Subject: POLITICO Playbook, presented by Walmart: OBAMA TO STUMP WITH CLINTON as her ‘highest profile convert’ – TRUMP’S STAGE in Cleveland: 647 moving light fixtures -- MIKE ALLEN ‘Ask Me Anything’ today on Reddit at 12:30 p.m. ET, from Aspen Ideas Festival
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 05:33:36 -0600

06/29/2016 07:30 AM EDT

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

Good Wednesday morning. ASK PLAYBOOK ANYTHING! I'll be hosting a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" jam from the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo., today at 12:30 p.m. ET (10:30 a.m. MT). If you're at the festival, please mosey by the snack tent near the Koch Building and say hi - and help me answer a question! http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=cadf1d3dffdfdbe80b74a65a2f6880c9bd2ba394efdb8d257e8d610bbbd3982b

19 DAYS TO CLEVELAND - "RNC unveils dramatic Trump convention stage," by Louis Nelson: "The 1,711 square foot video board will sit center stage above the speaker, the focal point of a stage flanked by silver-colored 'blades' that will hide wires and lighting from viewers both inside Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena and on television. Republican National Convention CEO Jeff Larson guaranteed at a preview event Tuesday that Trump's acceptance speech on the final night of the event will happen inside the arena and will not be moved to another, larger location." See the stage. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=cadf1d3dffdfdbe8dfb518120d5f868742acd1e962e1195d475a9d017da66bad

JUST POSTED - "How Obama will campaign for Clinton," by Isaac Dovere: "Concerned that Hillary Clinton is still struggling to generate excitement, President Obama is preparing to campaign for her by reminding voters there was a time he didn't like her so much, but he came around-and they should too. That's the only way, Obama and aides working with him think, that she'll have the positive mandate she'll need to govern.

"Winning the White House by just not being Trump won't help win House and Senate races ... [David Plouffe:] 'You want people to feel as passionate about Hillary Clinton being president as they do about stopping Donald Trump. If this isn't a close race, it's still going to matter a great deal for her presidency' ... 

"That imperative will define Obama's message when he hits the trail for his rescheduled joint rally with Clinton, which is expected to be announced shortly. 'He can make the case as the highest profile convert to be her supporter,' said White House communications director Jen Psaki. Obama's not going to stop mocking and trolling Trump. The only person who enjoys that more than the Democratic base and the press is the president himself, who alternates between seeing the Republican nominee as a charlatan and as a dangerous amplifier for hatred. ...

"The conversations around Obama's message are being led out of the West Wing, while the conversations about schedules and logistics are being led out of Brooklyn. That includes the larger development of a calendar to capitalize on the president's popularity, which could take him well beyond normal Obama coalition appeals to young people, African-Americans and Latinos and into places like Iowa and Colorado. ...

"Most contact [between the White House and campaign] is bound up in Jennifer Palmieri, the former White House communications director and senior Clinton adviser ... She's been known to pop into the Oval Office herself, but is more regularly in touch with` Psaki and principal deputy press secretary Eric Schultz. ... White House political director David Simas and Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook also talk frequently, but that's about it. ...

"Plouffe is the main liaison on the outside, but not the only one. Obama's 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, now the co-chair of the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, spoke with the president earlier this month, and longtime political guru David Axelrod continues to advise Obama and his staff as they've been planning." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=cadf1d3dffdfdbe81bdfe1115acf697cf8c0a147984950fec87a3cd490982b3d

SCOOP: OBAMA ALUMNI - "Former Obama insiders bring political muscle to for-profit college bid," by Michael Stratford and Kimberly Hefling: "As the Obama administration cracks down on for-profit colleges, three former officials working on behalf of an investment firm run by President Obama's best friend have staged a behind-the-scenes campaign to get the Education Department to green-light a purchase of the biggest for-profit of them all - the University of Phoenix. The investors include a private equity firm founded and run by longtime Obama friend Marty Nesbitt and former Deputy Education Secretary Tony Miller. The firm, Chicago-based Vistria Group, has mounted a charm offensive on Capitol
 Hill to talk up the proposed sale of the troubled for-profit education giant ...

"Miller and at least one other former Obama insider have met with staff to Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Dick Durbin, looking to reassure some of the loudest critics of for-profit colleges in the president's own party ... Some Senate Democrats said they are also uneasy with the investors' plan to take the university private ...

