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THAT SETTLES IT! -- AP at 5:54 a.m.: "ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) - Putin denies Russian state involvement in hacking, says hackers can't affect elections results abroad."

Good Thursday morning and happy first day of June. THE PARIS ANNOUNCEMENT -- 3 P.M. TODAY -- THE BACKDROP -- President Donald Trump -- joined by Vice President Mike Pence -- will announce whether the United States will drop out of the Paris climate agreement, joining Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, and Nicaragua, which wanted the agreement to go further in punishing nations that don't comply. Inside the White House, there is near uniform agreement Trump will pull out, but some senior aides still think Trump will try to squeeze out a "better deal" by only partially ditching the climate accord.

ANDREW RESTUCCIA and JOSH DAWSEY -- "Inside the struggle to sway Trump on Paris: Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt have spent months building pressure on the president to exit the climate deal -- and trying to outmaneuver Ivanka Trump": "Donald Trump's chief strategist and EPA administrator maneuvered for months to get the president to exit the Paris climate accord, shrewdly playing to his populist instincts and publicly pressing the narrative that the nearly 200-nation deal was effectively dead - boxing in the president on one of his highest-profile decisions to date.

"Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt have sought to outsmart the administration's pro-Paris group of advisers, including Trump's daughter Ivanka, who were hoping the president could be swayed by a global swell of support for the deal from major corporations, U.S. allies, Al Gore and even the pope. But some of that pro-Paris sentiment wound up being surprisingly tepid, according to White House aides who had expected that European leaders would make a stronger case during Trump's trip abroad earlier this month. ...

"Some White House aides held out the prospect that the president still might take the middle course that Ivanka Trump and others had advocated -- staying in the deal while drastically scaling back the Obama administration's non-binding carbon cleanup promises. But three White House officials said Wednesday that they expect Trump to make a clean break by withdrawing from the agreement, though they noted it's possible the president changes his mind at the last minute." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db3e7904465e4919284e1ba27cc0821310fc3cfd7369142ddd9950911ccb947df7a46c65f2cc1a235d 

THE NITTY GRITTY ON HOW TRUMP CAN WITHDRAW, from Dawsey and Restuccia: "If he withdraws, how will Trump do it? He could abide by the formal procedures in the underlying text of the agreement, which mandate that a formal withdrawal will not go into effect until at least Nov. 4, 2020. Or he could pull out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the underlying 1992 treaty that governs the negotiations, which would allow for a speedier pullout -- a far more radical step that would see the U.S. abstain from the entire climate negotiating process. He could also declare that the agreement is a treaty, which would require a two-thirds-majority ratification vote in the Senate
 that would certainly fail."

GOOD DETAIL, from NYT's Mike Shear and Coral Davenport: "At home, he faced urgent pleas from corporate leaders, including Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, who told Mr. Trump on Tuesday that pulling out was wrong for business, the economy and the environment. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, threatened to resign from two White House advisory boards if the president withdrew from the Paris agreement." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db8f669871d0e68a8c927934af43fe8755ab9301b84dd192ebaa367a340ed73ebb14d719f8293b6d72 

--"All the ways Trump is shredding Obama's climate agenda" - Politico  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db3a85b7d9429fcf100cd12f4b08feddeab0004d64db8b65d1b491aca64c8ca6c295e4aa2e7813eca8

-- BOSTON GLOBE: "Boston scraps summit on climate with China": "The State Department-sponsored summit in Boston, revealed last June by then-secretary of state John F. Kerry, would have brought thousands of urban and business leaders to Boston from cities across the United States and China. It would have been the third such conference." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db432fa4c55df582acb03bd579b45e84691c40b9f38a67b461f05e1a24e8dbb25c1d9db50e055f072b 

ONLY IN PLAYBOOK: UNDERSTANDING TRUMP -- THE DAWSEY DOWNLOAD: "Senior administration officials told a dozen news outlets President Trump would withdraw from the Paris Accord, leaving few people completely sure he would do so. It is one of many hall-of-mirrors, sometimes head-spinning aspects of Trump's White House. Administration officials and advisers fan flames of firing officials like Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus, and even speculate on replacements, while the current aide works. As one Spicer ally recently said: 'How many times have people said he was going to be fired? He is still at the podium.'

