Subject: POLITICO Playbook: Inside the Gridiron dinner
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                     DRIVING THE DAY      
THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK ... Monday: THE PRESIDENT will host the North Dakota State Bison football team at the White House. He will have lunch with VP Mike Pence and speak to a meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General. Wednesday: TRUMP will attend and American Workforce Policy Advisory board meeting. ... 

... Thursday: THE PRESIDENT will have lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and then the Prime Minister of Czech Republic will come to the White House. Friday: THE PRESIDENT will meet with officials at the Pentagon. 

INSIDE THE GRIDIRON DINNER ... 

-- SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA.): "I am nervous as a pregnant nun. My name is John Kennedy, I'm a United States senator and I represent the people of Louisiana on cable news stations across this nation. ... 

"I was in the Capital one day and I saw Chuck Todd from NBC. He is so smart. He is so cool. I went right up to Chuck and said 'where are y'all from?' And he said where I'm from, we don't end sentences in prepositions. So I said, 'Chuck, where are y'all from, bitch?' ... 

"I'm told there are some print journalists here tonight. I know they've been struggling as a business. I'm from the government. I'm here to help you. Y'all ought to consider applying for a job at the White House. They've got lots of openings. Just tell them that climate change is more fake than a Jussie Smollett assault and you'd date Ivanka too if you could. I'm pretty sure that joke screams national emergency ... 

"In all seriousness, I love newspapers. I read several every day. I bet that surprises you. We made learning to read mandatory in Louisiana about 10 years ago. Best thing we ever did. We can read billboards. We can read the backs of cereal boxes. It's great. And just for the record, hell yes, we have electricity unlike Alabama. Our rival, our arch rival. Did you know why Alabama raised the drinking age to 32? They wanted to keep alcohol out of the high schools. Please don't tell Shelby I said that."

-- SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MINN.): "I heard today that the president spoke for two hours so my plan here is to keep my speech short. My speech here will be shorter than a Robert Kraft visit to the Orchids Day Spa. ...

"I do have an interesting base strategy. George Will wrote a nice column. ... POLITICO did a big story about Republicans saying nice things about me. Roy Blunt, Pat Roberts, thank you buddy, and John Cornyn, saying I'm responsible, likable and nice. And then the New York Times did the rebuttal. Eating a salad with a comb but I'm telling you, you guys haven't lived until you've toasted a bagel with a blow dryer. Or ironed a grilled-cheese sandwich on an ironing board. Macgyver!"

-- IVANKA TRUMP: "When my father asked me just this afternoon to represent him, no this isn't a joke, this afternoon, to represent him tonight, I didn't have time to write any jokes. So I figured the funniest thing I could do is read you excerpts from the Green New Deal. The press seems to think that it's ironic that I, born of great privilege, think that people want to work for what they are given. As if being Donald Trump's daughter isn't the hardest job in the world. Some people have been impressed. They have this odd impression that maybe I'm a little uptight sometimes, a little scripted, certainly comedy is not my thing. Hold on a second, I'm gonna, um, have a beer. ... 

"To be honest, I was not my father's first choice to speak tonight. I don't know who was but reports are already beginning to surface that Chris Christie is saying that he was the president's first choice, but that Jared blocked it. In all seriousness, my father asked me to share his warm regards and best wishes and regrets that he himself could not join us on this wonderful evening. The opportunity to poke fun at the media is not something that he passes up lightly. That said, in some days, you could say that to my father, every day is a Gridiron dinner."

OVERHEARD: KELLYANNE CONWAY telling Jeff Bezos to not let the "suckers get you down." (Our tipster, who overheard the exchange, said Conway used more colorful language.)

SPOTTED AT THE GRIDIRON: Jared Kushner seated two seats away from Rod Rosenstein. The two spoke during the cocktail reception. ... Jared talking to Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer. Dermer wryly asked Kushner how his peacemaking efforts were going ... 

... Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker approaching Jeff Bezos to talk to him about luring an Amazon HQ2 location to Illinois ... Bret Baier getting congratulated by people after the dinner for his role in the skits ... Jeff Bezos taking a picture with a group of people at the reception ... Tom Bossert hugging Jared Kushner during the reception ... Michael Beschloss chatting with Jon Meacham ... 

... Victoria Toensing chatting with Dave Bossie ... MPAA president Charlie Rivkin talking to former MPAA president Dan Glickman ... Jeff Bezos, Bob Costa, Fred Ryan, Tammy Haddad and Ted and Lady Olson all chatting together during the reception ... Norm Pearlstine, Marty Schenker and James Brooks chatting ... Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) and April Delaney chatting with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.
       
