Subject: ?Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — Trump's idea for a TV show: "The Tower" — O'Reilly chain reaction — Top CEO warns of "de-globalization" — The "Trumpbot overlord"
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 06:42:08 -0400 (EDT)

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By Mike Allen = ·Apr 05, 2017

Good Wednesday morning. If you're out and ab=ut in D.C. this morning, join Jim VandeHei and Ch=ck Todd for an 8 a.m. conversation with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other =uests at the Carnegie Library, 801 K St. NW. Outside cameras and c=rrespondents welcome. Dip into the Axios STREAM for an exclusive look =t McCarthy's Innovation Agenda.

1 big thing: The odd-couple summit

Trump listens to a question during a CEO town hall yesterday in the Sout= Court Auditorium of the White House complex / AP's Evan Vucci

White House insiders tell me that when the president me=ts the other most powerful man in the world, China's Xi Jinping, at Mar-a-=ago tomorrow, expect Trump to be cordial in public, tough(ish) in =rivate.

Trump plans to tell Xi behind the=scenes that he plans to stick up for the country in a way that his predece=sors didn't. But for the cameras, Trump will play the cordial host �=94 his natural state.

Trump isn't expected to make =s big a point of human-rights issues as some of his conservative backers w=uld like.

Axios' all-terrain Jonathan Swan, after h=s "Morning Joe" debut, jumped on a White House summit=preview call late yesterday, where senior officials said Trump's prima=y purpose will be to "put a framework in place" to help the two leaders wo=k through their disagreements on everything from trade to North Korea.

Trump has little interest
South Ch=na Sea incursions: An official said it was "no secret" that Trump=was "disturbed by the activities that took place under the last administra=ion."

Swan's read: Trump loved deali=g one-on-one during his real estate career, and we wouldn't be surprised i= he elevates more of the conversations with China to the leader-to-leader =evel.

And, as Axios AM told you when we broke=the story of the Mar-a-Lago summit, there won't be any golf.

About an hour after an official on the call warned North Korea<=a> that "the clock has now run out and all options are on the table," Pyon=yang fired "a newly developed powerful ballistic missile."

2. Number of the day

21: number of companies to pull ads from 'The O'Reilly =actor' in growing backlash, per CNN's Tom Kludt.

Why it matters =.. WashPost front page, "Advertisers flee O'Reilly over harassmen= claims," by Paul Farhi: "Collectively the advertiser retreat, which see=ed to grow in a chain reaction throughout the day, represented the most si=nificant threat to O'Reilly seen during his long, successful ... career ..= A similar but slower retreat by advertisers led to the demise of Glenn Be=k's highly rated Fox program."

The takeaway ... "=dvertisers are the new media watchdog," by Axios' Sara Fischer: "If=we've learned anything from recent advertising controversies it's that whe= united, advertisers can force publishers to make changes."

3. Ivanka Trump on being "complicit"

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Ivanka Trump to Gayle King of "CBS This Morni=g," re the harsh "Saturday Night Live" sketch saying her perfume would=be "Complicit":

"If being complicit ..= is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm=complicit. I don't know that the critics who may say that of me, if they f=und themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am n=w in, would do any differently than I am doing ... I hope time will prove =hat I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father's admi=istration is the success that I know it will be."

On why she=doesn't publicly speak out on issues ranging from Planned Parenth=od and gay rights to climate change: "I would say not to conflate lack of =ublic denouncement with silence."

On ways to make your voice=heard: "In some case it's through protest and ... going on the ni=htly news and talking about or denouncing every issue in which you disagre= with. Other times it is quietly, and directly, and candidly ... So where = disagree with my father, he knows it, and I express myself with total can=or. ... I respect the fact that he always listens. It's how he was=in business. It's how he is as president."

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4. Pic of the day

Kushner during a helicopter transit over Baghdad, / Photo by Navy Petty =fficer 2nd Class Dominique Pineirovia

"In Iraq, ... Jared Kushner, upbeat on Mosul," by Reute=s' Phil Stewart at Qayyara West Airfield, Iraq: "Speaking after lengthy ba=tlefield reports from Iraq's military, Kushner sounded upbeat about the ca=paign and said the partnership between U.S. and Iraqi troops was 'very imp=essive' ... signaling White House interest in longer-term U.S. military a=sistance."

"I hope the victory =hat you have in Mosul in the near future will not just be a victo=y for the American and Iraqi troops but it will be a victory for the world="

5. Children killed in Syria "chemical attack"

From a hospital near a suspected chemical attack in rebel-held northwest=rn town of Khan Sheikhun in Syria / @AFPphoto

Breaking ... "A suspected chemical attack=that killed at least 58 civilians in rebel-held northwestern Syria has pro=pted widespread outrage and calls for international action."

