatican City]. ... The ... Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences kicks off ... four days before Sanders' Brooklyn ... showdown with ... Clinton. ... 

"[A]cademy president Margaret Archer told Bloomberg News that Sanders lobbied for inclusion in a cynical grab for Catholic support." See the cover. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c417101b22816d21a527040204ce33b45b47a606e41cdd159bb ... Read the story. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41bc6ad55ae4b2a161f30c6eb01615c43485c5d4b1b08964b1 

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CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS -- Cover of tomorrow's NYT Sunday Styles section, "In Hollywood, It's Hillary vs. Bernie," by Jacob Bernstein (son of Carl): "Sanders's supporters are digging in, even as the industry's power brokers have mostly lined up behind Mrs. Clinton. 'These lists do not compare to each other in any reasonable way,' said Michael Kives, an agent at CAA who began his career as an intern at Bill Clinton's Harlem office and has since become something of a broker between Mrs. Clinton's campaign and the agency's younger clients.

"If Mrs. Clinton's supporters are ... the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Mr. Sanders's ... suggest ... Burning Man ... Mainstream celebrities have tended to voice their support for Mrs. Clinton. ... Where Mrs. Clinton has luncheons in the Pacific Palisades, with tickets going for $2,700, Mr. Sanders has raucous concerts at trendy downtown Los Angeles hotels, like the Ace, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The price of admission: $40. ... 

"[George] Clooney and his wife, Amal, are preparing for an April 16 fund-raiser on behalf of the Hillary Victory Fund at their Mediterranean home in the Studio City section of Los Angeles. It costs up to $33,000 a head, and the guest list is expected to be heavily weighted with people who ditched the Clintons in 2008 and have returned in 2016 ... Janice Min, the editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter, said she was not surprised to hear that Clinton defectors from 2008 were returning to the fold. 'When it gets down to the brass tacks, people are pragmatic.'"

NAMES MENTIONED in the article ... CLINTON: George and Amal Clooney ... Lena Dunham ... David Geffen ... Ilana Glazer ... Abbi Jacobson ... Kendall Jenner ... Jeffrey Katzenberg ... Michael Kives ... Michael Kors ... Tobey Maguire ... Debra Messing ... Katy Perry ... Amy Schumer ... Andy Spahn ... Steven Spielberg ... Martha Stewart ... Vera Wang ... Harvey Weinstein ... Anna Wintour.

--SANDERS: Rosario Dawson ... Danny DeVito ... Gaby Hoffmann ... Chris Kantrowitz, an app developer in Los Angeles ... Spike Lee ... Mark Ruffalo ... Susan Sarandon ... Sarah Silverman ... Oscar-winning documentarian Fisher Stevens ... Winnie Wong, a former organizer of Occupy Wall Street.

--NO ENDORSEMENT: Natasha Lyonne ... Chlo&euml; Sevigny. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c414f234b5393f515b870e1940bb0f09d235cc8538804076e71

AP FOR SUNDAY PAPERS -- AP-GfK poll: "Improved economic outlook boosts approval for Obama," by AP's Kathleen Hennessey and Emily Swanson: "That puts Obama ... in a position to remain a force in the political debate at a point in his final term when some others faded into the background. For the first time since 2013, half of those questioned approve of the job Obama is doing ... [H]e's well above ... George W. Bush, who had about a 30 percent approval rating at this point, ... but below ... Bill Clinton's roughly 60 percent." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c4175b0024fc6b6dbd106c8c46f4dfc8d2f2530f3c0c8547713 

MANAGING MILLENIALS -- WSJ A1, at fold, "MILLENNIAL EMPLOYEES CONFOUND WALL STREET: To stem departures, big investment banks are tweaking their delayed-gratification models," by Daniel Huang and Lindsay Gellman: "For decades, success on Wall Street followed a simple formula: Grind out years of marathon workweeks and menial tasks in exchange for a shot at helming deals and amassing millions. The industry's biggest firms now acknowledge the math doesn't work for many of their youngest bankers. ... Goldman announced changes designed to provide junior bankers with faster advancement and more stimulating work. ... 

