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THE BANNON intvw intrigue: what was he doing? -- WHAT TRIGGERS TRUMP'south temper -- KELLY 'dismayed' -- FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Sessions remarks in N.C. -- B'DAY: Ron Bonjean

Good Thursday morn. BANNON SPEAKS … Ii Steve Bannon interviews in the concluding 48 or and so hours.

-- NYT: "Trump's Encompass of Racially Charged Past Puts Republicans in Crisis," past Jeremy Peters, Jonathan Martin and Jack Healy: "Stephen K. Bannon, the president's primary strategist, said in an interview that if Democrats want to fight over Confederate monuments and attack Mr. Trump equally a bigot, that was a fight the president would win. 'President Trump, past asking, 'Where does this all end' — Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln — connects with the American people about their history, culture and traditions,' he said. 'The race-identity politics of the left wants to say it'southward all racist,' Mr. Bannon added. 'Just give me more. Tear down more statues. Say the revolution is coming. I can't go enough of information technology.'" http://nyti.ms/2fN5ShN

-- THE BIG WHAMMY -- READ THIS: "Steve Bannon, Unrepentant: Trump'south embattled strategist phones me, unbidden, to opine on China, Korea, and his enemies in the administration," by Robert Kuttner in the American Prospect: "Needless to say, I was a piffling stunned to get an electronic mail from Bannon'southward assistant midday Tuesday, but as all hell was breaking loose once again about Charlottesville, saying that Bannon wished to meet with me. I'd simply published a column on how Red china was profiting from the U.S.-Democratic people's republic of korea nuclear brinkmanship, and it included some choice words about Bannon's boss. ...

"Far from dressing me down for comparison Trump to Kim, he began, 'Information technology's a great honor to finally track y'all downwards. I've followed your writing for years and I recall you and I are in the aforementioned boat when information technology comes to People's republic of china. You absolutely nailed it.' 'We're at economic state of war with China,' he added. 'It's in all their literature. They're not shy virtually maxim what they're doing. One of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years and it's gonna exist them if we go downwards this path. On Korea, they're just tapping us along. It's only a sideshow.' ...

"Reverse to Trump's threat of burn and fury, Bannon said: 'There'south no armed services solution [to North Korea's nuclear threats], forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what yous're talking nigh, there's no military solution here, they got u.s.a..' …

"'I'm changing out people at E Asian Defense; I'm getting hawks in. I'm getting Susan Thornton [acting head of East Asian and Pacific Affairs] out at State.' Only can Bannon really win that fight internally? 'That's a fight I fight every day here,' he said. 'Nosotros're even so fighting. In that location's Treasury and [National Economic Quango chair] Gary Cohn and Goldman Sachs lobbying.' …

"I asked Bannon most the connection between his program of economic nationalism and the ugly white nationalism epitomized past the racist violence in Charlottesville and Trump's reluctance to condemn information technology. … He dismissed the far correct every bit irrelevant and sidestepped his ain role in cultivating it: 'Ethno-nationalism—it'south losers. Information technology's a fringe chemical element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta assistance crush information technology, yous know, uh, assist vanquish information technology more than.' 'These guys are a drove of clowns,' he added." http://bit.ly/2w4q0lW

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OK, Allow'S REVIEW. This is super juicy. BANNON dumped on colleagues and contradicted the president on Democratic people's republic of korea. There are two positions here: Axios's Jonathan Swan writes Bannon did not know he was giving an interview. @jonathanvswan: "You might read some takes tomorrow saying Bannon is playing 5D chess & this was part of a devious strategy. Those takes will be incorrect." ( Read Swan's piece for more than http://bit.ly/2i9eMqL). Bannon has told people he did not believe this was an on-the-record phone call. Kuttner, who wrote the piece, said he and Bannon never discussed it being off the tape. Generally speaking, that's a conversation you take if yous desire your remarks kept individual. To believe Bannon is to believe that he was caught off guard after calling the reporter, forgot the rules of conventional journalism or believed a left-wing reporter would keep his incendiary remarks individual.

