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'It's for you. It's President Trump again' — Murdoch sons 'fur=ous about the mess Roger created' — President Underwood, for life=

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By Mike Allen = ·May 02, 2017

1 big thing: "It's for you. It's President Trump again"

Lazaro Gamio / Axios

During a recent phone conversation about the evolving h=alth-reform bill, President Trump asked a simplistic but apparently sincer= question:

"Is what we are going to do going to ta=e care of people?"

He explained: "What I told peop=e is: We'll take care of people."

No deep dive on the detail= But Trump, the salesman, wanted reassurance selling a big, compl=cated product he doesn't fully understand.

The House Republi=an on the other end of the line told the president that the bill =ould, indeed, look after people so long as it kept in certain provisions, =ike allowing states with expanded Medicaid coverage to keep adding people =ntil at least the end of 2019. Trump was very receptive to that advice, th= lawmaker tells Axios' Super Swan.

The conversation captures=/strong> the insane level of interest in not screwing up a second rushed a=tempt to get a health-care win for Trump.

Chief of Staff Rei=ce Priebus rings constantly and late into the night. Vice Preside=t Pence calls from Air Force Two. The president phones when you're hanging=with family on the weekend, and you have to explain when you return that i= was the president calling.

While Steve Bannon is famous for his gruff, 90-second phone calls, Trump's calls can run five minu=es or longer, which lawmakers say is actually quite a long time compared t= the distracted approach they had expected.

Get smart fast ... "The health care =ill's path forward in the Senate," by Axios' Caitlin Owens: Senate Rep=blicans are already thinking about what it will take to get the bill throu=h the upper chamber if it, indeed, arrives from the House. The changes are='t as vast as you might think.

The wild card: =and Paul. But Republicans can afford to lose two votes, so even if Paul an= Susan Collins oppose the bill, it still passes.

=he bottom line: The bill is far from dead on arrival.

2. Lingo

USA Tod=y banner, "Trump takes dealmaking to strongmen: In willingnes= to meet with notorious leaders, a doctrine of pragmatic engagemen= emerges," by Greg Korte: "Trump's businesslike willingness to ma=e deals on the world stage is becoming a central pillar of what could be s=en as an emerging Trump Doctrine — that building personal relation=hips with rivals, adversaries, and even enemies can advance American inter=sts."

The problem: How=do you make it sound you don't dig thugs?

FYI: "Bannon Isn't Going Anywhere,=Trump Says," by Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs and Margaret Talev: "=rump even revealed his own term for Bannon's ideology: 'alt-left,'=/strong> a play on Bannon's ties to the nationalist conservative movement =ometimes called the alt-right. ... 'Bannon's more of a libertarian than an=thing else, if you want to know the truth.'"

"He said Bannon and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus bo=h would likely still be in their same roles several months from now, along=... Kellyanne Conway and ... Sean Spicer."

3. "Why?"

Andrew Jackson on the wall of the Oval Office during a Reuters interview=with Trump on Thursday / Reuters' Carlos Barria

What he said ... "Trump on the Civil War: 'Why Could That One Not Have Been Worked =ut?" by N.Y. Times' Jonah Engel Bromwich: "Trump mused in an interview [wi=h Salena Zito, for the Washington Examiner and Sirius XM] that the Civil W=r could have been avoided if only Andrew Jackson had been around to stop i=."

Reality check: "Jackson had been dead 16 ye=rs and long out of office when the war started in 1861. ... Had Jackson be=n alive at the start of the Civil War, [Jackson biographer Jon] Meacham sa=d, it would be difficult to predict his reaction. It would have brought hi= commitment to the Union into conflict with his identity as an unapologeti= slave owner. Mr. Jackson was from Tennessee, which fought for the Confede=acy."