"Administration officials leak to the media hoping it will eventually become true and that coverage will sway Trump. White House officials sometimes don't trust one another and spread rumors. They call other aides and advisers to see what he is saying about them. And officials are contradicted by other officials -- and even Trump, who tests different strategies aloud to different people. He sometimes agrees with whoever is in the room with him. He likes to please and can dial dozens of friends in a weekend.

"So while Trump told people he was pulling out of the accord, and officials began moves to make it so, no one was exactly sure if he would change his mind before 3 p.m., when he promised a Rose Garden announcement. As one adviser he frequently speaks to said of a different issue last week: 'I heard that two days ago. That might not be true anymore.' Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager, reminded people on the trail: The only person who speaks for Trump is Trump. It just depends who he is speaking to -- and when he is speaking."

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THE STORY DRIVING NEXT WEEK -- "Comey Expected to Testify Before Senate, if He Isn't Blocked," by NYT's Matt Apuzzo and Mike Schmidt: "Senators expect the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to testify next week about his conversations with President Trump, congressional officials said on Wednesday, setting up a test of the White House's willingness to cooperate with investigations into Mr. Trump's associates.

"Putting the highly anticipated hearing on the calendar would force Mr. Trump to decide whether to invoke executive privilege and try to prevent Mr. Comey from testifying. Mr. Comey is expected to be asked about several conversations he had with the president, including one in which he says Mr. Trump encouraged him to stop investigating his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db128c6e6ae7dde5ce9808ed0d11cfb34e9f646cd43be36f5be21e674a8f28315c63615c35e7ad78ed 

THE LATEST ON RUSSIA -- "House Russia investigators subpoena Flynn, Cohen," by Austin Wright: "The House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday approved subpoenas for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as part of the panel's investigation into Russia's meddling in the presidential election. The panel is also issuing subpoenas to businesses owned by the two men. The subpoenas to Flynn and Cohen were part of seven total subpoenas issued by the House committee on Wednesday, according to a congressional source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Four of the subpoenas were related to the Russia probe, and three
 others were related to the issue of 'unmasking' - the process used by intelligence officials to learn the identities of people inside the United States who are referenced in intelligence reports." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db2c39a56ba1bb7bb3087f203a8f998896681e74b87008195b1e840e109664d75911dbf0775e242b16

WELCOME BACK -- "Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York," by WaPo's Karen DeYoung and Adam Entous: "The Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Maryland's Eastern Shore, that its officials were ejected from in late December as punishment for Moscow's interference in the 2016 presidential election. ... Early last month, the Trump administration told the Russians that it would consider turning the properties back over to them if Moscow would lift its freeze, imposed in 2014 in retaliation for U.S. sanctions related to Ukraine, on construction of a new U.S. consulate on a certain
 parcel of land in St. Petersburg. Two days later, the U.S. position changed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a meeting in Washington that the United States had dropped any linkage between the compounds and the consulate, according to several people with knowledge of the exchanges." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8dbba9fb76e70bfaa5c17e2a7e99577a43d8d90de6ac0ddc12fae5d14f51c484258325e850f09bbd6bd

--"Russia escalates spy games after years of U.S. neglect," by Ali Watkins: "In the throes of the 2016 campaign, the FBI found itself with an escalating problem: Russian diplomats, whose travel was supposed to be tracked by the State Department, were going missing. The diplomats, widely assumed to be intelligence operatives, would eventually turn up in odd places, often in middle-of-nowhere USA. One was found on a beach, nowhere near where he was supposed to be. In one particularly bizarre case, relayed by a U.S. intelligence official, another turned up wandering around in the middle of the desert. 