-- THE ALTERNATE VIEW: Bannon is an incredibly savvy political operator who talks to reporters all the time, and did these interviews for some reason. Yes, Bannon, who is a peak adviser to the president who harps on leaking, is constantly gabbing with journalists. He gave two interviews over the form of roughly 48 hours. His job was on the line, and then he found himself aligned with the president over protests in the due south. He used the Prospect to dump on Gary Cohn, the president's economic adviser, with whom he has clashed, and to get his views heard on China. Whatever his motivation was, he felt like he should dial upwards some reporters and get his accept out there.

THE Big PICTURE -- MIKE SHEAR, MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH: "The president's height advisers described themselves as stunned, despondent and numb. Several said they were unable to run across how Mr. Trump's presidency would recover, and others expressed doubts about his capacity to do the job. In dissimilarity, the president told shut aides that he felt liberated by his news conference. Aides said he seemed to bask afterward in his remarks, and viewed them as the latest retort to the political institution that he sees every bit trying to tame his impulses. Mr. Trump'southward venting on Tuesday came despite pleas from his staff, including his girl Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. ...

"Mr. Bannon, whose time to come in the White House remains uncertain, has been encouraging Mr. Trump to remain defiant. Two White House officials who have been trying to moderate the president'south position suggested that Mr. Bannon was using the crisis as a manner to get back in the proficient graces of the president, who has soured on Mr. Bannon's internal machinations and reputation for leaking stories near West Wing rivals to conservative news media outlets. Many in the White House said they nevertheless held on to the hope, however slim, that the new White House master of staff, John F. Kelly, could impose order on the disarray fifty-fifty as Mr. Trump hopscotches from one self-destructive episode to the next. Mr. Kelly, who watched the president'southward functioning on Tuesday with his caput hung low, grimacing at some of Mr. Trump's remarks, is frustrated, according to people inside the White House." http://nyti.ms/2i7LnwM

THE PRESIDENT at 6:nineteen a.1000.: "Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists.........and people similar Ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie. He just can't forget his ballot trouncing.The people of South Carolina will remember!"

-- WE NEVER Actually hear Graham talk about the presidential principal, which he dropped out of nearly ii years ago (Dec. 2015). Besides: Graham won his concluding election by xv points, and won his last primary by 41 points.

-- NANCY COOK and JOSH DAWSEY: "'In some means, Trump would rather have people calling him racist than say he backed down the minute he was wrong,' one adviser to the White House said on Wed nearly Charlottesville. 'This may turn into the biggest mess of his presidency because he is stubborn and doesn't realize how bad this is getting.' For Trump, anger serves equally a way to manage staff, limited his displeasure or simply as an outlet that soothes him. Often, aides and advisers say, he'll get mad at a specific staffer or broader state of affairs, unload from the Oval Part and then three hours later human action as if zippo ever occurred even if others still feel rattled by information technology. Negative idiot box coverage and lawyers earn particular ire from him. White Firm officials and breezy advisers say the triggers for his atmosphere are if he thinks someone is lying to him, if he's caught past surprise, if someone criticizes him, or if someone stops him from trying to practice something or seeks to control him." http://politi.co/2wbZSWB

More FALLOUT -- "Mitch McConnell's secret fury over Charlottesville response highlights GOP's Trump dilemma," past Us Today's Heidi Przybyla: "At that place was a reason why it took Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell an unabridged night to reply to President Trump'due south cluttered news conference equating counter protesters with the Nazis they came to resist. He was livid. Two sources close to the senator, speaking under condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said the pro-civil rights Republican who lived through the 1960s in Kentucky closely deliberated on the best way frontward." https://usat.ly/2x5LTyj

-- WHAT MNUCHIN THINKS, per Bloomberg's Saleha Mohsin, Justin Sink, and Margaret Talev: "As Treasury Department aides filtered in for a routine meeting on Midweek, at that place was one main event to be discussed: Secretary Steven Mnuchin does not stand up with Donald Trump on the topic of neo-Nazis. Mnuchin, like other officials, had no idea the president would inflame the Charlottesville controversy by equating white supremacists to counter-protesters, the staff was told, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

"He stood beside Trump at the president'southward news conference in New York, the one that devolved into a shouting match with reporters over race, but not with the intent of endorsing his remarks on the effect. And now the message was that it'due south fourth dimension to move on. The team was encouraged to wait beyond the chaos of the past several days and instead focus on advancing Trump's economic calendar, the ii people said." https://bloom.bg/2w4vj4Q

