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PRETTY SOON, President DONALD TRUMP is going to have a decision to make: Does he want a police reform bill, or does he want it to suffer the same fate as countless other initiatives in his presidency?
A DEAL IS POSSIBLE -- difficult, tricky and tight, but possible.
THE FIRST SIGN OF ENGAGEMENT came Tuesday, when MARK MEADOWS, JARED KUSHNER and JA’RON SMITH came to Capitol Hill to meet with Sen. TIM SCOTT (R-S.C.), who has been deputized by the Senate GOP leadership to try to craft a package.
THE TRIO’S EXPRESS GOAL was to begin sifting through SCOTT’S proposals for policy options to bring to the president.
THE TIMELINE IS TIGHT: The White House is looking to present TRUMP with options today, and have him settle on principles he can support by Thursday in time for a planned trip to Dallas, where he would -- theoretically -- have something to announce. SCOTT said he would like something by Friday. There’s concern that this issue could lose steam if it slips into July. (Though some would argue there’s benefit to lumping this alongside a coronavirus package in July.)
SCOTT said that Senate Republicans are moving down a “separate track” from the White House. But the two sides are clearly coordinating.
LEGISLATORS ARE CONSIDERING a menu of options: banning the chokehold, doing away with or curbing no-knock warrants, creating a national database of police officers who misbehave, collecting more data on the use of violent force and eliminating liability limits for police officers. Leading lawmakers on both sides agree on the end goals, but differ significantly on the policies needed to achieve them.
FOR EXAMPLE, SCOTT said he may personally agree with banning the chokehold as the Democrats have proposed, but he believes the best way to get there may be to beef up training. Democrats want to ban no-knock warrants; Republicans want to collect more data to see where they are happening. These are significant differences. But they don’t close off a narrow path to a deal.
ALSO: Note that few people are criticizing the House Democrats’ sweeping bill, a sign of how much general agreement exists, and a recognition of the political climate.
AS BURGESS EVERETT, MEL ZANONA and MERIDITH MCGRAW explain in their piece today, the political terrain has shifted significantly in the last few days, and Republicans are searching for a deal and the president’s blessing. NYT Upshot: “Public Opinion Rarely Moves Fast, but It Has on Black Lives Matter”
MEADOWS, on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, said a few notable things after his meeting with SCOTT. He said the White House wants something “sooner rather than later,” and the administration is looking for “real legislation or action” -- signaling that absent legislation, the president might settle for an executive order.
OF COURSE, there are all sorts of variables that have nothing to do with the president. Are Democrats willing to settle for less than what they’ve put on the table already? Is a narrow deal possible? Are Republicans going to get bogged down and jammed up like they have so many times before?
SKEPTICISM here is warranted. No one knows that more than us. This administration has failed to get a DACA deal, a gun overhaul, a Middle East peace deal, a comprehensive immigration accord and a health care package. These are all things the president promised. And all things that the deal-making president has fallen flat on.
JOE BIDEN in USA TODAY: “We must urgently root out systemic racism, from policing to housing to opportunity”
FROM 30,000 FEET -- “‘It means open season’: Under Trump, the Justice Department has largely stopped investigating police departments for systemic abuses,” by The Boston Globe’s Jess Bidgood and Jazmine Ulloa
Good Wednesday morning.
SPOTTED: Steven Mnuchin dining at Cafe Milano on Tuesday night with Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho). Mnuchin also stopped by the table of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). Bob Costa, Jon Karl and Bret Baier were also there chatting separately. Pic of Mnuchin … MyPillow CEO Michael Lindell exiting the 17th Street entrance of the White House without a mask Tuesday night.
REMEMBER, WE’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC … DAN DIAMOND: “White House goes quiet on coronavirus as outbreak spikes again across the U.S.”: “The coronavirus is still killing as many as 1,000 Americans per day — but the Trump administration isn’t saying much about it.
“It’s been more than a month since the White House halted its daily coronavirus task force briefings. Top officials like infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci have largely disappeared from national television — with Fauci making just four cable TV appearances in May after being a near fixture on Sunday shows across March and April — and are frequently restricted from testifying before Congress.
“Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is preparing to resume his campaign rallies after a three-month hiatus, an attempted signal to voters that normalcy is returning ahead of November’s election, and that he’s all but put the pandemic behind him. ...
“Inside the White House, top advisers like Jared Kushner privately assured colleagues last month that the outbreak was well in hand — citing data on declines in community spread — and that the long-feared ‘second wave’ may have even been averted, according to three current and former officials. However, new data from states like Florida and mass protests across the country are renewing concerns about the virus’ spread.
“Texas, for instance, has reported two straight days of record-breaking coronavirus hospitalizations — highs that come shortly after the state kicked off the third stage of its reopening plan.” POLITICO
-- “Coronavirus hospitalizations rise sharply in several states following Memorial Day,” by WaPo’s Samantha Pell, Candace Buckner and Jacqueline Dupree: “As the number of new coronavirus cases continues to increase worldwide, and more than a dozen states and Puerto Rico are recording their highest averages of new cases since the pandemic began, hospitalizations in at least nine states have been on the rise since Memorial Day.