"J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and others have revamped their rules and added sweeteners for young employees ... Bank managers are trying to persuade younger employees to stick around ... instead of bolting to Silicon Valley or smaller investment firms. According to a LinkedIn Corp. analysis conducted for The Wall Street Journal, analysts and associates who left their positions at a dozen investment banks in 2015 stayed an average of 17 months ... Back in 1995, the average tenure was 30 months." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c415cf2080eca50a9f986812e9095f7598aa4036b4e8435d28c

TOP-ED - N.Y. Times Op-Ed page, "Geography Of Despair: There's a Mason-Dixon line of progress in this country," by Timothy Egan: "Nearly all the states with the highest percentage of minimum wage workers - full-time jobholders making $290 a week, before taxes - are in the South. These are also the same states that refuse to expand Medicaid ... And it's in the same cradle of the old Confederacy where discriminatory bills are rising. Don't blame the cities; from Birmingham to Charlotte, people are trying to open doors to higher wages and tolerance of gays, only to be rebuffed at the state level." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c413e8c944171e8fb13e4ff30067ba504e18365752822042e49 

TV TONIGHT - "FOX News Channel (FNC) will present a one-hour special entitled, 'FOX News Reporting: Donald Trump -- The Disrupter' [tonight] at 8PM/ET. Anchored by FNC's Bret Baier, the program will take a detailed look at how Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has transformed from businessman and television personality to current GOP frontrunner in the 2016 election. The special will feature interviews with his family as well as exclusive access to Trump on the campaign trail."

--The HBO documentary "Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper" premiers tonight at 9 p.m. Trailer http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c4177610ef5e2740ec6d5d46ed82e0874aac2ddaee439eede03 ... Vanity Fair review http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41d7be4f9f4f41739e324efd8e63207b0f998891344382e694 

COMING ATTRACTIONS -- "Anderson Cooper to Host a Town Hall with Presidential Candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday April 12th" at 9 p.m.: "Mr. Trump will be joined by members of his family and will take questions from an audience of registered Republican voters."

USED NEWS -- WSJ, yesterday, "Obama Readies A Wave of Rules" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41723f5917c4909bad46c64bc3d1b905a01d982fc1f1c8776e ... Politico's Tim Noah, Jan. 4, "Obama pushing thousands of new regulations in Year 8" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c4128558c2aaa1c19e53020bf187d24627843c825533d8b3049 

CLICKERS - "The nation's cartoonists on the week in politics," edited by Matt Wuerker -- 12 keepers http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c411cf16ef7dc9f8db363d4fde76891aa6e8560f27b0ec1daff 

--"The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media," by The Hollywood Reporter staff and edited by Alison Brower and Marisa Guthrie http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41e61a2078948b008fa1004981a7145d604c66d9dc6eabfc0e 

SPOTTED: Janet Yellen of the Federal Reserve, wearing a tan overcoat, at DCA on an American Airlines flight from LGA ... Shopping at Augusta National Pro Shop: National Retail Federation President Matt Shay who racked up the highest tab, ESA's Mike Gallagher, BRT's Bill Miller, Thorn Run's Jason Rosenstock, VanNess Feldman's Bob Szabo, OFA's Peter Matz and Augusta's own, hostess Story Partners Gloria Dittus. 

--SEND YOUR SPOTTINGS to [email-masked] 

GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:

--"The C.E.O. of 'Hamilton' Inc.," by Michael Sokolve in tomorrow's N.Y. Times Magazine: "The producer Jeffrey Seller struck gold with Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway hit about the founding fathers. Now he has a new challenge - managing a runaway success." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41d9d4bb788cf3f5fdc29cfd8922b50dfa90735c501144fe39 

--"The War on Planned Parenthood," by Alex Morris in Rolling Stone: "Inside the Republican stealth campaign to dismantle women's reproductive rights." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41afbb91f145cd9243c6ba6455df7d100e71d809a2c2fe39a6 (h/t Longform.org)

--"The Voyeur's Motel," by Gay Talese in The New Yorker: "Gerald Foos bought a motel in order to watch his guests having sex. He saw a lot more than that." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c4181a75e691d048febccdec3285210e58c2f9df17fe15df910 

--"Money for Nothing: The Lucrative World of Club Appearances," by Carrie Battan in GQ: "How rappers, Real Housewives, and lesser Kardashians get paid just for showing up at the club." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41b83193446aeceea2551c5621185200289aa6051b53a6b0dc 

--"Solitude and Leadership," by William Deresiewicz in a lecture to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in Oct. 2009, printed by The American Scholar: "If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c411447098acd157cbd19f57d9585378cfdb7bfe3b16f739c33 

--"Dave Morton Is Quitting Everest. Maybe. (It's Complicated.)," by Abe Streep in Outside Magazine: "After two years of unimaginable tragedy, everyone from outfitters and Sherpas to would-be climbers and the Nepalese government is questioning the future of commercial mountaineering. And then there's Morton, a veteran guide who spent the past year asking: What happens when you try to leave the world's most lucrative mountain forever?" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c4148314161dc180e24847a97f04a6002cc19da2aae4eb997a5 (h/t Longreads.com)

