| | | | | |  | | By Rachael Bade, Tara Palmeri, Eugene Daniels and Ryan Lizza | Presented by |  | | | | | |  | DRIVING THE DAY | | Over the next 48 hours, the fates of two Republican women will be decided for diametrically opposite reasons. One, for espousing dangerous conspiracy theories and endorsing violence against Democratic members of Congress. The other, for daring to impeach DONALD TRUMP for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 riot. Both of these women are expected by their Republican peers to grovel for their sins (real or imagined), which says a ton about the state of the Republican Party right now. And it ain't pretty. ON ONE SIDE, QAnon conspiracy theorist-turned-Rep. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.) has made racist comments, questioned the veracity of school shootings and endorsed the idea of harming Democrats. This week, she's been doing something of a tap dance, making an 11th-hour attempt at just enough damage control to save her committee seats while also warning Republicans not to mess with her. On the damage-control front: Greene has scrubbed her social media posts, and she contacted the mother of one of the 17 people killed in the Parkland school shooting to tell her she didn't believe the tragedy was a hoax (which Greene had previously suggested). At the same time, Greene has advertised Trump's support for her — a not-so-subtle hint to the GOP (and House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY?) to back off. THEN THERE'S REP. LIZ CHENEY (R-Wyo.), who faces a reckoning at a fuller GOP Conference meeting Wednesday after voting her conscience to condemn Trump. Republicans appear to be chiding Cheney more than Greene, which tells you what you need to know about the current GOP — who effectively runs it (initials DJT) and what its priorities are. SO WHAT WILL MCCARTHY DO? His own leadership team doesn't seem to know, per multiple calls we made Monday night. But here's what we gleaned from our reporting … — On Greene, McCarthy's office is considering possible rebukes. But there's also wariness of punishing a member for something she said before she got to Congress. McCarthy has indicated he wants Greene to show contrition when he meets with her this week. But does this mean going on TV to recant all the conspiracies and harmful words she's espoused? We'll see. — On Cheney, we hear McCarthy is eager for his conference to move on. It's unclear whether he'll ask his No. 3 to apologize for her vote (though Trump supporters certainly will). Expect McCarthy to steer the conversation toward the promise of a Republican takeover of the House in 2022 — and how a prolonged focus on Cheney instead of JOE BIDEN'S agenda will hurt that cause. Cheney, meanwhile, has been reaching out to rank-and-file lawmakers ahead of her sit-down with McCarthy, sources tell us. We hear she won't apologize for her vote to impeach but will listen to the frustrations of fellow Republicans. Tone will be critical here. | | A message from the American Beverage Association: At America's beverage companies our plastic bottles are made to be remade. We're carefully designing them to be 100% recyclable, including the caps—so every bottle can become a new one. That means less plastic waste in our environment. Please help us get Every Bottle Back. EveryBottleBack.org | | | Imagine, however, if the GOP strips Cheney of her leadership post and doesn't touch Greene. Democrats would have a field day. And Republicans would be tagged as the party of QAnon for the long haul. — As if McCarthy weren't in enough of a management pickle, Senate Minority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL weighed in on the House GOP's personnel matters in a pair of strongly worded statements Monday. One got Cheney's back, describing her as a "a leader with deep convictions and the courage to act on them." The other denounced Greene without naming her, calling the embrace of "loony lies and conspiracy theories" a "cancer for the Republican Party." MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION? — It might not matter if McCarthy decides to allow Greene to keep her committee posts. As our Hill team scooped, House Majority Leader STENY HOYER delivered an ultimatum to McCarthy on Monday: If he doesn't strip Greene from her committees, Democrats will hold a vote to do it themselves. But can we just pause for a moment to say how extraordinary it is for one party to dictate how the other party handles its committee assignments? Yes, Greene has said some really crazy stuff. But members on both sides are already privately talking about how this could set the House down the path of mutually assured destruction, with one party going directly after members of the other depending on which side's in power. It would be a different story if Greene had said the things she did while in office; her most controversial utterances were from before she arrived in Congress. So why are they doing this? Democratic leaders had been facing the possibility that their members would force a vote to expel Greene from Congress — an idea they privately shunned. Clearly leadership has decided this is the least destructive alternative. But make no mistake: It will have consequences for them, too. AOC SPEAKS ABOUT THE RIOT — The New York congresswoman offered a deeply personal and emotional account of the Capitol attack on Instagram Live on Monday. For an hour-and-a-half, she denounced GOP calls to move on, accused Republicans of failing to take