"Interestingly, both seemed to be lingering where underground fiber optics cables tend to run. According to another U.S. intelligence official, 'they find these guys driving around in circles in Kansas. It's a pretty aggressive effort.' It's a trend that has led intelligence officials to conclude the Kremlin is waging a quiet effort to map the United States' telecommunications infrastructure, perhaps preparing for an opportunity to disrupt it." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db776161844b7baf2c8681fb6775e13587ea65ff46ac0c5460093486ab96b9a9e064fb4edefc76fe32 

COMING ATTRACTIONS -- "Benghazi investigators set for rematch on Trump-Russia scandal," by Kyle Cheney and Austin Wright: "The last time Trey Gowdy and Elijah Cummings oversaw a politically explosive investigation, the two congressmen ripped into each other on national TV, as a grimacing Hillary Clinton looked on. With Washington in the grip of a new scandal over President Donald Trump and his team's possible ties to Russia, Gowdy and Cummings appear set for a reunion that would test a deeply divided Congress' ability to hold the White House to account. ... 

"The Gowdy-Cummings relationship, forged over two years as the leaders of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, is as complicated as it will be critical. It's often harder for the executive branch to ignore bipartisan requests, which was a difficult hurdle during the Benghazi probe. The two men have squabbled publicly, but when the cameras are off, both profess respect for each other and an ability to work together, however haltingly." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db9ca3fd42b91568d767daf7797458c3095416bf1db5c376ac44cfb9f64be0eebeacb11a7ab71f904c 

KEN VOGEL: "We were used, abused and exploited": "As he built support for his signature political issue, Donald Trump formed a powerful partnership with a non-profit group dedicated to families of those killed by undocumented immigrants, but now some of those families are alleging they were exploited by both the non-profit group and President Trump. More than a dozen families involved in the Houston-based Remembrance Project - including two who spoke at the Republican National Convention and several more who spoke at Trump's rallies or were featured in his campaign ads -- have parted ways with the organization, according to people familiar with the situation, including six of the families."
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PAGE SIX: "CBS scrambling to find Scott Pelley replacement": "CBS insiders say Norah O'Donnell has the gravitas for the job, but news chiefs are reluctant to take her out of 'CBS This Morning,' which she hosts alongside Charlie Rose and Gayle King, because the show is doing so well it could soon overtake NBC's 'Today' in overall ratings.

"One insider said, 'Norah would be willing to do both the evening and the morning if CBS wanted her to do so, but it would be a lot of work.' CBS News chiefs had been in talks with Willie Geist last year, but insiders said he wanted too much money to leave NBC. Other TV insiders say CNN's Jake Tapper could have been up for the role as he 'had been making it clear that he's ready for something bigger.' But Tapper, as well as Anderson Cooper, who's reported for '60 Minutes,' have long-term contracts with CNN. Plus, CBS News doesn't need to get the new evening anchor into the chair until September for the fall-ratings push." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db064aeeba91d25ef0ca6f8913f53e07a52956d25a9b4f8b4006f5f6b4b60436ab16ff87cefe8166ab 

THE JUICE ... 

--JOE AND MIKA will serve as visiting fellows this summer and fall at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. They'll do a D.C. event with IOP students and alums in the "Summer in Washington" program and will go up to Cambridge in the fall to do more campus events with students.  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8dbc05c550537dbfe98c0e99d38c89b0f9fe133c62aa17536f78bb68d3423758e7a976576303cb79420

 -- WAPO SCOOP: The Obamas paid $8.1 million to buy the Kalorama home they've been renting from Joe and Giovanna Lockhart. Lockhart purchased the house for $5.295 million in 2014. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8dbe0e6d14335f2079e2a872dfe9620b2ab5883dd6fcd41edf4aecc6e566171bf219386e2da3a23436f 

-- EVERETT EISSENSTAT, the Senate Finance Committee's top Republican trade counsel, is expected to join the National Economic Council as deputy director, Adam Behsudi, Andrew Restuccia and Ben White report. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db578a5f7351fa8e5e4d1b442d337df32f010232c33f11588aeb61862499c60d929814e6a19a77a972

-- PETER J. BOYER to the Weekly Standard: "Morning Media has learned that he'll be a national correspondent at the 22-year-old conservative publication, as part of what EIC Stephen Hayes is calling a 'big staff expansion.' Boyer is an illustrious magazine veteran who has done tours at Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Newsweek. But his most recent job, as an editor at large for Fox News, included a brush with controversy, as it was revealed that Boyer was present for a series of 'war room' meetings in which Roger Ailes plotted a smear campaign against biographer Gabriel Sherman."