--"How Cervantes and Shakespeare wrote the modern literary rule book," by Salman Rushdie in The New Statesman: "It is 400 years since Shakespeare and Cervantes died. Together, they defy boundaries of time, and the conventions that keep street life separate from fantasy." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41a2fdd10ad405da4f9265e842b66375c5128f03425baad115 

--"An Enlightenment for Grownups," by Susan Neiman in Spiked-Online.com: "Moral autonomy demands courage, judgement and a recognition that the world is not how we'd like it to be." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c4175638af84e77643fa96b98a7be6cfa980cd599342656b180 

--"The ages of distraction," by Frank Furedi in Aeon Magazine: "Busy, distracted, inattentive? Everybody has been since at least 1710 and here are the philosophers to prove it." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c418a987215c8987178c2504f9352c6a8cacf09fab36179a045 (h/t ALDaily.com)

PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION - "Congress to hold hearing on DC subway shutdown" - AP/D.C.: "Two subcommittees that oversee the District of Columbia will hold a hearing next week on the recent decision to shut down the entire system for a day for emergency repairs. Metro's general manager and board chairman are slated to testify at Wednesday's hearing, along with two federal transportation officials [from the Federal Transit Administration and NTSB]."

BUSH ALUMNI -- ARI FLEISCHER PROFILE - "From Pound Ridge To Pennsylvania Ave-And Back," by Jerry McKinstry in Westchester Magazine: "Fleischer, 55, [in 2003] started Ari Fleischer Communications-a company that offers media management, strategy, advice, and training to sports organizations and corporations-and he remains a regular on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC ... Somehow Fleischer still finds time to play baseball-not the slow-pitch, beer-guzzling version of softball but the hard-throwing, wooden-bat-swinging, Charlie Hustle brand of ball ... 

"During his days at the White House, his walls weren't full of pictures or mementos of Washington but of his hometown: old portraits of the village courthouse, storefronts, and historic maps of Bedford and Pound Ridge ... He recalls thinking as a young boy how great it would be to open a business on the main drag in Bedford. Now, with his eponymous communications company, he has achieved just that." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41399cdc8f99fcf37662b3eb77b15084edf82dcccfd598feef 

OBAMA ALUMNI -- Amanda Ford, currently a regional field director for the Ohio Democratic Party and an Obama alum from NC in 2008, becomes field director for the Georgia Democratic Party on April 18.

HAPPENING TODAY - "Jeopardy announces Power Players Week Tape Day Lineups," taping at DAR Constitution Hall: "Game 1: Chuck Todd ... S.E. Cupp ... Jonathan Franzen ... Game 2: Anderson Cooper ... Lara Logan ... Michael Steele ... Game 3: Louis C.K. ... Kate Bolduan ... Jonathan Capehart ... Game 4: [Sen.] Al Franken ... Ana Navarro ... Sunny Hostin ... Game 5: Melissa Harris-Perry ... David Gregory ... Matthew Weiner". http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c414eacdcd86bf2647972a781764c7210098fd77ae06c8f665e 

OUT AND ABOUT - SPOTTED: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy at the Rio Tinto Minerals Boron plant out in his district this week. "He toured the 140-year-old Boron mine in a 40 ton haul truck and then spoke to about 150 constituent employees and community leaders. The Boron mine has an amazing history, including the first tons that were hauled out by '20 Mule Teams' and includes Borax's sponsorship of the old 'Death Valley Days' TV and Radio shows that Ronald Reagan hosted." Pic of McCarthy beside a huge mining truck http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41687249ec43240aa2e5fee73fa3d5892155318683c1a0e7e6 ... Release http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41e367c8b7b2fca78a548509e610c8904e9eb6e15177f55117

POWER PLAYBOOKERS -- "Sunday With Fareed Zakaria," by Parade's Kathleen McCleary: "'Usually I tape the show on Thursdays, and edit it on Fridays. When that happens, a typical Sunday for me is hanging out with my kids. We do not watch the show together; I don't inflict that on them.' Exercise regimen[:] 'I'm not one of these heroic people, no Ironman type stuff, but every day I try to get a little exercise. I work out some days, I swim, I play tennis. I'm pretty disciplined, but I'm never going to run a marathon.' 

