Subject: Playbook Power Briefing: SPICER back at the podium for an off-camera briefing -- Mar-a-Lago visitor logs to be released -- WASHINGTONIAN’S best cheap eats in D.C.
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SPICER RETURNS -- Sean is briefing at 2 p.m. today. Alas, it's off camera. The last time the White House held an on-camera briefing was June 29.

Good Monday afternoon. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK -- SPEAKER PAUL RYAN will be in Nantucket Thursday evening to raise money for Team Ryan, his joint fundraising effort. Tickets start at $2,500 and $10,000 gets you a photo. KEN KIES and his wife Kathy are hosting the event. 

-- SPOTTED: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) at the Nantucket airport Monday morning.

SIREN -- MAR-A-LAGO VISITOR LOGS TO BE RELEASED -- CREW, the National Security Archive and the Knight First Amendment Institute announced that the Department of Homeland Security will turn over visitor logs from Mar-a-Lago by Sept 8. CREW pledged to publicly release the logs once they receive them.

BUT, BUT, BUT ... POLITICO'S FOIA AND TRANSPARENCY GURU JOSH GERSTEIN writes: "It's still going to be an uphill battle for watchdogs to get their hands on records detailing Trump's visitors. When the Sept. 8 deadline comes up, the Secret Service can produce a bunch of blacked-out pages, withholding the nitty-gritty on privacy or national security or law enforcement security grounds or executive privilege grounds.

"They could also resort to the claim that the records aren't really the Secret Service's, but the White House's. Both the George W. Bush and Obama administration's took that stance and won in the D.C. Circuit. That's part of why the suit was filed in New York. Most importantly, people seem to have come and gone from Mar-a-Lago since November for all kinds of events without any advance registration with the Secret Service, so it seems doubtful the Service has any comprehensive list. In short, don't hold your breath."

FROM THE WHITE HOUSE -- @realDonaldTrump at 10:07 a.m.: "Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!"

INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE - "Trump's trade warrior prowls the West Wing," by Nancy Cook and Andrew Restuccia: "Peter Navarro, one of the White House's top trade advisers, is widely viewed throughout the West Wing and Capitol Hill as a prickly personality with extreme policy ideas. But he has nonetheless emerged as an influential force in the White House who appeals to President Donald Trump's protectionist impulses. Navarro has earned a reputation for stalking the halls of the West Wing at night and on the weekends to find a moment to slip into the Oval Office to privately discuss trade with the president, according to one White House official and a close adviser to the administration. It's
 his way of maintaining influence through proximity. ...

"He has since pulled the president so far right on trade that more moderate aides worry his proposals could launch a global trade war if Trump takes them too seriously, according to a dozen interviews with White House officials, close advisers, and Republican congressional aides."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7b17ef97dac77f89235411aff5fdc0dd938e4995bf7d34671c78df84921105e3e94952258730be360ce5fa784010b76076

BEYOND THE BELTWAY -- READ EVERY WORD -- L.A. TIMES: "An overdose, a young companion, drug-fueled parties: The secret life of USC med school dean," by Paul Pringle, Harriet Ryan, Adam Elmahrek, Matt Hamilton and Sarah Parvini: "In USC's lecture halls, labs and executive offices, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito was a towering figure. The dean of the Keck School of Medicine was a renowned eye surgeon whose skill in the operating room was matched by a gift for attracting money and talent to the university. There was another side to the Harvard-educated physician.

"During his tenure as dean, Puliafito kept company with a circle of criminals and drug users who said he used methamphetamine and other drugs with them, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. Puliafito, 66, and these much younger acquaintances captured their exploits in photos and videos. The Times reviewed dozens of the images." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7bb0b378fefbe52bcd07fc08a559a48287d71c30d5d80094d64375304d1d51b93b6cf45a8b97c7254d3accb3b010abfeed 

EXIT INTERVIEW -- "Outgoing Ethics Chief: U.S. Is 'Close to a Laughingstock'," by NYT's Eric Lipton and Nicholas Fandos: "Actions by President Trump and his administration have created a historic ethics crisis, the departing head of the Office of Government Ethics said. He called for major changes in federal law to expand the power and reach of the oversight office and combat the threat. Walter M. Shaub Jr., who is resigning as the federal government's top ethics watchdog on Tuesday, said the Trump administration had flouted or directly challenged long-accepted norms in a way that threatened to undermine the United States' ethical standards, which have been admired around the world.

