| | | | | |  | | By Tara Palmeri | | | | | | |  | DRIVING THE DAY | | BREAKING OVERNIGHT: The Arizona Republic scooped the results of the Maricopa County "audit" paid for by "Stop the Steal" and DONALD TRUMP allies: It found that Trump lost the key county by a wider margin than the official election results. To put a finer point on this: The firm selected by the people promoting the election lie, Cyber Ninjas, did its own count and found that JOE BIDEN won. — ALSO: In a tweet early this morning, Sen. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-Iowa) announced that he is running for reelection in 2022 — a major sigh of relief for Republicans. The 88-year-old has been in elected office since 1958. More from the Des Moines Register BRAVURA OR BRAVADO? — Buckle up. That was the advice from Capitol Hill late Thursday night as news got out that Speaker NANCY PELOSI privately told her committee chairs that she does, in fact, intend to bring the reconciliation bill to the floor next week, reports Heather Caygle. The question now: Is it bravura or bravado? — The case for bravura: Pelosi has repeatedly declared herself a "master legislator," and the cascade of deadlines she's up against — to avoid a government shutdown, to raise the debt ceiling, to keep her promise of a Monday vote on the BIF, to notch a win for Biden — may be the most difficult legislative gauntlet she's ever faced. Still, at this point, it makes a certain amount of sense to try and package everything together and ram it through as quickly as possible. — The case for bravado: Sources on the Hill say that the moderates and progressives aren't close to a workable deal. As Heather, Sarah Ferris and Jennifer Scholtes reported Thursday, "Pelosi and her team hope that projecting progress in the talks … will satisfy progressives enough to back off their threats." For a vote on reconciliation to happen next week, they will need to mark up the bill Saturday. It's now Friday, and the bill is not yet written. HOT DOC — A document is circulating among pro-BIF Senate Republicans pushing back on House GOP leadership's effort to whip against the bill. The Senate Republican document … The whip notice from STEVE SCALISE's office | | A message from Facebook: Why Facebook supports reforming Section 230
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Facebook supports updated regulations —like reforming Section 230, to set standards for the way larger tech companies enforce rules about content. | | | RUDY GETS THE GONG — RUDY GIULIANI has been banned from Fox News for almost three months. As if the sting of that weren't painful enough, the "9/11 mayor" learned of his banishment … on the eve of Sept. 11. Giuliani was slated to appear on "Fox & Friends" to mark the 20th anniversary of the attack. But the night before, host PETE HEGSETH called Giuliani to say he'd been cut from the show and apologize. The ban extends not just to GIULIANI, but also to his son ANDREW, who has not been on Fox News since he launched his campaign for governor of New York in May despite many requests to go on the network. His team has been frustrated that rival GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. LEE ZELDIN is a frequent guest. But bookers have told both Giulianis the ban comes from the top, sources said. The former New York City mayor had been a fixture on the network. "Rudy is really hurt because he did a big favor for RUPERT [MURDOCH]," a source close to Giuliani said. "He was instrumental in getting Fox on Time Warner so it could be watched in New York City." In 1996, Giuliani's administration advocated for Time Warner to carry the newly launched Fox News Channel, intervening in a dispute between Murdoch and the cable provider. Dominion Voting Systems has separately sued Giuliani and Fox News for allegedly defaming the company with false election claims — in the case of Fox, for allowing guests like Giuliani to make the claims on its network. Fox News has filed to dismiss the lawsuit , arguing that Dominion failed to show the network acted in malice, the legal standard for proving defamation. Giuliani has argued his claims about Dominion were "substantially true," while acknowledging he didn't understand how the company's voting software works, according to Business Insider. In a 2018 FBI deposition that became public last month, Giuliani admitted he would push lies about HILLARY CLINTON on Fox News, referring to it as "throwing a fake." Giuliani's former police commissioner, BERNIE KERIK, who also promoted election conspiracies, has had difficulty getting time on Fox after being a regular on the network. He appeared live on the network just once on Sept. 11 — on JESSE WATTERS' show — despite being a critical player in the aftermath of the attacks. Kerik wrote a letter to Fox Business News President LAUREN PETTERSON to complain, according to a source familiar with the matter. A Fox News source said that Kerik was also booked for "Fox & Friends" on Sept. 11 