-- DAVID SUTPHEN is leaving the Brunswick Group after nearly nine years at the firm. He is joining 2U, which partners with colleges and universities to work on digital education, as chief communications and engagement officer. George Little will replace Sutphen as head of the Brunswick Group's D.C. office. Little joined the firm in 2015 as a partner. He previously was a Pentagon press secretary and director of public affairs and spokesman for the CIA. 

THE MOMENT -- per California Playbook: Recode's Kara Swisher to Sen. Kamala Harris on stage Tuesday night at the #codecon conference in Rancho Palos Verdes: "Are you planning on running for President in 2020?" Harris: "I'm not giving that any considering. I've got to stay focused." Swisher: "That's a yes." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8dba1c9b8d66e66410e65ae0f7f13b5e6516027f87dbc5c1da3b42672481ffcfd140781b84ff9a8fa85

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PHOTO DU JOUR: A member of the Secret Service looks out on the North Lawn from a balcony of the White House on May 31. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo

CLICKER - Mary Meeker's annual report -- "Internet Trends 2017 -- Code Conference"  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db9125d5a4e5f2656454416f46f300307c0dbbf226225443dd19f30f7ade7214f0af79a5eeada9ef5d

LETHAL DUO -- ADAM NAGOURNEY and JONATHAN MARTIN in Vista, California: "Democrats' Bid to Regain Hold on House Begins in California": "If Democrats have any chance of capturing the 24 Republican seats they need to take back control of the House, the road to victory starts here in California, and particularly in Orange County, a former conservative bastion that favored Hillary Clinton in 2016. It was the first time the county had voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

"All 14 members of the California Republican congressional delegation voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, including seven who, like Mr. Issa, represent districts that voted for Mrs. Clinton. Four of those come from districts that include Orange County. With its changing demographics and its declining Republican Party, California has increasingly loomed as the center of any national battle for House control. The Trump fervor this year offers an opportunity for Democrats to make the sort of congressional district gains that have eluded them even as they have come to dominate state politics over the last decade.

"At least for one election, it seems, there will be a role reversal: The state that has long served mostly as just an A.T.M. for candidates from across the nation will be on the receiving end of campaign cash. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in an early show of force, is opening an office in Irvine. The committee's western director, Kyle Layman, is already on the scene, working at a cafe table outside a Whole Foods Market in Tustin until a lease is signed." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db18f3d2ed449c390991927403af348af2f056ccb850f743e261efef8857414de395b27d8ef645e267 

THE ECONOMIST WEIGHS IN ON U.K. ELECTIONS -- "Backing the open, free-market centre is not just directed towards this election. We know that this year the Lib Dems are going nowhere. But the whirlwind unleashed by Brexit is unpredictable. Labour has been on the brink of breaking up since [Jeremy] Corbyn took over. If [Theresa] May polls badly or messes up Brexit, the Tories may split, too. Many moderate Conservative and Labour MPs could join a new liberal centre party-just as parts of the left and right have recently in France. So consider a vote for the Lib Dems as a down-payment for the future. Our hope is that they become one element of a party of the radical centre, essential for a
 thriving, prosperous Britain." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db7b27268f15e7fdb467edfac332f4881284c19d59581149d6c42cded9061883e0915ee7960a9264bc

2020 WATCH -- "Trump to hold reelection fundraiser in June," by Alex Isenstadt: "President Donald Trump continues to prepare for his next election - in 2020. Trump is slated to headline a Washington, D.C. fundraising dinner on June 28 that will benefit Trump Victory, a joint fundraising agreement between Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO. Funds raised at the event will be split between the two accounts." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8dbb43bfaeacf4ba046e31d61d1060e8e40a93e39742adf7d77816183e5ec7a42a375d3e5e77cc94fe2

-- "Biden launches PAC, keeping options open," by Isaac Dovere: Former Vice President Joe Biden will launch a new PAC on Thursday, American Possibilities, giving him a way of supporting candidates and keeping his own options open for a potential 2020 presidential run. Officially, the group will be 'dedicated to electing people who believe that this country is about dreaming big, and supporting groups and causes that embody that spirit,' according to the PAC's launch materials. Biden has hired Greg Schultz, his political director during his second term as vice president, as the executive director of the PAC." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db69a6839df74ba55a30bdc2ee805ff993fe1a0d13cb94b7dd74c7f6b351938f620e59741b8856ecd3

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THE FAMILY -- "How Jared Kushner built a luxury skyscraper using loans meant for job-starved areas," by WaPo's Shawn Boburg: "Jared Kushner and his real estate partners wanted to take advantage of a federal program in 2015 that would save them millions of dollars as they built an opulent, 50-story residential tower in this city's booming waterfront district, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. There was just one problem: The program was designed to benefit projects in poor, job-starved areas. So the project's consultants got creative, records show. 

