Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — One place the robots are losing — An exclusive clip — Uber's final frontier
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:35:11 -0400 (EDT)

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One place the robots are losing — An exclusive clip — Ub=r's final frontier

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By Mike Allen = ·Mar 19, 2017

Rescheduled from D.C.'s lame snow day: An Ax=os event this Tuesday at 8 a.m. ... "The Journey from Route 66: A Discussion on America's Infrastructure," with Virginia Gov. Terry =cAuliffe, House Transportation Chair Bill Shuster and Emil Frankel of the =no Center for Transportation. Moderated by Axios EVP Tim Berry! <= href="http://link.axios.com/click/9184200.38122/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVqb3VybmV=ZnJvbXJvdXRlNjYuc3BsYXNodGhhdC5jb20_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZW=pdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbQ/5871993924c17c54d7=a8b8cB87df9f68" target="_blank">Click here to RSVP.

1 big thing: The intrigue, between the lines

This is so juicy: Two White House fact=ons, trashing their rivals in mirror-image stories on the Sunday front pag=s. We have talked to both sides, and they think they know with dead certai=ty who the sources are. And they're going to react. So this Kremlinology i= just beginning to play out.

The big talke= is at the top the WashPost front page, "Inside White House, a cl=ss war brews: Trump's populist aides tangle with N.Y. executives," by Phil=Rucker and Bob Costa:

"[T]hey are d=smissed by their rivals as 'the Democrats.' ... Led by Gary Cohn =nd Dina Powell — two former Goldman Sachs executives often aligned=with Trump's eldest daughter and his son-in-law — the group and it= broad network of allies are the targets of suspicion, loathing and jealou=y from their more ideological West Wing colleagues."

"On t=e other side are the Republican populists, ... led by chief strat=gist Stephen K. Bannon, who has grown closer to Chief of Staff Reince Prie=us in part to counter the New Yorkers."

"For the most part=so far, the ideologues are winning."

"Cohn, Powe=l and other aides have chafed at Priebus's protocols because he a=d Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh tried to exert complete control over t=e president's daily schedule. ... Priebus recently started giving other se=ior staffers and Cabinet members more influence over ... face time with Tr=mp."

So good ... Here's the view from the oth=r faction, in the 12th graf of a New York Times front-pager by Ju=ie Davis and Maggie Haberman:

"=ary Cohn ... is on the rise, and has the ear of the president's p=werful son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Mr. Kushner also gained an ally on the N=tional Security Council with the appointment of Dina Powell, a Republican =nd another former Goldman official who worked with Mr. Cohn, as a deputy f=r strategy."

Be smart: This is a White House of man= factions — by design. Trump likes the chaos but it creates insan= levels of rivalry, backstabbing and leaking. This is the rare instance wh=re the hour-to-hour reality is even worse than what you read.
Be even smarter: You think it's a coincidence tha= every story about Ivanka, Jared and Dina portray them as the sane, soft o=es? They want the world to know Operation Normal is underway.

2. Life lessons from a top Obaman

Cover photograph by Pete Souza

Alyssa Mastromonaco — who was picked as directo= of scheduling for Senator-elect Barack Obama in December 2004 and stayed =ith him a decade, ending as White House deputy chief of staff — wi=l be out Tuesday with a tell-none memoir / career-advice book (published =y Twelve), "W=o Thought This Was a Good Idea?" It's a question no one on the campaig= wanted to be asked by a disappointed Barack Obama.

Alyssa <=strong>— now president of global communications strategy and talen= at A+E Networks (and a proud Badger celebrating Wisconsin's upset of #1 V=llanova in March Madness yesterday; her sister went to Nova) — inc=udes this worthwhile life advice while explaining the peculiarities and ob=essions of advance-world:

"I always keep a list. ... I separate it into three parts: immediate goals, long-term goals, an= personal. ... The personal is basically just a list of friends whom, duri=g the business of my life, I don't want to forget to call, get drinks with="

"I put everything in my calendar. =t takes so much stress out of my life to know where I can find things. My =redit score went up 100 points when I started putting in reminders to pay =y bills. I put birthdays in my calendar and set a three-day reminder in ad=ance so I can put a card in the mail. ... I keep birthday and all-purpose =ards in the house at all times. And stamps."

"[Y]=strong>ou eat less, look younger, have a better attitude, and mak= better decisions if you get enough sleep."

"=o matter what I'm doing or where I'm going, I try to give myself =s much time as possible to get there."

"On studying: The first lady was particularly adamant about state dinners: They were=not just a fancy spread with free food and nice booze; they were work ... =art of knowing how to be prepared comes from being self-aware ... At state=dinners, this meant knowing who you were sitting next to and reading up on=a few things to talk to them about. ... [E]veryone knows you're supposed t= come to professional conversations with a couple of questions and a sense=of whom you're talking to. Everyone knows how easy it is to Google."
<=i>And after Obama surprised her in 2011 with a visit to B=ckingham Palace when she thought she'd be staying in the staff vans, and w=s wearing jeans: "Unless you're going to the Iowa State Fair, always hedge=on the side of more professional."

