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              DRIVING THE DAY      
GOLDEN STATE NOTEBOOK ... CALIFORNIA LT. GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM -- the Democratic nominee and favorite to become the next governor of California -- sat down with us for a newy interview yesterday in Los Angeles. The room was packed, and friendly to Newsom.

IN THE SAME WAY many Republicans see California as emblematic of what drags the country down, Newsom sees it as America's leading light. "Something special is happening out here. As imperfect as those poverty rates are. As imperfect as our efforts around addressing affordability are." He calls California "America's coming attraction."

-- HE IS LOOSE -- the way a candidate might be when they are the heavy favorite -- and talks confidently about California. He acknowledges Sacramento desperately needs to make the tax climate more favorable so states like Texas don't snatch jobs. He said he visited Rick Perry when he was governor of Texas to see what California can do better. Newsom also was pretty firm on a rewrite of the tax code, which he said should broaden the tax-paying base. He posited that Democrats "don't need to be profligate to be progressive" -- a Jerry Brown-ism. He is a Democrat who is, for the time being, talking about debts and deficits. 

HE IS GOING TO HAVE BIG ISSUES, not least a gas-tax repeal effort pushed by Republicans that's already felled one Democrat, and a high-speed rail project that's over budget. "They are offering nothing but rhetoric to replace these dollars," Newsom said, via the L.A. Times write-up of our event, speaking of the gas-tax repeal effort. "The notion you're going to somehow find these efficiencies is nonsense."

-- L.A. TIMES' PHIL WILLON on Newsom and the high-speed rail: "Newsom acknowledged that the cost of California's high-speed rail project now far exceeds the estimated price tag when state voters approved the system in 2008. Still, the rail system would be a major catalyst for the California economy, especially if the first leg connecting the Central Valley to the Silicon Valley is completed, he said. 'That's a project I can support,' Newsom said, adding that he hoped the completion of that first stage will attract private investors to pay for the extension of the rail line to Southern California." LAT 

WHILE MUCH OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY is trying to figure out how to inject fresh blood into the mix while not casting aside longtime leaders, Newsom deftly navigated the divide -- praising both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, but acknowledging the need for the party to modernize, grow and rebuild at the local level. He said the party shouldn't focus maniacally on a singular 2020 candidate, but worry about rebuilding the party from the bottom up. He also talked about his strong relationship with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who he says is very important for California.

ASKED ABOUT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, he says, "No, next question." 

NEWSY BITES VIA ELI OKUN, the newest member of the Playbook team:

 -- NEWSOM ON NANCY PELOSI: "I couldn't be more proud of her, and I think Democrats will rue the day of running away from her. ... She will be the next speaker, I have no doubt in my mind, and that's where she truly excels."

-- HE COMPARED TRUMP'S IMPACT on the national GOP to Gov. Pete Wilson's effect on the state party in the 1990s. "If you're Kevin McCarthy and all these quote unquote 'young gun leaders,' they should be scared bejesus about what the heck this guy's doing to them, walking off the same damn cliff."

-- NEWSOM ACKNOWLEDGED that some of the common Tucker Carlson critiques of California -- like its struggles with eradicating homelessness and poverty -- have merit. But he said that ignores the state's progress on several fronts and a "pretty remarkable economic picture" that has highlighted inclusion alongside growth. "This state has left clues to substantively answer a new narrative as it relates to the national narrative around the Democratic Party," he said.

Good Friday morning. SMART ANNIE KARNI STORY ... HEADS UP, NEWSOM ... "Trump wages war against New York: For the longtime Manhattanite, running against New York's political leaders is a mix of opportunity, muscle memory and method": "Even in the West Wing, all politics is local. President Donald Trump - raised in Queens, made in Manhattan - in the past week is finding his latest targets back home, turning New York political leaders into liberal punching bags that offer him familiar and useful foils ahead of the midterm elections. 

"It's an old political playbook - attack elite, liberal New York, and the heartland loves you - but it's also personal for Trump, whose relationships with some of New York's political leaders go back generations.

"On Monday, the president deliberately attacked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is fighting for his third term, as a presidential wannabe. He told attendees at a fundraiser in Utica that Cuomo once promised he would 'never run for president against' him and then urged him to get in the race. 'Oh, please do it,' Trump goaded. 'Anybody who runs against Trump suffers.' 

"Trump then quickly capitalized on a nuclear-level gaffe from Cuomo, who in a speech on Wednesday noted that America 'was never that great," tweeting that Cuomo was 'having a total meltdown!' 