“In Texas, North and South Carolina, California, Oregon, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah and Arizona, there are an increasing number of patients under supervised care since the holiday weekend because of coronavirus infections. The spikes generally began in the past couple weeks and in most states are trending higher.”
NYT, WHITE HOUSE MEMO … PETER BAKER: “Trump May Compare Himself to Nixon in 1968, but He Really Resembles Wallace”: “[I]f anything, Mr. Trump seems to be occupying the political lane held [in 1968] by George Wallace, the segregationist former governor of Alabama who ran as a third-party candidate to the right of Nixon. While he does not share Wallace’s extreme positions, Mr. Trump is running hard on a combative pro-police, anti-protester platform, appealing to Americans turned off by unrest in the streets.”
THE NUMBERS -- “Coronavirus Obliterated Best African-American Job Market on Record,” by WSJ’s Eric Morath and Amara Omeokwe: “The black unemployment rate, which at 5.8% in February was near the lowest since records began in 1972, tripled to 16.8% in May, according to the Labor Department.
“Even when unemployment was low, African-Americans’ overall economic situation was fragile. As a group, they had less job security and wealth than whites, leaving them especially vulnerable when the economy shut down. That now weighs on their prospects as the steepest economic contraction since the 1930s shows signs of turning. Historically, African-Americans’ recovery from recessions has been much slower than those of other groups.”
‘COMPLETE MELTDOWN’ IN GEORGIA … AJC: “Voting machines and coronavirus force long lines on Georgia voters,” by Mark Niesse: “Georgia’s primary quickly turned into an ordeal for voters who waited for hours Tuesday when it became clear officials were unprepared for an election on new voting computers during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Poll workers couldn’t get voting machines to work. Precincts opened late. Social-distancing requirements created long lines. Some voters gave up and went home. The primary was a major test of Georgia’s ability to run a highly anticipated election in a potential battleground state ahead of November’s presidential election, when more than twice as many voters are expected. Elections officials fell short.” The front page
-- AJC’S GREG BLUESTEIN: “Jon Ossoff built a commanding lead in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as polls began to close after a day of voting marred by long lines and faulty equipment, but it was not yet clear whether he would face a runoff.”
-- More on Tuesday’s primaries in Nevada and elsewhere
DAVID SIDERS: “Trump hits unexpected turbulence in Iowa”: “Iowa, once a model swing state, fell so hard for Donald Trump four years ago that 2020 seemed like a forgone conclusion. But in a sign of how Trump’s reelection prospects have weakened across the country, even the heartland may be having second thoughts.
“Since the start of the year, Democrats in Iowa have added about twice as many active voters to their rolls as Republicans, nudging ahead in total registration for the first time in years. The farm economy has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. And though Trump still holds a small lead in the state, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, he’s now airing TV advertisements there – a tacit acknowledgment that the campaign anticipates a contest.
“‘We were approaching “done” status — stick a fork in us,’ Sue Dvorsky, a former chairwoman of the Iowa Democratic Party, said of the party’s status after the 2016 election. Now, she said, ‘the worm is turning.’” POLITICO
NATIONAL MOOD -- CHRIS CADELAGO and MAYA KING: “As protests rage, more Democrats want Biden to pick woman of color as VP” … NYT’S KATIE GLUECK: “A Black Running Mate for Biden? More Democrats Are Making the Case”
POOL REPORT … BIDEN/KAMALA FUNDRAISER, via WaPo’s Matt Viser: “Biden started by saying that he knew Harris well – ‘She’s been a fighter and a principled leader and I know because I’ve seen her up close, and I’ve seen her in the trenches’ – and referenced the friendship that she had with his son Beau. He recalled seeing her once while coming out of his office when he taught at the University of Pennsylvania. ‘You said, “I love you, and I loved Beau,”’ Biden said. ‘I won’t forget that.’”
THE RNC CONVENTION -- “GOP expects to move its convention to Jacksonville after dispute with North Carolina over pandemic safeguards,” by WaPo’s Annie Linskey and Josh Dawsey: “Seeking a city willing to allow a large-scale event amid the coronavirus pandemic, Republicans have tentatively settled on Jacksonville, Fla., as the new destination for the premier festivities of the Republican National Convention in August, according to three Republican officials briefed on the plans.
“The details of the arrangement are still in flux and RNC aides are scrambling to determine whether the northern Florida city has enough hotel rooms to accommodate the quadrennial event, which typically kicks off the final stretch of the presidential campaign. Republican officials were in Jacksonville on Monday looking at the city and the surrounding areas.