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SUNDAY BEST ... THE BIG NEWS OF THE MORNING ... HOUSE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN JERRY NADLER (D-N.Y.) told GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS on ABC's "This Week" that "it's very clear that the president obstructed justice." This is a big deal because impeachment is Nadler's purview. 

SNEAK PEEK ... NADLER also told George he would issue document requests to more than 60 people, including DOJ, the White House and Donald Trump Jr. and Allen Weisselberg, as they try to prove obstruction. 

-- HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CALIF.), who was also on with George: "I think Congressman Nadler decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election."

CHUCK TODD spoke with REP. JIM JORDAN (R-OHIO) on NBC's "Meet the Press": TODD: "Let me ask you this. Why do you not want this investigation concluded by Robert Mueller?" 

JORDAN: "I want it to conclude, I want it over with. But there's nothing, there's not --" TODD: "But you continue to, you continue to question it and interfere with it. So how is it ever going to end if you question and interfere with it?" 

JORDAN: "I'm not questioning or interfering with it. I've just - it's going to be public. The president's said he wants it to continue. He's allowed it to continue, it's going to continue. At some point there will be some investigation. And then the attorney general, Bill Barr, will decide, will follow the law and release what he wants to release or maybe release the whole thing. That's going to happen, we all know that."

MARGARET BRENNAN spoke to REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CALIF.) on CBS's "Face the Nation." Schiff, who was appearing from Boynton Beach, Florida, said Democrats are "looking deep into the set of issues around Moscow Trump Tower. We're also looking at persistent allegations that the Russians have been laundering money through the Trump Organization. I don't know that that's true. But if it is, again, it's a profound compromise of this president."

BRENNAN: "You said you don't know that that's true. Who can answer that question for you? Who do you need to talk to?"

SCHIFF: "Well, we'll need to talk to some of the banks that have been doing business with Mr. Trump. But like Deutsche Bank which has had a history of laundering Russian money, it was a- a bank, one of the very few if only that would do business with Mr. Trump after American banks refused. But we also will want to speak with the- the accountants, the chief financial officers for the Trump Organization and others who would have information about the Moscow Trump Tower deal, about the issue of money laundering. In fact, we're bringing Felix Sater in to talk about Moscow Trump Tower in a couple weeks. So there are any number of witnesses that can shed light on whether America's national
 security is compromised because the president has been pursuing financial interests with the Russians."

JAKE TAPPER spoke to JOHN BOLTON on CNN's "State of the Union" about OTTO WARMBIER'S death: TAPPER: "Do you take Kim Jong Un at his word?" BOLTON: "The president takes him at his word ..." TAPPER: "I know he does, but what about you?" BOLTON: "My opinion doesn't matter. My opinion is that I'm ... I'm not the national security decision maker. That's his view. ... People in the media seem to have the impression that administration officials kind of comment from the distance, as if I were a FOX News contributor, as I used to be." TAPPER: "Used to be."

BOLTON: "I don't do that anymore. I give my advice to the president. I give my opinions to the president. He makes up his own mind. That's why he's president."

CHRIS WALLACE also spoke to BOLTON on "Fox News Sunday": WALLACE: "As national security adviser, do you have any concerns about Jared Kushner having access to the nation's top secrets?" BOLTON: "I don't have any concerns. I deal with Jared all the time on the Middle East peace process and a number of other issues. I trust him. I have no idea what the story is on the security clearance. It's not something that falls within my area of responsibility. But, if asked, do I trust Jared Kushner, the answer's yes."

THE STATE OF THE GOP ... WAPO'S BOB COSTA on A1: "'We're not going to turn on our own': Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount" (print edition headline: "Trump keeps his grip on GOP"): "Trump's ownership of the GOP was on vivid display again Saturday, when the president appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, an annual gathering that has transformed into a raucous celebration of Trump, featuring propaganda-style art and a speaker who declared that the president was 'chosen by God.'

"Standing before an exuberant crowd chanting 'Trump!' and 'U-S-A,' Trump spent two hours railing against the 'failed ruling class,' calling the special counsel's Russia investigation 'bullshit' and portraying his election as a major moment in global history.

"'We are reversing decades of blunders and betrayals,' Trump declared at one point, before asserting that he was only joking in 2016 when he asked Russia to release Hillary Clinton's private emails. 'Lock her up! Lock her up!' CPAC attendees roared at the mention of the former Democratic presidential nominee." WaPo ... Costa, who has family in CT, is also on the front of the Hartford Courant

ANDREW RESTUCCIA, "Trump delivers scorched-earth speech as he tries to regain footing": "President Donald Trump delivered a scorched-earth speech to conservative activists on Saturday, calling the Russia investigation 'bulls***,' adopting a southern accent to mock his former attorney general, and asserting that some members of Congress 'hate our country.' ... 

