Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — Left rises on Facebook — Trump's family foreign policy — Bob Woodward: "History is never over"?
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Left rises on Facebook — Trump's family foreign policy —=Bob Woodward: "History is never over"

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By Mike Allen = ·Apr 11, 2017

1 big thing: Trump and the CEOs

Trump applauds as Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch hugs his wife, Mari= Louise Gorsuch, after a swearing-in reenactment ceremony in the Rose Gard=n yesterday with Justice Anthony Kennedy / AP's Evan Vucci

How to finance Trump's infrastructure plan, which depen=s on leveraging public funds with many more private dollars, will be one o= the top topics as President Trump meets at 10:45 a.m. with a who's-who of=CEOs (Elon Musk, etc.) assembled by Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman, who hea=s the President's Strategic and Policy Forum.

The summit is a time to shine for Jared Kushner's Office of American Innovation= Cabinet members will lead sessions on commerce, education, environment, b=dget and transportation.

Why it matters: Afte= Trump got skunked on health reform, he needs to find other ways to put po=nts on the board. The corporate heat can help him with Congress — =and back him up where Congress won't.

Mood music ... <=strong>"Why Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan could wind up in a dit=h," by Politico transportation reporter Lauren Gardner<=a>: "His hopes for a 'very bipartisan' bill are running into the same kind= of political forces that torpedoed the Obamacare repeal."

W=at the White House is reading: UBS Americas President Tom Naratil=is out this morning with = report laying out the need to get "civic capital" off the sidelines t= meet Trump's infrastructure goals. (Ch=at sheet)

2. Left rising on Facebook

Data: Newswhip; Chart: Lazaro Gamio / Axios

A majority of the most-engaged partisan Facebook pages =re left-leaning or affiliated with Trump resistance movements, according t= NewsWhip, the social analytics measurement company.

Axios' Sara Fischer reports that even more tel=ing is that most of the left-leaning pages are out-performing some of the =ost trafficked news competitors in overall engagement.

=hy it matters: Facebook is a good tool for observing the rise of political=movements. And its role in activism will only grow bigger. New to=ls, like call-to-action buttons, fundraising buttons and buttons to contac= elected officials, combined with traditional tools, like mass event invit=tions, make it easy for political groups to form and spread on Facebook.

3. Family foreign policy

Lead story of London'= Daily Telegraph: "Trump's decision to launch a cruise missile at=ack on Syria proved he is not in league with Russia and will not be 'pushe= around' by Vladimir Putin, the US President's son has told The Daily Tele=raph. Eric Trump said his father was not intimidated by President Putin's =alk of war, and there would be 'no-one harder' than President Trump if the= 'cross us.'

"He also confirme= that President Trump's decision to bomb a Syrian airbase ... was=influenced by the reaction of his sister Ivanka, who said she was 'heartbr=ken and outraged' by the atrocity.

P.S. Wall Street Journal =ead story, "U.S. Hints at Tougher Stance On Syria: Discuss=on of wider retaliation comes as Tillerson heads to meetings in Russia."
P.P.S. AP's Jonathan Lemire= "Donald Trump Jr. ... will not be a candidate for governor of Ne= York next year but is not ruling out a possible run for office in the fut=re. ... 'I am not running in 2018.'"

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4. A lonely beat

Politico's Mike Grunwald has carved out a lonely beat l=oking at what Trump does, rather than what he says:
<=>His latest ... "Trump's Secret Weapon Against Oba=a's Legacy — Using an obscure law called the Congressional Rev=ew Act, the president and his allies in Congress are quietly wiping out pa=ts of his predecessor's regulatory regime":

The Congressional Review Act, a 21-year-old law =hat created a fast track for wiping out "midnight rules" finalized late in=a presidential administration, had been used only once before this year. B=t Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress have already deployed it 11=times to strike down Obama-era regulations. In fact, those 11 CRA resoluti=ns are the only substantive bills Trump has signed so far; it's quite poss=ble that the CRA will produce the entire legislative legacy of his first 1=0 days.

5. Grading Trump

Shot ... Michael Gerson, former top aide to George W. B=sh, in WashPost column, "The struggle to give a soul to a soulless presidency": "Wou=d this divided, chaotic White House, as it stands, be ready for a major sh=ck such as a terrorist attack or a serious military move by a rival power?=There is every reason to think it would not be ready."

Chase= ... Ian Bremmer, in his Eurasia Group e=ail update for clients: "[F]or all the concerns that [P]resident [T]rump's='finger on the button' would be a menace, the response to [S]yria's chemic=l weapons strikes was restrained and commensurate."

6. Watergate never goes away

Four movies or documentaries are in the works on Waterg=te, a friend points out:

"Felt" is the story o= Deep Throat, FBI official Mark Felt, told primarily from the perspective =f his family. Liam Neeson plays Felt. Julian Morris plays Bob Woodward. Fi=ming is complete and the movie is expected to be released this year. Direc=ed by Peter Landesman.

