Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — What Trump said about Spicer … The hot book for CEOs … Kellyanne backstory?
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 06:04:06 -0500 (EST)

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By Mike Allen = ·Jan 24, 2017

​1 big thing … The Trump Show: A new drama

This West Wing is a tough neighborhood. Even AFTER Sean Spicer's success=ul get-back-on-the-horse presser yesterday, I'm told that a top White Hous= official was discussing his possible replacement. On Day 4! With 1,457 to=go in this term.

A senior aide texted me at bedtime: "Back on tr=ck. Upper hand. Offense and action." Indeed, the team was feeling better a=ter the reboot briefing by Spicer, plus a better-focused performance by PO=US. And the staff saw it as a home run when AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka pr=ised Trump's move to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with a s=atement headlined: "TPP Withdrawal Good First Step Toward Building Trade P=licies that Benefit Working People."

But inside, the finger-pointing=and blame-casting continued. Unfortunately for Spicer, Trump is obsessed w=th his press secretary's performance art. Our Jonathan Swan hears that Tru=p hasn't been impressed with how Spicer dresses, once asking an aide: "Doe=n't the guy own a dark suit?" Spicer looked a lot sharper yesterday than h= did on Saturday — in a dark, bankerly suit.

Maggie Haberma= tweeted that at Spicer's Saturday presser, Trump "wanted him to be in com=and/project strength. He did neither. … [H]e wanted Spicer to be a=derivative of himself -Trump almost always takes q's & slices it with =umor."

​2. "Internal power struggles"

The WashPost delves into the reality show in a juicy front-pager, "Tensions, tumult mark Trump'= first days as president," by Ashley Parker, Phil Rucker and Matea Gold:

"As Trump thought about staffing his administration followi=g his surprise victory, he hesitated over selecting Spicer … He di= not see Spicer as particularly telegenic and preferred a woman."

=Efforts to launch an outside group supporting Trump's agenda have stalled =mid fighting between Kushner loyalists … and conservative donor Re=ekah Mercer … Major disputes include who would control the data."<=li>
Kellyanne "is arguably Trump's most recognizable aide,=which has caused her to receive threats against her life. She has been ass=gned a Secret Service detail."

"Conway said she now h=pes to limit her television appearances. Instead, she is taking on an expa=ded portfolio, which will include health care and veterans' issues, and Pe=ce — for whom she has worked for years as a pollster — is =lso expected to carve out more substantive responsibilities for her."

​3. What Trump reads

Jim and I just popped up a new installment in our Trump 101 series: "With a black Sharpie in hand, he marks up the Times or other =rinted stories. When he wants action or response, he scrawls the staffers'=names on that paper and either hands the clip to them in person, or has a =taffer create a PDF of it — with handwritten commentary — =nd email it to them. An amazed senior adviser recently pulled out his phon= to show us a string of the emailed PDFs, all demanding response."

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​4. President Recidivist

Susan Walsh / AP

The N.Y. Times brings back the "L" word on A1, above the fo=d … "Meeting With Top Lawmakers, Trump Repeats an Election Lie=: " Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Mo=day to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed h=m of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession with the election'= results even as he seeks support for his legislative agenda. … Tr=mp used the opportunity to brag about his victory … [and] asserted=that between three million and five million unauthorized immigrants voted =or Mrs. Clinton."

—"Dagger," Maggie Haberman la=els this tweet from WashPost's Ed O'Keefe: "MCCONNELL on WH meeti=g with with Trump: "I enjoyed the president and Sen. Schumer talking about=all the people they knew in New York."

​5. Behind the breakfast

At 9 a.m. today in the Roosevelt Room, President Trump hosts a "breakfas= and listening session" with auto-industry leaders. You might as well call=it a therapy session. A Wall Street Journal front-pager, "AUTO MAKER= IN THE CROSSHAIRS," counts the ways he has rattled Detroit:

"Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Mark Fields said he =eread Mr. Trump's 'The Art of the Deal' over the holidays. … [T]he= have been rattled by a series of tweets by Mr. Trump accusing them of not=being sufficiently committed to U.S. jobs and investment, given their heav= reliance on overseas production."

"Auto executives … hope there might be an upside to Mr. Trump's close attention: =Trump's EPA nominee says he'll review Obama's stringent fuel-economy targe=s.