but canceled because of logistical issues. The network declined to comment on Giuliani's status with the network. "I could not have been more disappointed with the Fox coverage on the 20th anniversary of September 11," Kerik said in a statement to Playbook. "Then they chose to intentionally ignore Mayor Giuliani who was, and who according to their own coverage for the last two decades was America's hero on the day and in the aftermath of the attack. Regardless of reasoning, I think this was another demonstration of Fox's cowering to the far left." It's not just Giuliani. Senior Trump aides have found it difficult to get bookings on Fox News or even coverage of stories that are damaging to their enemies or positive for Trump. "They're not doing us any favors," sniffed one Trump aide. Happy Friday, and thanks for reading Playbook. Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza, Tara Palmeri. MAYOR ROYALE — The mystery of ERIC ADAMS' summer plans has been solved. The notoriously guarded likely future mayor of New York City — so much so that we still don't know where he sleeps at night — spent his summer vacation in Monaco, cruising on a yacht and visiting the famous Monte Carlo Casino. (His office said he did not actually gamble.) The ritzy destination, where JAMES BOND movies have been filmed, was a surprising choice for a candidate who played up his humble roots against his Ivy League opponents. "Some blue-collar mayor, huh?" one Democratic operative quipped to SALLY GOLDENBERG. Let's just say we hope Adams eventually drops his guard and takes a press pool on his next jaunt to the French Riviera. REGULATING CRYPTO: THE $2T RUBIK'S CUBE — Crypto trading! Bitcoin! Dogecoin! Stablecoin! Even if lawmakers don't understand blockchain, Capitol Hill is finally waking up to digital currency. Congress has introduced more than a dozen bills on crypto and blockchain this year alone — as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle go head to head over the best way to regulate the $2 trillion market. Economics reporter Victoria Guida joins Tara to talk about lobbying around crypto and the time her dog ate her bitcoin. Listen and subscribe to Playbook Deep Dive | 
| | | | |   | | | BIDEN'S FRIDAY: — 9 a.m.: The president will receive the President's Daily Brief. — 11 a.m.: Biden will participate in a bilateral meeting with Indian PM NARENDRA MODI in the Oval Office. — 2 p.m.: Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad Leaders Summit with Modi, Australian PM SCOTT MORRISON and Japanese PM YOSHIHIDE SUGA in the East Room. — 4:10 p.m.: The president will meet with Suga in the Red Room. — 5:35 p.m.: Biden will depart the White House en route to Camp David. VP KAMALA HARRIS' FRIDAY: — 7:45 a.m.: The VP will depart D.C. en route to New York City, where she will appear on "The View." — 12:40 p.m.: Harris will depart New York to return to D.C. — 4:45 p.m.: Harris will meet with the Quad Leaders in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office. The White House Covid-19 response team and public health officials will brief at 12:30 p.m. Press secretary JEN PSAKI and DHS Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS will brief at 2:30 p.m. THE HOUSE will meet at 9 a.m., with last votes at 3 p.m. THE SENATE is in. | | | | INTRODUCING CONGRESS MINUTES: Need to follow the action on Capitol Hill blow-by-blow? Check out Minutes, POLITICO's new platform that delivers the latest exclusives, twists and much more in real time. Get it on your desktop or download the POLITICO mobile app for iOS or Android. GET A FIRST LOOK AT CONGRESS MINUTES HERE. | | | | | | | PLAYBOOK READS | | | 
PHOTO OF THE DAY: U.S. agents save a migrant kid Thursday after he almost got swept away by the waters of the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas. | Felix Marquez/AP Photo | THE PANDEMIC BOOSTER SURPRISE — After CDC advisers voted Thursday to recommend Pfizer booster shots only for old people, nursing home residents and those with underlying health conditions, CDC Director ROCHELLE WALENSKY early this morning overruled them and added workers in high-exposure jobs to the list. NYT's Apoorva Mandavilli and Benjamin Mueller call it "a highly unusual move," aligning Walensky with the FDA and White House over her own staff. A White House booster shot plan could come as soon as today. JAN. 6 AND ITS AFTERMATH ACTING FAST — Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu report that the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is issuing subpoenas to four current and former top aides to Trump: his final White House chief of staff, MARK MEADOWS, former White House chief strategist STEVE BANNON, former Pentagon official and House Intel aide KASH PATEL and Trump's longtime social media chief, DAN SCAVINO. — MARK YOUR CALENDARS … Oct. 7: the deadline for the four to give the committee the documents they've requested. Oct. 14: Bannon and Patel are scheduled to sit for depositions. Oct. 15: Meadows and Scavino are scheduled for depositions. COUNTDOWN TO DEFAULT — The debt ceiling debate is Treasury Secretary JANET YELLEN's biggest test yet, writes NYT's Alan Rappeport: "[In] the face of congressional dysfunction, she has been thrust into a political role, trying to convince reticent Republican lawmakers that their refusal to lift the debt cap — which limits the government's ability to borrow money — could lead to a financial collapse." CONGRESS DEFENSE, DEFENSE, DEFENSE — On Thursday evening, the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act in a 316-113 vote, Connor O'Brien reports. In addition to setting spending levels and Pentagon policy, the bill "would require women to register for a military draft. It also aims to extract information from the Biden administration on the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and launch a wide-ranging review of the two-decade war." — In an interview with Rachael, Sens. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-N.Y.) and JONI ERNST (R-Iowa) called the House legislation "inadequate" as it pertains to handling sexual assault cases in the military. More on that from Claire Rafford and Connor, with video AND ABOUT THAT ISRAEL DEFENSE FUNDING … Just days after stripping it from the larger funding package after objections from progressive Democrats, the House passed a separate bill to provide $1 billion in funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, Andrew Desiderio reports. — One notable switch: Rep. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-N.Y.) changed her vote from "no" to "present" after a campaign of scathing criticism from pro-Israel activists. After making the vote, AOC was seen in tears on the House floor, reports NYT's Catie Edmondson. | | A message from Facebook: Facebook's safety teams protect billions of people every month
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"On the other hand, the good news is, he's made several impressive performances on national television. … I think there's every indication he's going to be a good candidate." BIG BUCK HUNTER — Insider's Mattathias Schwartz scoops that "two previously unpublished emails sent by business contacts of HUNTER BIDEN indicate that the president's son requested an annual retainer of $2 million to help recover billions in Libyan assets frozen by the Obama administration." TOP-ED — "The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves." That cold splash of water is the lede of Robert Kagan's massive new essay for WaPo — one that is already driving lots of buzz on Twitter. AMERICA AND THE WORLD PULLOUT FALLOUT — The Afghanistan withdrawal "is imperiling Congress' plans to repeal the war authorization that sent American troops to the Middle East in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks," Andrew Desiderio reports. MORE ON 'HAVANA SYNDROME' — The CIA has removed its station chief in Vienna amid criticism of his handling of a "growing number of mysterious health incidents in the U.S. Embassy there," WaPo's John Hudson and Shane Harris report. HE SAID, XI SAID — WaPo's Josh Rogin has the wide-angle lens on U.S.-China relations: Beijing "is rejecting Biden's carefully crafted proposal to build a relationship based on equal measures of cooperation, competition and confrontation. It's time to consider the possibility that XI JINPING isn't buying what the Biden administration is selling," Rogin writes. MEDIAWATCH — Disney will not mount an outside investigation into the handling of sexual assault allegations against MICHAEL CORN, the former top producer of ABC's "Good Morning America," the WSJ reports. Last month, ABC News chief KIM GODWIN announced that she had requested an independent probe of the matter. TV TONIGHT — PBS' "Washington Week": Jacqueline Charles, Bob Costa, Weijia Jiang and Bob Woodward. SUNDAY SO FAR … | CBS | "Face the Nation": Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) … Australian PM Scott Morrison … Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan … Scott Gottlieb. | FOX | "Fox News Sunday": Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Panel: Guy Benson, Catherine Lucey and Juan Williams. Power Player: Lt. Damon Radcliffe. | Gray TV | "Full Court Press": Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) … Suzanne Lynch. | MSNBC | "The Sunday Show": Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) … Valerie Jarrett … Bryan Stevenson … Connie Schultz. | ABC | "This Week": Albert Bourla … Brian Murphy. Panel: Donna Brazile, Jane Coaston, Patrick Gaspard and Justin Amash. | NBC | "Meet the Press": Panel: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Eddie Glaude Jr., Meghan McCain and Amy Walter. | CNN | "Inside Politics": Panel: Seung Min Kim, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Jeremy Diamond and Burgess Everett. | | | | | | BECOME A GLOBAL INSIDER: The world is more connected than ever. It has never been more essential to identify, unpack and analyze important news, trends and decisions shaping our future — and we've got you covered! Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Global Insider author Ryan Heath navigates the global news maze and connects you to power players and events changing our world. Don't miss out on this influential global community. Subscribe now. | | | | | | | PLAYBOOKERS | | Ron Klain liked a tweet by Tommy Vietor decrying the media attention paid to Klain's Twitter likes. Since we're on the topic, and in a meta mood, we couldn't not include the Fox News headline that caught Vietor's attention: "Ron Klain hasn't retweeted Jennifer Rubin since Politico reported on lovefest between Biden WH, WaPo columnist." Got it? Donald Trump released a statement about the new subpoenas by the Jan. 6 committee that contained a single 122-word sentence with 14 commas, per grammarian Josh Dawsey. The White House was lit gold Thursday night in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. #TeamBeans OUT AND ABOUT — Firehouse Strategies celebrated their five-year anniversary Wednesday night with a party at Nationals Park. Guests ate stadium food in the National Club, toured the dugout, threw pitches in the bullpen and met Screech and Teddy. SPOTTED: John Hishta, Maury Donahue, Jonathan Collegio, Stephanie Lester, Erik Komendant, Brendon Plack, Don Stewart, Brian Barnard, Jonathan and Betsy Fischer Martin, James Hohmann, Jeff Zeleny, Ed O'Keefe, Abby Tracy, Brad Bosserman, Lisa Leonard, Alex and Caitlin Conant, Terry Sullivan, Matt Terrill, and Will and Anita Holley. — The Best Friends Animal Society hosted its inaugural D.C. event at Bullfeathers on Thursday night to celebrate National Dogs in Politics Day with rescue dogs from Lucky Dog Animal Rescue and the Humane Rescue Alliance. "There were a couple of minor dog-on-dog confrontations (don't know if they were Democrats or Republicans) but all ended peacefully," per a tipster. Rep. Tony Cárdenas' (D-Calif.) dog, Basil, was "one of the night's heartbreakers." Also SPOTTED: Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Syd Terry, Patrick Hester, Emily Benavides, Stacey Daniels, Josh Dawsey, Andrea Sachs, Matt Shirley, Steve Clemons, Kirk Bado, Andrea Woods, Colin Reed, Greta Palmer, Elise Traub, Katherine and Will Patterson, Kate Constantini, Christine Barrata, Preston Mizell, Pam Stevens and Eric Schulz, Neil Grace, Virginia Coyne and Megan McDonough. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Lynne Patton has been named a senior adviser to Trump's Save America PAC, where she'll be in charge of working on coalitions. She most recently was a political consultant with her own company, and is a Trump HUD alum. MEDIA MOVE — Serena Marshall is joining NowThis as senior Washington correspondent, expanding their coverage of politics. She most recently has been a digital journalist and correspondent for ABC News. More from The Hollywood Reporter STAFFING UP — Eloy Oakley is now senior adviser in the Office of the Under Secretary at the Education Department. He most recently was chancellor of the California Community Colleges. TRANSITION — Ryan Kelly is now comms director for Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.). He previously was with the House Administration Committee and is a Jim Sensenbrenner alum. WEDDING — Jesselyn Cook, a senior reporter at HuffPost and an adjunct journalism professor at the University of La Verne, and Kyle Gager, who works in hospitality, got married recently in Brooklyn. Pics WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Jack Pandol Jr., comms director for the Senate Leadership Fund, and Holli Heiles Pandol, public policy counsel for Carta, welcomed Jack Jay Pandol III, "Jackson," on Tuesday. Pic … Another pic — John Nothdurft, director of government affairs at ISSA, the Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association, and Katie Gray welcomed Cade Nothdurft on Sunday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: AP's Alexandra Jaffe … Michael Kennedy of VMWare … Earth Day Network's Olivia Altman … Craig Shirley … CNN's Nicky Robertson … Will Nuckols … Nate Blake of Amazon … Hope Hall … David Nelson of the White House … Andrew Bower … WSJ's Katy Stech Ferek … Connolly Keigher … CAP's Phil Wolgin … Kelsey Coates … Adam Rice of the American Securities Association … Derek Pangallo ... Sharon Yang of Facebook … Joe DeSantis … Shea McCarthy of Thorn Run Partners … Mark Gracyk … EC Wheatley of The Herald Group … Sara DuBois … FTI Consulting's Will Allison … Jon Davidson … POLITICO's Lisa Leonard, Brian Kidd, Jalyn Sanders and Bisha Wanzala … Lara Barger of Hadron Strategies … Scott Wallace … Livy Polen of Miller Strategies … Joe Householder … Stand Together's Vik Ath … Taryn Rosenkranz ... CJ Mahler … Generra Peck … Moe Tkacik … Lou Dobbs … former Defense Secretary Ash Carter … Kim Fuller … Mike Morey of SKDKnickerbocker … Patrick Davis … former Rep. 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