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|  | DRIVING THE DAY | | NOW STREAMING — ALEX HOLDER'S "Unprecedented," the three-part documentary about DONALD TRUMP and his family, dropped at 4 a.m. today on Discovery+. "Orange you glad it's premiere day?" Holder tweeted , referring to the noticeably heavier makeup on Trump in his sitdown interviews with the filmmaker. MUST-READ — If you read only one thing this weekend, make it this Maureen Dowd classic on ERIC ADAMS. You couldn't ask for a better match of writer and subject: "On a breezy June night in the Bronx, I was on the balcony at the restaurant Zona De Cuba, sipping a mojito, vibing to a salsa band and peeking at a special menu for the plant-based mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who was soon to arrive. … "I pulled out a notebook, getting ready to interview Adams. But MAXWELL YOUNG , the mayor's communications director, announced, 'We have to go.' The mayor had pulled up outside in his black Suburban, but plans had changed. We ran out to the motorcade and headed to the Upper East Side. "Suddenly, we were staring down at a sidewalk full of blood."
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Abortion-rights supporters demonstrate outside the White House during a protest to pressure the Biden administration to protect abortion rights on Saturday, July 9. | Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo | BIDEN AGONISTES — President JOE BIDEN continues to struggle. N.Y. Mag's Ed Kilgore notes that the president "is now polling worse than Trump was at the same point in his presidency." Two big pieces delve into two of Biden's biggest problems: the continued dissatisfaction on the left and the age issue. 1. The White House pushes back against its critics in this WaPo piece from Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Tyler Pager on "the administration's 14-day struggle to craft a message and policy plan after the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs." KATE BEDINGFIELD, the outgoing comms director, with a statement making waves online: "Joe Biden's goal in responding to Dobbs is not to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party. It's to deliver help to women who are in danger and assemble a broad-based coalition to defend a woman's right to choose now, just as he assembled such a coalition to win during the 2020 campaign." The reaction: "Outrage Erupts as White House Calls Abortion Rights Activists 'Out of Step,'" The Daily Beast 2. From Peter Baker's front-page take on Biden's age in the NYT this morning: "In interviews, some sanctioned by the White House and some not, more than a dozen current and former senior officials and advisers uniformly reported that Mr. Biden remained intellectually engaged, asking smart questions at meetings, grilling aides on points of dispute, calling them late at night, picking out that weak point on Page 14 of a memo and rewriting speeches like his abortion remarks on Friday right up until the last minute. "But they acknowledged Mr. Biden looks older than just a few years ago, a political liability that cannot be solved by traditional White House stratagems like staff shake-ups or new communications plans. His energy level, while impressive for a man of his age, is not what it was, and some aides quietly watch out for him. … Although White House officials insist they make no special accommodations the way Reagan's team did, privately they try to guard Mr. Biden's weekends in Delaware as much as possible." DAVID GERGEN , who has advised four presidents: "I do feel it's inappropriate to seek that office after you're 80 or in your 80s. … I have just turned 80 and I have found over the last two or three years I think it would have been unwise for me to try to run any organization. You're not quite as sharp as you once were." MIKE DONILON , who has advised Biden for years: "On the way back from long trips when the staff is wiped out, he'll want to spend four hours planning for how we hit the ground running on domestic policy, when all much younger staff want to do is sleep." Biden on the WaPo op-ed page: "Why I'm going to Saudi Arabia"