"Trump, basking in the adoration of the crowd, largely glossed over the North Korea summit's collapse, instead reviving several of his greatest hits, from rehashing the 2016 election to obsessing over the crowd size at his inauguration." POLITICO

-- AP'S KEVIN FREKING: "Trump says he'll issue order protecting campus free speech": "Trump announced Saturday he would soon sign an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal resources. Trump is highlighting concerns from some conservatives that their voices were being censored, whether on social media or at the nation's universities. 
           
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"He did not go into more detail about what the order would say, but his comments immediately drew scrutiny from those who noted that public research universities already have a constitutional obligation to protect free speech." AP

Good Sunday morning.

WAPO'S BARRY SVRLUGA in Clearwater, Fla.: "Bryce Harper, on the first day of the rest of his life, didn't seem ready to leave D.C. behind": "Bryce Harper wore his new jersey, with the red pinstripes and the No. 3 on the back. He wore his new cap, emblazoned with that swirly 'P' rather than the old curly 'W.' He sat in the sun at Spectrum Field - his new spring training home, continuing a day of new, new, new, new - and soaked in the first day of the rest of his life.

"Yet in so many ways, it felt like he had one foot in Philadelphia and one foot in the District, straddling his past and his future. 'We want to bring a title back to D.C.,' Harper said in the final moments of his 40-minute news conference. 'I want to be on Broad Street.'

"Easy, Philadelphia. Just a slip. Broad Street, Bryce knows, is not in Washington. This whole Phillies thing, it might take some time to settle in as normal, even for the guy wearing the jersey and receiving the cash." WaPo

WSJ ED BOARD tells PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP to bag his emergency declaration: "Senate Republicans are trying to persuade the President to call off the national emergency, and that would make the most political sense. On the merits Mr. Trump has already won enough money to say he's building some of the border wall, and he can get more in the next budget. His voters don't doubt his resolve to build his wall.

"Some Republicans are debating whether they can amend the House resolution to, say, tighten the National Emergencies Act so it isn't so vulnerable to misuse. That might command 51 votes in the Senate, even if House Democrats won't go along because they want to declare climate change a national emergency when Kamala Harris is President.

"The President needs a united Senate GOP to prevail against the House in the many policy debates to come, and this emergency fight is wasting political capital. He's dividing Republicans and helping Democrat Chuck Schumer in his ambition to become Majority Leader." WSJ

THE TIMES TICK TOCK ... A1 ... DAVID SANGER and EDWARD WONG in Hanoi: "How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets": "As President Trump settled into the dining room of a French-colonial hotel in Hanoi on Thursday morning, the conversation with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader with whom he had struck up the oddest of friendships, was already turning tense.

"In a dinner at the Metropole Hotel the evening before, mere feet from the bomb shelter where guests took cover during the Vietnam War, Mr. Kim had resisted what Mr. Trump presented as a grand bargain: North Korea would trade all its nuclear weapons, material and facilities for an end to the American-led sanctions squeezing its economy.

"An American official later described this as 'a proposal to go big,' a bet by Mr. Trump that his force of personality, and view of himself as a consummate dealmaker, would succeed where three previous presidents had failed.

"But Mr. Trump's offer was essentially the same deal that the United States has pushed - and the North has rejected - for a quarter century. Intelligence agencies had warned him, publicly, Mr. Kim would not be willing to give up the arsenal completely. North Korea itself had said repeatedly that it would only move gradually. ... 

"Mr. Kim also miscalculated. He bet Mr. Trump might accept a more modest offer that American negotiators in Hanoi had already dismissed: The North would dismantle the Yongbyon nuclear complex, three square miles of aging facilities at the heart of the nuclear program, for an end to the sanctions most harmful to its economy, those enacted since 2016." NYT

THE INVESTIGATIONS ... 

-- WAPO'S MATT ZAPOTOSKY, TOM HAMBURGER and KAROUN DEMIRJIAN: "Lawmakers exploring possible pardon talks involving Michael Cohen"

2020 WATCH ... HOLLY OTTERBEIN in New York: "'I know where I came from': Sanders outlines life story at campaign kickoff rally": "Bernie Sanders finally got personal. After rarely talking about his early years in his first chase for the White House, the Vermont senator started his 2020 bid here at a rally highlighting his origins as the son of an immigrant, a lower-middle-class child and a young civil rights activist. Sanders and a group of speakers that preceded him ... sought to weave together his little-known personal history with his well-known left-wing policies.

