Subject: ?Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — Trump as LBJ? Saving Trumpcare — Trump as Jimmy Carter? — The most common age in the U.S. — Tweet du jour — Behind a famous cartoon
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 06:58:10 -0500 (EST)

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By Mike Allen = ·Mar 08, 2017

1 big thing: Saving Trumpcare

Vice President Pence joins the Senate GOP leadership — from lef=, Cory Gardner of Colo., John Barrasso of Wyo., John Thune of S.D. and Ma=ority Leader Mitch McConnell — on the Hill yesterday as Republica=s introduce their health-care plan / AP's J. Scott Applewhite

Trump as LBJ? White House officials say President Trump=is prepared to use a combination of hug and hammer to try to rescue Republ=cans' repeal-and-replace plan for Obamacare.

The hug: <=strong>Trump plans to travel the country to talk up the need for repeal, V=ce President Pence has mobilized, Cabinet members will be deployed, admini=tration officials are blitzing talk radio, and the White House has begun o=treach to conservative groups.

The hammer, per a =hite House official: "Ultimately, members are going to be faced with a bin=ry choice: Do I support repeal, or have gone to voters for four election c=cles in a row, and now look to keep Obamacare?"

The Ho=se GOP version was savaged from all sides yesterday, including by=the most conservative Republicans, Heritage Action and the American Hospital Association.<=p>

One top health-policy expert emails: "So far, t=is has been a bill that has something for everyone … to hate. I re=lly don't see how they get the votes for this bill in the Senate ... [The =ongressional Budget Office] score will only add fuel to the fire, showing =hat it covers fewer people, with crappier insurance, and probably doesn't =ave much $."

Aides said a harbinger of Trumpo=s involvement is a gentle tweet yesterday at a prominent critic of the legislation: "As=I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and grea= health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster!"

Gentle for now, but what if Trump starts tweeting at indi=idual Republicans that they're trying to stop him from making America grea= again? House Republicans in conservative districts fear that Trump's digi=al bully pulpit, turned on them, could mean they face primaries from the r=ght.

The news coverage is bearish ... Axios' =avid Nather and Caitlin Owens, "The Obamacare repeal is a mess" ... <=trong>Axios' Jonathan Swan, "Conservative websites g=ing to war against Trumpcare" ... AP: "Co=servative backlash threatens to sink new GOP health bill" ... N.Y. Tim=s front page, above fold, "G.O.P. HEALTH BILL MEETS A=REVOLT." Wall Street Journal, ditto, "Health Bill=Draws Fire From Foes In the GOP." HuffPost banner yesterday afternoon:="REPUBLICANS COME APART AT THE SEAMS."

So can Trump stitch his party back together? Officials said the administration w=ll also do a better job of explaining that the repeal-and-replace plan is =ot just a single bill but a complete package, including regulatory action =y HHS Secretary Tom Price,

A senior GOP source

2. New strain for D.C. vs. Silicon Valley

Yesterday's WikiLeaks release, "Vault 7: CIA Hacking To=ls Revealed" — starting with a supposed tranche of "8,761 documen=s and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CI='s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley," Va. — claims that CIA surveillance can target smartphones and even smart T=s, "recording conversations in the room and sending them over the Internet=to a covert CIA server."

Key revelation, per =a href="http://link.axios.com/click/9076435.36682/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW=lcy5jb20vMjAxNy8wMy8wNy93b3JsZC9ldXJvcGUvd2lraWxlYWtzLWNpYS1oYWNraW5nLmh0b=w_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5l=3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbQ/5871993924c17c54d77a8b8cB0a763187" target="_blank"=the N.Y. Times, from what "appears to be the largest leak of C.I.A doc=ments in history": "WikiLeaks said that the C.I.A. and allied intelligence=services have managed to compromise both Apple and Android smartphones, al=owing their officers to bypass the encryption on popular services such as =ignal, WhatsApp and Telegram."

The fallout, per <= href="http://link.axios.com/click/9076435.36682/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGl=Z3RvbnBvc3QuY29tL3dvcmxkL25hdGlvbmFsLXNlY3VyaXR5L3dpa2lsZWFrcy1zYXlzLWl0LW=hcy1vYnRhaW5lZC10cm92ZS1vZi1jaWEtaGFja2luZy10b29scy8yMDE3LzAzLzA3L2M4YzUwY=VjLTAzNDUtMTFlNy1iMWU5LWEwNWQzYzIxZjdjZl9zdG9yeS5odG1sP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3=2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2F4aW9zYW0=5871993924c17c54d77a8b8cBabc040ab" target="_blank">the WashPost: "Th= trove appeared to lay bare the design and capabilities of some of the U.S= intelligence community's most closely guarded cyberweapons, a breach that=is likely to cause immediate damage to the CIA's efforts to gather intelli=ence overseas and place new strain on the U.S. government's relationship w=th Silicon Valley giants including Apple and Google."

=Apple says 'many' vulnerabilities in WikiLeaks dump have been patched," per Axios' Ina Fri=d: "It will work to fix the rest and urged customers to make sure they hav= the latest security updates."