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Learn how Meta is helping build the metaverse. | | | CHENEY'S DEM SUPERFANS — As Biden shrinks, LIZ CHENEY continues to rise as the leader of the opposition to Trump. While the president is abroad this week, Cheney will once again be in the political spotlight when the Jan. 6 committee convenes for its next public hearing on Tuesday. Three key Cheney reads: 1. NYT's Kate Kelly and Maggie Haberman dive into Cheney's massive fundraising haul and report on some of the big-name Democratic donors writing her checks: — JEFFREY KATZENBERG: "We agree on little, if anything…But she has done something that very, very few people in history have done, which is she's put her country over party and politics to stand in defense of our Constitution." — DMITRI MEHLHORN, "a political strategist who advises the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman": "Cheney is the most important politician in America right now." — REID HOFFMAN , "a major Democratic donor whom Mr. Mehlhorn said had quietly begun supporting Ms. Cheney": "Liz Cheney demonstrates incredible integrity, standing for America." — SETH KLARMAN, "billionaire hedge fund manager [and] an independent with liberal views on social policies": Cheney is "perhaps the strongest voice in the Republican Party speaking out about the importance of upholding the Constitution." — JANE FRASER, "a registered Democrat who is the chief executive of Citigroup" 2. CNN's Harry Enten looks at the available data and explains why "Cheney should be regarded as the clear underdog in her efforts to retain her seat." She's way behind in the few polls that have been released, but Enten also looks at a few other key metrics to get a sense of the primary, which will take place on August 16: — "Cheney was the least popular member of Congress" in the 2021 Cooperative Election Study, "a large academic survey [that] asks Americans whether they approve or disapprove of their member of Congress." — "Further, national polls seem to confirm the bad data in Wyoming for Cheney. A mere 17% of Republicans nationwide approved of Cheney's job as vice chair of the January 6 committee, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll. The vast majority (61%) disapproved. Why is this notable? Because the vast majority of Wyomingites are Republicans. According to the Wyoming secretary of state, 71% of registered voters are Republicans. Just 15% are Democrats." — "Beyond polling and real-world elections data, Cheney's problems become apparent in fundraising numbers. So too does the dichotomy between her national stardom and issues back home. According to the FEC and OpenSecrets, Cheney raised more than $10 million this cycle through March 31. Hageman pulled in a little more than $2 million through the same date. But Hageman pulled in nearly $650,000 of her total from Wyoming donors, more than twice as much as Cheney's in-state haul (about $270,000)." 3. James Bennet, The Economist's new Lexington columnist, interviews ALAN SIMPSON, who explains how Cheney's real fight isn't the Wyoming primary she is likely to lose: "...Simpson, a former three-term senator, has known her since she was a girl. Asked if she could win, he says he doesn't know. 'That really isn't the issue for her,' he adds. 'That's not the golden chalice for Liz.' "Senator Simpson, droll as ever at 90 , was once booted from a leadership position himself, for insisting on being pro-choice in a pro-life party. He is delighted by Ms Cheney's resistance to the herd: "She's her own person." He describes an environment of hate and nihilism around Mr Trump like nothing he has seen. "The guy is a wrecking ball of history," he says. The chalice, for Ms Cheney, is to block Mr Trump's path back to power, and the testimony elicited by her sombre, methodical questioning may just achieve that."