-- "Former CIA director slams Trump's 'despicable' comments in letter to CNN anchor," by CNN's Zachary Cohen: "Former CIA manager John Brennan slammed President Donald Trump's 'dangerous' and 'ugly' comments on the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia -- writing a personal letter of the alphabet to CNN's Wolf Blitzer after 'The Situation Room' anchor spoke publicly most the fact that he lost all 4 grandparents to the evils of Nazism. … 'If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will practice lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world. By his words and his actions, Mr. Trump is putting our national security and our collective futures at grave risk.'" With the whole letter http://cnn.it/2uRYRid

--"Apple tree's Tim Cook 'disagrees' with Donald Trump's take on neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville," by Recode's Tony Romm and Kara Swisher: "Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wed called for an 'unequivocal' denouncement of the contempo neo-Nazi sit-in in Charlottesville, Virginia, stressing he disagreed with comments by President Donald Trump that attributed the violence there to 'many sides' — and not white supremacists. In a note to Apple'south employees, obtained Midweek night by Recode, Cook likewise announced the company would donate $one million each to the Southern Poverty Police force Centre and the Anti-Defamation League. Apple plans to match its employees donations to human rights groups -- on a 2-for-ane basis -- until Sept thirty, while setting up a new system in iTunes, its music software, to 'offer users an easy manner to bring together us in directly supporting the work of the SPLC,' Cook said." http://flake.ly/2w4TUXi

-- YASHAR ALI: "Rabbi That Oversaw Ivanka Trump's Conversion to Judaism Slams Trump on Charlottesville Response" http://nym.ag/2fNDCeS

NEW STRIKING Fourth dimension Cover – The magazine devotes its issue to a special written report on Charlottesville, with essays by Nancy Gibbs, Eddie Southward. Glaude Jr., John Grisham, Jon Meacham, Ilhan Omar, and Tavis Smiley. The cover shows a figure wearing an American flag giving a Nazi salute. See the cover: http://bit.ly/2uJpFp1

-- MICHAEL SCHERER will exist on "Morn Joe" this morning at 7:40 a.m. to hash out the embrace story.

THE COMING BATTLE -- @CoryBooker: "I volition be introducing a pecker to remove Confederate statues from the Us Capitol building. This is just one step. We have much work to do."

COMING ATTRACTIONS -- "House Homeland Security Committee to hold hearing on domestic terror threats later on Charlottesville," by Washington Examiner'due south Josh Siegel: "Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Commission, appear Wednesday his panel volition host a hearing adjacent month focused on domestic terrorism threats, including that of white supremacist groups, following the weekend clash in Charlottesville at a rally organized by white nationalist groups. The Sept. 12 hearing was previously scheduled equally part of an annual review of worldwide terrorist threats. But McCaul, R-Texas, said the hearing will be broadened to also address domestic threats." http://washex.am/2i906I4

WAPO'S ASHLEY PARKER and BOB COSTA on JOHN KELLY -- "Trump'southward lack of discipline leaves new principal of staff frustrated and dismayed": "The uproar -- which has consumed non but the White House but the Republican Party -- left Kelly deeply frustrated and dismayed but over two weeks into his job, said people familiar with his thinking. The episode likewise underscored the difficult challenges that fifty-fifty a four-star general faces in instilling a sense of guild effectually Trump, whose beginning instinct when cornered is to lash out, even self-destructively. …

"This portrait of the White House under Kelly comes from interviews with 17 Due west Wing aides, informal advisers, Republican lawmakers and Trump confidants, many speaking on the status of anonymity to offering a more candid assessment….Kelly has largely improved staff morale, and implemented a rigor and order that has made West Wing aides experience both more than optimistic and less mistrustful of one some other, several White House aides said. …

"Kelly has transformed the West Wing from a political Grand Fundamental Station — with aides and hangers-on cycling through the Oval Function — into an bodily place of business. One outside adviser recalls stopping past the White House to say hello to his friends on days he had free time. Under Kelly, he said, approvingly, 'If you lot're coming, now it's, 'Why are you coming? Who are you lot coming to run into? And why does the White Firm care near what you have to say?'' …

"Late concluding week in Bedminster, he gathered at Trump's clubhouse restaurant for a relaxed, social dinner with the senior staff members. … As they reminisced about the entrada and told jokes, Kelly offered a quip. 'The best job I ever had was equally a sergeant in the Marine Corps,' he said with a laugh, 'and later on ane week on this job, I believe the best chore I ever had is as a sergeant in the Marine Corps.'" http://wapo.st/2wcJWU6

NYT'South MIKE SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZO: "Trump Lawyer Forward E-mail Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric": "President Trump'due south personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an e-mail to conservative journalists, authorities officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter "has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups."