But ... "Russia defended its ally Damascus on We=nesday in the face of an international outcry over a suspected chemical at=ack that killed scores of civilians, saying a Syrian air strike hit a 'ter=orist warehouse.'"

Story behind this photo, by AFP's Mohamed Al-Bako=r: "The first thing that hits you is the smell ... Children are lying on b=ds and medics are frantically trying to save them. ... They are putting ox=gen masks on the children. It's mayhem -- the children crying, the medics =arking orders."

6. Susan Rice: "There was no spreadsheet"

Susan Rice to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC: "The a=legation is that somehow the Obama administration officials utilized intel=igence for political purposes ... That's absolutely false. ... I leaked no=hing to nobody and never have and never would."

Sen. Tom Cot=on (R-Ark.), on Hugh Hewitt radio show: "Susan Rice is the Typhoid M=ry of the Obama administration foreign policy. Every time something went w=ong, she seemed to turn up in the middle of it."

Wall Street=Journal front page: "House Panel Wants Rice to Te=tify."

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7. Jamie Dimon on "d​e-globalization"

Source: National Archives, in Jamie Dimon's "Fellow Shareholders" letter=/p>

Worthy of your time ... In an annual tradition that get= the attention of Warren Buffett and other moguls, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jami= Dimon yesterday published a 45-page le=ter to shareholders. Key po=nts:

On the bank's "biggest geopolitical=risks": "De-globalization, Mexico and China. Anti-globalization s=ntiment is growing in parts of the world today, usually expressing itself =n anti-trade and anti-immigration positions."

"Since 2010,=/strong> when the government took over student lending, direct government =ending to students has gone from approximately $200 billion to more than $=00 billion – creating ... a population that is rightfully =ngry about how much money they owe."

"The lack of=economic growth and opportunity
has led to deep and understandable frustration
among so many Americans."

"It is understandable why so many=are angry at the leaders of
America's institutions, including businesses,
schools and governments – they are right to
expect us to do a better job."

No. 1 "Most Rea=" story on B=oomberg: "Dimon Warns 'Something Is Wrong' With the U.S."

8. Quarterly profits strongest since 2011

"U.S. companies are poised to report their strongest qu=rterly earnings in years, another sign that the stock-market rally could h=ve further to run," per Wall Street Journal front-pager by Akane Otani:

"Analysts expected earnings for S&P 500 companies to grow=by 9.1% overall in the first quarter from a year earlier, as of March 31, =hich would mark the highest growth since the fourth quarter of 2011, accor=ing to FactSet. Still, analysts have trimmed their profit expectations sin=e the start of the year, and disappointing results could stoke concerns th=t stock-price gains have outpaced earnings growth."

9. Paragraph du jour

As host of "The Celebrity Apprentice," 2015: "You're fired!" / AP

Forthcoming N.Y. Times Magazine cover story=/a>, "CNN had a problem. Trump solved it: Inside the strange symb=osis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create," by Jonathan =ahler:

Having Trump as "ta=ent" [on "The Apprentice," when Zucker was president of NBC Enter=ainment] came with certain obligations. There was the weekly phone call, d=ring which Trump would boast about his latest ratings or complain about th= performance of the shows leading into "The Apprentice." When Trump wanted=to create a scripted fictional show called "The Tower" — l=ke "Dynasty," only about a group of models who live in a Manhattan skyscra=er — Zucker instructed his development team to buy the pi=ch and hire a writer, even though he never intended to put it on TV. (Even=before there was a script, Trump had a casting demand: They had to=hire real models, not actresses.) When Trump told reporters, inco=rectly, that "The Apprentice" was the most popular show on TV, Zucker wou=d roll his eyes and laugh. "Jeff got a kick out of it," [his top reality-T= executive, Jeff] Gaspin says. "It was just television."<=em>

Sentence du jour: "CNN's Last-Supper-size panel= have become a hallmark of its political coverage."

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10. 1 surprising thing

"Neverm=nd The Russians, Meet The Bot King Who Helps Trump Win Twitte=," by BuzzFeed senior technology reporter Joe Bernstein:

At 7:23 on Sunday evening, the cons=rvative internet personality Mike Cernovich tweeted that ... Susan Rice ha= requested the 'unmasking' of Americans connected to the Trump campaign ..= At 7:30, the owner of the Twitter account MicroMagicJingle™ [now =uspended] noticed, and began blasting out dozens of tweets and retweets ab=ut the story. ...

Mic=oMagicJingle™ is the latest incarnation of MicroChip, a n=torious pro-Trump Twitter ringleader once described by a Republican strate=ist as the 'Trumpbot overlord.' ... By 9 a.m. Monday, [#SusanRice] was be=ng tweeted nearly 20,000 times an hour ... [B]y 11 a.m., 34,000 an hour. .=.

MicroChip said that he is a freelance mobile software developer in his early thirties=and lives in Utah.

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