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| By Mike Allen ·Sep 09, 2021 |
| Good Thursday morning! The NFL season kicks off tonight. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,473 words ... 5½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu. ⚡ Breaking: The Taliban will allow 200 foreign citizens, including Americans, to leave Afghanistan today on the first commercial flight since the U.S. airlift ended. (The Wall Street Journal) |
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| 1 big thing — Fauci to Axios: COVID infections are 10x too high |
| Anthony Fauci testifies to the Senate on July 20. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Pool via Reuters Americans are getting infected with COVID at 10 times the rate needed to end the pandemic, Anthony Fauci tells Axios' Eileen Drage O'Reilly. - Why it matters: The longer it takes to end this pandemic phase, the bigger the chance we'll end up with a "monster variant" that is both dangerously transmissible and eludes vaccines.
"[W]e're still in pandemic mode, because we have 160,000 new infections a day," Fauci said. "That's not even modestly good control." - "In a country of our size, you can't be hanging around and having 100,000 infections a day," he continued. "You've got to get well below 10,000 before you start feeling comfortable."
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| 2. 🚨 Scoop: The most dangerous Trump exposé |
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| Grisham as Trump speaks to reporters in November 2019. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images |
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| Stephanie Grisham has quietly written a top-secret memoir of her four years in Donald Trump's White House, and a publishing source says she'll reveal "surprising new scandals." - The book — "I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in The Trump White House" — will be published Oct. 5 by Harper Collins.
- A former West Wing colleague of Grisham's tells Jonathan Swan: "When I heard this, all I could think about was Stephanie surrounded by a lake of gasoline, striking a match with a grin on her face."
A source close to the publication told Axios: "Grisham knows where all the bodies are buried because she buried a lot of them herself." - The source says Grisham "has receipts ... she was a press person and it was her job to make sure she knew what was happening."
Why it matters: Grisham is the only person to have served as a top aide to both President Trump (White House press secretary and communications direct0r) and First Lady Melania Trump (chief of staff). - She knows the family well and will shed new light on their dynamics with her first-person account, the sources said.
Between the lines: Melania Trump guarded her privacy intensely and trusted almost nobody during her time as first lady. Grisham, as her chief of staff, was one of very few allowed into her inner sanctum. - She saw another side of the Trumps — in the residence — that most staffers never got to see.
Behind the scenes: Until now, only a handful of people knew of the book's existence. Grisham has deliberately kept a low profile since she resigned on Jan. 6. |
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| 3. War for engagement |
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| The conventional wisdom that more people across the board are more likely than ever to leave their jobs is wrong, according to extensive polling by Gallup. - What is true: Self-identified disengaged workers are ditching jobs faster than ever, the data reveals.
Why it matters, from Axios CEO Jim VandeHei: Engagement, not pay or perks, is the leading indicator — and chief reason — for the record turnover many companies are experiencing today. - Happy employees are no more likely to leave their gigs than pre-pandemic, Gallup found — basically 40% were open to leaving before the virus hit, and basically the same rate are today.
Engagement — the difference-maker for staying or going — is harder than ever. - Employees are burnt out and bummed by work-from-home mandates. And they're isolated — scattered around the country and world in apartments, houses and cottages.
- This double whammy makes running a business and keeping talent difficult in a strong economy.
The numbers show how important engagement is to keeping employees from quitting. - If you offer, on average, a 20% increase even to someone who is completely engaged in their job, they will look at that particular job. But again, that's not necessarily who's moving right now.
- Among those that are actively disengaged in their job, 75% are actively looking for new work. They're actually making this move because any increase in pay — and sometimes even a pay cut for a change of scenery — will cause them to leave that job.
This won't get any easier. Big banks and others still fantasize about employees returning to the office for good. But very few want to, and studies show many workers are willing to take big cuts to avoid returning to a physical office daily, says Jon Clifton, global managing partner at Gallup. - Gallup found only 30% want to come back full time.
Companies doing the best tend to have a higher purpose than mere profit, first-rate internal communications on a weekly cadence, and a culture with a heavy emphasis on diversity, inclusion and transparency. - "Employees expect you to say something, expect you to believe in something, and expect you to have and drive purpose," Lisa Osborne Ross, U.S. CEO of Edelman, told Axios. "This is an employee-driven environment."
- Brad Burns, chief communications officer at Salesforce, said his company has added 20,000 people who have never seen the inside of an office. "The past is gone and we are operating the way we will be operating for a very long, long time," he said.