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Good Sunday morning. Thanks for reading Playbook. Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza. HEADS UP — STEVE BANNON told the Jan. 6 select committee in a letter on Saturday that he is "now willing to testify, ideally at a public hearing," after "he received a letter from former President Donald Trump waiving executive privilege," CNN's Sara Murray reports. What Trump said in the letter: "When you first received the Subpoena to testify and provide documents, I invoked Executive Privilege. However, I watched how unfairly you and others have been treated, having to spend vast amounts of money on legal fees, and all of the trauma you must be going through for the love of your Country, and out of respect for the Office of the President." SUNDAY BEST … — VP KAMALA HARRIS on new immigration moves by Texas Gov. GREG ABBOTT , on CBS' "Face the Nation": "I would suggest that so-called leaders focus on solutions instead of attacks if they really are concerned about a problem, and that includes on the issue of immigration, passing a pathway for citizenship, fixing what, in particular under the prior administration, was a badly broken system. So that we can have a humane and appropriate approach to this issue, including of course, what we will continue to do in terms of prioritizing border security, but understanding we also need to create a pathway. And, and that's where I think everyone should be focused if they're actually concerned about solutions instead of flame throwing." Read the full transcript of Harris' interview with Bob Costa — Transportation Secretary PETE BUTTIGIEG on the protesters outside of Morton's that led to Justice BRETT KAVANAUGH leaving the restaurant , on "Fox News Sunday": "When public officials go into public life we should expect two things. One, you should always be free from violence, harassment and intimidation. And two, you're never going to be free from criticism or peaceful protests, people exercising their First Amendment rights. That's what happened in this case. … People are upset. They're going to exercise their First Amendment rights. As long as that's peaceful, that's protected. Compare that for example, to the reality that as a country right now, we're reckoning with the fact that a mob summoned by the former president … attacked the United States Capitol for the purpose of overthrowing the election. … I think common sense can tell the difference." Asked if he would be OK with protesters demonstrating when he and his husband, CHASTEN, go to dinner, he said: "Protesting peacefully outside in a public space? Sure. Look, I can't even tell you the number of spaces, venues and scenarios where I've been protested. And the bottom line is this: Any public figure should always always be free from violence, intimidation and harassment, but should never be free from criticism, or people exercising their First Amendment rights." Watch the clip of Buttigieg's response — Rep. STEPHANIE MURPHY (D-Fla.) on PAT CIPOLLONE's testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, on NBC's "Meet the Press": "I think there was a lot of information that fit into this bigger puzzle that we're putting together. And we have different voices telling about the same meeting, and more or less telling the same narrative."
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A helicopter drops water on the Washburn Fire burning in Yosemite National Park on Saturday, July 9. | Noah Berger/AP Photo | | | PLAYBOOK READS | | ALL POLITICS 2022 WATCH — California GOP Rep. DAVID VALADAO has a strict anti-abortion view in a district that voted heavily for Biden. But he's betting that voters won't punish him this fall — in part because he was one of few GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach Trump, Olivia Beavers reports from Hanford, Calif. "If Democrats can't persuade voters here, it will be an ominous sign for a party battling a tough midterm climate as they try to keep seats in places far more favorable to Republicans." — "Greitens fans shrug off scandals threatening GOP Senate seat," by AP's Jim Salter 2024 WATCH — "Maryland's Hogan to spotlight inflation relief plan during jam-packed New Hampshire trip," by Fox News' Paul Steinhauser FASCINATING READ — "One Small Step for Democracy in a 'Live Free or Die' Town," by NYT's Dan Barry: "A cautionary tale from Croydon, N.H., where one man tried to foist a change so drastic it jolted a community out of political indifference." ABORTION FALLOUT LETTER FROM SOUTH BEND — "How Abortion Is Sundering Amy Coney Barrett's Hometown," by Adam Wren for POLITICO Magazine: "South Bend, Indiana, is a blue city home to a conservative Catholic University. And both sides are taking their former neighbor's vote on Dobbs very personally." EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — "Gretchen Whitmer's abortion fight — from the porch with her daughters," by WaPo's Ruby Cramer in Mackinac Island, Mich.
| | | | A message from Meta:   | | | AMERICA AND THE WORLD HAPPENING THIS WEEK — WaPo's Missy Ryan has a good table-setter for Biden's Middle East trip coming this week. "The choreography of the meeting with Saudi KING SALMAN and [Crown Prince MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN] will be closely watched: Will Biden, who as a candidate vowed to make Saudi Arabia a 'pariah' state, and the 36-year-old prince, now the kingdom's de facto leader, speak one-on-one? Will they pose for a photo?" BLINKEN PRESSES CHINA — "Blinken Reproves China Counterpart Over Support for Russia," by WSJ's William Mauldin and Charles Hutzler in Nusa Dua, Indonesia IN UKRAINE — "Ukraine's Defense Minister Says It Has 'Passed Test' on New U.S. Guided Rockets, Needs More," by WSJ's Vivian Salama in Kyiv
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