"Trump's interactions with auto-i=dustry chiefs extend back more than a decade to the days when he took the =tage at the New York Auto Show as a spokesman for GM's luxury cars."
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Smarter faster: Trump's 100 days … "Trump m=kes his priorities clearer, and deportation of young immigrants has fallen=off the list," per L.A. Times' Mike Memoli and Brian Bennett: "Trump signaled =onday through a flurry of directives and pronouncements that he will put a=priority on remaking U.S. trade and tax policy, even as he quietly backed =way from a pledge to end protections for nearly 750,000 immigrants brought=to the U.S. illegally as children."

6. Quick stats

Gallup says Trump's 45% a=proval makes him the first elected president in its polling history (back =o Ike in 1953) to start below 50%.

"Cities =ay Be Starting to Run Out of Millennials," by NYT Upshot's Conor Dougherty: "[D]em=graphers, along with economists and real estate consultants, are starting =o contemplate what urban cores will look like now that the generation �=80� America's largest — is cresting. … Apartment rents i= San Francisco, Washington, Denver, Miami and New York are moderating or e=en declining from a year ago, according to Zillow."

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7. Bushes back to their old selves

Even after being discharged from Houston Methodist Hospital following tr=atment for bronchitis, Barbara Bush, 91, stayed an extra night with former=President George H.W. Bush, 92, who's still suffering from pneumonia but i= ready to leave the ICU. Dr. Amy Mynderse said a a news conference yesterd=y: "Other than sleeping in separate rooms, … she has been sitting =t his bedside most of the time."

Dr. Clint Doerr added: =/strong>"They're essentially therapy for each other. … [W]hen one =f 'em doesn't want to take a breathing treatment, the other says, 'Git on =hat.' It helps our cause.' … I think 'Mrs.' commented to me, 'You =eed to get us outta here and tuned up, because we gotta host that Super Bo=l.'"

Per AP: "The couple's 72-year marriage is the longest o= any presidential couple in U.S. history … Mynderse told reporters=that when she informed the former president she would be speaking at a new= conference Monday, he replied: 'About what?'"

​8. Trending in business

BREAKING: Brexit gets more complicated, with 4:30 =.m. ET ruling by British Supreme Court that the government needs an act of=Parliament to trigger EU departure. BB=: "The judgement means Theresa May cannot begin talks with the EU unti= MPs and peers give their backing - although this is expected to happen in=time for the government's 31 March deadline

Worth the clic= … N.Y. Magazine, "Long on Trump: Wall Streeters like Anthony Scaramucci bet heavy on the would-be presid=nt back when that seemed like a pretty dumb investment. Bonus time!" by Jessica Pressler: "To be a big-deal person at a major Wall Street firm=and publicly align oneself with a candidate who calls for the building of =alls … would take … in the … parlance of the indus=ry: 'Balls.'" … Since the election, much of the rest of Wall Stree= has come around to Trump, thanks to the rising stock market and the ascen=ion of so many of their own."

​9. Tops in tech

Classic headline from Kara Swisher: "As=Yahoo moves closer to death, earnings beat expectations but the Verizon de=l has been further delayed: Investigations into its massive data breach co=tinue to cloud the company's $4.8 billion acquisition by Verizon."<=li>
=/a>More IPO prep … "Snapchat wants to make fa=e news on its platform disappear, too," per Quartz: On its two-year-old Discover platform (brands =ike ESPN, Now This and We The People), Snapchat "now requires publications=to fact-check articles for accuracy, not publish misleading or deceptive l=nks … Publications will also have to [add warnings for] sensitive =aterial."

"Snapchat's big redesign,=featuring universal search and more, just hit iOS" (TechCrunch)

​10. 2 fun things

"Star Wars: Episode VIII" finally has a title: "Th= Last Jedi," to be released Dec. 15: "Speculation over just who=the last Jedi is immediately ran rampant on social media. 'The Force Awake=s' chronicled Daisy Ridley's Rey discovering her powers with the Force, bu= ended ominously with a withdrawn Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) on a remote=island. If there's to be just one Jedi left, Luke's days could be numbered="

That massive lapel pin Kellyanne was wearing on=the Sunday shows, with "a rhinestone-encrusted presidential seal surrounde= by an enameled ring that reads 'President of the United States Donald Tru=p,' is the creation of District jeweler Ann Hand."

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