"The electronic mail forwarded by John Dowd, who is leading the president's legal team, painted the Confederate general Robert East. Lee in glowing terms and equated the S'due south rebellion to that of the American Revolution confronting England. Its subject field line — 'The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville' — was a reference to comments Mr. Trump made earlier this week in the aftermath of protests in the Virginia college town. 'You cannot be confronting General Lee and exist for Full general Washington,' the email reads, 'there literally is no divergence between the ii men.' …

"'You're sticking your nose in my personal email?' Mr. Dowd told The Times in a cursory telephone interview. 'People ship me things. I forward them.' He and then hung upwardly." … The email's author, Jerome Almon, runs several websites alleging regime conspiracies and arguing that the F.B.I. has been infiltrated by Islamic terrorists. He once unsuccessfully sued the State Section for $900 million over claims of discrimination." http://nyti.ms/2vLd8OX

WHAT TRUMP IS READING -- "Republican Congressman Meets With WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange," past Daily Caller's Alex Pfeiffer: "After TheDC broke the news of the meeting, Rohrabacher put out a statement in which he said Assange 'emphatically stated that the Russians were non involved in the hacking or disclosure of [Hillary Clinton'due south] emails.' The iii met for three hours and Rohrabacher is the first congressman to take visited the WikiLeaks founder. A press release from the California congressman's office stated that Rohrabacher 'plans to divulge more of what he institute directly to President Trump.'" http://bit.ly/2fMsDSS

--We HAD HEARD before this week that Rohrabacher was planning on trying to see up with Assange. When we emailed his spokesman Ken Grubbs to ask what Rohrabacher was going to do in London, he told us on Monday night: "[H]e's on his way to meet up with his married woman to celebrate their 20th anniversary."

NIMBY -- "Mayors taking swift action to avoid becoming the next Charlottesville," by WaPo'southward Janell Ross, Mark Berman and Joel Achenbach: "City officials beyond the country are nervously trying to effigy out how to avoid becoming the next Charlottesville equally alt-correct leaders and white nationalist groups vow to stage more rallies in coming days. A group claiming it is advocating gratis voice communication has planned a rally for Saturday on the historic Boston Common, with a grouping advocating racial justice planning its own gathering in opposition. Boston officials said they have laid down strict atmospheric condition, including no sticks, weapons or backpacks. … A rally scheduled for Aug. 26 in San Francisco has prompted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D) and several California lawmakers to urge the National Park Service to rescind the permit to get together on federal park land in that location." http://wapo.st/2i8kEjL

-- PHOENIX MAYOR WANTS TRUMP TO DELAY -- by Arizona Republic's Yvonne Wingett Sanchez: "Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton wrote in a argument Wednesday he was disappointed to larn of Trump'south visit so close to the violent events in Charlottesville. The mayor chosen on Trump to filibuster the visit. 'If President Trump is coming to Phoenix to announce a pardon for erstwhile Sheriff Joe Arpaio, then it will be clear that his truthful intent is to inflame emotions and farther separate our nation,' the statement said." http://bit.ly/2w1CI4N

SCOOP -- "Trump Set to Roll Dorsum Obama-Era Contraception Dominion," by WSJ's Michelle Hackman and Louise Radnofsky: "The Trump administration is poised to issue a rule unwinding an Obama-era requirement that employee health benefits include contraception, which will spark a fresh round of litigation over an effect that has been before courts for half dozen years. Federal health officials are expected to finalize a regulation that would allow employers with religious or moral objections to birth command to omit coverage for contraception from their workers' plans … The Trump administration dominion would let a much broader set of employers to opt out of offer coverage for nascency control, making moot a 'workaround' designed by the Obama administration that allowed women in some cases to obtain coverage fifty-fifty if their employers had declined to offer it directly." http://on.wsj.com/2i8MgFH

