Subject: POLITICO Playbook, presented by Walmart: DUMP TRUMP garners 5% of Rules Committee – ‘PANTS ON FIRE’ tally for ’16 so far -- SENATE shelves Crackberrys -- PLAYBOOKERS on PRWeek Power List -- CNN’s Ed O'Keefe has #2 -- B’DAY: Guy Cecil, Kristen Welker
From: "Mike Allen" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 07:14:05 -0600

07/01/2016 09:10 AM EDT

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

Good Friday morning from Aspen. Welcome to July! Happy getaway day, and happy Canada Day. It's 17 days to Cleveland, 24 days to Philly, 131 days to Election Day - and 59 days since Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee with his Indiana victory. 

TOP TALKER - Tampa Bay Times p. 1A, "PolitiFact: The truth (so far) in the campaign," by Aaron Sharockman: Out of 650 Truth-O-Meter fact checks over 466 days, "Trump has more statements rated Pants on Fire, 30, than the 21 other candidates for president we've fact-checked this cycle combined. Second on the list? ... Ben Carson, with four Pants on Fire claims. Bernie Sanders has yet to receive a Pants on Fire." Hillary had 1. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723efebb332aec285f50f9eb4340a315f2a63846b14cc58816e

SO YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S A CHANCE? "Never Trump is never happening at the RNC: The delegates looking to dump Trump are badly outnumbered on a key rules committee," by Kyle Cheney: "Just six [of the 112] members say they'll work against Trump." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7238f09f10ba3e87f8266ecaa0242319031e0a5b9c178de959a

COMING ATTRACTIONS - "Sanders is itching for a convention fight: If platform flashpoints aren't resolved, the Vermont senator says he'll take his battle to the floor of the Democratic convention," by Daniel Strauss: "Sanders and his team have locked up draft policy wins on language for abolishing the death penalty, expanding Social Security through raising the cap on how much Americans earning $250,000 or more pay to expand benefits, and breaking up the country's largest banks. But that's not everything on Sanders' lengthy priority list, so the senator and his allies are vowing to keep pushing." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723e254d5a03f9fb1349b9d27536b6aa2ce42574060a542afd9

SENTENCE OF THE DAY - NYT's Jeremy Peters and Ashley Parker: "At one point, two aides confirmed, Mr. Trump was not even aware that the event had to be held in Cleveland, a decision made almost two years ago." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7235ba0eea6b9d8cc8affa481adbdb399373ef00a17a227a904 

POSTCARD FROM CLEVELAND -- Jake Sherman: "Trump and his team in New York are in the middle of putting together the convention lineup and schedule, and it's expected to be released by the middle of next week. ... The convention program is being closely held -- Speaker Paul Ryan doesn't even know if he has a speaking role yet. We were fortunate to get a behind-the-scenes tour of Quicken Loans Arena ahead of the convention. ... 

"The convention staff here -- which now numbers more than 100, split between a downtown building and the arena -- say construction is ahead of schedule. The Q -- the nickname for the home of the NBA champion Cavaliers -- is undergoing a complete transformation. A whirlpool used by the Cavs has been covered to make room for workspace." Pics  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723c7f5654aa0b6ec0e41f6f751fd4f27d0b228daa87a09add0 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc72300fc4b74dd9c55a7467504f58638d45bd5aea06c944b1293 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723c4b0743a14f41c6a820061cf871b8eac295da98734f65e91 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc72304fb47d9c8bfee35e8dbd06e62ac899c0db37abe75f7be8e 

DATA DU JOUR - "Trump has only 1% of black voter support in latest Quinnipiac poll," by N.Y. Daily News' Jason Silverstein: "Clinton ... has 91%." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723d5f328658c869ba75a3fc66ab83404a58ea8e8367478608b

BREAKING: Posted at 5 a.m. ... "Lynch to Accept F.B.I. Recommendations in Clinton Email Inquiry," by NYT's Matt Apuzzo, with Mark Landler: "Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch plans to announce [at the Aspen Ideas Festival today] that she will accept whatever recommendation career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director make about whether to bring charges related to Hillary Clinton's personal email server ... Her decision removes the possibility that a political appointee will overrule investigators in the case." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723b42f24aaee64189322b3c12634256ccebfcb063b38d855f0 

