Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — Trump turns on ... everyone — Bright way to fund the wall? — Capitol scrums get dangerous — Wooden high-rise
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 06:38:18 -0400 (EDT)

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By Mike Allen = ·Jun 07, 2017

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1 big thing: Trump turns on ... everyone

Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on May 15 at the National Peac= Officers' memorial service on Capitol Hill (AP's Evan Vucci)

There was a familiar ring to this week's revelation that Attorney G=neral Jeff Sessions was in Trump's doghouse (provoking a torrent of leaks that Sessi=ns had threatened to resign).

Flip back through the clips, and you find: Reince in the d=ghouse ... Sean in the doghouse ... Bannon in the doghouse ... National Security =dviser H.R. in the doghouse (Bloomberg last month: "Washington Loves General McMa=ter, But Trump Doesn't") ... White House Counsel Don McGahn in the doghouse.

=strong>Even son-in-law Jared Kushner, who's pretty close=to untouchable, got a little chin music yesterday as the press pool got a =limpse of Trump's meeting with congressional leaders. Trump said, to laugh=er: "Jared has actually become much more famous than me — I'm a li=tle upset at that."

So what's with the=constant needling and belittling?

A person who has exp=rienced Trump's moods said: "He feels some sort of deep--seated e=otional need to assert his primacy over people he has very clear primacy o=er. These are people you need to trust, and to be loyal to you."

<=trong>Trump's treatment of his aides is a factor in the unwilling=ess of some top talent to go into the White House, according to an officia= involved in the search: "You never know when you're going to get thrown u=der the bus. He has this constant need for reassurance and affirmation tha= he takes out on the staff."

An irony: It's =eople who were with Trump on the earlier side (Sessions, Priebus, Spicer) =ho seem to take the brunt of his fickleness, while later arrivals like Gar= Cohn and Dina Powell (so far) have escaped Trump's crowded doghouse.
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Sound smart: Quick! Name a top-titled White =ouse official — not named Ivanka or Jared — who authentica=ly likes or feels sincere loyalty toward Trump. Then, quick, name a top-ti=led official — not named Jared or Ivanka — who Trump genui=ely likes or feels loyalty toward. This is a problem.

Read Axios'=Shannon Vavra's guide to Trumpworld, perpetually on the verge=of a reshuffle.

2. Comey cascade

A veteran witness ... A decade ago, then-former Deputy Attorney General =ames Comey waits to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on fire= prosecutors (AP's Susan Walsh)

WashPost A1, by Adam Entous: Dir=ctor of National Intelligence Daniel Coats "told associates in March that =resident Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director Jame= B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national secur=ty adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe."

"Comey expected to refute=Trump," by CNN's Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, Jake Tapper a=d Brian Rokus: "Comey is expected to explain to senators that those were m=ch more nuanced conversations from which Trump concluded that he was not u=der investigation. ... Comey is not going to conclude whether the Presiden= obstructed justice."

=.Y. Times A1, "Comey Didn't Want to Be Alone With President, =e Told Sessions," by Michael Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo: "Comey believed Mr. =essions should protect the F.B.I. from White House influence, the official= said, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that p=ivate interactions between the F.B.I. director and the president were inap=ropriate. But Mr. Sessions could not guarantee that the president would no= try to talk to Mr. Comey alone again."

3. Zeitgeist

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, on last night's breaki=g leaks: "It was scheduled to be the worst week of the Trump pres=dency and now, now it's going to be much, much worse."

CNN's Brian Stelter: "Feeling the heat: Reporters worry about aggre=sive leak investigations in Trump era."

L.A. Times, top of front page: "ln China now, =California Gov. Jerry] Brown is U.S. leader, not Trump: California, Beijin= emerge as allies on climate change."

Buzzfeed: "Kids Are Quoting Trump To Bul=y Their Classmates And Teachers Don't Know What To Do About It: BuzzFeed N=ws reviewed more than 50 reports of school bullying since the election and=found that kids nationwide are using Trump's words to taunt their classmat=s."

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4. If you click only 1 thing

5. Big companies, fewer workers

Data: Yahoo Finance, 2016 annual reports; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon / Ax=os

How Silicon Valley has revolutionized the economy, in 1 chart ..= The five most valuable companies in the U.S. are all technology =irms that employ far fewer workers than their industrial predecessors, Axios' Chris Matthew= reports.

Why this matters: These compan=es symbolize the central issue of employment in a new age of technology, a=tomation and artificial intelligence. Ford, worth a tenth of Facebook, emp=oys 200,000 workers compared with Facebook's 17,000.

P=S. Uber fires more than 20 employees in harassment investigat=on: "The housecleaning ... is just getting under way," per Bloomberg.