The film rights to "The L=st of the President's Men," Woodward's book on Nixon aide Alexander Butter=ield, who disclosed the secret White House taping system, has been sold to=Steve Golin's Anonymous Content (which did "Spotlight," the 2016 Best Pict=re on the Boston Globe investigation of Catholic priests). Screenwriter an= director Rod Lurie is working on the screenplay and meeting regularly wit= Butterfield and Woodward.

Actor Robert Redford i= planning with NBC for a possible documentary that focuses on the Senate a=d House investigations of Watergate in 1973-74, when bipartisanship was st=ll possible in Washington.

ABC has commissioned a primetime specia= on Watergate timed to the 45th anniversary of the 1972 break-in at the De=ocratic headquarters in the Watergate office building.

Woodward told Axios AM: "History is never over="

7. Pulitzer winners

WasPost editor Martin Baron, left, joins staff in congratulating David F=hrenthold / WashPost's Bonnie Jo Mount via AP

Another way Trump has blessed the news industry ... Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting — David Fahrenth=ld of The Washington Post: "For persistent reporting that created=a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage while ca=ting doubt on Donald Trump's assertions of generosity toward charities."

WashPost's Paul Farhi: "Fahrenthold's ... was a follow-the-money tale that combined dogged repo=ting — he called 450 charitable organizations to ask them whether =rump had ever donated money — with the creative use of social medi=, especially Twitter, to 'crowdsource' the public's collective knowledge o= people and events. ... Post editor Martin Baron said Fahrenthold, 39, 'reimagined' investigative reporting."

P=litzer Prize for Commentary — Peggy Noonan of The Wall S=reet Journal: "For rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns =hat connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the=nation's most divisive political campaigns."

WSJ's Lukas Alpert<=a>: "In an email to staff, ... Paul Gigot, editor of the Journal'= editorial pages, wrote: 'Ahead of most others, she foresaw Trump's rise a=d his appeal to Americans who were frustrated by the leaders of both major=political parties. Peggy didn't shrink from addressing Trump's many flaws =s a candidate, but she always showed great respect for the intelligence of=voters and explained the currents of American life and politics that catap=lted Trump to the White House.'"

Pulitzer Prize for Ed=torial Writing — Art Cullen of The Storm Lake (Iowa) Tim=s: "For editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and=engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultu=al interests in Iowa."

L.A. Times' Nigel Duara, "In = small Iowa town, a Pulitzer-winning editor defends immigrants and tries t= bring a community together": "Smack in the middle of [conservati=e Rep. Steve] King's deep-red district, one that voted 61% for President T=ump, is a pesky 3,000-circulation newspaper, the Storm Lake Times, led by = sarcastic editor with Mark Twain's hair and Sam Elliott's eyebrows who re=ularly takes aim at King. Art Cullen, 59, acknowledges his editorials may =e mere grapeshot to King's bombast."

See a =ist of winners and finalists, including BuzzFeed's first Pulitzer citation: Chris Hamby of BuzzFeed Ne=s as a finalist in International Reporting, for an exposé of a disput=-settlement process used by multinational corporations.

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8. Will London fall?

The Elizabeth Tower at Houses of Parliament, containing the bell tower B=g Ben, is framed by a hole in central London / AP's Matt Dunham

Dominating the front page of today's N.Y. Times, "A Mighty City Trembles at a Global Crossroad: With Britain Leaving=Europe, Can London Remain a Capital of the World," by Sarah Lyall:

"Modern London thrives on the=idea that one city can be a global melting pot, a global trading house, a =lobal media machine and a place where everyone tolerates everyone else, mo=tly. The thought is that being connected to the rest of the world is somet=ing to celebrate. But what happens to London when that idea unexpectedly f=lls away?"

Why it matters: "To many people in =he capital, the vote last year feels like a rejection not just of Europe b=t also of the values embodied by London, perhaps the world's most vibrantl= and exuberantly cosmopolitan city. ... Brexit has thrown into disarray th=s great experiment in tolerance."

9. Le Pen's polls slip slightly

Catching up on the French election, two Sundays from no= ... Bloomberg posts a "Leftist=maverick Jean-Luc Melenchon continues to move up in the polls, tu=ning the April 23 contest into a four-person race. Political newcomer Emma=uel Macron, who is jockeying with far-right Marine Le Pen of the National =ront for first place, has heightened his attacks. Socialist Benoit Hamon i= in the rear among the five main candidates. The top two will go into the =ay 7 runoff." Polls suggest Le Pen loses a runoff because supporters of ot=er candidate coalesce against her.

Why it matters: The French election is the main event in a series of elections around=the globe testing the sweep and persistence of the nationalist, populist t=de that swept British out of the EU and Trump into the White House.

10. 1 fun thing: We've all been there

Viral video ... Australian newscaster is seen loo=ing startled as she suddenly realizes the camera has returned to her after=a prerecorded package: "Now to sport ... "

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