--DRUDGE BANNER, "LYNCH IN A PINCH"

THE CONVERSATION -- "Limbaugh: Left will provoke 'levels of violence that we have not seen' if Trump wins," by Louis Nelson: "Pointing to violent protests in Baltimore and Ferguson ... [h]e predicted a wave of recount demands ... as well as lawsuits from Democrats attempting to upend a Trump presidency. ... 'What's going to happen the day Trump gets inaugurated? What is the left going to do? They're not going to just sit idly by and accept this ... I think we're going to see levels of violence that we have not seen." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723e4d40fa5b3e953fa5c456d6e50db5f5b1ecb9f0e78788734 

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP ... DAVID BROOKS, "The Coming Political Realignment: How Trump is smashing everything": "By putting trade at the top of the conversation he elevates the issue on which Hillary Clinton is the most squirrelly, where her position reinforces the message that she will say anything to get power. ... Trump's only shot of winning ... is to smash and replace the entire structure of the American political debate. For the past 80 years that debate has been about the size of government ... If that debate structures this election, Trump will get somewhere between 38 and 44 percent of the votes ... 

"Trump's only hope is to change the debate from size of government to open/closed. His only hope is to cast his opponents as the right-left establishment that supports open borders, free trade, cosmopolitan culture and global intervention. He would stand as a right-left populist who supports closed borders, trade barriers, local and nationalistic culture and an America First foreign policy. In an age of anxiety, that closed posture might have a shot at winning. ... 

"I personally doubt that Trump will be able to pull off a right-left populist coalition. ... But where Trump fails, somebody else will succeed. And that's where he's substantively revolutionary. The old size-of-government question was growing increasingly archaic and obsolete. In country after country the main battle lines of debate are evolving toward the open/closed framework." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723f828a0e8fe6ba15e084011b8d9bf09ce9cd2025635da015f

--WashPost A1, top of col. 1, "Trump ramps up rhetoric on trade," by Sean Sullivan and Jenna Johnson (online: "Trump starts a trade war - with the Republican Party"): "The rift deepened on Thursday when Trump called out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by name for the second straight day ... [F]euding with powerful business interests makes him an attractive candidate for many disaffected working-class voters, including some who have supported Democrats in the past." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723e5f5b271e5096dcefe1d23958ac1d883552659bcd8ea90a6

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CLICKER - "PRWeek Power List 2016" - Playbookers on the list include: Dan Bartlett, Jay Carney, Rachel Whetstone, Sean Spicer, Robert Gibbs, Deirdre Latour, Joe Lockhart, Don Baer, Jim Mahoney http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723df2ee14dca31a339e7d07bd1227df1765097b65971332bde 

R.I.P. CRACKBERRY -- "Senate says goodbye to the BlackBerry, at last," by Heather Caygle: "The prehistoric smartphone ... will no longer be handed out to Senate staffers after the current supply runs out ... Staffers were put on alert that since BlackBerry has decided to discontinue the device and there is a limited stock on the Hill, the chamber has no way to replenish the phones once they're gone. ... Currently, the Senate has a little more than 600 various BlackBerry models stockpiled, according to the Sergeant at Arms, and device support for current phones is expected to continue for the 'foreseeable future.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc72396357b1864c1c75fe5d7b24b573382f56681f07d30cf38c0 

FUTURE OF NEWS - Case studies: In the midst of shooting a documentary, Colin Barnicle (whose Emmy-winning production company has an enviable stable of sports clients) took a day off and flew down to Texas for the March 1 primary. He wrote, shot and edited this piece by himself, and his brother, Nick, produced it in New York at the end of their regular day. "On The Trail: Episode 3, Super Texas Tuesday," Prospect Productions http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc72342b923f81484a1ae662fefbd0a05298dc8dc21b01dfe6728

FUTURE OF CAMPAIGNS: Snapchat is taking another step in building its footprint in social media player for politics, launching the very first "sponsored lens" for political campaigns for the Australian federal elections. The Liberal Party of Australia, working with Alexandria-based digital firm IMGE, used Snapchat to allow users the ability to send their friends snaps that include an overlaid animation showing support for their party. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7234f99c7f6fdec9d92703b29888fc705aa8ca6ebc4f054c295 