"In between Trump's attacks and taunts directed at Cuomo, he managed to ding New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as a do-nothing. And his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, told reporters that the strongest Democratic nominee for president in 2020 would be former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg." POLITICO

... SPEAKING OF ELITE NEW YORK, TRUMP is going to the Hamptons today. He is attending a roundtable and luncheon in Southampton. At 2:30 p.m., Trump will fly from the Hamptons to New Jersey to spend the weekend at his golf course in Bedminster.
       
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NYT'S MAGGIE HABERMAN and KEN VOGEL ... PANIC IN THE WHITE HOUSE OVER OMAROSA'S '200' TAPES ... "The tapes of Ms. Manigault Newman's private conversations with Mr. Trump and other officials connected to him have rattled the White House in a way that few things other than the special counsel investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia have. Mr. Trump's aides have been concerned that they will make appearances on other tapes, of which Ms. Manigault Newman is believed to have as many as 200. ... 

"Some major donors to Mr. Trump were bothered by the revelations that the campaign may have been used as a slush fund to pay fired or troublesome employees, said Dan K. Eberhart, an Arizona donor and energy executive who serves as an adviser to the America First Policies group created to support Mr. Trump's agenda.

"'It's diverting donor money that could be used to wage the midterm election battle or store resources for Trump's re-election,' Mr. Eberhart said. 'Instead, it's an elongated hush payment.' He added, though, that he did not believe it would dissuade donors. 'They still want to win elections,' he said." NYT

WAPO'S DAVID NAKAMURA and JOSH DAWSEY: "Trump gears up to strip more clearances from officials tied to Russia investigation": "President Trump has told advisers that he is eager to strip more security clearances as part of an escalating attack against people who have criticized him or played a role in the investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, two White House officials said. ... 

"Inside the West Wing, Trump is eager to move against others on the security clearance review list and could act soon, according to the White House officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

"Trump believes he has emerged looking strong and decisive in his escalating feud with Brennan, the aides said, adding that he shows a visceral disdain for the former CIA director when he sees him on TV. But other aides would prefer a more thorough process or that he drop the matter altogether, and they are scrambling to review the list of people Trump says he'd like to strip of clearances. These officials said Trump did not focus on his power to remove clearances until this summer." WaPo

-- WILLIAM MCRAVEN in WaPo, "Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President": WaPo

ELANA SCHOR: "12 former top intelligence officials criticize Trump for pulling security clearance": "A dozen former top intelligence officials, representing previous Republican and Democratic administrations, issued a letter late Thursday supporting former CIA Director John Brennan and lambasting President Donald Trump's move to revoke his security clearance.

"The rare statement from the former officials - including former CIA directors who served under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton - comes one day after Trump pulled Brennan's clearance and said he would evaluate clearances for other former intelligence officials, including two who signed on to the pro-Brennan statement.

"That move from the White House 'has nothing to do with who should and should not hold security clearances - and everything to do with an attempt to stifle free speech,' the dozen ex-intelligence officials wrote in their joint letter. 'You don't have to agree with what John Brennan says (and, again, not all of us do) to agree with his right to say it, subject to his obligation to protect classified information.'" POLITICO

-- SIGNERS: Former CIA Directors William Webster, George Tenet, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta and David Petraeus; former CIA Deputy Directors John McLaughlin, Stephen Kappes, Michael Morel, Avril Haines and David Cohen; and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. The letter

THE STEP BACK -- "Revoking Clearance, Trump Aims Presidential Power at Russia Inquiry," by NYT's Michael Shear and Julian Barnes: "Law enforcement officials, lawmakers and members of the intelligence community expressed worry that the president's act of retaliation will have a potentially chilling effect on the United States' law enforcement and intelligence officers.

"Anxiety about Mr. Trump's next move could give investigators pause as they pursue cases, and it might hamper recruitment of a new generation of agents, they said. The president's decision to follow through on his threats to revoke Mr. Brennan's security clearance, they said, sent a shudder through the spies and intelligence officials he used to lead." NYT

NOT SO FAST -- "Trump's military parade delayed until 2019," by Jacqueline Klimas: "The controversial military parade ordered by President Donald Trump originally scheduled for Veterans Day will be delayed until 2019, the Pentagon announced Thursday night.

"The Defense Department, which first planned the parade for November to coincide with Veterans Day weekend and the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, did not give a reason for abrupt change of plan, simply issuing a statement that said it has 'agreed to explore opportunities in 2019.'