"Other players in the Capitol Hill effort include Jonathan Samuels, who was responsible for pushing Obama's agenda through Congress during his nearly six years working in legislative affairs at the White House. Samuels ... now works for Vistria Group ... Vistria has also enlisted former White House Deputy Communications Director Amy Brundage, who is working at the Washington government relations firm SKDKnickerbocker." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=cadf1d3dffdfdbe879154feae3ff4e658ce828529bd456c88c49cfe72962c7b4

BREAKING - "Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: 36 dead and more than 140 hurt" - BBC: "Turkey said early signs suggested so-called Islamic State was behind the attack ... Three attackers began shooting inside and outside the terminal late on Tuesday and blew themselves up after police fired at them ... Tuesday's attack looked like a major coordinated assault." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=cadf1d3dffdfdbe8967a45960da4563113f5e4d5b7bb2b50b5ccbeff49d08e0d

--N.Y. POST cover, "HOW MANY HAVE TO DIE? Scores killed in another terror attack" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=cadf1d3dffdfdbe84ca58a549bb8582697f16597d0cd0b5f1fd28c481d17cb92

--TRUMP TWEETS: "Yet another terrorist attack, this time in Turkey. Will the world ever realize what is going on? So sad."

--UNDER PRESSURE - "Cracks show inside Islamic State's shrinking caliphate," by Reuters' Maher Chmaytelli and Isabel Coles in Erbil, Iraq: "Nearly two years since Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivered a sermon ... summoning Muslims worldwide to the 'caliphate,' it is fraying at the edges. As an array of forces make inroads into their territory spanning Iraq and Syria, the jihadis are becoming even harsher to maintain control of a population that is increasingly hostile to them, according to Iraqi officials and people who managed to escape." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=cadf1d3dffdfdbe83484f9b60b1bb08a3d2daf2a32b8f493209b5707dcfc852b

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TALKERS -- Richmond Times-Dispatch p. A1, top of col. 1, "McDonnell left in legal limbo until feds decide next step," by Frank Green: "It could be months or even next year before former Gov. Bob McDonnell learns whether he can or will be tried again." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d569829d6172e2e09beb54ce1f5d5d8b68ded3fd18454215c3efdb9

--N.Y. Times p. A19, Jim Dwyer's "About New York" column (with Vienna, Va. dateline), "After Six Decades of Making Music, Embracing the Sound of Silence" (online: "Could This Be the End of Paul Simon's Rhymin'?"):"Paul Simon says he is ready to give up making and playing music, 61 years after he started as a 13-year-old. ... At 74, he often needs 15 hours of sleep at a stretch. ... While most stars of his generation ... are playing greatest hits concerts, if anything, Mr. Simon's new album is competing with those of Drake and Beyonc&eacute; on pop music charts, and with Radiohead and Deerhoof for college radio airtime. ...

"His North American tour comes to an end [tomorrow] and Friday in Forest Hills, Queens, where he grew up, went to school and met a boy named Art Garfunkel." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d569829c168a9739826cb79678cda96b66114e071c45733a3b66700

PRESIDENT TRUMP - WashPost A4, bottom of page, "Defying GOP orthodoxy, Trump trashes trade deals and advocates tariffs," by Jose DelReal in Monessen, Pa. and Sean Sullivan in D.C., with Karen DeYoung in D.C.: "Speaking in a warehouse filled with piles of compressed aluminum cans and scraps of metal, Trump ticked through a seven-step plan to boost domestic job growth that included renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, labeling China a currency manipulator, and withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and preventing its implementation.

"At a rally in Ohio hours later, Trump said the trade pact was being "pushed by special interests who want to rape our country," repeating "rape" several times.
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d5698295c9796d33fe61d494eedb2dd5242ca55b14a4e6c23780ded

HOW IT'S PLAYING: N.Y. Times A1, top of col. 1, "TRUMP TAKES AIM AT TRADE PACTS AND 'GLOBALISM':VOWS TO PUNISH CHINA -- Breaks With His Party's Tradition in Drive for Blue-Collar Votes" (online: "Trump Vows to Rip Up Trade Deals and Confront China") http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d569829ca2432acb79a1aba567b1b4c5324b35a5ef14c3f36a11cce ...WSJ A1, below fold, "Trump Vows to Undo Trade Pacts" (online: "Trump Lays Out Protectionist Views in Trade Speech") http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d569829d9923c21582ef9ce94b4e67292169f7bd58b2ffd57031312