"Recent read[:] 'Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland. I love everything she writes. It's very, very well done. She has a new memoir. I read [an excerpt in] The New Yorker. She's moved to Italy and learned Italian so she can write in Italian, which is a fascinating case of somebody trying to grow intellectually and emotionally by doing something very different.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23ee47f0bf546c41d335b1f65dc7546d9212e30bc9f454066a113203ff549126 

THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK AHEAD: This afternoon, "the President will depart San Francisco, California en route Washington ...On Wednesday, the President will host the 2016 White House Science Fair and celebrate the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country. This year's White House Science Fair will highlight the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of this next generation of students and the opportunity they have to tackle our toughest challenges.

"In the afternoon, the President will convene his National Security Council at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia to review our efforts to degrade and destroy ISIL and advance prospects for peace and stability in Syria. ... On Thursday, the President will welcome the Wounded Warrior Ride to the White House, a cycling event."

THE V.P.'s WEEKEND: "On Saturday morning, the Vice President will deliver remarks at the Democratic Issues conference. These remarks at the La Posada Hotel are closed press. Afterwards, the Vice President will depart Santa Fe, New Mexico en route Wilmington, Delaware. On Sunday, the Vice President will be in Wilmington, Delaware. There are no public events scheduled."

BIRTHDAYS: "Morning" Joe Scarborough is 53 (hat tip: Joey) ... Katie Dowd, digital director at Hillary for America and a State alum (h/t Brooklyn) ... Harris Wofford, former senator, civil rights and national service champion, is 9-0 ... Larry Kamer ... Mike Berman, president of the Duberstein Group, is 77 (we jumped the gun yesterday) ... David MacKay, partner and general manager for Portland U.S. (h/ts Jon Haber) ... Elizabeth Santorum, Rick Santorum's oldest child ... Neal Kemkar, a Salazar and Obama WH alum now counsel and director of environmental policy at GE ... Brad Perseke, a partner at GMMB ... Dennis Lennox, alum of Bush '04, Romney, Camp ... Jacob "Morning Money Jr." White ...
 ABC7's Brett Holton ... 

... Stephanie Dreyer, DOD's director for digital media and strategy ... Ross M. Wallenstein of comms firm the Marino Organization and alum of Rep. Ackerman and Govs. Spitzer and Paterson ... Todd Foley, SVP for strategy, policy and gov't relations and chief strategy officer at American Council on Renewable Energy ... Christopher Turman, SVP of National Strategies, is 45 ... Lucia Graves, columnist at The Guardian and a HuffPost and National Journal alum ... Brittany Uter, publicity manager at Vocativ ... Miranda Green, reporter at E.W. Scripps (h/t Lyndsey Wajert) ... Emma Allen ... 

... Lila Tyrangiel, Josh's daughter ... Amy Dudley, comms. director for Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) ... Elizabeth Alexander ... Sebastian Stafford, whose parents are Nicole Harburger and Nick Stafford ... Katie Kling ... Rob Green, executive director of the National Council of Chain Restaurants ... Matt McCarthy ... David Mork ... Kim Smith ... Jeff Kepnes, executive producer at CNN Special Events ... Ryan Webb ... David MacKay ... Gregory Flap Cole ... Bonnie Campbell ... Eric Norrby ... Rebekah Hutman (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner is 90 ... satirical songwriter and mathematician Tom Lehrer is 88 ... naturalist Jim Fowler is 86 ... Dennis Quaid is 62 ...
 comedian Jimmy Tingle is 61 ... actress-sports reporter Lisa Guerrero is 52 ... Cynthia Nixon is 50 ... actor Isaac Hempstead Wright is 17 ... classical crossover singer Jackie Evancho is 16 (h/ts AP)

THE SHOWS, from @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin en route Washington for tonight's 5th Annual Luke's Wings Heroes Gala:

--"Fox News Sunday": Obama; release of new polling from New York and Pennsylvania; roundtable: Karl Rove, Anne Gearan, George Will and Bob Woodward

--NBC's "Meet the Press": Sanders; Trump campaign convention manager Paul Manafort; Bill de Blasio; Glenn Beck; roundtable: Matt Bai, Molly Ball, Rich Lowry and Joy-Ann Reid

--ABC's "This Week": Sanders

--CBS's "Face the Nation": Sanders; John Kasich; CBS News elections director Anthony Salvanto; roundtable: Dan Balz, Jamelle Bouie, Jennifer Jacobs and Ramesh Ponnuru; Ken Burns