"The announcement came only hours after a report by CNBC that the estimated cost of the parade is now as much as $92 million - far more than previous estimates of between $12 million and $30 million." POLITICO ... The original CNBC report

NYT'S NOAH WEILAND: "Meet the Special Counsel Team: So Careful They Won't Even Disclose Their Shake Shack Orders"

MANAFORT TRIAL, DAY 14: DARREN SAMUELSOHN -- "Jurors go back at it at 9:30 a.m. Friday in their second day of deliberations in the Manafort trial. They have no set deadline, and the parlor game among everyone else watching is whether they will reach their verdict before the weekend or does the case spill into a fourth week.

"On their first day deliberating, the jurors spent more than seven hours in a ninth floor conference room on Thursday before signaling to Judge Ellis they had four questions they were trying to get some clarity on. The judge handled their most detailed question - seeking more information on the legal requirements for filing a foreign bank account - by reading them the original jury instructions both Mueller prosecutors and Manafort lawyers had agreed to on the subject. 

"Ellis rejected the jurors request to get all the exhibits presented in the case - there were north of 400 - linked up directly with the specific counts Manafort faces. The judge did try to give the jurors a basic definition of what it means to find someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. But he wasn't as helpful in their request for a definition of a 'shelf company' and what the legal obligations are for such companies to file reports on their income. Instead the judge told the jurors they'd need to rely on their recollections of the evidence. 

"For the record, it's a corporation with no recorded activity and it came up in this case when former Manafort aide Rick Gates testified that Manafort used Cyprus-based 'shelf companies' to park tens of millions of dollars earned for consulting work in Ukraine."

-- Here's how Darren will be keeping score in the tech-free courtroom once there is a verdict. Pic

BURGESS EVERETT in MISHAWAKA, INDIANA: "GOP's midterm peril: What if they win on killing Obamacare?": "Republican candidates are trying to have it both ways on Obamacare.

"On one hand, Republicans are still campaigning against the law, arguing a strong election result will allow them one more shot at repealing the Affordable Care Act with GOP majorities in both chambers. And many high-profile Senate GOP candidates support a lawsuit that would scuttle Obamacare if successful in the nation's courts, a case that will be heard by a federal judge in September.

"Yet at the same time Republicans are still touting the law's most popular provisions, arguing that after it is struck down they will be able to preserve protections for pre-existing conditions by passing a new bill. GOP challengers in four of the most competitive Senate races support the lawsuit." POLITICO

2020 WATCH -- DAVID SIDERS: "Kamala Harris to make first Iowa endorsement": "Sen. Kamala Harris will make her first endorsement in an Iowa campaign on Friday, her first inroad into the first-in-the-nation caucus state, sources said. Harris, a California Democrat edging closer to a run for president, will endorse Deidre DeJear for Iowa secretary of state, sources with knowledge of the endorsement told POLITICO." POLITICO
           
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HEADS UP ... THE NRSC just dropped $2.8 million on media opposing Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). McCaskill was the biggest buy. 

CNN'S HADAS GOLD is moving to the network's London bureau, and will begin working from there Monday. She'll cover European business, politics and media. IF YOU'RE AT the Edinburgh TV festival Wednesday, Hadas will be there moderating a panel.

VALLEY TALK ... NYT A1 ... "Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an 'Excruciating' Year," by NYT's David Gelles, James B. Stewart, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Kate Kelly: "Elon Musk was at home in Los Angeles, struggling to maintain his composure. 'This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,' he said. 'It was excruciating.'

"The year has only gotten more intense for Mr. Musk, the chairman and chief executive of the electric-car maker Tesla, since he abruptly declared on Twitter last week that he hoped to convert the publicly traded company into a private one. The episode kicked off a furor in the markets and within Tesla itself, and he acknowledged on Thursday that he was fraying.

"At multiple points in an hourlong interview with The New York Times, he choked up, noting that he nearly missed his brother's wedding this summer and spent his birthday holed up in Tesla's offices as the company raced to meet elusive production targets on a crucial new model.

"Asked if the exhaustion was taking a toll on his physical health, Mr. Musk answered: 'It's not been great, actually. I've had friends come by who are really concerned.'" NYT

-- ASHLEY GOLD: "Source: House panel considers subpoena for Twitter CEO": "Staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee raised the possibility of a subpoena to get Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify before the panel, during a tense meeting with representatives of the company Thursday, according to a Republican source familiar with the discussion.

