Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — Trump's 'street fighters' — U.K. furious at U.S. — Top-paid women CEOs — Al Gore's socks
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 07:08:14 -0400 (EDT)

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Trump's 'street fighters' — U.K. furious at U.S. — Top-=aid women CEOs — Al Gore's socks

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By Mike Allen = ·May 25, 2017

1 big thing: Trump's "street fighters"

From left, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, the President and the First Lady=pose for a family photo during their visit to the Sistine Chapel and the V=tican Museums, following their meeting with Pope Francis / Photo by L'Osse=vatore Romano/Pool via AP

West Wing officials are prepping for a years-long war w=th investigators and the bureaucracy, with plans to beef up legal, surrog=te, communications and rapid-response teams as part of a "new normal" for=President Trump — besieged.

"The White House is embracing the fight, which is going to last as long as Donald Trump i= president," said a Trump ally familiar with the preparations. "We're gett=ng street fighters ready to go."

A West Wing official said Trump has been frustrated by the ferocity of the incoming, and has =emanded a more visible response.

Trump aides recognize that besides being in the crosshairs of investigators on Russia, they w=ll be the continuing target of leaks from the bureaucracy. The Trump ally =eferred to this second enemy as "nameless, faceless, deep-state types" who=have been inflamed and are punching back through the media.

<=trong>What's next: Proposed war-room org charts =ave been prepared, and final decisions on the structure will be made after=Trump returns this weekend.

Jonathan Swan hears t=at comms/rapid response structures are being considered for both inside th= White House and on the outside.

The moving p=rts: Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon broke off f=om the trip and returned early, in part to quarterback planning. Numerous=officials are involved. There was extra urgency because fired FBI Director=Jim Comey had been expected to testify on the Hill next week. But that has=been postponed so he can first meet privately with special counsel Robert =ueller.

The backstory: Aides recognize they shoul= have built more push-back capacity from the beginning. But the weakness r=flects the minimalist transition planning and thin staffing that have bese= the whole Trump machine.

Be smart: The new m=chinery is an effort to compartmentalize the scandals, so that some offici=ls can focus on probes and revelations while others do their day jobs. But=the success of that plan depends partly on President Trump's willingness t= compartmentalize. Close aides have trouble imagining that.

2. Screen time

Top White House officials tell me the key to forcing = more disciplined President Trump like the one onstage overseas is limitin= his screen time. In Trump's case, it's curtailing his time watching TV an= banging out tweets on his iPhone.

Trump himself

Fun thing: POTUS' current d=vice is an iPhone with ONE app: his tweeter.

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3. CBO woe for GOP

Data: Census Bureau=Current Population Survey Data, Congressional Bud=et OfficeChart: Lazaro Gamio / Axios

The Congressional Budget Office scorin= of the House healthcare bill was laden with bad news for Republicans, put=ing them in a terrible political position and making it even harder to fin= a way out in the Senate.

Under the CBO projections, the House bill will still un-insure a lot of people (23 million vs. 24 mi=lion before the "fix"), save less money in deficit reduction than the prio= version, and open up a can of worms that could make people with employer-=ponsored insurance worry that their policies might change.

A=yone with a preexisting condition now covered by Obamacare will w=rry that they might lose coverage (and they could). Opponents will argue t=at it disproportionately hurts older, sicker, and poorer Americans, and ma=es insurance more expensive for the sick and the pregnant.

=he big takeaway ... "Final House health care bill could cause some state ma=kets to unravel," by Axios' David Nather: "The last-minute changes to the =House] bill didn't affect the cost or coverage estimates that much. ... Bu= CBO is warning Congress that the latest changes — letting states =pt out of two of the ACA's main insurance regulations — could ruin=the insurance markets in those states even if they make insurance cheaper =or healthy people."

"The most important lines =n the CBO report," by David Nather and Caitl=n Owens.

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4. Drips filling the bucket

CNN's Manu Raju and Evan Perez: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose meetings he had last ye=r with Russian officials when he applied for his security clearance."
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"Sessions initially listed a year's worth of meeti=gs with foreign officials on the security clearance form, according to Jus=ice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores. But she says he and his sta=f were then told by an FBI employee who assisted in filling out the form, =nown as the SF-86, that he didn't need to list dozens of meetings with for=ign ambassadors that happened in his capacity as a senator."

<=trong>N.Y. Times lead story, "Top Russian Officials Di=cussed How to Influence Trump Aides Last Summer," by Matthew Rosenberg, Ad=m Goldman and Matt Apuzzo: "American spies collected information last summ=r revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were =iscussing how to exert influence over ... Trump through his advisers," mai=ly Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn.

5. U.K. furious at U.S. leaks

"Police investigating the Manchester Arena bomb attack =ave stopped sharing information with the US after leaks to the media, the BBC understands."