Offset IN PLAYBOOK – WHAT A.Grand. JEFF SESSIONS Will SAY TODAY -- Sessions is speaking near gang violence today at xi:30 a.m. to local and federal law enforcement from North Carolina at the Gangs Beyond the Carolinas Training Symposium in Winston-Salem, Due north Carolina: "Co-ordinate to the FBI'south well-nigh recent National Gang Study, approximately half of the gang investigators they surveyed said that gang membership and gang activity were increasing. Approximately one third of jurisdictions reported an increment in threats to law enforcement. ... Whether it is MS-thirteen, the Bloods, or Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs, gangs are targeting our youth and police force-abiding citizens. But I have news for these vicious criminals: WE ARE TARGETING YOU. ...

"President Trump is serious about supporting our state and local police force enforcement. That is why he sent my Department three executive orders when I took part. One directs the states to exist supportive of law enforcement. A second declared that our mission is to reduce crime. And the 3rd requires us to dismantle transnational criminal organizations. These are our goals and nosotros are getting later on them. ... Since the beginning of this yr, the Department of Justice has secured more than than i,200 convictions against gang members. ... Nosotros will not allow upwards. We will combat this threat, take the fight to them, and devastate these criminal enterprises. I decline to cede ane more block, one more street corner, one more inch to these gangs."

FOR YOUR RADAR -- REUTERS: "Communist china military criticizes 'incorrect' U.S. moves on Taiwan, South China Sea: "The 'incorrect' deportment of the United States on Taiwan, its Due south China Ocean patrols and deployment of an avant-garde anti-missile organisation in Republic of korea have had a large, negative influence on military trust, a senior Chinese officer said on Thursday. Fan Changlong, a vice chairman of China's powerful Primal Military machine Committee, told Joseph Dunford, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, that mutual trust mechanisms between the ii militaries had continued to improve, People's republic of china's defense ministry said. 'Just wrong actions on the Taiwan issue, the United States deploying the THAAD system around Cathay, U.Southward. ships and aircraft'south activities in the Due south China Bounding main, the United States close-in surveillance in the bounding main and air near People's republic of china have had a large, negative influence on bilateral military ties and mutual trust,' Fan added." http://reut.rs/2uScduN

Greenbacks DASH -- "Lawmakers raise greenbacks off Trump-Russia probe," past Austin Wright and Darren Samuelsohn: "Rep. Eric Swalwell's campaign website features ominous photos of President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner. Information technology warns virtually Russia's attacks on last twelvemonth'due south presidential election and asks visitors to sign a petition demanding that a bipartisan commission investigate. Those who sign are and so asked to contribute $5, $10, $25 or more than to the California Democrat. Swalwell is one of the inferior members of the House Intelligence Commission, which has long had an unspoken rule against engaging in partisan fundraising related to the console'due south secretive work.

"Just the panel'south high-contour Russia investigation is at present putting that rule to the test, and experts are alarm that some committee members' contempo appeals for entrada cash could undermine everyone's credibility. … Fundraising appeals from Intelligence Committee members have so far avoided detailed references to the panel'due south investigation, but there is undoubtedly a connection. And these fundraising appeals come as exterior groups, including some with ties to the Trump administration, are capitalizing on the highly charged result to bolster their ain war chests." http://politi.co/2uSeLsQ

BEHIND THE SCENES -- "The 48 Frantic Hours Before CEOs Broke With Trump," by Bloomberg's Melissa Mittelman, Jennifer Kaplan, Jing Cao and Zachary Tracer: https://bloom.bg/2vL2Z4Q

Like A PHOENIX -- "Rahm Emanuel rehabs his national profile," by Natasha Korecki and Kristen East: "Rahm Emanuel's bungling of the Laquan McDonald shooting case in 2015 and then sunk his stature with the African-American community, Hillary Clinton wouldn't be seen with him during her campaign stops in his city. With one crisis of violence in minority neighborhoods and another with police section morale, he had all merely been silenced on national politics. But eighteen months after fighting off resignation calls and protests in the streets, the Chicago mayor has rediscovered his national voice — and with Donald Trump in the White House, he'south equally emboldened as ever to use it. He's on CNN. He'southward on The New York Times' op-ed pages. He'south dispensing advice to tiptop House Democrats on national campaign strategy. He'southward jetting off to Milan and London to forge mayoral alliances while brashly picking fights with New York. The biggest headlines have come from Emanuel's decision to become the first big-city mayor to legally challenge Trump's immigration policies." http://politi.co/2x6J8ws