"The source said Twitter is 'delaying' and 'stonewalling' the committee, which has been negotiating over the past few weeks to try to arrange Dorsey's testimony about the company's data and content policies." POLITICO

SUNDAY SO FAR ... 
          
FOX
 
"FOX NEWS SUNDAY": Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Panel: Rich Lowry, Jane Harman, Guy Benson and Mo Elleithee.
   
CNN
 
"STATE OF THE UNION": Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D). Panel: Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Rick Santorum, S.E. Cupp and Jennifer Granholm.
   
NBC
 
"MEET THE PRESS": Yamiche Alcindor, Hugh Hewitt, Carol Lee and Eugene Robinson.
   
ABC
 
"THIS WEEK": Panel: Chris Christie, Jason Riley, Karen Finney and Matthew Dowd.
   
CNN
 
"INSIDE POLITICS": Julie Pace, Mike Bender, Toluse Olorunnipa and Sara Murray.
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PHOTO DU JOUR: The North Portico of the White House gets painted Thursday. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
   
TRUMP'S FRIENDS THWARTED ... "Veterans Group Sues to Block VA Shadow Rulers," by ProPublica's Isaac Arnsdorf: "A liberal veterans group is suing to block the influence of three outside advisers who have been secretly influencing the Department of Veterans Affairs from Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Florida.

"ProPublica reported last week that the advisers - Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter, West Palm Beach doctor Bruce Moskowitz and Washington lawyer Marc Sherman - have been shaping VA personnel and policy decisions despite having no official role or relevant expertise.

"The trio, sometimes referred to as the 'Mar-a-Lago Crowd,' is failing to disclose its activities as required by federal law, according to a lawsuit filed [Thursday] in federal court in Washington, D.C., by VoteVets, a liberal activist group that says it represents 500,000 supporters." ProPublica

K-FILE -- "Corey Stewart used racist stereotypes to disparage NFL players in 2017 campaign event," by CNN's Nathan McDermott: "Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia, used racist stereotypes to disparage NFL players who protested during the National Anthem in an online exchange with his supporters last year. 

"'A lot of these guys, I mean, they're thugs, they are beating up their girlfriends and their wives,' Stewart said, 'you know, they've got, you know, children all over the place that they don't pay attention to, don't father, with many different women, they are womanizers. These are not people that we should have our sons, or any of our children look up to. We need to have our children look up to real role models.'" CNN

THE INVESTIGATIONS -- "Judge: Trump's release of dossier memos opens door to disclosures from FBI," by Josh Gerstein: "President Donald Trump's decision to declassify competing congressional memos about the validity of the so-called Steele dossier means the FBI has lost its authority to rebuff Freedom of Information Act requests about the bureau's efforts to verify the report's intelligence linking Trump to Russia during the 2016 campaign, a federal judge ruled on Thursday." POLITICO
           
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MEDIAWATCH -- "Fox News Mistakes Patti LaBelle for Aretha Franklin" -- The Daily Beast: "At the end of an America's Newsroom segment memorializing the late singer-songwriter, Fox News cut to a still image of Franklin, captioned 'Aretha Franklin, Singer, 1942-2018,' inexplicably featuring a background photograph of LaBelle-who is not Franklin-singing for PBS in 2014. The flub was made all-the-more ironic by the fact that Franklin and LaBelle reportedly had a longstanding feud that only ended on Thursday morning when the 76-year-old legendary diva passed away." Daily Beast

-- ELIZA SHAPIRO is joining the New York Times' Metro team to cover education. She was most recently a reporter at POLITICO, where she covered NYC schools. The announcement

PLAYBOOK ON THE ROAD -- Thanks for another great batch of entries for week three! Send a pic of you or a friend reading Playbook on vacation to get featured next week and a chance to win a signed Matt Wuerker cartoon to Daniel, who's in Mykonos, Greece, this week to [email-masked] or tweet your photos to @playbookplus with the hashtag #PlaybookLoyal. 

-- SOME OF THIS WEEK'S ENTRIES: CHRIS LU, former Obama deputy labor secretary who is now at the UVA Miller Center: "I'm at the Finnish Presidential Palace in Helsinki, site of the Trump-Putin summit. No sign of Putin's soccer ball gift." Pic ... TOMMY BURR, Salt Lake Tribune's D.C. bureau chief: Cape Cod National Seashore. Pic ... NICOLE NASON, assistant secretary of state for administration: "Reading PLAYBOOK in Turks and Caicos and I found out it's my birthday!" Pic ... PATRICK STEEL, CEO of POLITICO: "At the summit of Mt Major overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee." Pic ... RON BONJEAN, partner of Rokk Solutions, and SARA BONJEAN of Rose Strategies: "Carbon County Fair in Rawlins, Wyoming."
 Pics ... 