“The convention’s more routine and lower-profile meetings still would take place in Charlotte, the original host site for the convention, according to two officials. Those smaller meetings are intended to honor the RNC’s contractual obligation to hold its convention in North Carolina and shield the party from lawsuits for moving the large events elsewhere.” WaPo
TRUMP’S WEDNESDAY -- The president has nothing on his public schedule.
-- KAYLEIGH MCENANY will hold a press briefing at 2 p.m.
PLAYBOOK READS
BACKSTORY … NYT’S MIKE GRYNBAUM: “One America News, the Network That Spreads Conspiracies to the West Wing”
EUGENE DANIELS: “Digging into the movement to defund the police”
NEW POLL: “Only 1 in 4 Americans see Donald Trump as a man of faith,” by Gabby Orr: “As President Donald Trump leans on religion to reconnect with his political base ahead of the November election, most Americans dismiss the notion that he himself is a man of faith.
“Only 27 percent of registered voters in a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll said they somewhat or strongly agree that Trump himself is religious, while 55 percent somewhat or strongly disagree. Among subgroups, just over a third of all Christians view the president as religious (50 percent do not), while 23 percent of Catholics and 18 percent of independents see him that way.
“Evangelicals were more likely to view Trump as religious: 40 percent said they agreed that he is, while 33 percent disagreed.” POLITICO
PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION -- “Virginia governor allows reopening of K-12 schools as soon as this summer,” by Nicole Gaudiano: “Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday said that the state will allow schools to slowly resume in-person classes this summer and in the fall. But school districts also will have discretion on how to implement Northam’s plans and may decide their schools will have additional restrictions, depending on local public health conditions. So, for example, schools in Northern Virginia worried about continued Covid-19 infections could decide to hold physical classes but also continue some remote learning.” POLITICO
MEDIAWATCH -- “Wall Street Journal Staff Faults Column on Race by Former Top Editor,” by NYT’s Marc Tracy: “Staff members of The Wall Street Journal sent a letter to newsroom leaders on Monday accusing the paper’s former editor in chief, Gerard Baker, who has been an editor at large at The Journal since leaving the top job in 2018, of violating rules that apply to those who work on the news side. …
“While Mr. Baker expresses opinions in a weekly column, called Editor at Large, The Journal had classified him as a member of the news division, just as it had during his five-and-a-half-year run as the editor in chief. On Tuesday, The Journal reassigned Mr. Baker, formally making him a member of the opinion staff, which is led by the editorial page editor, Paul A. Gigot, and is run separately from the news department.” NYT
PLAYBOOKERS
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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK -- Loren DeJonge Schulman is joining the Partnership for Public Service as VP of research, analysis and evaluation. She most recently was deputy director of studies and Leon E. Panetta senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and is an Obama NSC and Pentagon alum.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Dave Rufener of DOJ and Kristine Rufener, associate director of federal affairs for the American College of Cardiology, welcomed Wyatt Rufener on Saturday. Pic
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Ayesha Rascoe, NPR White House reporter. How she got started in journalism: “I’ve wanted to be a reporter since middle school. I wrote for my local newspaper’s teen section when I was in high school. They paid maybe $50 a story. I covered stories like a local teen barrel racing champion and teen cancer survivors.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Jeff Zeleny, CNN senior Washington correspondent, is 47 (h/t Mitchell Rivard) … Joe Trippi is 64 (h/t Jon Haber) … Dan McGrath ... Jim Wisley (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... James Rockas, deputy chief of staff at Commerce … former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is 49 … John Edwards is 67 … Eliot Spitzer is 61 … Jeff Greenfield is 77 … Stef Weiss … John DiBiase … former Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) is 57 … Carlos Elizondo … Chad Rhoades … Simon Marks … Ben DeMarzo is 32 … Hillary Vaughn … Land O’Lakes’ Michael Daniels, who welcomed daughter Vivienne last week, is 4-0 … Natalie Davis … NBC News’ Kate Snow is 51 … John Yoo … Ashley Montenegro … Matt Lopez, deputy press secretary for Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) … Tyler Norris … Prince Philip is 99 ...
… Shannon Pettypiece, senior White House reporter for NBC News Digital … Sasha Obama is 19 … Kaylin Trychon, VP at Rokk Solutions (h/t Lindsay Singleton) ... Meredith Carden, head of news integrity partnerships at Facebook (h/t Tucker Bounds) ... Jennifer Donnelly, program associate at the Aspen Institute ... Edelman’s Matthew Streit ... Rob Morello is 33 … David O’Brien, director of strategic comms at the National Association of Manufacturers, is 34 ... Paula J. Burris … WSJ’s Corinne Ramey … Nicole Hager ... Uber’s Cameron Foxgrover ... Daryn Iwicki ... Shirlethia Franklin, partner at Jones Day ... Thomas Showalter ... Al Mottur is 53 … POLITICO’s Javier Ruiz and Shannon Lambert … Semonti Stephens ... Charmion Kinder … Pete Slover ... Chris Merriman is 31 ... Teryn Norris
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