2016 PLAYERS - "Trump parts ways with newly hired digital strategist [Vince Harris]," by Shane Goldmacher and Darren Samuelsohn: "Harris ... issued a series of posts Thursday on Twitter explaining that he and his firm had 'completed our various creative projects' for the presumptive Republican nominee. His social media posts followed a report in Fast Company that he had been fired for leaking the news of his own hiring. 'We were not fired,' Harris countered on Twitter. 'While out of pocket & on vacation w my wife, someone leaked our involvement w/ Trump. The leak did not come from me or us.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7239e0955b3c2a0237b4d1d2fc82a136cf85082034a8bb7848e 

--"Trump picks Pa. team," by Philly Inquirer's Thomas Fitzgerald: "Trump plans to name veteran Republican operative David Urban as senior adviser for Pennsylvania and Ted Christian as state director." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723ab2e50bba2f801a1cb0089e3378954de58999d5a0c8aeb63 

CAMPAIGN SUBJECT LINE DU JOUR -- From: "Donald J. Trump," using an email list from The Daily Caller: "Urgent: Find Hillary guilty on all charges"

CORRECT THE RECORD is releasing a 2-min. video, "Two Peas in a Pod," this morning in advance of the conference featuring Trump and Palin tomorrow in Colorado. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7231c4581df591afa00e13dfba1bb583db5e03eb4ee32122e0d 

SUNDAY SO FAR: 

--NBC's "Meet the Press": Secretary of Labor Tom Perez ... Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) ... Panel: Kasie Hunt, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O'Donnell, Katy Tur

--CBS' "Face the Nation": Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham from Kabul ... Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) ... Panel: Ed O'Keefe, Molly Ball, Gerald Seib ... Presidential book panel: Arthur Herman, Jean Edward Smith, Douglas Brinkley, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf ... And a conversation with Mitt Romney from Aspen Ideas 

--CNN's "State of the Union" -- Brianna Keilar anchors: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) ...

Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson ... Corey Lewandowski ... Panel: Bakari Sellers, Amanda Carpenter, Andre Bauer, Ben Jealous

--"Fox News Sunday" - Shannon Bream anchors: Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) ... Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) ... Panel: Brit Hume, Heidi Przybyla, Charles Lane, 

Scott Brown

--ABC's "This Week": Sen. Sherrod Brown ... Rick Santorum ... Panel: Steve Inskeep, Cokie Roberts, Kimberley Strassel, Alex Wagner

- CNN's "Inside Politics," hosted by John King from 8 to 9 a.m.: Julie Pace, Ed O'Keefe, Jennifer Jacobs, Sara Murray

NEW POLITICO NERDCAST - "National editor Kristin Roberts, chief investigative reporter Ken Vogel, senior correspondent Eli Stokols, senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian and campaigns editor Scott Bland discuss Donald Trump's hard left turn on trade, his struggle to build a small-donor network, and Hillary Clinton's Pennsylvania dilemma. Plus, is Nate Silver right about 2016?" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7233c62f42f5567b1b86f17eabb0daeae41a678b865fbdfb4b1 ... Subscribe and listen http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7239f7760c1900798082a04e698d5d91f0dd60b7609a1f11ff1 

SNEAK PEEK -- JOE BIDEN to NPR's Rachel Martin - Q: "There's a trust gap with Hillary Clinton. You're taking her home ... next week ... to Scranton, Pennsylvania, on the campaign trail." Biden: "Yes. Yes." Q: "How do you help her fix that? Do you think those perceptions of her are fair?" Biden: "I don't think they're fair, but I acknowledge they're there. And ... I hope that I help her just by vouching for her. I mean, those folks back home know me. ...

Q: "Bernie Sanders has yet to endorse her officially." Biden: "Oh, I've talked to Bernie. Bernie's going to endorse her. This is going to work out."

