Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 6 — Tech summit takeaways — A huge promise from the Hill —? Inside the data mine — Segway inventor's next big thing
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 06:49:07 -0400 (EDT)

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Tech summit takeaways — A huge promise from the Hill — I=side the data mine — Segway inventor's next big thing

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By Mike Allen = ·Jun 20, 2017

Good Tuesday morning. Situational awareness:=/strong> The death of former U.Va. student Otto Warmbier puts the U.S. on the spot to confront North Kor=a over his coma. Polls open at 7 in Georgia for what the N.Y. Tim=s' Jonathan Martin and Nate Cohn call "qu=te possibly the most consequential special election since=Watergate." And Speaker Ryan gives a speech on "transformational t=x-reform" in which he promises: "We are going to get this done in=2017."

1 big thing: When Trump met tech

Trump is seated between Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadel=a, in the State Dinning Room during yesterday's tech summit (AP's Alex Bra=don)

Tech companies still want a seat at Trump's table despi=e their disagreement, and the internal blowback the CEOs get for engaging =ith this White House. And Axios' Dav=d McCabe writes that it may be paying off: On the issue of high-skille= immigration, it seems Trump has moved over to tech's side.

=akeaways from yesterday's tech summit at the White House:
Recode's Tony Romm: <=strong>"Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos called on the U.S. government to take advant=ge of commercial technology — the sort of tools his own company se=ls."

Bezos also said it's "impossible to oversta=e" the importance of artificial intelligence.

... said Washington should make coding a requ=rement in schools."

Trump: =We have approximately $3.5 trillion of market value in this room -- but th=t's almost the exact number that we've created since my election. (Laughte=.)"

Be smart: Little of substance was discussed. =ut D.C. and the Valley are weirdly disconnected, and this was a rare case =f them at least listening to each other — while still not talking =he same language.

2. Risk watch

"Voters' personal data left exposed for days: Security =xperts say it is 'staggering,' and too common, that such a detailed politi=al file would be vulnerable," per Evan Halper and Paresh Dave on <= href="http://link.axios.com/click/9888343.29962/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5sYXRpbWV=LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy9sYS1uYS1wb2wtZ29wLWRhdGEtYnJlYWNoLTIwMTcwNjE5LXN0b3J5Lm=0bWw_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduP=5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbSZzdHJlYW09dG9wLXN0b3JpZXM/5871993924c17c54d77a8b8c=a77486f7" target="_blank">L.A. Times front page:

What happened: "Luckily for the Republican Party and Deep=Root, an Arlington, Va.-based firm that handles data management and analys=s for the party, it was a cybersecurity consultant who came across the tre=sure-trove of political data this month, not a foreign agent. There is no =ndication that the database had been tapped by any other unauthorized part=es while it was unprotected."

"The GOP contra=ted with Deep Root during the presidential campaign. The firm's c=-founder, Alex Lundry, led the data efforts of GOP nominee Mitt Romney in =012 ... GOP officials said the data belonging to the party that was expose= was limited to very basic information about voters, such as their party r=gistration."

The big picture: "The D=ep Root incident is the latest in a series of such problems with political=data, the most infamous being the case of the Russian hack of the Democrat=c National Committee. As cybersecurity experts sound an increasingly loud =larm about the potential consequences, the lapses keep happening —=often with nobody held accountable for them."

: In some cases, the data collectors had scoure= people's histories on Reddit, the social media platform, to match vote hi=tory with social media use, and well-informed predictions were made about =here each voter would stand on issues as personal as abortion and stem cel= research."

Why it matters: "[T]he e=posure of the data, which some are describing as the largest leak of voter=information in history, is a jolting reminder of how deeply the political =arties are probing into the lives of voters and how vulnerable the informa=ion they are compiling is to theft."

3. A column the West Wing can actually enjoy

David Brooks in N.Y. Times, "=et's Not Get Carried Away": "In retrospect Whitewater seems overblown.=And yet it has to be confessed that, at least so far, the Whitewater scand=l was far more substantive than the Russia-collusion scandal now gripping =ashington."

"[A]s the Trump-Rus=ia story has evolved, it is striking how little evidence =here is that any underlying crime occurred — that there w=s any actual collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russians.=

"The politics of scandal drives a wedge through society. Political elites get swept up in the sc=ndals. Most voters don't really care."

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4. Poll du jour

Poll by Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Aff=irs Research: "Less than one-third of Americans support President Donald T=ump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a new poll shows= and just 18 percent of respondents agree with his claim that pulling out =f the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions will help the U.S= economy."

The great divide: "Seventy-eight pe=cent of Democrats think withdrawing from the Paris agreement will hurt the=national economy. Among Republicans, just 24 percent think it will hurt, 4= percent think it will have no impact and 34 percent think it will help.
Independents split: "Twenty-five perce=t support the withdrawal, 36 percent are opposed and 37 percent don't feel=strongly one way or the other."

"The poll shows about two-=hirds of Americans think that climate change is happening, while =nly about 1 in 10 think it's not."

5. Spicer's next gig?

A reason to smile? (AP's Susan Walsh)

Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs: "Trump's most vi=ible spokesman, Press Secretary Sean Spicer, may move into a more senior r=le focused on strategy that will take him away from the briefing room podi=m -- and Trump may hire a new press secretary."

Unders=atement of the day: "The circumstances make it harder to fill wha= is normally regarded as one of the plum jobs in communications."

=span>Statement from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Spicer=s alternate at the podium: ""We have sought input from many people as we l=ok to expand our communications operation. As he did in the beginning, Sea= Spicer is managing both the communications and press office."

AP's=Ken Thomas and Jill Colvin: "The White House has consulted an=array of Republicans and Trump allies, including Laura Ingraham, the conse=vative radio host and political commentator. However, Ingraham is not expe=ted to take the press secretary position."

"David Martosko= the U.S. political editor of London's Daily Mail, who covered th= president's campaign, has also interviewed for senior communications jobs="

Why it matters: "Spicer's briefing= have been must-see TV during the start of the Trump era.'

=/span>Why you don't want the job: "The president has long=seen himself as his most effective spokesman."

Be smart: <=strong>You could write this about almost any job in the West Wing. There a=e constant conversations going on about bringing new people in: Almost eve=y veteran GOP hand has been consulted or courted — sometimes taken=directly into the Oval to see Trump, when their appointment was with an ai=e.

6. The next big thing

Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, tells Axios' Steve LeVine about a field=that could have a massive, quick effect: engineered organs that will not b= rejected by the body.

People with a diseased liver, h=art or kidney will receive a new one, fashioned from their own ce=ls. Kamen says such organs will be somewhat available in five years, and w=dely used within a decade.

Between the lines: Ka=en said engineered organs will be relatively cheap, and will be made as ea=ily as an iPhone. "People think the big stuff is the cloud and artificial =ntelligence," he said. "I think the next big thing is regenerative medicin=."

What's next: Kamen has raised about $300 million

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