"UK officials were outraged when photos appearing to show debris=from the attack appeared in the New York Times. It came after the name of =omber Salman Abedi was leaked to US media just hours after the attack.Prime Minister Theresa May "said she would tell Donal= Trump at a Nato meeting that shared intelligence 'must remain secure.'"
See the N.Y. Times pi=s.

6. Big Sky beatdown?

Today is special Election Day in Montana, to fill the sole congressional seat, and the favored candidate has been=charged with assault ...

"Repu=lican candidate charged with assault after 'body-slamming' Guardi=n reporter ... Audio of Greg Gianforte attacking Ben Jacobs corroborated b= Fox News journalists in the room, who described candidate 'slamming him t= the ground.'"

"Ben Jacobs, a Guardian politic=l reporter, was asking Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire endorsed by Dona=d Trump, about the Republican healthcare plan when the candidate allegedly='body-slammed' the reporter.

"A statement by<=strong> campaign spokesman Shane Scanlon blamed Jacobs for the altercation= saying that he 'entered the office without permission, aggressively shove= a recorder in Greg's face, and began asking badgering questions.'"
Why it matters, per N.Y. Times' Jonathan Martin: "It was an extraordinary development=in a race that was already being closely watched for clues about the natio=al political environment in the tumultuous first months of the Trump presi=ency."

7. Media trends: Cord-cutting explodes

Data: Magid Proprietary Insights, April 2017; Chart: Andrew Withersp=on / Axios

Cord-cutters are ditching their cable packages faster t=an ever opting instead for cheaper, bundled digital TV options, Axios' Sara Fischer writes.

<=i>Why it matters: The trend (new figures from Magid Broadca=t Study) reflects consumers' preferences to ditch bundled cable packag=s for more affordable, niche bundled services that can be accessed on TV b=x tops or on mobile.

For consumers, there are mor= bundled packages than ever, all popping up around similar price ranges. Y=uTube TV and Hulu TV launched within the past two month, joining the likes=of SlingTV and DirectTV Now — all at a roughly $40 monthly price =oint — a bargain considering the average American pays $92 monthl= for cable.

Cord-cutting is being ma=ched by a rise in streaming, also at a rate faster than ever. Per the Inte=active Advertising Bureau's latest TV industry study, 56% of U.S. adults o=n a streaming-enabled television, up from one-third of adults in 2015."Skinny" is the new trend: Most major co=tent providers are transitioning to "skinny" bundles — smaller ch=nnel packages that combine only a few highly-desired channels. Earlier thi= year, Apple announced it would offer a "skinny bundle" of HBO, Showtime a=d Starz.

8. Top-paid female CEOs

AP

The 10 highest-paid women CEOs for 2016, as calculated =y The Associated Press =nd Equilar, an executive data firm (with change from last year):

Ginni Rometty, IBM, $32.3 million, up 63%

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo. $27.4 million, down 24%

Indra Nooyi, Pepsico, $25.2 million, up 13%

Mary=Barra, GM, $22.4 million, down 22%

Phebe Novakovi=, General Dynamics, $21.2 million, up 4%

Marillyn=Hewson, Lockheed Martin, $19.4 million, down 4%

I=ene Rosenfeld, Mondelez International, $15.8 million, down 13%
Lynn Good, Duke Energy, $13.5 million, up 26%
Heather Bresch, Mylan, $13.3 million, down 27%

<=trong>Susan Cameron, Reynolds American, $13.1 million, down 3%

9. Fastest-growing cities

New Census Bur=au figures ... 10 of the 15 fastest-growing cities with popul=tions of 50,000 or more were spread across the South in 2016, with four of=the top five found in Texas, AP's Terry Wallace reports from Dallas:

"Conroe, Texas, a northern Houston suburb, was the f=stest-growing of the 15, seeing a 7.8 percent increase from 2015 to 2016, = growth rate more than 11 times that of the nation."

=strong>"The rest of the top five fastest-growing large cities wer= Frisco, Texas, a northern Dallas suburb ... McKinney, Texas, another nort=ern Dallas suburb ... Greenville, South Carolina ... and Georgetown, Texas= a northern Austin suburb."

"New York
"Phoenix showed the largest=one-year numerical population increase of 32,113 from 2015 to 2016."
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10. 1 fun thing

"Al Gore on the French Riviera: Why he was reluctant to=make 'An Inconvenient Sequel,'" by L.A Times' Kenneth Tu=an:

"Gore is in Cannes to promote the worl=wide release of an impassioned and involving new documentary, 'An Inconven=ent Sequel.' Due in U.S. theaters on July 28, it brings us up to speed on =here the battle against climate change stands more than a decade after the=Oscar-winning documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth.'"

"A pai= of factors, Gore explains, made the difference with the new film= co-directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. First was the fly-on-the wall /=cinema verite philosophy of the filmmakers, ... who for two years shadowed=their protagonist everywhere, even watching as he changed soaking-=et socks."

"The other factor was Gore's belief that 'though the crisis is worse, we now have the solut=ons we need' in wind and solar power, whose costs are dropping dramaticall= as use increases."

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