ZEITGEIST - "Tesla crash could hurt sentiment on driverless cars," by AP Auto Writer Dee-Ann Durbin in Detroit: "It was the crash the auto industry knew was coming but still feared. The death of a driver who was using Tesla Motors' semi-autonomous mode could add to the public's apprehension of driverless cars even before they reach the road in big numbers. ... [The] Tesla Model S failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer from a brightly lit sky and didn't automatically activate its brakes." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723008812b5707895ff3267e2c6e6143bc86c6fe62bd3099d3c

VATILEAK - "In memoirs, ex Pope Benedict says Vatican 'gay lobby' tried to wield power," by Reuters' Philip Pullella in Vatican City: "Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no one pressured him to resign but alleges that a 'gay lobby' in the Vatican had tried to influence decisions ... The book, called 'The Last Conversations,' is the first time in history that a former pope judges his own pontificate after it is over. It is due to be published on Sept. 9. ... Benedict says he kept a diary throughout his papacy but will destroy it." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723c47777d0aac4f2ee8651a3f511c0f6933184c7a6119e4885

POST-PRESIDENCY - Chicago Tribune p. 1, "Obama library on drawing board: N.Y. team to design presidential center for Washington or Jackson park site," by Kathy Bergen, Dahleen Glanton and Blair Kamin: "Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were chosen because they understood the desire of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for the center to connect with neighborhoods around it and to house exhibitions with a strong interactive component." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723cc427d096e1ec414f9a54a6d6a588664005a31dbff8f22b9

VALLEY TALK -- "Smugglers use Uber-registered drivers to move migrants to U.S. border," by Reuters' Alizeh Kohari: "On June 10, five vehicles carrying 34 Central American migrants were apprehended while traveling together between the northern Mexican states of Zacatecas and Coahuila ... Four of the vehicles were linked to the Uber Technologies Inc platform, ... but it was unclear whether the human smugglers had hailed the drivers using the Uber app." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7238f9e660743f6b4a7223cc9c2e850f7ccaefa65f5806821b8 

SPOTTED: Former Sen. Kay Hagan (N.C.) and MSNBC's "Hardball" producer Michael LaRosa, having dinner last night at Bernaise on Capitol Hill. ... Chris Matthews at Reading Market in Philly yesterday. ... "Spotted just now at Burlington airport not deboarding with the rest of the flight from D.C. but instead making a beeline for the waiting SUVs on the Tarmac: Bernie Sanders. Wish he would distribute the SUV wealth :)" ... Gov. Nikki Haley in the Willard Hotel, shaking hands with people Wednesday at 6 p.m.: "She looked so great and peppy. And when someone said she should be the Donald's V.P.-- she waved it off and CHUCKLED."

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POSTCARD FROM ASPEN - Daniel's notes from the Ideas Festival - Jason Rezaian, the Post reporter who was held in Iran for more than 18 months, spoke on "Inside an Evolving Iran" -- About Iranian women: "You have a population there that is very educated, more so than the men, more hirable and desirable in terms of employers. ... I've seen in the 15 years that I first started going to Iran, a progression towards a more open society even with the backlash against civil society ... There are certain things that you can't dial back and as long as there is mobile communication and telephone lines and electricity, you can't stop people from doing these sorts of things. It's only a matter of time
 before Iran becomes a very open country ... I'm rather optimistic. ... Q: "Is Iran still a revolutionary society?" Jason: "I don't think so. I think they've moved on from that and I think that's one of the great fears of the [political] establishment."

--PARAG KHANNA, "Geo-strategist, best-selling author, world traveler, TED Speaker," per his Twitter: "Cities, whether it's London or Paris or Istanbul or Cairo, have seen empires rise and fall, nations come and go ... but the cities are always there. That reflects our human impulse. We as individuals are seeking security and community and connectedness. ... It is more accurate to say we are a global urban networked civilization than it is to say we are a world organized into culturally homogenous units of 200 territories."

--JEFFREY GOLDBERG of The Atlantic was the MC of Aspen Comedy Night at Belly Up Aspen, where he performed first and introduced the stand-up comics, which included David Litt, Scott Stossel, Emily Yoffe, Nina Totenberg, Alex Wagner, Gov. John Hickenlooper - Goldberg: "I know that you all think this is Aspen Ideas Festival comedy night. That was a lie. This will actually be a 5-hour panel discussion on Brexit's influence on climate change. We have a great panel; I put together 7 of the most self-important people in Aspen. ... 