6. Who's gonna pay for the wall? The sun!

Tr=mp pitches Republican leaders on a solar-paneled =order wall, per Jonathan Swan:

In a meeting at the White House yesterday with Republican C=ngressional leaders, President Trump sloated the idea that the border wall=could be covered in solar panels — and the electricity generated u=ed to pay for the cost.

Trump said h=s vision was a wall 40 feet to 50 feet high and covered with solar panels =o they'd be "beautiful structures." The President said that most walls you=hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall, but this would be nothing like

Trump told the lawmakers they c=uld talk about the solar-paneled wall as long as they said it was his =dea.

Between the lines: Trump is dead seriou= about his wall and doesn't buy into the thinking that it's a "metaphor." =e's visualized this thing and wants it to be big and "beautiful." The sola= panels idea is his attempt to wedge the left. But it's hardly a total win=er among Republicans on the Hill.

7. "Someone may get hurt" in Capitol scrums

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary=Committee, on Capitol Hill last month (AP's Jacquelyn Martin)

"Inside the heaving, jos=ling Capitol media mob: 'We are one tripped senator away' fro= disaster" — WashPost Style section lead by Elise Viebeck and Ben =erris:

They stake out basem=nt conference rooms, graze outside of Senate lunches, and pounce =n politicians as they exit elevators. Once thought to be going the way of =he dodo bird or zeppelin repairman, journalists of the Trump era are crowd=ng legislative hallways ...

"We want to make you aware the Capitol has reached =ts capacity for reporters," the officials who oversee the Senate press gal=ery wrote in a letter to news organizations last month, as Republican infi=hting and the drama of the Trump presidency were suddenly ramping up the u=gent need for scribes to "just get a quote" ... "Collectively, the press f=llowing Senators have become large and aggressive. We are concerned someon= may get hurt."

"I'm not doing this," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in =esponse to [one] journalist, who had scampered in front of her on an ascen=ing escalator and was attempting to perch backward to ask her a question.<=em>

P.S. LA. Times lead story: "State Assemblym=n Jimmy Gomez was elected as Los Angeles' newest member of Congress on Tue=day, defeating attorney Robert Lee Ahn in a sharply contested battle [to r=place Xavier Becerra] for the 34th Congressional District."

8. Exclusive: Most viral shows of 2016-17 season

Axios / Lazaro Gamio

Nielsen conducted its first social media ratings study,=including data from Twitter and Facebook to find which shows got the most =ocial media attention, Axios' Sara Fischer scoops:

Entertainment:

The Walking Dead (AMC): 2,028,000=total interactions

Empire (FOX): 860,000

The Bachelor (ABC=: 453,000

This is Us (NBC): 436,000

Love & Hip Hop: At=anta (VH1): 406,000

Specials:

The=59th Annual Grammy Awards (CBS): 27,600,000 total interactions

The=Oscars (ABC): 22,086,000

Golden Globe Awards (NBC): 10,100,000Billboard Music Awards (ABC): 5,346,000

Dick Clark's New Year'= Rockin' Eve (ABC): 3,575,000

Sports:

=li>Super Bowl LI: New England vs. Atlanta (2/5): 190,780,000 tota= interactions

NFL: Green Bay at Dallas (1/15): 52,878,000

=FL: Green Bay Packers at Atlanta Falcons (1/22): 26,431,000

NFL: P=ttsburgh at New England (1/22): 24,349,000

MLB: Los Angeles at Chi=ago Cubs (10/22): 21,520,000

9. Record number of women leading Fortune 500 firms

Maxim's 9 most powerful leading women in=business today:

Susan Wojcicki – CEO of YouTube

Mary =arra – CEO and Chairperson of General Motors

Beth Comstock=– Vice Chair of GE

Marillyn Hewson – Chairperson, =resident and CEO of Lockheed Martin

Safra Catz - Co-CEO of Oracle<=li>
Emma Walmsley – CEO of GlaxoSmithKline

Harriet Gree= – General Manager of IBM

Wendy Tan White – Genera= Partner of Entrepreneur First

10. 1 fun thing

Artist renderings in Portland, Ore., of a 12-story all-wood building (AP=s Don Ryan)

Portland, Ore., approves permit for first all-w=od high-rise in U.S. — AP's Gillian Fallcus:

Construction on the 12-story building= called Framework, will break ground this fall in Portland's tren=y and rapidly growing Pearl District and is expected to be completed by th= following winter.

The=decision by state and local authorities to allow construction com=s after months of painstaking testing of the emerging technologies that wi=l be used to build it, including a product called cross-laminated timber, =r CLT.

T=em>o make CLT, lumber manufacturers align 2-by-4 boards i= perpendicular layers and then glue them together like a giant sandwich be=ore sliding the resulting panels into a massive press for drying. ...

The project materials also underwent exte=sive fire safety testing and met fire codes. State officials hope the buil=ing will stir greater interest in high-rise construction using mass timber=and help revitalize the state's lagging logging industry.

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