STUFF TRUMP SAYS - "Trump's 'America First' echoes old isolationist rallying cry," by AP's Michael Biesecker:"[T]hat slogan harkens back to the tumultuous presidential election of 1940, when hundreds of thousands of Americans joined the anti-war America First Committee. That isolationist group's primary goal was to keep the United States from joining Britain in the fight against Nazi Germany, which by then had overrun nearly all of Europe. But the committee is also remembered for the unvarnished anti-Semitism of some of its most prominent members ... Then as now, an economic downturn fanned popular resentment toward immigration." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d56982928dd78b8269703340558defde6f9ec823a4d49d29ffcdf00

--"Teleprompted Trump May Be Boring But You Should Have Seen Hoover," by Bloomberg's Esm&eacute; E Deprez: "Trump's fledgling relationship with the teleprompter has drawn mixed reviews, from stilted to dull to, of all things, scripted. The great irony of the effort to rein in his wild side by forcing him to stick to words scrolling on the device is that its debut in politics was aimed at fixing the exact opposite problem. Herbert Hoover, a famous bore on stage who often stared down at his notes, was somehow persuaded to use the new technology during his address at the 1952 Republican National Convention. Legend has it that the former president might not have enjoyed the experience,
 muttering, when the text suddenly slowed down, 'This damned thing, I could do better without it.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d56982980782ebeda4344a4790963318c81e402b78de1d7604f2b7d

AIR WARS -- "NRA to run $2 million Benghazi-themed ad campaign for Trump," by USA Today's Donovan Slack: "The [NRA's] political arm is launching its first ad campaign of the 2016 presidential race, with a survivor of the terror attack in Benghazi urging viewers to vote for Donald Trump. The ad, which the NRA Political Victory Fund is backing with more than $2 million, is the group's first campaign in the presidential race and one of the larger expenditures by an outside group on behalf of the presumptive Republican nominee." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d5698294812a43f1dc6f26fe359cb71efce641a1f6b412bb5105afa

2016 PLAYERS - "Trump hires Rand Paul's former digital director," by Shane Goldmacher and Darren Samuelsohn: "Trump has hired Vincent Harris, the former chief digital strategist for Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign and for Sen. Mitch McConnell's 2014 reelection bid, as the presumptive Republican nominee continues to ramp up his digital operations ... Trump is hiring not just Harris but the services of his Austin-based firm, Harris Media." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d569829c82277459fa33053bba3c6bdf2f0c28ae30232d873e5675f

--"Lewandowski loses $1.2 million book deal," by Ken Vogel and Hadas Gold: "Corey Lewandowski had a $1.2-million offer from HarperCollins to write a book chronicling his time running Donald Trump's presidential campaign, but the publishing giant backed away from the deal amid concerns about Lewandowski's nondisclosure agreement ... A source in the publishing industry said Lewandowski's representative received at least some interest from as many as five publishing houses, but that, in several cases, there was concern about how his nondisclosure agreement might affect any resulting book." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d569829023d4a82a2fbc6c9351b31f9640d29d5f18dc3b86b952500

SUBJECT LINES DU JOUR - Now that the Trump campaign is doing real email fundraising, they've started using multiple subject lines with the same content. With Eric Trump's Monday email, "They Say We're Lying," alternative subject lines they used included: "SHOCK Crooked Hillary" and "Did you see Eric's email?"

VP BIDEN on Medium, "The Cancer Moonshot is a mission, and All of Us #CanServe": "When I announced my decision not to seek the nomination for President, I said that if I could do anything, I would have wanted to have been the President that ended cancer. The initiative we've come to know as the Cancer Moonshot grew out of that statement. Since then, I've traveled the country and the world, touching many of the major nerve centers in the fight against cancer to hear ideas about how we can double the rate of progress we're making in this fight. ... Today, for the first time, physicians, scientists, nurses, patient advocates, families, and cancer survivors are coming together with foundations,
 companies, and institutions all at once, all around the country, all under the same national charge: Making a decade's worth of progress in five years in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d5698290a2f9499f11b51137210a20a30de79adc9e6da2b83f870cf

HAPPENING TODAY - "On a press call Wednesday afternoon, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Admiral James Stavridis (ret), and Neera Tanden will launch the National Security Leadership Alliance, an effort to promote a progressive vision of national security that rejects a reckless use of American power and embraces our ability to lead the world toward peace, stability, justice and opportunity. It will launch with a set of co-chairs with unrivaled national security and leadership experience, and be an ongoing hub of policy-focused rapid response and pushback on the reckless ideas of Donald Trump."