"They worked with state officials in New Jersey to come up with a map that defined the area around 65 Bay Street as a swath of land that stretched nearly four miles and included some of the city's poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods. At the same time, they excluded some wealthy neighborhoods only blocks away. The tactic - critics liken it to the gerrymandering of legislative districts - made it appear that the luxury tower was in an area with extraordinarily high unemployment, allowing Kushner Companies and its partners to get $50 million in low-cost financing through the EB-5 visa program."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db36e0031362fd0d776007d8c18da6655d7404b710c00b3a3104b13c80e302839e7fa03d53655388b5

-- "Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media checks," by Reuters' Yeganeh Torbati: "Critics argued that the new questions would be overly burdensome, lead to long delays in processing and discourage international students and scientists from coming to the United States. Under the new procedures, consular officials can request all prior passport numbers, five years' worth of social media handles, email addresses and phone numbers and 15 years of biographical information including addresses, employment and travel history." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db225d18201dd860245cad3d5c14dc99336812ae70f2a7f9eea919acb593ca8ba10a665ae1d5b4be37 

TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE -- "Trump White House grants waivers of ethics rules," by Josh Gerstein: "President Donald Trump's executive order on ethics has been waived at least 11 times since the administration came into office in January, according to records the White House posted online Wednesday night. The waivers allow White House staffers to work on matters that could affect their former employers or clients or involve issues from which the aides would be normally be excluded because of past lobbying work. The waivers allow White House staffers to work on matters that could affect their former employers or clients or involve issues from which the aides would be normally be excluded because
 of past lobbying work." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9b4ed2565b01c8db6b2ebef50a14cb51d697c596f7eaee731ef01a88389e7509aa79fb2eacc81d7d4f565def897b210a

-- WHO GOT THE WAIVERS: Kellyanne Conway to work with former clients, Stephen Bannon to engage with Breitbart, energy lobbyist Michael Catanzaro to work on "energy and environmental policy issues," and tax policy adviser Shahira Knight, formerly of Fidelity, to work on tax issues. Andrew Olmem, a White House economic aide, to work on finance issues although he previously lobbied for the industries, Mike Pence's chief of staff Josh Pitcock to work on issues related to Indiana and six lawyers from Jones Day, "including [Don] McGahn, were granted approval to take part in meetings with their former Jones Day colleagues relating to the firm's ongoing legal representation of Trump, his campaign
 and related entities."

-- POLITICO EUROPE has launched a U.K. Election Tracker. Available for iPhones http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=be3139cbeabb34f93752d9b1dd0916afa745c3d81f23d83164b14a3e25c5df1c391856cb32fc015e5c3d77b26b8cc26c

MEDIAWATCH - SiriusXM later this week is launching two new weekend shows, as it continues to brand itself as "The Voice of the Resistance" to the Trump administration. "Signal Boost" is hosted by former Clinton campaign staffers Zerlina Maxwell and Jess McIntosh and will premiere on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET, while "#WokeAF" launches Sunday at 10 a.m. ET on SiriusXM Progress channel 127.

        Playbookers       
SPOTTED: Janet Yellen on yesterday's 1:25 pm United flight from Washington to Chicago with four security guards ... Kurt Bardella as a background actor as a "Reporter" in a few episodes of this new season of "House of Cards" -- pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=be3139cbeabb34f9f101a68c95d110ad8c898af35e741ee8b9c8964624031b27ff871c77c94957697d6d339cf99f3ceb 

HAPPENING TODAY: Former HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell starts her first day as American University's first female president. Burwell's scheduled to meet with faculty, staff and students as part of a listening tour.