MEDIAWATCH -- "Jennifer Steinhauer Named Editor of Live Journalism/D.C." at the New York Times http://bit.ly/2w4sa4S

NYT BRINGS EVENTS TO D.C. -- "The New York Times appear today that its celebrated TimesTalks effect serial will aggrandize into the arena of politics, policy and current events with a provocative three-part series this fall in Washington D.C. TimesTalks/D.C. will feature Times journalists as they explore the most pressing issues of the day in conversations with leaders who are shaping our globe. The inaugural event will characteristic a conversation between Firm Speaker Paul Ryan and The Times's deputy Washington editor Jonathan Weisman on tax policy reform discussions in Congress and the legislative calendar. Speaker Ryan will provide insight on his party strategy and goals. This TimesTalks/D.C. chat will take place the morn of Thursday, September 7 at the Newseum." http://politi.co/2uLgLar

PLAYBOOK INBOX -- Richard Viguerie, "A call to activity re Steve Bannon": "Dear Conservative Leader: The entrada against our friend and boyfriend bourgeois Steve Bannon has reached a fever pitch, and it is urgent that yous join me in letting President Trump know just how deeply it would divide his winning coalition if he were to cave-in to those who wish to derail his agenda by removing Steve Bannon from the White House staff. … I believe that the campaign to remove Steve Bannon from the White Firm staff is function of a well-idea-out effort to isolate the President from his bourgeois – populist base, stymie our bourgeois – populist agenda and to make Donald Trump a 1-term President." The full alphabetic character http://politi.co/2vLDPDo

-- ANN SELZER emails: "I'g writing to let you know that after eight years of working exclusively with Bloomberg on their national political polling, my house is now bachelor to work with other clients equally Bloomberg takes a hiatus for this off-election year. This is not necessarily a permanent arrangement. Nosotros both like each other and foresee we will work on projects together once again one twenty-four hours. This means I can accept on new polling-related projects, collaborations, and consultative relationships with clients that were not possible while I held an exclusive arrangement with Bloomberg News. If you or someone you lot know might be interested in working with me, please exist in touch on."

VALLEY TALK -- "Apple Readies $i Billion War Chest for Hollywood Programming," by WSJ'south Tripp Mickle: "Apple has set a budget of roughly $1 billion to procure and produce original content over the side by side twelvemonth, according to people familiar with the matter—a sign of how serious the maker of iPhones is virtually making a splash in Hollywood. Combined with the company's marketing clout and global reach, the step immediately makes Apple a considerable competitor in a crowded marketplace, where both new and traditional media players are vying for original shows. … Apple could larn and produce as many as 10 television shows." http://on.wsj.com/2w4rOeH

SPOTTED enjoying Midweek afternoon's Nationals game together: Kelly Simpson, Dave Natonski, Brent Robertson, Charlie Keller, Alex Schriver, and Matt Haller.

OUT AND ABOUT – Pool report: "The British Diplomatic mission opened its doors yesterday to over 200 soccer football fanatics for a live recording of this season'southward inaugural 'Men in Blazers' podcast, a show which 'aims to enlighten the masses to the wildly entertaining earth of soccer.' At the event, which sold out to the public in x minutes, the Men In Blazers hosts Roger Bennett and Michael Davies sat down with CBS'south Major Garrett, CNN's Chris Cillizza and British Ambassador Kim Darroch to talk soccer, the start of the Premier League season concluding weekend (which is jubilant its 25th ceremony) and the British brand's popularity in Washington, where it has been ane of the acme local markets for Premier League coverage on NBC Sports over the past few years."

TRANSITIONS -- America Showtime Action, a pro-Trump super PAC, has named Corey Lewandowski as a senior adviser and a spokesman. … Bustle has named political strategist Karine Jean-Pierre as a contributing editor. Jean-Pierre is the senior adviser and national spokesperson for MoveOn.org.

-- PELOSI WORLD: Henry Connelly has been named as deputy communications director for Firm Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Connelly is currently director of speechwriting. He is a graduate of Yale and an alum of former Rep. Janice Hahn's role.