3. Timeline for tax reform

Sean S=icer to Ireland's Sunday Independent newspaper, in an intervi=w during Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny's visit: "We are going to have ta= reform after we get healthcare completed ... I think we are looking at late spring to summer."

Ahead of a p=anned Thursday-night vote in the House, ABC's George Stephanopoulos asks H=S Secretary Tom Price on "This Week" if "everything you do to get votes in=the House is going to cost you votes in the Senate."

Price: "Well, it's a fine needle that needs =o be thread, there's no doubt about it."

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4. I'm back!

Clinton speaks at the Society of Irish Women's annual dinner on St. Patr=ck's Day in Scranton, Pa. / AP's Matt Rourke

"Hillary Clinton Says She's 'Ready to Come Out of t=e Woods,'" by N.Y. Times' Eli Rosenberg: "Clinton ... made the comments at=the end of a nearly 20-minute talk she gave at a yearly St. Patrick's Day =elebration held by a women's group in Scranton — in the northeast =orner of a battleground state that made for one of her most surprising ele=toral losses."

"I'm like a lot =f my friends right now. I have a hard time watching the news, I'l= confess ... I am ready to come out of the woods and to help shine a light=on what is already happening around kitchen tables, at dinners like this."=/p>

5. First look: Tonight's "The Circus"

"The Circus," Showtime's buzzy series of behind-the-sce=es instant-docs, is back tonight at 8 ET/PT:

"Co-host Mark McKinnon goes behind closed doors ins=de a meeting of the House Freedom Caucus, ... where Senator Rand Paul [in =lack tie, after an earlier Irish gala with Pence] has a message for the gr=up's conservative members of Congress that President Trump and readers of =The Art of the Deal' might be familiar with."

In an exclusi=e first look for Axios AM readers, see a great clip=/a> (with Sergio Gor cameo): "Sen. Rand Paul Recites 'The Art of the Deal'=to the Freedom Caucus."

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6. Meals on Wheels spike in online donations

"Supporters of Meals on Wheels showered the nonprofit o=ganization in online donations — over $100,000 over a two-day peri=d — in response to the White House's budget proposal to defund doz=ns of social programs," per N=C's Dakshayani Shankar.

"On a typical day,

7. An instant classic

"Conservative Darrell Issa turns to the left," on Orange County Re=ister front page, by Martin Wisckol: "Issa, who built a reputation in =ongress as an imposing conservative attack dog, has got a brand new bag."<=p>
"With Democrats closing=in on his seat last fall, Issa mailed a campaign ad praising President Bar=ck Obama for signing a victims rights bill Issa supported — the sa=e Obama he unrelentingly criticized while serving as the high-profile chai=man of the House Oversight Committee.

8. Fascinating read

"'London Bridge Is Down': The simple code which will on= day alert the world to the Queen's death and trigger a chain of events th=t have been secretly rehearsed for decades ... Incredible sequence of even=s which will follow the Monarch's death is revealed" — Daily Mail:

"The death =f a British monarch, and the accession of a new Head of State, is a ritual=that is passing out of living memory: three of the Queen's last four Prime=Ministers were born after she came to the throne."

"The la=t time a British monarch died, 65 years ago, news of the death of=George VI was conveyed to Buckingham Palace with the coded phrase 'Hyde Pa=k Corner' to prevent switchboard operators from finding out. For Elizabeth=II, civil servants will say 'London Bridge is down' on secure lines.
<=i>"For a time, she will be =one without our knowing it. Governors general, ambassadors and prime minis=ers will learn first. Cupboards will be opened in search of black armbands= three-and-a-quarter inches wide, to be worn on the left arm."

"[A] footman in mourning clothes will emerge from a door at B=ckingham Palace and pin a black-edged notice to the gates. The Palace webs=te will show the same text on a dark background."

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9. Futurecast: One place the robots are lagging

"Burgers and microchips on the menu for US fast-food ch=ins: Introducing robots to an industry that employs 11m people is proving =ar from simple" Financial Times' Lindsay Whipp in Chicago:

"Most advances have focused on ordering and pay=ents ... Food preparation ... has proved harder to automate fully, particu=arly in an era where customisation is king and consumers are choos=ng quality over price. ...

"[A]t Café X, a robotic coffee kiosk in San Francisco[,= ... aims to remove the repetitive tasks of coffee making by using a robot=c arm to move each cup from a stack to the coffee machine and then to the =ustomer, making an equally tasty brew as a trained barista but in less tim=."

10. 1 fun thing

"Uber's final frontier=/a>: Upstate New York," by AP's David Klepper in Albany and Mike =aim in Buffalo: "Upstate New York, essentially everything outside of the m=tropolitan New York City area, is Uber's final frontier: the largest area =n the continental U.S. where app-based ride-hailing companies remain banne=. Many in such upstate cities as Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and Syracuse a=e hoping this is the year that distinction ends, but they will have to per=uade the state's legislature first.

"Uber and Lyft are banned outside of the New York City area.=Every state except Alaska and New York now has statewide ride-hailing regu=ations ... Austin ... is the nation's largest city without Uber. The compa=y pulled out after local leaders required drivers to be fingerprinted.
=p style="margin-left: 20px;">"New York's decision on wh=ther to allow ride-hailing statewide could come within weeks."

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