... ERIN BILLINGS of Global Strategy Group: "Reading Playbook on top of the Beartooth pass in Montana." Pic ... ERIN STREETER, SVP of comms at NAM (@erinstreeterNAM): "At Wrigley Field! You can tell I'm a Nats fan because I'm wearing red and reading Playbook #PlaybookLoyal @apalmerdc @playbookplus." Pic ... See the rest of this week's entries, which come from Austria, Mexico, India, South Africa, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Israel, Laos, Canada, France, Scotland, French Polynesia, La Jolla and Pacifica, Calif., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Bethany Beach, Del., Lutsen, Minn., Idaho, Manchester, Mass., Chicago, Lummi Island, Wash., Maui and Bakersfield, Calif.
                 PLAYBOOKERS      
SPOTTED: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in line at the Giant on H Street. "She asked me to save her spot in line while she goes to get a potato," said our tipster ... Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) at Terminal B at DCA heading out of town (pic) ... Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on the phone and waiting to board a JetBlue flight from DCA to Boston (pic) ...

... Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Weaver crossing Constitution Avenue together, near the DSCC. Sanders was later seen in the DCA American Admirals Club eating guacamole. "Loving the soup so much he had a second helping," said our tipster. Pic

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Dave McCormick of Bridgewater Associates.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Glen Caplin, senior adviser for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). How he got his start in politics: "I worked in the music industry for ten years and was middling by and not loving what I was doing. My reaction to the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004 was that I needed to either get in the game or stop complaining. So, I looked for a 2005 New York City mayoral campaign to work on. I have been very fortunate since to have had an amazing ride." Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Ron Bonjean, partner at Rokk Solutions. Ron, who shares a birthday with his dad, Ron Bonjean Sr., is celebrating by taking samba lessons with Jennifer Grey (hat tips: Sara, Tim, Katy and Ryan) ... former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), now senior counsel at Hogan Lovells, is 69 (h/t Chase Kroll) ... Alexis Williams ... Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) is 78 ... Jamie Smith, chief marketing officer at the Linux Foundation and senior adviser at WestExec Advisors ... Ali Deckard ... Carl Sceusa, CEO of Revv, is 28 (h/ts Anton, Bubba and Megan) ... Elyse Cohen of the U.S. Chamber Foundation ... Leah Nelson of Sunshine Sachs (h/t Claire Tonneson) ... Derek McGinty ... Sabrina Schaeffer of the
 Herald Group (h/t Taylor Gross) ... Mike Buczkiewicz, supervising producer at "Morning Joe" ... Chris Golden ... Sonali Dohale ... David Kusnet (h/t Jon Haber) ... HuffPost's Elise Foley ... Mark Molaro ... Aaron Kinnari ... Matt Mittenthal, director of comms for BuzzFeed News ... Carlee Griffeth, comms director for Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), celebrating this weekend "during a self-made brewery tour of D.C. filled with friends and gluten free beer and cider" (h/t Matt Corridoni) ... 

... Michael Bekesha, the only Republican on the D.C. ballot in November ... Phil de Vellis, principal at Democratic ad firm Beacon Media (h/t Ian Russell) ... Caroline Boothe, COS for Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) ... Tyler Nickerson ... Alyson Chadwick ... Eric Stark ... Indonesia turns 73 on its Independence Day ... Monica Fernandez ... Ashley Harris ... Nick Hawatmeh ... Laura DeSimone ... Andrea McCarthy ... Kevin Lillard, who recently welcomed his first son Grayson (pic) ... Kate Gladney ... Boston Globe's Eric Moskowitz ... Margie Glick ... Will Ricciardella ... Yousef Saba ... Mandy Matti ... Sam Haass ... Rex Babin ... Kensey E. Johnson ... John Hayes ... Mike Davis ... Suzy Loftus
 ... Nancy Kirshner ... Robyn Garnett ... Diane Shust ... Ken Bailey ... Michael Alter ... Ken Bailey ... Alan Bowser ... Maegan Carberry ... Kate Stacy ... Kevin Mack ... Mary Lou Foy ... Lisa Stickan ... Greg Murphy ... Michael Kraft ... former Chinese president Jiang Zemin is 92 ... author Jonathan Franzen is 59.
       
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