ASPENWATCH - "John Kerry: 'We Are Not Frozen in a Nightmare': Defending the Obama Administration's geopolitical record, the secretary of state laid out a vision of an America that is globalist, engaged, and deeply interventionist," by The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf: "Amid tumult in world affairs ... Secretary of State John Kerry sought to reassure an Aspen audience Tuesday that 'the world is not witnessing global gridlock. We are not frozen in a nightmare. Where we are engaged with a clear strategy, using our power thoughtfully, we are making progress, most places.' There are 'a lot of Cassandras around,' he said, but 'I don't believe the world ahead is only defined by turmoil and
 strife.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d569829d77da198959cb41d5c31d0d33d7ab28138003706b94a955e ... Video http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=475a76e30d56982950ef4d3e5f4600272a1ace19da7f4add382e45e3e0ce1d28

OVERHEARD BY DANIEL IN ASPEN - "I think I met you in Nantucket" ... "I did a TED talk on [X]" ... "The kids in Haiti seem to get a better education than those in Detroit" ... "Millenials should be a state of mind."

TRANSITIONS -- JEN MYERS is heading over to WSJ's DC bureau to work with the multimedia sales team, starting July 5. She previously was at YWCA and the director of comms. and public affairs at The Aspen Institute.

ROMNEY ALUMNI - Natalie Boyse, who was a finance coordinator on the Rubio campaign, worked at POOLHOUSE in Richmond and was the assistant to Will Ritter on Romney 2012, has started as a business development associate at HourlyNerd, a start-up based in Boston that connects businesses of all sizes to a network of 25,000 independent professionals for on-demand work.

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): B. Scott Tilley, general counsel at Stihl Inc. (h/t Bruce Potter)

BIRTHDAYS: Old Dominion University basketball coach Jeff Jones, a.k.a. Mr. Danielle Jones ... Carl Forti, political director of American Crossroads super PAC and Black Rock Group co-founder, is 44 ... Emily Spain, legislative director for Sen. Tom Carper ... Macon Phillips, coordinator of State's Bureau of International Information Programs and the pride of Huntsville, Ala., is 38 ... Cathy Rought, VP at BerlinRosen ... Tamera Luzzatto, former HRC and Rockefeller chief of staff, managing director at Pew Charitable Trusts and Board Chair of the Bach Consort (h/ts Jon Haber) ... Politico rising star Hanna Trudo ... Andy Duberstein, previously of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce and
 with Reps. Fred Upton and Mike Castle, now living and working in NYC (h/t cousin Ruth Ravitz Smith) ... Josh Meyer, NBC News senior investigative reporter and LATimes alum ... Kaya Singleton, congressional outreach manager at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (h/t Samantha Greene) ... Ben Jarrett, political analyst at Embassy of Israel ... Jennifer Pett, press secretary for Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex) ... Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is 73 ... Rep. Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) is 72 ...

... Christina Pearson, senior director of public relations at Microsoft (formerly assistant secretary for public Affairs at HHS and SVP at Fleishman-Hillard) ... departing Solicitor General Don Verrilli ... campaign finance consultant David Wolf ... Brian Gabriel, White House press assistant and wrangler, celebrating aboard AF1 en route to Canada for the North American Leaders' Summit ... Amy McDonald (h/t Matt) ... Paul Francis Baier, miracle son of Bret and Amy ... Harry Hartfield, deputy press secretary at NYC Dept. of Education ... Katie Zirklebach, senior director of congressional affairs at Anthem and AHIP alum ... Owen Kilmer ... Jacob Levine of Houston ... photojournalist Gabriella
 Demczuk ... Christopher Wenk, executive director of international policy at the U.S. Chamber, is 4-0 ... Bobby Watson, SVP of the Hudson Group and DNC alum, is 6-0 ... Eric Washburn ... Patty McHugh (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Ed Black ... Christian Marrone is 41 ... William Pinzler is 7-0 ... Bruce Soll is 59 ... Bridget Luehrsen ... movie producer Robert Evans is 86 ... actor Gary Busey is 72 ... actor-turned-politician-turned-radio personality Fred Grandy is 68 (h/t Ann Compton) ... comedian-writer Colin Jost is 34 ... rhythm-and-blues singer Aundrea Fimbres is 33 (h/ts AP)

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