"I ran into [Jason Rezaian] and told him you should come to comedy night and he said 'is it good?' And I said, 'compared to what?' And he said, 'solitary confinement in an Iranian prison.' ... If you look into your own souls ... the reason you're here is you're hoping to see semi-famous drunk people make asses of themselves on this stage. ... I don't want to disappoint anyone but I've checked with all of our performers and none of them is drunk. David Brooks, however, is high as a f***ing kite. I've been feeding him edibles all day. ... What's going to happen here tonight is that an extremely baked David Brooks is going to endorse Donald Trump for president and it's going to be hilarious.
 ... 

"This has become a very popular ticket in Aspen as you know. You've been here awhile. You don't even know who's outside: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, we couldn't get them in. Yousafzai -- didn't give her a ticket. ... The Dalai Lama. I gotta tell you about that guy. The Dalai Lama, what a f***ing pain in the ass. He's been calling me all week trying to get into the lineup on comedy night. And what I said to him was ... Dalai Lama, that's what I call him, every time you come, all you do is d*** jokes. And we don't need your d*** jokes because Joe Biden is coming later in the week and that's what he's doing at the Aspen Ideas Festival." 

TRANSITIONS: After leaving the White House to work for Rahm Emanuel's first campaign for mayor, and a six-year tenure being by the mayor's side every day as his Special Assistant, Mike Faulman is leaving Chicago City Hall to help Shinola with business development for their Chicago manufacturing expansion. Faulman navigated the mayor through his hectic schedule, which starts with an early morning swim and ends after dusk.

--"Today, Beer Institute receptionist and administrative assistant Doris Dunn will retire after 46 years with the Beer organization. Doris began her career in 1970 when the U.S. Brewers Association moved from New York to D.C."

--BLAIR ELLIS emails friends and colleagues: "After almost three years of working for Congresswoman Ellmers, [Thursday was] my final day serving as her Communications Director. ... Next week, I'll be moving a building over to serve as press secretary and digital coordinator for the Energy & Commerce Committee."

MEDIAWATCH - WashPost A1, below fold, "Author Gay Talese disavows his latest book amid credibility questions," by Paul Farhi: "In his forthcoming book, 'The Voyeur's Motel' ... Gay Talese chronicles the bizarre story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guests at his Colorado motel from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. But ... Foos sold the motel, located in Aurora, Colo., in 1980 ... 'I should not have believed a word he said,' the 84-year-old author said after The Washington Post informed him of property records that showed Foos did not own the motel from 1980 to 1988. 'I'm not going to promote this book ... How dare I promote it when its credibility is down the toilet?'" 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7236a2f0c08391bd84070a95f0e1324b3376c82c8ccc5c7c1c6 ... Talese's New Yorker article on the motel http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc72373465c8531e284ed0c6b11b7298baf8faf30efdbc861bcd0 

OUT AND ABOUT - The Democracy Fund, a bipartisan foundation started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar "to help ensure that the American people come first in our democracy," held an Independence Day party last night held at the Pillsbury Building rooftop. Ben Ginsberg argued for engaging "hard partisans" (like himself and Bob Bauer) together when working to modernize elections. Guests snacked on chicken and waffle bites, July 4th themed ice-cream, and cookies with the new Democracy Fund logo. Pic of the cookies http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7238e9faf059070a551e6847261fb863346df091dd950182d51 

SPOTTED: Joe Goldman, Lauren Strayer, Tom Glaisyer, Adam Ambrogi, Betsy and David Hawkings, Heather Podesta, Kenny Day, Greg Moore, Anu Rangappa, Juleanna Glover, Thomas Hicks, Matt Masterson, Brett Loper, Trevor Potter, David Becker, Mindy Finn, Rich Dunn, Paul Vinovich, Josh Stearns.

SPORTS BLINK -- The NCAA today runs a full-page NYT tribute ad to former Tennessee Volunteers women' college basketball coach Pat Summitt, who died Tuesday and "led the Lady Vols to 1,098 victories -- the most in Division I college basketball history (men or women) as an American college basketball head coach," per ESPN. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723b2f9fb1573a9a3bdf1a756890bbc7d3e2abc0e6a11782a0c 