"'It's hard for the United States to pursue international anticorruption and ethics initiatives when we're not even keeping our own side of the street clean. It affects our credibility,' Mr. Shaub said in a two-hour interview this past weekend - a weekend Mr. Trump let the world know he was spending at a family-owned golf club that was being paid to host the U.S. Women's Open tournament. 'I think we are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.' Mr. Shaub called for nearly a dozen legal changes to strengthen the federal ethics system: changes that, in many cases, he had not considered necessary before Mr. Trump's election. Every other president since the 1970s, Republican or Democrat,
 worked closely with the ethics office, he said." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7b749abdb3ed9c7cd4ab15cb690e2a374066818be86047ffea0eb9e30b2ed67fcf027c58aa7f6dce9db8d2e3a856ed9cc6 

AFTERNOON READS -- JOSH GREEN, author of "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency" (out tomorrow), in Vanity Fair, "Inside the Secret, Strange Origins of Steve Bannon's Nationalist Fantasia: The chief strategist of Trump's triumph reveals his strange brew of intellectual influences, including a French-Egyptian Muslim occultist guru, and his apocalyptic view of history": "Though hardly a moralizing social conservative, he objected bitterly to the secular liberalism encroaching upon the culture. 'We shouldn't be running a victory lap every time some sort of traditional value gets undercut,' he once told me. When he was a naval officer in the late 1970s,
 Bannon, a voracious autodidact, embarked upon what he described as 'a systematic study of the world's religions' that he carried on for more than a decade. Taking up the Roman Catholic history first instilled in him at his Catholic military high school, he moved on to Christian mysticism and from there to Eastern metaphysics. (In the Navy, he briefly practiced Zen Buddhism before wending his way back to Catholicism.)

"Bannon's reading eventually led him to the work of Ren&eacute; Gu&eacute;non, an early-20th-&shy;century French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia. ... Gu&eacute;non was a "primordial" Traditionalist, who believed that certain ancient religions, including the Hindu Vedanta, Sufism, and medieval Catholicism, were repositories of common spiritual truths, revealed to mankind in the earliest age of the world, that were being wiped out by the rise of secular modernity in the West. What Gu&eacute;non hoped for, he wrote in 1924, was to 'restore to the West an appropriate traditional
 civilization.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7b3e3a6fea0712c1802018ede89f6f546e88dbd851ea5b67dd40103816676b1b87669d289a165a273ffed1ea66291a7ede ... $24.30 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7bdfb1efcddede84bf2bab38fceef90abb9506d5eac27dd116450c2ee77c44a0ea586b90bbb950750e3448fccafad5a95a 

-- BEN WOFFORD in Washingtonian, "Inside the Radical, Self-Destructive, and Probably Impossible Plan to Move the Government Out of Washington": "It would work like this: The Swamp Act [sponsored by Reps. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) and Ted Budd (R-N.C.)] calls for federal agencies to relocate their headquarters, thereby vacating 90 percent of their employees from Washington. In 2018, agency directors would identify a new home base, with special attention to cost savings and national security. In 2023, the exodus would begin. Davidson thinks the IT revolution means there's little reason to keep government in one place. Instead, federal power should reside closer to the people-in Cleveland, say,
 or Oklahoma City-emancipated at last from the Potomac Gomorrah. ...