--CNN's "State of the Union" (9am ET / 12pm ET): Bernie Sanders; Hillary Clinton; roundtable: Van Jones, Amanda Carpenter, Nina Turner and Andre Bauer

--CNN's "Inside Politics" with John King (SUN 8am ET): Roundtable: Jonathan Martin, Sara Murray, Lisa Lerer and Manu Raju

--Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" (10am ET / 9am CT): NY GOP chairman Ed Cox; DNC communications director Luis Miranda; author Dr. Sebastian Gorka ("Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War"); economist Art Laffer; roundtable: Ed Rollins, Hank Sheinkopf and Tony Sayegh

--CNN's "Reliable Sources": (SUN 11am ET): Roundtable: Fred Dicker, Brian Lehrer and NY1's Bob Hardt; Jim Rutenberg; NYT public editor Margaret Sullivan; 9 year-old reporter and Orange Street News editor and publisher Hilde Kate Lysiak and her mother Bridget Reddan

--Fox News' "MediaBuzz" (SUN 11am ET / 10am CT): USA Today's Heidi Przybyla; attorney and Daily Caller contributor Gayle Trotter; Mara Liasson; Charles Gasparino; The Hollywood Reporter's Marisa Guthrie; author Jill Kelley

--CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS": (SUN 11am ET): Excerpts from a discussion with current and former Federal Reserve chairmen Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker; Arianna Huffington; author Irshad Manji

--Univision's "Al Punto" (SUN 10am ET / 1pm PT) Father of "Los Porkys" rape victim Javier Arturo Fernandez; investigation of the "Panama Papers" with Univision's Gerardo Reyes and Univision's Tamoa Calzadilla; CHIRLA's Jorge-Mario Cabrera; author and journalist Nelson Bocaranda ("El Poder de los Secretos"); musical duo Sin Bandera

--C-SPAN: "The Communicators" (SAT 6:30pm ET): FCC chair Tom Wheeler (D), questioned by WaPo's Brian Fung ... "Newsmakers" (SUN 10am ET): Mark Warner, questioned by WaPo's Mike DeBonis and CQ Roll Call's Niels Lesniewski ... "Q&A" (SUN 8pm & 11pm ET): Author and Boston College Law School's Mary Sarah Bilder ("Madison's Hand")

--MSNBC's "PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton": (SUN 8-9am ET): Bill de Blasio; Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver; Anthony Weiner; WaPo columnist Dana Milbank; The Boston Globe's Shira Center; MSNBC contributor Robert Traynham

--MSNBC's "The Place for Politics": (SUN 9-10am ET): TIME Magazine's Jay Newton-Small; Democratic strategist Tara Dowdell; NY GOP chairman Ed Cox; Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz (hosted by MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin live from New York)

--MSNBC's "The Place for Politics": (SUN 10am-12pm ET): WaPo columnist and The Brookings Institution's E.J. Dionne; NBC News' Perry Bacon; The Guardian's Sabrina Siddiqui; SiriusXM radio host Joe Madison; radio host Michael Medved; radio host Heidi Harris; Al Sharpton (hosted by MSNBC's Joy Reid live from DC)

--MSNBC's "The Place for Politics": (SUN 12-2pm ET): RealClearPolitics' Caitlin Huey-Burns; MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan; Howard Dean; When It's Real It's Forever owner Nicole Paultre Bell; USA Today's Paul Singer; USA Today's Heidi Przybyla; Foreign Policy's Michael Weiss (hosted by MSNBC's Alex Witt live from New York)

--PBS's "To the Contrary" with Bonnie Erb&eacute;: (airs all weekend): "The Orphan Myth: Keeping Families Together"

--SiriusXM's "No Labels Radio" (SAT 6pm ET, SUN 1PM ET): Host Jon Huntsman and co-host Amb. Stuart Holliday will discuss the 2016 presidential election with Sanders campaign senior adviser Tad Devine, the RNC Convention rules with New Hampshire GOP national committeeman Steve Duprey and the 2016 primary season with WaPo's Abby Phillip

--Sinclair's "Full Measure" with Sharyl Attkisson (SUN 9:30am ET on WJLA and airing on Sinclair stations nationwide): Interview with Donald Trump on the future of NATO; correspondent Scott Thuman is with U.S. troops on the front lines with Russia to counter what some feel is a red storm rising; interview with a key journalist behind the release of the Panama Papers. 

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 Supporting veterans and military families isn't an act of charity - it's one of the best business decisions you can make. Find out more about how Uber is supporting our men and women in uniform, their families and veterans by going here - ubr.to/50k  **

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