Subject: Playbook PM: Previewing the Situation Room briefing
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THE TRUMP/HILL MEETING is at 3 p.m. today. POLITICO'S LEDEALL ... SARAH FERRIS, JOHN BRESNAHAN, and HEATHER CAYGLE: "The meeting with the top two leaders from each party in the House and Senate - which has been specifically billed as a briefing on border security by top officials from the Department of Homeland Security - is hardly expected to end the budget impasse, however.

"'It's not a meeting, it is a briefing. We expect a one-sided, non-factual presentation. Expect Democrats to again have to correct the record in the meeting and afterward,' a senior Democratic aide said Wednesday, which is technically the final day of a fully GOP-controlled government. Democrats remain firmly opposed to devoting more taxpayer dollars to Trump's border wall, and have hatched their own plan to reopen government this week without any new border money." POLITICO 

-- WAPO'S ERICA WERNER (@ericawerner): "Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman: 'It's not often the president gets to hear people tell him he's wrong. Democrats intend to do that today.'"

-- ABC'S KATHERINE FAULDERS (@KFaulders): "Secretary Nielsen, CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan & Acting ICE Director Ronald Vitiello will be briefing congressional leaders in the Situation Room on border security, source tells me."

SPEAKER-DESIGNATE NANCY PELOSI and the president still have not spoken since Dec. 11.

NBC NEWS' FRANK THORP (@frankthorp): "SCHUMER walks into @NancyPelosi's new office (the Speaker's suite), and says, 'Look, we've given the president a good offer which could end the shutdown, we've separated the shutdown from the wall, and we'll see what he has to say.'"

REMINDER ... THE DEMOCRATS' OFFER is a stopgap for DHS into February, and funding the rest of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.

INTERESTING ... There is already some Democratic opposition to the House rules package because it institutes PayGo -- a provision where Congress has to find a way to pay for its spending. RO KHANNA and ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ have announced they'll vote no. 

-- CALIFORNIA REP. RO KHANNA (@RoKhanna) tweeted this: "I will be voting NO on the Rules package with #PayGo. It is terrible economics. The austerians were wrong about the Great Recession and Great Depression. At some point, politicians need to learn from mistakes and read economic history."

-- THE RULES PACKAGE -- which lays out the rules of the House -- is a party-line vote. Democrats need to hold "no" votes under 18. 

NEW ... The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee -- the top investigative committee in the House -- is renaming itself as the "Committee on Oversight and Reform."

MUST READ ... NYT'S MARK LEIBOVICH on HARRY REID ... "Harry Reid Has a Few Words for Washington: The former Senate majority leader on President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer, and on why he doesn't regret ending the filibuster for judicial appointments." NYT Mag

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TRUMP VS. ROMNEY -- THE PRESIDENT TWEETS at 7:53 a.m.: "Here we go with Mitt Romney, but so fast! Question will be, is he a Flake? I hope not. Would much prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful. I won big, and he didn't. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a TEAM player & WIN!"

-- ROMNEY, who will be sworn in as Utah's junior senator this week, published an op-ed in the Washington Post on Tuesday with the headline, "The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump's character falls short." 

-- RNC NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN JEVON WILLIAMS of the Virgin Islands sent an email out to members late Tuesday rebuking Romney's move and calling for the RNC to alter its rules to head off a primary challenge against the president and to re-nominate Trump for the 2020 election. The email

-- RNC CHAIRWOMAN RONNA MCDANIEL slammed Romney -- her uncle -- on Twitter, saying: "POTUS is attacked and obstructed by the MSM media and Democrats 24/7. For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realDonaldTrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive."

-- CNN'S JAKE TAPPER will interview ROMNEY at 4 p.m. on CNN.

TOP-ED -- SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER (R-TENN.) in WAPO: "Trump could reopen the government and build a lasting legacy all at once": "Government shutdowns should be as off-limits to budget negotiations as chemical weapons are to warfare. Nevertheless, we are stuck in one. Resolving it by going Real Big on immigration could be Trump's Nixon-to-China, Reagan-to-the-Berlin-Wall moment in history." WaPo 

2020 WATCH -- THE ATLANTIC'S ISAAC DOVERE: "Can a Democrat Win the Presidency on Climate Change?: Washington Governor Jay Inslee believes his focus on the environment will resonate with voters, but few have heard of him": "If there is a new Democratic president come 2021, he or she will get pulled in all sorts of policy directions. Inslee says he has one priority: global warming. It's not theoretical, or a cause just for tree huggers anymore. 

"Putting off dealing with it for a year or two or kicking it to some new bipartisan commission won't work, he says. He plans to focus on the threat that climate change poses to the environment and national security-the mega-storms and fires causing millions in damages, the weather changes that will cause mass migrations, the droughts that will devastate farmers in America and around the world." The Atlantic 

NATIONAL JOURNAL'S ALEX CLEARFIELD (@AlexClearfield): "#NC03 Rep. Walter Jones's office just confirmed to me the congressman will be retiring after the 116th Congress; he had indicated as such in April 2018 but had not made an official announcement."

-- THIS IS A SOLIDLY Republican seat. GOP operatives have long-waited for Jones to leave in order to get a more establishment-minded Republican in the seat.

FACT CHECK -- WAPO'S GLENN KESSLER: "President Trump's error-filled holiday tweets on the border wall"

WHAT MIKE POMPEO IS UP TO ... "Netanyahu Turns to Pompeo in Jerusalem Embassy Campaign," by Bloomberg's Jonathan Ferziger: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked together with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to prod Latin American leaders into moving their embassies to Jerusalem ahead of April elections where the premier could lose his job, according to a senior Israeli official.