WASHINGTON INC. - Targeted Victory is forming a new partnership with Chris Wilson's polling and intelligence firm WPAi. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=be3139cbeabb34f9f0ea5469541e4effcdd8ae2eb11c99ee77b7cf44bdb8853f38b3e2a185fe7bba6ef86bb09570c4a1 

TRANSITIONS -- Christine Wormuth will be the Atlantic Council's first director of its new Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience. She was formerly under secretary of defense for policy under President Barack Obama.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Mary Beth Gombita, director of media relations at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Stephen Gombita, an associate at DLA Piper, recently welcomed Palmer Stephen Gombita. Pic  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=be3139cbeabb34f924325b10cb70924065d6927be674b8b81135befac89c50bf95ed85670cbac1d4fc2b83c5570ad4e2

-- Alicia D'Angelo, account manager for audience solutions at POLITICO, and Charles D'Angelo, president at Westmount Capital Group welcomed their daughter into the world on Tuesday at 11:30 p.m. "Arabella Charlotte D'Angelo arrived almost 2 weeks after her due date, and while mom and dad are thrilled she is finally with them, everyone on the Audience Solutions team is slightly disappointed that no one won the due date betting pool." Pics  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=be3139cbeabb34f9aa72edf832407b78bd2c4dbbb8e9557df8f1bb7b56217ff18ad6b471700a0b7cf97ced67ed5a1012 ...  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=be3139cbeabb34f90d5384b0576270e0f8cb86779ba6c7b6583ff78a33ffc14f11b78b17460a816786aa624c1beb9343

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Alex Seitz-Wald, political reporter for NBC News and MSNBC. How he's celebrating: "My wife and I went to a bed and breakfast on the water in the Eastern Shore of Maryland over the Memorial Day weekend, which was also our first anniversary! I'll also get together with some friends at a bar in D.C. on my actual birthday." Read his Playbook Plus Q&A: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=be3139cbeabb34f90ef34c70731876e6dc44e3ef561099bb92e9eb86b173a5ea36efa8b75892177139f4ce10b5776ce1 

BIRTHDAYS: Sam Smith -- her parents are coming into town to take her to dinner at Le Diplomate (hat tips: Bubba and Charlie the dog) ... Alex Allbritton is 10 ... Dan Bartlett ... Alex Stoddard (h/t Geoff Morrell) ... Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) is 61 ... Spencer Ackerman, national security reporter at the Daily Beast and a Guardian and Wired alum, is 37 ... Washington's favorite winemaker Alex Gambal ... Jenny Cizner of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs ... Karen Tramontano of Blue Star Strategies ... Leslie Harris (h/ts Jon Haber) ... Constance Boozer, research assistant for Senate Majority Leader Leader Schumer ... Elizabeth Glidden ... former Rep. Mark Green (R-Wisc.) is 57 ...
 Axios news desk reporter Shane Savitsky (h/t Bubba) ... Irena Vidulovic ... Elizabeth Rojas Levi ... Forest Harger ... Cruz-world's Jason Johnson ... Greg Nelson ... Nairi Hourdajian, VP of marketing and comms at Canaan Partners and an Uber and GPG alum ... Ronnie Dunn, one half of the legendary duo Brooks & Dunn (h/t Kurt Bardella) ...

... Erin Shields Britt, director of corporate comms. at CVS Health ... GOP ad man and Pittsburgh native Jim Innocenzi ... Mark Lotto ... Matt Burns ... Mac O'Brien, senior associate at Hamilton Place Strategies ... Suzanne Merkelson ... Addie Bryant ... Sean Kennedy, former Obama WH aide turned SVP for global gov't affairs for Airlines for America ... Steve Duprey ... Diane Zeleny ... Bill Shuler ... Christopher Minakowski is 46 ... Dominic Vilmain ... Abby Spring ... Timothy Gannon ... Heather Matson ... Addisu Demissie (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Steven Holmes ... Dee Sachetti ... Terrance Green ... Pat Boone is 83 ... Morgan Freeman is 8-0 ... Heidi Klum is 44 ... Alanis Morissette is 43
 (h/ts AP)

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