ENGAGED – Jeff Grappone, who works in corporate communications at Siemens USA, on Tuesday proposed to Amy Graham, who works in public affairs at the EPA. "Amy and Jeff met in 2012 at the Vice Presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky. She was part of the Romney campaign'due south surrogate performance and Jeff was there with Sen. Kelly Ayotte. Amy and Jeff became instant friends at the debate and started dating in 2015. Jeff proposed on Siasconset Embankment in Nantucket and they celebrated at dinner in town with friends before finishing the night at the Social club Car's piano bar." Pic http://fleck.ly/2w4n5tm

-- Aaron Wells, a partner at The Smoot Tewes Group, got engaged this past weekend to Beth Florence, a nurse at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. Aaron proposed at their alma mater, Augsburg University, followed by a celebration with family and friends in Minnesota. Pics http://politi.co/2x6V3dR ... http://politi.co/2uLibBH

Birthday OF THE DAY: Ron Bonjean, partner at Rokk Solutions, celebrating with his "folks (my dad and I share the aforementioned birthday) at The Good Pants Ranch." A fun fact nigh Ron: "In higher, I was the journalist for the Milwaukee County Zoo'south Dolphin and Sea Lion Testify. I still have about of the script memorized since we did it 5 shows a day, 7 days a week all summer long." Read his Playbook Plus Q&A: http://politi.co/2wSCdIb

BIRTHDAYS: Glen Caplin, senior adviser for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ... former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) is 68 ... Politico's Alexis Williams ... Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) is 77. He'south celebrating by discussing U.S. energy policy with a bipartisan group of colleagues at an Aspen Institute conference (h/t Sawyer Hackett) ... Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) is 54 ... Jamie Smith, global chief communications officer for the BitFury Group, is 4-0. She's celebrating with "a true throw dorsum Thursday with the kids: Six Flags America (weather condition permitting). Lincoln Rose (4) and Elijah James (2) are thrilled to experience sun (or rain) with their mommy on her very special birthday" (hubby tip: Eric Pierce) ... Ali Deckard ... IJR CTO Carl Sceusa is 27 (h/t Anton Vuljaj) ... Elyse Cohen of the U.S. Bedchamber Foundation and a Michelle Obama alum ... Leah Nelson of Sunshine Sachs (h/t Clare Tonneson) ... Derek McGinty ... Sabrina Leigh Schaeffer, VP at the Herald Group ... Mike Buczkiewicz, senior producer at "Forenoon Joe" ... Josh Dubois is 35 … Chris Golden ... Sonali Dohale … David Kusnet, former White House speechwriter and principal at the Podesta Group (h/t Jon Haber) ... HuffPost's Elise Foley ... Mark Molaro ... Aaron Kinnari …

... Matt Mittenthal, director of comms for BuzzFeed News ... Carlee Griffeth, O'Malley/SCDP alum who now does comms for Rep. Kurt Schrader, "celebrating the end of being on her parents' health care plan #ThanksObama. She'll be feted by friends after work at Cantina Marina." (h/t Matt Corridoni) … Tyler Nickerson … Alyson Chadwick ... Eric Stark ... Indonesia turns 72 on its Independence Day ... Monica Fernandez ... Carlee Griffeth ... Ashley Harris ... Nick Hawatmeh ... Laura DeSimone … Andrea McCarthy … Kevin Lillard ... Kate Gladney … Boston Globe'due south Eric Moskowitz … Margie Glick … Yousef Saba ... Mandy Matti ... King Babin ... John Hayes, the pride of Cedar Falls, Iowa … Suzy Loftus ... Nancy Kirshner ... Robyn Garnett ... Diane Shust ... Ken Bailey ... Michael Change (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Ken Bailey ... Alan Bowser ... Maegan Carberry ... Kate Stacy ... Kevin Mack ... Mary Lou Foy ... Lisa Stickan ... Greg Potato ... Michael Kraft ... former Chinese president Jiang Zemin is 91 ... author V.S. Naipaul is 85 ... Robert DeNiro is 74 ... author Jonathan Franzen is 58 ... Sean Penn is 57 (h/ts AP)

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Source: https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2017/08/17/the-bannon-intvw-intrigue-what-was-he-doing-what-triggers-trumps-temper-kelly-dismayed-first-in-playbook-sessions-remarks-in-nc-bday-ron-bonjean-221915

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