"Netanyahu and Pompeo held an unusual three-way meeting in Brasilia on Tuesday designed to coax Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez into recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the embassy from Tel Aviv within the next two months, said the official, who was present at the gathering. Hernandez had said he wanted 'a few minutes' with Pompeo, which Netanyahu arranged via the trilateral meeting, the official said." Bloomberg 

-- CAITLIN OPRYSKO: "Pompeo 'hopeful' for consular access to detained American in Russia": "Paul Whelan, a retired Marine who works as a global security director for a Michigan-based auto parts supplier, disappeared in Moscow over the weekend, where his brother said he was set to attend the wedding of a friend. Russia's Federal Security Service, essentially the Kremlin equivalent of the CIA, said on Monday that he was caught 'during an espionage operation,' accusations his family has vehemently denied.

"Speaking to reporters in Brazil on Wednesday, Pompeo said that he hoped U.S. diplomatic officials would get access to Whelan 'within the next hours' to learn more about the circumstances of his arrest." POLITICO 

KNOWING ABIGAIL SPANBERGER -- "When ex-spies go rogue by becoming lawmakers," by WaPo's Ian Shapira in Glen Allen, Va.: "Once Abigail Spanberger embraced the secret life of a CIA operative, she never imagined breaking cover. ... Then came the Trump presidency and an overheated climate in which partisanship often triumphed over facts. So Spanberger, a proudly apolitical collector of evidence, decided to do something profoundly radical for an ex-spy. She ran for the House of Representatives - and won ...

"She'd like to serve on the House Agriculture Committee, but, of course, also hopes for a spot on the Intelligence Committee. 'When I was putting my requests for committee, I said, "Where can I be the greatest use?"' she said. 'They typically don't put first-term members on the Intelligence Committee. I would be surprised, frankly, if I get it. But there are compelling reasons why it would make sense.'" WaPo 

FIGHTING PHARMA -- STAT NEWS' NICHOLAS FLORKO: "How PhRMA finally lost: the inside story of the group's biggest lobbying failure in years": "STAT spoke with key members of Congress, congressional staffers, experts, and lobbyists both within the drug industry and outside it to piece together the inside story of how the drug industry finally lost - big - in Washington. The account, some of which is reported here for the first time, details just how flat footed PhRMA was caught by the policy, how it spun together multiple lobbying strategies to advance its 'fix,' and how close it came to getting its way.

"The account underscores, too, just how vulnerable the group, once thought invincible, has become, as newly empowered Democrats pledge to work with President Trump to lower drug prices. That PhRMA's quest failed - despite the potentially record-breaking sums it spent on lobbying, despite its myopic, monthslong focus on the issue, despite its storied history in Washington - could be the first, early sign that the industry's towering influence is waning." STAT 

COMING ATTRACTIONS -- VIA MORNING MEDIA: "AS NANCY PELOSI is expected to become House Speaker when a new session of Congress begins tomorrow, her daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, turns tonight to those exiting the Capitol. 'Goodbye, Congress,' a special episode of HBO's 'Vice News Tonight' airing at 7:30 p.m., includes exit interviews with members such as House Speaker Paul Ryan and Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley."

-- NANCY PELOSI will sit down for an interview with the TODAY show's Savannah Guthrie Thursday morning on NBC.

HEADS UP -- POLITICO is now accepting applications for its 2019 session of POLITICO Journalism Institute, a 10-day intensive in journalism training with opportunities to publish on the POLITICO site. More than a dozen students are selected each year for this all expense-paid program, which is offered in partnership with American University and the Maynard Institute. At the conclusion of the program, two students are invited back for a full-time paid internship in the POLITICO newsroom. Apply online now

MEDIAWATCH -- KYLIE ATWOOD will be a national security reporter at CNN. She previously was State department reporter at CBS.

SPOTTED: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on an American Airlines flight this morning from Palm Beach to DCA.

HILL MOVES ... Annie Minkler is joining Steve Scalise's team as deputy floor director. Dennis Nalls is joining the floor team -- he was Scalise's bodyman. Sean Satterthwaite is joining Team Scalise as a speechwriter. ... Michael Hacker will be a senior adviser to Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.). He previously was a partner at HDMK. ... 

... Colston Reid will be chief of staff for Rep.-elect Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.). He previously was campaign manager for Malinowski's campaign. ... Anne Feldman will be communications director for Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.). She previously was press secretary for End Citizens United.

-- USTR DEPARTURE LOUNGE -- Lila Nieves-Lee will be banking legislative assistant for Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). She previously was USTR's director of congressional affairs.

TRANSITIONS -- Sally Canfield is now director of global health at the Bush Institute. She previously was senior director for government relations at The ONE Campaign. ... Ilya Shapiro is now director of Cato's Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies. Roger Pilon, who founded the center, retired. ... Mitch Glazier will be chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America. He previously was president. Michele Ballantyne will be COO at RIAA. She previously was SVP of federal government relations.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Hannah Oliver, senior communications and digital media manager at the American International Automobile Dealers Association and a Pete Domenici alum, and Sam Oliver, portfolio manager at Innovative Reasoning, a defense services company, welcomed Catherine Lynn "Cate" Oliver. Pic ... Another pic

ENGAGED -- Bill Jaffee, press secretary for Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), on Monday proposed to Kate Henjum, a program associate for the energy and environment program at the Aspen Institute and an alum of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.). The couple met working in the Russell building in 2016. Pic ... More pix
       
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