"They also contrasted Sanders' life story with that of President Donald Trump's. 'I did not have a father who gave me millions of dollars to build luxury skyscrapers, casinos and country clubs,' Sanders said. 'I did not come from a family that gave me a $200,000 allowance every year beginning at the age of three.'" POLITICO

-- L.A. TIMES' MELANIE MASON: "How California's early primary illustrates the state's political inferiority complex": "California loves to talk about itself in superlatives: The nation's most populous state. The fifth-largest economy in the world. Producer of tech titans and Hollywood blockbusters and a whole lot of fruits and veggies.

"But even as it basks in its outsize economic and cultural influence, something has been gnawing at the state's psyche. When it comes to presidential politics, we're more backbencher than behemoth.

"The moving of California's 2020 presidential primary to March 3 - nipping at the heels of the four traditional early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina - is the latest bid to play with the calendar in hopes of gaining more electoral relevance. This will be the fifth time since 1992 the state has moved its presidential primary. It's bounced from June, March, February and back again. The perpetual tinkering underscores how California just can't seem to shake its political inferiority complex." LAT

-- HARRY REID SPEAKS! ... ELENA SCHNEIDER: "Nevada 2020 caucus 'free-for-all' heats up": "While the lion's share of media attention is focused on Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Democratic hopefuls from Elizabeth Warren to Kamala Harris to Michael Bloomberg are quietly making early, behind-the-scenes moves that underscore the state's sway: Warren has moved quickest to establish state-level campaign infrastructure, while Harris dropped into Nevada this weekend and Bloomberg, as well as Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, have met with the influential Culinary Union in the past week. ... 

"Former Sen. Harry Reid told POLITICO in an interview that Nevada, 'a free-for-all' for Democratic candidates, has not initially gotten the attention it deserves ahead of 2020, 'but it will.' 'For candidates, they should understand that if they can do well in Nevada, they can do well in the country,' Reid said. 'People who think they can win a race for president by staying east of the Mississippi are going to be in for a rude awakening.'" POLITICO

-- LAT MARK Z. BARABAK: "In Kamala Harris, a sequel to Ronald Reagan?"

SNL LAST NIGHT -- "Michael Cohen Hearing Cold Open": "The Congressional Oversight Committee (Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader, Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat) question President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) about his former boss." 9-min. video
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PHOTO DU JOUR: President Donald Trump hugs the American flag as he arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, March 2. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo
   
WSJ'S BENJAMIN MULLIN: "AT&T Plans to Revamp CNN's Digital Arm": "John Stankey, the AT&T executive at the helm of WarnerMedia, is planning to revamp the cable news network's digital operation, which he believes isn't reaching its potential and requires more investment in product development and data analytics, according to people familiar with the situation." WSJ

VALLEY TALK - "Inside Apple's high-stakes diplomacy in the U.S.-China trade war: Apple could face future threats if the latest trade talks fail," by Steven Overly and Margaret Harding McGill and the South China Morning Post's Celia Chen.
           
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BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:

-- "'I thought I was smarter than almost everybody': my double life as a KGB agent," by Shaun Walker in The Guardian: "Raised in East Germany, Jack Barsky abandoned his mother, brother, wife and son to spy for the KGB. In America, he started a second family. And then it all came crashing down..." The Guardian

-- "The men fighting Florida's python epidemic," by John-Paul Flintoff in the Feb./March. issue of 1843 Magazine: "Tens of thousands of Burmese pythons have decimated the wildlife of the Everglades. John-Paul Flintoff joins the posse on their tail." 1843 Magazine

-- "The Master of Spin: Michael Sitrick will f**k with your moral compass," by Lyz Lenz in Columbia Journalism Review: "If it were a relationship, we'd call it gaslighting, but it's a profession, so we call it PR." CJR (h/t Longform.org)

-- "I Was One of The Top Doctors In My Field. I Was Also An Opioid Addict," by Kayla Webley Adler in Marie Claire: "Opioids have become a full-blown national crisis of epidemic proportions, killing 130 people each day. Drug overdose is now the number-one cause of death for Americans under 50. One doctor at the top of her game-who knew the risks better than anyone-almost became another statistic." Marie Claire

-- "My Restaurant Was the Greatest Show of Excess You'd Ever Seen, and It Almost Killed Me," by David McMillan in Bon Appetit: "'I was never falling-down drunk. I was never belligerent. I always got my work done. I was never unkempt. I was always clean, I was always shaved, I always performed at work. I was always kind and gracious in the dining room. But I lived in hell.'" Bon Appetit (h/t Longform.org)