responsibility, and disclosed she was a survivor of sexual assault, saying it made her "struggle with the idea of being believed." "How I felt was: Not again," she said. "I'm not going to let this happen again." More from Matthew Choi | | | | A message from the American Beverage Association:   Every Bottle Back is one way we're driving solutions together. Starting another 100 years with a new look, American Beverage will continue with our shared leadership. Ameribev.org | | | BIDEN'S TUESDAY — The president and VP KAMALA HARRIS will receive the President's Daily Brief at 9:45 a.m. Biden will sign immigration-focused executive orders at 5 p.m. in the Oval Office, with Harris attending. Harris will swear in DHS Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS at 5:30 p.m. — Press secretary JEN PSAKI will brief at 1:30 p.m. — AND LOOK WHAT'S BACK: The State Department is resuming its daily press briefings — a tradition that largely withered under the Trump administration — starting today at 2 p.m. | | | | TRACK FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: The Biden administration hit the ground running with a series of executive orders his first week in office and continues to outline priorities on key issues. 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PHOTO OF THE DAY: President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris talk Covid relief with GOP senators in the White House on Monday. | Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images | THE WHITE HOUSE — ABOUT THAT BIDEN-GOP HUDDLE … There are more reasons to be skeptical of a bipartisan Covid relief deal after Monday. Yes, Biden and the 10 GOP senators both seemed to enjoy their two hours (!) together in the West Wing. But Biden showed no interest in backing off his $1.9 trillion plan — or, implicitly, using reconciliation to pass it. "He will not slow down work on this urgent crisis response and will not settle for a package that fails to meet the moment," Psaki said afterward. Our "Master of the Senate" Burgess Everett has more here. Tyler Pager, Laura Barrón-López and Anita Kumar pick up the story from the WH beat … "Joe Biden was eager to meet with Republican senators Monday to discuss Covid relief legislation. But the show of bipartisanship is likely to be just that — a show. "Monday's meeting at the White House was an early indicator that Biden's team views outreach to Republicans as a willingness to talk, not necessarily a commitment to making major concessions. The meeting, which included Vice President Kamala Harris, was in line with Biden's campaign pledge to try to work across the aisle. But it did not have the feel of serious, substantive give-and-take so much as a chance to explain current postures." — As NYT's @ShaneGoldmacher put it, "Rahm for everything": "Biden administration eyes Rahm Emanuel for ambassadorship," NBC: "President Joe Biden is considering former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for a high-profile ambassadorship, potentially to China, three people with knowledge of the discussions said. Becoming the U.S. ambassador to Japan is another option that Biden administration officials have discussed with Emanuel, one of the people with knowledge of the discussions said." POLITICS WATCH Alex Isenstadt on Monday night scooped the autopsy that Trump's pollster performed on his election loss — and it was actually conducted on Planet Earth. "The post-mortem, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, says the former president suffered from voter perception that he wasn't honest or trustworthy and that he was crushed by disapproval of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. And while Trump spread baseless accusations of ballot-stuffing in heavily Black cities, the report notes that he was done in by hemorrhaging support from white voters. "The 27-page report, which was written by Trump chief pollster Tony Fabrizio, shows how Trump advisers were privately reckoning with his loss even as the former president and many of his supporters engaged in a conspiracy theory-fueled effort to overturn the election. The autopsy was completed in December 2020 and distributed to Trump's top political advisers just before President Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration. It is unclear if Trump has seen the report." Alex's story … The autopsy — "Tim Ryan, a Top Democrat in Ohio, Is Said to Plan Senate Bid": His bid will "test whether even a Democrat with roots in the blue-collar Youngstown region and close ties to organized labor can win in the increasingly Republican state," Jonathan Martin reports in the Times, while making clear Ohio has become forbidding terrain for any Democrat. Ryan "outperformed Mr. Biden in his [Youngstown-area] district, but Democrats there suffered a series of losses in other down-ballot races. The question, should Mr. Ryan become his party's nominee, is if he can win back these mostly white voters." — The Gavin Newsom recall attempt remains a long shot, but is worth keeping an eye on. Our California ace Carla Marinucci reports the latest development: a bid by former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. "As a moderate Republican who ran California's second largest city, Faulconer is regularly viewed as the most viable Republican for statewide office in solidly blue California," she writes . "But any GOP candidate would face an uphill climb against Newsom — who won in a landslide in 2018 in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans in voter registration by an overwhelming 46 percent to 24 percent." IMPEACHMENT II (FEB. 8) Holly Otterbein, who knows Pennsylvania politics as well as anyone, has an interesting read on the makeover of one of Trump's new impeachment lawyers, under the headline "He used to win elections in a Never-Trump stronghold. Now he's leading Trump's legal team": "The news that Bruce Castor, a former Montgomery County commissioner and district attorney, is representing Trump set ablaze Pennsylvania's political world — and nowhere more than in the suburban giant that delivered a landslide margin against Trump in 2020. As a result, Trump's campaign sued the county afterward, claiming it improperly counted mail-in ballots. … "The development immediately touched off questions over whether Castor was brought onboard precisely because of his prior job as a county commissioner in one of the places where Trump was most obsessed with baseless claims of election fraud. It also surprised many insiders who saw Castor as a moderate Republican who often reached across the aisle, leading to speculation that he might be repositioning himself to run for Senate or governor in 2022." PANDEMIC TRACKER: The U.S. reported 1,562 Covid-19 deaths and 120,000 new coronavirus cases Monday — "Race and ethnicity data missing for nearly half of coronavirus vaccine recipients, federal study finds," WaPo: "The findings on vaccination data illustrate that a long-standing lack of information on the race and ethnicity of who has been diagnosed with covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, has carried over to who has been inoculated." | | | | A message from the American Beverage Association:   Our plastic bottles are made to be remade. Help us get Every Bottle Back. EveryBottleBack.org | | | MYANMAR LATEST — "An inconvenient insurrection tests Biden on China, democracy support," by Nahal Toosi, Andrew Desiderio and Natasha Bertrand: "How Biden and his aides react — whether quickly, in concert with allies, or with a show of U.S. strength — could affect how the new U.S. administration is viewed on the global stage in the months ahead, especially as it is presented with the broader challenge of confronting the rise of authoritarianism in countries across the globe. "The situation also presents a rare opportunity for a staunchly bipartisan approach from Washington, D.C. … People familiar with the Biden administration's internal deliberations told POLITICO on Monday that U.S. officials appeared to be frustrated by the developments, not least because of the timing, and were scrambling to figure out how to coordinate, respond — domestically as well as internationally — and whether to call what happened a 'coup.' One described the scene as 'chaos.'" — "Biden Plans 'Appropriate Action' After Myanmar Coup, but U.S. Leverage Is Limited," WSJ: "Broad economic sanctions such as those used by the George W. Bush and Obama administrations could alienate the country's population and hurt public attitude toward the West, analysts say. "U.S. trade with Myanmar is small. Meanwhile, Beijing enjoys a multibillion-dollar trade and investment relationship with its neighbor and has expressed less public concern than the U.S. about who is in charge. That raises the possibility that any U.S. action could further drive Myanmar toward China." MEDIAWATCH Trump and his attacks on the press are history, but all is not well in the White House briefing room. The Daily Beast's Max Tani reports that Biden's comms staff has been trying to sniff out questions from reporters ahead of Psaki's sessions. Stating the obvious, that's not how it works in the U.S.: "According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, as well as written communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the new president's communications staff have already on occasion probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when called upon during briefings. "The requests prompted concerns among the White House press corps, whose members, like many reporters, are sensitive to the perception that they are coordinating with political communications staffers. One reporter raised the issue during an informal White House Correspondents Association Zoom call last Friday. According to multiple sources, leaders at the meeting advised print reporters to push back against requests by the White House press team to learn of questions in advance, or simply to not respond to the Biden team's inquiries." MONEY MATTERS — "Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's final financial disclosures," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: "Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner disclosed receiving between $23,791,645 and $120,676,949 in combined outside income in their final financial disclosure reports. The disclosures cover the entirety of 2020 through January 20, 2021." Trump's disclosure … Kushner's disclosure — "Trump's Sleight of Hand: Shouting Fraud, Pocketing Donors' Cash for Future," NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party leveraged false claims of voter fraud and promises to overturn the election to raise more than a quarter-billion dollars in November and December as hundreds of thousands of trusting supporters listened and opened their wallets. "But the Trump campaign spent only a tiny fraction of its haul on lawyers and other legal bills related to those claims. Instead, Mr. Trump and the G.O.P. stored away much of the money — $175 