"By design, the scheme would upend the lives of federal employees, not to mention private-sector workers and owners of property or a business here. Imagine the fury of real-estate brokers or car dealerships around Palo Alto if Google announced its departure to Boise, Hewlett Packard to San Antonio, and Facebook to Moline, Iowa, all at the same time."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7b9830d8ba26c5b64a697f97cc65b024c6e69252971e46634caf1e256825a39fb2a798119b3a3dcc1ac7a34958091b5f72

COMING ATTRACTIONS -- The Washington Kastles Charity Classic, a charity tennis tournament, is on July 27 at 7 p.m. at the Smith Center on GW's campus. Participants include Peter Alexander, Bret Baier, David Gregory, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Reps. Dave Brat (R-Va.) and Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), former Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) and more. Tickets http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7b7457c108dbd864772551f22914a1c7a0f4fc61c01579c9a1602add69086a5f394b26ce8ba99a5c199bb4d340726a305d 

PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION -- "The Best Cheap Restaurants Around Washington, DC," by Washingtonian's Ann Limpert, Anna Spiegel, Jessica Sidman, Cynthia Hacinli and Kristen Hinman, with photos by Scott Suchman http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7b4e5bd8a87794a9c258d6a603d12f372c58f65f6a15a430e8100503c3532086d80124604db89d7486e5ce82b565cd945a 

TODAY'S BEYOND THE BELTWAY -- House Majority PAC expands California efforts -- Rauner chief campaign strategist jumps ship http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7bb2203682b84f47e26e36a425506309546606db1e40e99ecb7b3c2f94fe7f2be93c2a0a4425ef35b5aff03783a7027c8c 

MEDIAWATCH -- "Politico now has 20,000 paid subscribers that account for half of its revenue," by Digiday's Max Willens http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7bbfc3c3406b05272d37f9266f38928846f4ade9b61bb4de79eb2970dd0993571182d75318b1ec16d5079fe521f3dfeb6b 

SPOTTED: Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo) and Norm Brownstein of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck all waiting to board the same flight to DCA at DEN.

WEEKEND WEDDINGS -- "Son of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Andrew, marries Lithuanian-born real estate executive in one of Manhattan's oldest Roman Catholic churches" -- The Daily Mail: "Andrew met Zivile [Rezgyte] in 2014 at Derek Jeter's last game at Yankee Stadium and he proposed last August. ... Zivile emigrated from Lithuania 10 years ago and at the time couldn't even speak English. Now she is an American citizen and a successful executive at First American Title. Andrew is currently a public liaison assistant to President Donald Trump." 12 pix on one page http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7b7fed5693540d90f57f30aca6647669ab510be9448d4a9d5cbc7ddf8e7cf76266e968b07f3d4afeae768ad2cc38fc5158 

--Mackenzie Jortner, co-founder of fundraising firm the Morning Group and an RNC alum, on Saturday married Ollie Dolan of the Dept. of Education, in Sewanee, Tennessee. Pool report: "The RNC Finance team that brought the [organization] out of debt in 2011 shut down 'Shenanigans' ... with the couple at the University of the South. The couple met on the dance floor of 'Dodge City' on U St." Pic of the couple at the only bar in town, Shenanigans  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7bb1ee683bb4846c268c524a5bd643068713343b175504cbbc5ed678a4de2352932c581ec164e8fd8be009e3e03d1e5c56 ...  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6e21b57d83897c7bc86bec02d1d327556920fbe4e079bba06b74d7acacbbdd730bb0e06dc45a5585fdab14ee4f1ec481a362f5907a307cbb

SPOTTED: Angela Meyers, Emma Nelson, Dana Klein, Lauren Bryan, Lauren Kirshner, Annie Baker Hoar, Dougie Simmons and James Christoferson, John Umberger, Mimi Hayes, Alison McIntosh, and Cate and Stephen Duerst. 

TRANSITIONS -- Ryan Duffy was hired as U.S. Sugar's new director of corporate communications. He was previously VP at Tallahassee firm Hill+Knowlton Strategies. ... David Levine was named the first COO of BerlinRosen. He is an Obama administration and Hillary for America alum. ... Todd H. Halpern has rejoined Venable as a partner in its FDA practice.

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