-- "Trump and the Revolt of the 'Somewheres,'" by Christopher DeMuth in WSJ: "The new nationalism appeals to those who feel left out by the rise of 'declarative government' by judges and bureaucrats." WSJ

-- "Are Robots Competing for Your Job?" by The New Yorker's Jill Lepore: "How can you know if you're about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? 'If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,' Anders Sandberg, of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. 'If it can't, it won't.' (Rotten luck for people whose job description is 'Predict the future.')" The New Yorker

-- "The Trauma Floor," by The Verge's Casey Newton - per Longreads.com's description: "Facebook has thousands of people in contract centers around the world reviewing questionable content. They make a bit above minimum wage to watch people get stabbed or shot, read hate speech, and watch conspiracy theory videos - at massive personal cost and without the support and perks of actually working for Facebook."The Verge

-- "Carbon monoxide is killing public housing residents, but HUD doesn't require detectors," by NBC's Suzy Khimm and Laura Strickler in Columbia, S.C.: "Residents of a South Carolina public housing complex are demanding answers after two of their neighbors died from the gas." NBC

-- "Rare L.A. mega-storm could overwhelm dam and flood dozens of cities, experts say," by L.A. Times' Louis Sahagun: "This rare mega-storm - which some say is rendered all the more inevitable due to climate change - would last for weeks and send more than 1.5 million people fleeing as floodwaters inundated cities and formed lakes in the Central Valley and Mojave Desert, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Officials estimate the structural and economic damage from an ARkStorm (for Atmospheric River1,000) would amount to more than $725 billion statewide." LAT (h/t Longreads.com)
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SPOTTED leaving a private tour on Friday of the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Ala., with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.): Reps. Martha Roby (R-Ala.), Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) ... Caroline Kennedy at the Rosa Parks Museum 

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Beth Myers, who celebrated with a surprise party in San Francisco with Romney alumni (pic of her blowing out her cake ... another pic) (hat tip: Jackie Rooney) ... (was Friday): Tom Jones 

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Peter Mirijanian, president of Peter Mirijanian Public Affairs, is 56. How he got his start in his career: "Clipping newspapers in the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's press office, which was a dream come true, and then a job at People for the American Way. The halcyon days!" Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Marc Short is 49 ... Dan Conston is 34 ... Andrew Olmem, deputy director of the National Economic Council (h/t wife Eleni Roumel) ... Alexa Henning, the White House's director of broadcast media (h/t Judd Deere) ... John Roscoe ... Steve Smith, associate director of the WH Office of American Innovation ... George Little, partner at the Brunswick Group (h/ts Siobhan Gorman and Ben Chang) ... CBS News president Susan Zirinsky (h/ts Christa Robinson and Rachel Adler) ... Carlton Carroll, VP of communications at Climate Leadership Council ... Cameron French, VP of public affairs at SKDKnickerbocker, is 35 ... Ben Goldstein ... Michael Remez ... Richard Lichtenstein (h/t Jon Haber)
 ... Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) is 35 ... Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) is 57 ... Rep. Paul Cook (R-Calif.) is 76 ... Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) is 58 ... Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) is 38 (h/t Brandon VerVelde) ... 

... The Atlantic's Elaina Plott ... Jesse Hunt, comms director at NRSC (h/t Matt Gorman) ... Ron Chernow is 7-0 ... Ira Glass, host and producer of "This American Life," is 6-0 (h/t Zoe Chace) ... Caitlin Gallagher, director of media and communications at the Federation of American Hospitals ... POLITICO's Lily Mihalik ... David Yassky is 55 ... Tyler Ann McGuffee, senior adviser on the drug pricing reform team at HHS (h/t Caitlin Oakley) ... Carly Walsh of Vox Media communications (h/t Nicole Bamber) ... David Steinhardt is 5-0 ... Adam Sachs ... Jason Gerson ... Patrick Gavin (h/t Kiki Burger) ... Scott Pollard (h/t Richard Keil) ... Hannah Blatt ... Ghada Alkiek ... DCCC's Alex Smith ...
 Jason Dick, deputy editor at CQ Roll Call ... Lauren Shay Lavin ... Tariq Khan ... Kristin Lawton ... Charles Cote ... Tim Morrison ... Anne Gordon ... Jasen Castillo ... Geneva Overholser ... Edward Lewine ... Janeen Lawlor ... David Pringle ... Carolyn Stanford Taylor (h/t Teresa Vilmain)
       
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