3. "Echo Boomers" are taking over the economy

Andrew Witherspoon / Axios

Axios' Chris Matthews reports that the U.S. h=s more 26-year-olds than any other age cohort:

"The baby boomers came of age in the 1960s and 1970s — year= that saw much faster economic growth than we have today. Millennials have=been slow to acquire the trappings of adulthood like spouses, houses and c=ildren, but it's only a matter of time before they lean in to the sort of =arge purchases that can power a consumer-led economy."

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4. Tweet du jour

I once watched a friend's son repeatedly poking a deskt=p screen, wondering why it was "broken."

5. Brutal column

Ross Douthat, the conservative N.Y. Times columnist, co=pares Trump to Jimmy Carter in "Why Republicans Can't Do Heal=h Care":

The comparison "rests, in part,=on the work of the political scientist Stephen Skowronek, who argues that =ertain presidencies are 'disjunctive' — straddling a political ord=r passing into history and another one struggling to be born."

"'[D]isjunctive' generally means ineffective, because the par=ies ... are likewise trapped between past and future and unable to unify a=d act."

"Just as Carter sensed that =he New Deal-Great Society coalition was no longer viable, ... so in 2016 T=ump offered a vision of the G.O.P. as a nationalist 'workers party' in whi=h certain Reaganite pieties would no longer set the terms of conservative =ebate."

"But ... Trump's bri=ge to a new conservatism will crumble if his party can't agree on=policies that fit his vision."

"[T]he Carter precedent — a majority wasted and then lost — looms as this adm=nistration's most likely destination."

David Ignatius =olumn in WashPost, "The country's real-life spy thriller
"Spoiler alert: =he Russians have already won.

6. The Trump echo in Australia

Greg Ruben / Axios

Aussie native Jonathan Swan finds that his homeland is the lat=st host for the nationalist trend sweeping the globe:

"For all the talk about rising right-wing =opulist movements in Europe, there's something worth watching on the other=side of the planet in Western Australia: An unusual alliance has formed be=ween the mainstream center-right Liberal Party and the hardcore populist n=tionalist party One Nation, led by the controversial figure Pauline Hanson="

West Wing watching: White House chief strate=ist Steve Bannon is following these developments along with the nationalis= movements sweeping Europe and Asia. And his former website Breitbart is e=eing Australia as a potential place to launch a new foreign outpost.
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7. Hot in Silicon Valley: Instragram goes after Snapchat

Instagram continues to copy Snapchat, per Axios' Kia Kokalitcheva: After copying Snapchat's Stories feat=re last year, Instagram has added stickers that users in certain locations=can put on the photos and videos they share. Instagram's blatant copying o= Snapchat has raised questions about the latter's ability to hold onto its=users, especially given Instagram's bigger user base and more sophisticate= tools for advertisers and brands.

Tinder has a version of i=s app for elite users: Tinder Select is an invite-only dating app=for pre-vetted users, including including CEOs, models, and other ultra at=ractive people, according to TechCrunch. The =ecret version has apparently been around for at least six months without t=e company saying a public word about it.

8. Trump bump for the Valley

The , in "The three Asian tech titans targeting US=with jobs and investment," reports: "Trump has had a tetchy relationship w=th Silicon Valley to date, but three tech titans from the east have come b=aring the very gifts that the US president seeks: investment, jobs and fac=ories."

Justin Green boils down the plans of three=Asian tech billionaires:

Masayoshi Son, $20.8 =illion (Softbank): Potential mergers to boost market share for Sprint, the=U.S. wireless carrier it controls.

Jack Ma, $28.6=billion (Alibaba): More small U.S. companies on its ecommerce platform, sa=ing it could create a million jobs.

Terry Gou, $7=4 billion (Foxconn): Teasing U.S. plant for iPhones, wants to sell more pr=ducts from Sharp, the Japanese electronics maker it acquired last year.

9. Deep dive: Papal populists

"Po=e Francis' reforms spark revolt of the [Catholic] hard-right:=The pontiff faces criticism for his stance on social issues, including sup=ort for Muslim refugees" — Financial Times Big Read, by James Poli=i:

"Emboldened by the=rise of rightwing populists across the west, including the presidency of D=nald Trump in the US, these internal critics have stepped up their attacks=on the Pope's softer tones on social issues, as well as his policies of op=nness towards Muslim refugees and support for action on climate change. Ne=rly four years after Francis was elected as a non-European Pope capable of=breathing new life into Catholicism around the world, he is arguably facin= his sharpest backlash yet."

10. 1 fun thing

All rights reserved, Bob Mankoff/The New Yorker Magazine via N.Y. Times<=p>

"A Cartoonist Savors His Favorite Art for The New Yorke=" ... N.Y. Times' Jennifer Schuessler quotes Bob Mankoff,
"This is my most famous cartoon, and the pu=ch line has been ripped off on T-shirts, even a thong. That one is a littl= tricky — why would you have that on a thong? I now own the tradem=rk to the phrase. Initially, the Trademark Office denied it, but I was abl= to show that my cartoon is actually where this phrase, which has been cit=d many times, comes from."

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