REMEMBERING DAVE ELMENDORF - Steve posts on Facebook: "My brother Dave Elmendorf passed away today in New York City surrounded by his children. Dave fought a long battle with cancer and is survived by his four children, five siblings, our mother and many friends and other family. He was a person of deep faith and left us at peace and in comfort. We will miss him a lot." Pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc7231af658cb00e720068cebff397cdcc4f3f0345298b91352eb ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc72321c5c47b330a1fc0ca477b3d93e8fd7b2fa7ec838e57ca5b 

WELCOME TO THE WORLD: Ed O'Keefe, SVP of Premium Content at CNN, and Allison Davis O'Keefe, CBSer for nearly a decade, welcome Alton Davis O'Keefe, born Wednesday and weighing in at a healthy 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Big sister Elsa can't wait to show him her Peppa Pig collection (h/t Linda Douglass, Elsa's godmother)

--Nicholas Hirst, who covers antitrust and competition for Politico in Brussels, and Mercedes Miletti, who works for PICUM, a platform defending the rights of undocumented migrants, have welcomed Astor Hirst. He was born last Friday, the day the U.K. voted to leave the EU (Nick is British). Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc723a62f976cde794baea2075ad6e8fb0372c6a9c3203bcbf65a 

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Laura Turanchik, graphic designer for BerlinRosen in NYC ... Robyn Shapiro, account coordinator for the firm in DC ... (was Wednesday): BerlinRosen's account supervisor Rob Duffey ... (was Tuesday): account director Leslie Peterson (h/ts Cathy Rought)

BIRTHDAYS: Guy Cecil, co-chair and chief strategist for Priorities USA ... newly-engaged NBC's Kristen Welker (h/ts Andrea Mitchell and Olivia Petersen) ... Mike Czin, alum of Muriel Bowser, DNC, OFA and Hillary, taking the summer off and starting a new job in Sept., celebrating in Naples, en route to the small Italian village (Vallata) his mother was born in ... Brett Zongker, the pride of Hutchinson, Kans. and senior associate director of media relations at GW and an AP alum ... Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is 46 (h/t Leigh Claffey) ... Rep. Mark Takai (D-Hawaii) is 49 ... Kate Wilson, regional paid media director at Hillary for America ... Keith Macleod ... Travis Holler, client services
 manager at Data Trust and a CRAFT alum ... Erika Bolstad, reporter for ClimateWire and a McClatchy alum ... Mara Lee Durrell, executive director at OneVoice Movement/Peaceworks Foundation and ITA, Hilary and Shaheen alum ... Canada turns 149 on its national day (h/t @BCIU) .... Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen ... Liz Elkiss, VP of legal and external affairs at ed-tech startup General Assembly and Obama admin. and '08 alum ... Kevin Franck, Massachusetts Democratic politico ... Lida Masoudpour ... 

... Clark Jennings, chief of staff at U.S. Trade and Development Agency ... CBS News alum Paul Friedman, who has spent more than 4 decades as a writer, reporter, producer, executive producer, and as an executive at the three network news divisions ... Bess Caughran Allen ... Jioni Palmer, associate commissioner for external affairs at Social Security Administration ... TED's Laura McClure Houghton ... Bianca Rosales, the pride of Texas and the newest addition to NARAL's growing press operation, which she joined from EMILY's List (h/t James Owens) ... Julie Gibson ... John Giesser ... Pat McQuillan (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Kaye Willis White ... Steve Gladis ... Amelia Rossini ... Gwendolen
 Cates ... Grace Koh ... Ricky Diaz ... Greta Lundberg ... Bill Rehkopf ... actress Olivia de Havilland is 100 ... cookiemaker Wally "Famous" Amos is 80 ... dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is 75 ... Dan Aykroyd is 64 ... Olympic gold medal track star Carl Lewis is 55 ... actress Pamela Anderson is 49 ... actors Andrew and Steven Cavarno are 24 (h/ts AP)

DESSERT - "Crystal Pepsi Is Coming Back to Stores Nationwide," by AdWeek's E.J. Schultz: "The 1990s-era clear soda will go on sale in 20-ounce bottles for [eight weeks] at major retailers starting Aug. 8 ... Crystal Pepsi has the same sweeter mix as regular Pepsi, including sugar. ... [It] originally launched in the early 1990s ... [b]ut the soda flopped as consumers grew disenchanted with clear sodas." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c07acd8893dfc72324c9a3cbe5c27b1d8d41884d1afe3ebb059359f36c110a38

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