Trump's words: "They said my=campaign and is most like — my campaign and win — was mo=t like Andrew Jackson with his campaign. And I said, 'When was Andrew Jack=on?' It was 1828. That's a long time ago. That's Andrew Jackson [indicatin= painting in Oval Office], and he had a very, very mean and nasty=campaign, because they said this was the meanest and the nastiest and unfo=tunately it continues. ... You know, he was a swashbuckler. ...

"I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little=later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War. He was a very tough p=rson, but he had a big heart. And he was really angry that he saw what was=happening with regard to the Civil War. He said, 'There's no reason for th=s.' People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it: People don't ask that question, but why was the=e the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?"

What he meant? A "White House Memo" on the N.Y. Times front pag=, "This =resident Doesn't Go by the (History) Book: Remarks on Civil War Unders=ore Tenuous Grasp of the Past," by Peter Baker and Jonah Engel Bromwich: "=rump may have been thinking of the Nullification Crisis of 1832-33, when J=ckson threatened to send troops after South Carolina declared tariffs impo=ed by the federal government null and void and threatened to secede. That =as a precursor ... to the crisis that precipitated the Civil War in 1861."=

"'That's similar in vein to what one would say about the Civil War,' said Michael Dubke, the Whi=e House communications director. 'I'm sure something along those lines is =hat the president was referring to.'"

<=trong>Key sentence: "At various points, he has seemed to suggest =hat Frederick Douglass is still alive, appeared surprised that Abraham Lin=oln was a Republican, and mounted a plaque at a golf course marking a Civi= War battle that never happened."

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4. Spending deal shows Dems' clout

"The catchall spending bill would fund government opera=ions through September, rebuffing cuts to popular domestic program= targeted by Trump such as medical research, the Environmental Pr=tection Agency, foreign aid and infrastructure grants," writes AP's Matthew Daly:

Winner=:

Military

P=anned Parenthood: Will continue to receive federal funding despit= Republican efforts to deny the group money over abortion services.
Puerto Rico

Re=ired miners

National Institutes of H=alth

College students: Rest=res eligibility for year-round Pell Grants.

O=ioid funding

Great Lakes
Medical marijuana: Extends a policy tha= prohibits the Justice Department from using federal money to interfere wi=h states' medical marijuana laws.

Local law =nforcement: Includes $68 million to reimburse law enforcement age=cies in New York City and Florida that protect Trump and his family.
=/ul>
Losers:

Border wall: $=.5 billion for border security measures such as 5,000 additional detention=beds, an upgrade in border infrastructure and technologies such as surveil=ance.

Policy riders: GOP leaders backed away from=language to take away grants from "sanctuary cities."

Yucca Mountain

Trump: Made concessions on the border wall and the White House backed off on a =hreat to withhold payments that help lower-income Americans pay their medi=al bills.

5. What really went down at Fox

Fox News co-president Bill Shine, right, leaves a New York restaurant on=April 24 with Rupert Murdoch (glasses), executive chairman of 21st Century=Fox / AP's Mark Lennihan

We hear there are many more shoes to drop at Fox News (=oth revelations and replacements), even after yesterday's departure of co-=resident Bill Shine, the longtime Roger Ailes consigliere. (Press release here, with all the changes.)
=p>News: We're told Fox is still looking for an outsider t= run the network.

A Fox source emails me (all fasci=ating):

"Simple fact is [Murdoch sons] James and Lachlan have been looking to turn the page =ince last summer. They convinced the board and their father that new lead=rship is required. They were willing to give Bill a chance to bring the pl=ce around. It wasn't clear that he was going to be able to be the change a=ent that was required.

about the cultural/workplace expec=ations for the place and inpatient waiting for Shine to deliver a clean bi=l of health. Expect we'll see more change ...

"Neither son is driving f=r a change of editorial (despite that convenient narrative) — but =hey are unwavering on change of management and a high performing work envi=onment. Furious about the mess Roger created."

Drudge's=priceless headline: "FOX LOSES ITS SHINE."