million or so — even as they continued to issue breathless, aggressive and often misleading appeals for cash that promised it would help with recounts, the rooting out of election fraud and even the Republican candidates' chances in the two Senate runoff races in Georgia." OTHER RANDOM READS "WOKE CULTURE" — Bari Weiss, formerly of the NYT and now doing her own thing on Substack, takes on what she sees as a growing silencing of speech by the left: "America is fast developing its own informal social credit system, as the writer Rod Dreher has noted, in which people with the wrong politics or online persona are banned from social media sites and online financial networks," Weiss writes for the New York Post . "When everything is recorded for eternity, when making mistakes and taking risks are transformed into capital offenses, when things that were common sense until two seconds ago become unsayable, people make the understandable decision to simply shut up." Weiss goes on to list "10 ways to fight back against woke culture." PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION — "D.C. Claims Eminent Domain To Seize Infamous NoMa Wendy's Site," Bisnow: "D.C. is using eminent domain to seize the Wendy's property in NoMa as part of a plan to transform the notorious 'Dave Thomas Circle' intersection. The District government filed an eminent domain case in D.C. Superior Court last month against the owner of the Wendy's property at 100 New York Ave. NE, an affiliate of Bernstein Management Corp. A Monday filing in the D.C. Recorder of Deeds indicates it is paying the owner $13.1M for the property." NOBODY'S FOOL — "Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice," NBC: "The queen of country, 75, told TODAY in an interview that former President Donald Trump's administration tried to give her the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, twice but she had to turn them down. "'I couldn't accept it because my husband was ill and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn't travel because of the COVID,' she explained, adding that she has since heard from President Joe Biden about the award as well. 'Now I feel like if I take it, I'll be doing politics, so I'm not sure.'" | | | | TUNE IN TO NEW EPISODE OF GLOBAL TRANSLATIONS: Our Global Translations podcast, presented by Citi, examines the long-term costs of the short-term thinking that drives many political and business decisions. The world has long been beset by big problems that defy political boundaries, and these issues have exploded over the past year amid a global pandemic. This podcast helps to identify and understand the impediments to smart policymaking. Subscribe for Season Two, available now. | | | | | | | PLAYBOOKERS | | FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — THE DAILY BEAST is announcing a number of new hires: columnist WAJAHAT ALI joins from CNN and the NYT. CHEYENNE ROUNDTREE will cover entertainment, coming from the Daily Mail, where she broke the jaw-dropping look inside Hilara Baldwin's Spanish-themed wedding. NOOR IBRAHIM, a veteran of ABC's investigative unit, will be the new deputy world editor. KALI HOLLOWAY will be a columnist. ERIN GLORIA RYAN, co-host of Crooked's "Hysteria" podcast, will write a column. AP: "Deborah Archer, a professor at New York University School of Law with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American Civil Liberties Union to be elected its president." STAFFING UP — Emma Eatman will be press secretary for the Labor Department. She previously was deputy press secretary for the House Education and Labor Committee. TRANSITIONS — Paul Abbate is now deputy director of the FBI. He most recently was associate deputy director of the FBI. Announcement … Kevin Perez-Allen is joining Scott Circle Communications as VP of media relations. He currently is national deputy director of comms at NALEO and previously was Hispanic media lead for National Security Leaders for Biden. … John Weber is returning to the AFL-CIO as national press secretary and political media strategist. He most recently was deputy director of battleground state comms at the DNC. … … Annie Orloff and Andrew Overton are joining Finsbury Glover Hering as strategic comms directors in the energy and sustainability practice. Orloff previously was deputy comms director for Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), and is an Obama DOE alum. Overton previously was a spokesperson and deputy comms director for the British Embassy. … Nadgey Louis-Charles is now comms director for Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.). She previously was comms director for former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), and is a Jody Hice alum. ENGAGED — Lauren Dezenski, a CNN digital politics reporter and former Massachusetts Playbook author, and Michael Heifetz, director of client success at First Due and a volunteer firefighter, got engaged on Friday, Lauren's birthday, mid-ski run at Copper Mountain in Colorado. The two met 10 years ago at Boston University through a mutual friend and started dating nearly four years ago after a Rangers watch party in New York City. Pic … Another pic WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Tom Reynolds, policy comms director at Facebook and an Obama alum, and Anne Sjostrom, a chef, welcomed Aidan Daniel Reynolds on Jan. 23 in San Francisco. Pic HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) … Rep. 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