💡 You're invited: Today at 12:30 p.m. ET, hear more from Jim VandeHei and the Edelman, Salesforce and Gallup executives during a half-hour virtual event, "Executive Edge: Navigate the Great Resignation." |
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| A message from Facebook |
| Internet regulations are as outdated as dial-up |
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| Facebook supports updated regulations, including four areas where lawmakers can make quick progress: - Reforming Section 230.
- Preventing foreign interference in our elections.
- Passing federal privacy law.
- Setting rules that allow people to safely transfer data between services.
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| 4. Pics du jour |
| Photo: Steve Helber/AP In Richmond, cheers and singing greeted the removal of a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Monument Avenue. "I would have thought somebody would blow up Richmond first before anyone would have let that happen ... It's a modern-day miracle." — David Bailey, an African American who leads a nonprofit in Richmond that helps churches with racial reconciliation, to the N.Y. Times. Photo: Steve Helber/AP |
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| 5. Our weekly COVID map: Kids are big new worry |
 Data: N.Y. Times. Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios The U.S. is averaging 1,500 deaths a day for the first time since March, Axios health care editor Tina Reed writes. - Daily death totals have more than quintupled since the start of August, The New York Times calculates.
What we're watching: Cases — and hospitalizations — among kids. Share this map. |
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| 6. 👀 Big antitrust test |
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| Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios |
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| FTC action on Amazon's proposed $8.45 billion purchase of MGM will provide a roadmap for the Biden administration's approach to mergers and acquisitions, Axios' Margaret Harding McGill writes. - Progressives expect to find an ally in FTC chair Lina Khan, who built her reputation making the case that Amazon is a monopolist.
- But business groups and conservatives point out that Amazon has nothing like a lock on the highly competitive marketplace for streaming movies and TV shows, making any case against the MGM deal unlikely to pass muster in court.
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| 7. Exclusive poll: Manchin's national echo |
 Data: No Labels. Chart: Jared Whalen/Axios Suburban voters strongly back the call by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for a "strategic pause" on President Biden's $3.5 trillion social spending plan, Axios' Hans Nichols writes from polling by the bipartisan No Labels. - The survey of 974 registered voters, conducted Tuesday, found 60% of all voters back Manchin.
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| 8. First look: Secretary Raimondo enlists business |
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| Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo briefs at the White House in July. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA |
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| Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, speaking virtually today to the City Club of Cleveland, will appeal to business to back President Biden's social-infrastructure plans as "a competitive advantage" for America. - "I get it. We're asking you to pay more in taxes," Raimondo, who has met with more than 100 CEOs since joining the Cabinet, says in remarks shared first with Axios.
- "But I'd also suggest that if the business community doesn't like the pay-fors we've proposed, it's time to come up with some real alternatives that don't raise taxes on middle class families."
Raimondo, former Rhode Island governor, promises this payoff: "A more stable democracy and a more sustainable capitalist system." |
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| 9. Super Bowl ads nearly sold out at record price |
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| Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios |
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| Ads on NBC for next year's Super Bowl LVI are nearly gone, Axios Media Trends author Sara Fischer reports. - Some of the most recently sold 30-second spots went for a record $6.5 million. For the previous Super Bowl, CBS got about $5.5 million.
NBC will be airing the Super Bowl on a Sunday that overlaps with the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. - Dan Lovinger, NBC Sports Group EVP of advertising sales, said at a press briefing that the Beijing Games are "virtually sold out."
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| 10. 🏈 NFL's most valuable franchise |
 Data: Sportico. Table: Thomas Oide/Axios The Cowboys top Sportico's annual NFL valuations list (subscription) at $6.92 billion, making them North America's most valuable sports franchise — just ahead of the Yankees ($6.75 billion), Axios Sports editor Kendall Baker writes. - The average NFL team is worth $3.5 billion, up 13% from last year.
- Thanks to lucrative new TV deals, not a single team lost value from 2020, despite attendance dropping 93% amid COVID restrictions.
Biggest risers: Broncos and Seahawks (up three spots from 2020). - Biggest fallers: Jaguars (down four), Dolphins (down three), Packers (down three).
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| A message from Facebook |
| Why Facebook supports the DETER Act |
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| Communication around elections has changed a lot in the last 25 years — the last time comprehensive internet regulations were passed. That's why Facebook supports updated internet regulations — like the DETER Act, to help protect election integrity against foreign interference. |
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