6. Megyn's back

Megyn Kelly attends last night's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume In=titute benefit gala / Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Megyn Kelly's weekday NBC News show will be at 9 a.m., =eginning this fall, with "Today" show branding. (That's currently the thir= of four hours of "Today.")

NBC announced her timeslot shortly after Kelly Ripa said her new host on the competing "Live" (9 =.m., ABC) will be Ryan Seacrest.

Megyn had her first day at 30 Rock yesterday, after signing off from Fox four months ago.
She'll also have a Sunday magazine show, beginning in=early summer. A title hasn't been announced.

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7. Trump's tech titans

Breaking in Axios' Ina Fried's Login tech newsletter (<= href="http://link.axios.com/join/signup-all" target="_blank">sign=up here):

A source tells Axios that Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, I=M, Intel, and Oracle received invitations to participate in Trump's tech C=O summit in early June, revealed yesterday in Axios AM.

In January, IBM CEO Ginny Rometty delive=ed to Trump a report outlining how the government co=ld save $1 trillion over the next decade with certain policies including I= modernization, as Fortune reported at the time.

8. Twitter goes all-in on live video

Twitter announced over a dozen new live-streaming and o=iginal video content partnerships, making it clear that their business str=tegy moving forward will be to expand ad-funded video content, A=ios' Sara Fischer writes:

Why it matters: Until yesterday, it seemed that Twitter was far behind the other soci=l platforms in the race to win the $70 billion U.S. TV ad market. Now, it'= clear that Twitter could be giving them all, and particularly Snapchat, a=run for their money.

The strategy: Twitter empha=ized that its future lies in live-streaming sports, followed by news and e=tertainment. The majority of the newly-announced video deals are with spor=s leagues, and some feature original content with stars like Seahawks' cor=erback Richard Sherman and Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green.

By the numbers: Twitter has closed over 40 live stream partners=ips around the world with sports leagues, media companies, etc. The compan= increased live programming by 60% last quarter and aired roughly 800 hour= of live content — 51% were sports, 35% were news and politics, a=d 14% were entertainment. Twitter says 55% of its unique viewers are under=the age of 25, a stat that directly competes with Snapchat.

See the full list of Twitter's new sports, news and ent=rtainment partnerships.

9. Everyone's talking

"Jimmy Kimmel Live"

"
"Kimmel referenced ..= Trump's proposed $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institute of H=alth ... 'If your baby is going to die, and it doesn't have to, it should =ot matter how much money you make.'"

Kimmel: "Poor =id. Not only did he get a bad heart, he got my face."

=strong>Sc=oll down for video.

10. 1 fun thing: Underwood for life

"One Nation, Underwood": "House of Cards" Season 5 trailer .=. L.A. Times' Nardine Saad: "Kevin Spacey's sinister President Fr=nk Underwood [shares] a disturbing vision for the next six terms ... with =n Underwood in the award-winning drama's fictional White House. 'The Ameri=an people don't know what's best for them. I do. I know exact=y what they need,' says POTUS, [drawling] to Claire (Robin Wright), h=s running mate in the fictional 2016 election, which will continue in the =pcoming season."

They're li=e little children, Claire. We have to hold their sticky fingers a=d wipe their filthy mouths. Teach them right from wrong. Tell them what to=think, and how to feel and what to want. They even need help riding their =ildest dreams, crafting their worst fears. Lucky for them, they have me. T=ey have you. Underwood 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036. One nation, Und=rwood.

P.S. "Why did Russia hack the election?" ... "Showtime Documentary Films will release =em>The Putin Interviews, a revealing series of interviews between ...=Oliver Stone and Vladimir Putin, ... [with] world television premiere on S=owtime over four consecutive nights starting on Monday, June 12 at 9 p.m."=/p>
"Stone (Platoon, S=owden), with the help of his longtime documentary producer Fernando S=lichin, interviewed the Russian leader more than a dozen times ov=r the course of two years, most recently in February following the U.S. pr=sidential elections." Trailer here.

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