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By ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc), JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and DANIEL LIPPMAN (daniel@politico.com; @dlippman)


Driving the Day
OH MY ... Sacha Baron Cohen's new Showtime show, "Who is America?" is going to get lots of attention in D.C. Here's a clip from Twitter of various Republicans -- including Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Trent Lott -- seemingly endorsing putting guns in the hands of kids. Two-minute clip http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=83f1bb8e6fff7452b01c3e99b1ba87a82c7e39b83c7fb5440ca53c5a5e81c2db32369e77e1ad71c31c30949ab70fd711 The show premieres at 10 p.m. tonight.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP to CBS' JEFF GLOR in SCOTLAND: GLOR: "What's your goal from the Putin meeting?" TRUMP: "I'll let you know after the meeting. I have absolutely -- it was mutually agreed. Let's have a meeting. I think it's a good thing to meet. I do believe in meetings. I believe that having a meeting with Chairman Kim was a good thing. I think having meetings with the president of China was a very good thing. I believe it's really good.

"So having meetings with Russia, China, North Korea -- I believe in it. Nothing bad's gonna come out of it. And maybe some good will come out of it. But I go in with low expectations. I'm not going in with high expectations. I can't tell you what's going to happen. But I can tell you what I'll be asking for and we'll see if something comes of it."

GLOR: "The Russians who were indicted. Would you ask Putin to send them here?" TRUMP: "Well I might. I hadn't thought of that. But again -- this was during the Obama administration. They were doing whatever it was during the Obama administration. And I heard that they were trying -- or people were trying to hack into the RNC too, the Republican National Committee, but we had much better defenses.

"I'd been told that by a number of people. We had much better defenses, so they couldn't. I think the DNC should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. They had bad defenses and they were able to be hacked. But I heard they were trying to hack the Republicans too, but -- and this may be wrong -- but they had much stronger defenses."

-- TRUMP SAYS THE E.U. IS AMERICA'S FOE. GLOR: "Who is your biggest competitor? Your biggest foe globally right now?"

TRUMP: "Well I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now you wouldn't think of the European Union but they're a foe. Russia is foe in certain respects. China is a foe economically, certainly they are a foe. But that doesn't mean they are bad. It doesn't mean anything. It means that they are competitive. They want to do well and we want to do well."

GLOR is also interviewing Trump at the White House Wednesday when he returns from the summit.

-- NBC'S CHUCK TODD spoke with U.S. AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA JON HUNTSMAN on NBC'S "MEET THE PRESS": TODD: "Let me start with a simple question. Is this summit still on? And if so, why?" HUNTSMAN: "Well, listen, it isn't a summit. I've heard it called a summit. This is a meeting. In fact, it's the first meeting between the two presidents. They've had some pull-asides, one at the G20 in Hamburg and the other at the APEC Ministerial in Da Nang, Viet Nam, but this is really the first time for both presidents to actually sit across the table and have a conversation.

"And I hope it's a detailed conversation about where we might be able to find some overlapping and shared interests. This has not happened before, so there's a lot in our agenda that's been built over now many years of a relationship that is terrible fraught. So, yes, it will happen, and it should happen."

TODD: "Two things, will the president ask Putin to extradite the 12 Russian military officers? And have you formally requested that the Russian government do this? We don't have an extradition treaty, so we have to make a formal request. Have you already begun that paperwork?"

HUNTSMAN: "Well, the F.B.I. office and the embassy no doubt will work on that. I can't disclose any details in that regard. Requests can be made. That doesn't necessarily mean that the Russians are going to follow through with it. But we'll see if those steps will be taken. I can't make any announcement right here with you."

TODD: "Is the president going to make the ask or not?" HUNTSMAN: "I don't know if he'll make the ask, but it may be part of the agenda. It may be part of their bilateral meeting together. We'll have to see. It just came onto the agenda last Friday, so it's something that's brand new."

HUNTSMAN to FOX NEWS' CHRIS WALLACE on FOX NEWS SUNDAY: WALLACE: "Do you have any doubt that the GRU, Russian military intelligence, conducted these operations?"

HUNTSMAN: "You are asking me personally? Having access to information that may be other people don't have access to. Those who have followed this issue closely, there's very little doubt in my mind about what we are seeing.

"The investigation was rolled up almost 30 Russians in total. The process and investigation are playing out and that's part of holding Russia accountable and responsible for election meddling and malign activity. It's part of getting through our relationship. This is part of it.

"But let me tell you something else. We've got to at some point quit looking in the rearview mirror. We have to be informed by what we've been through and use that to educate us as we go forward."

-- JONATHAN KARL talked with JOHN BOLTON on ABC'S "THIS WEEK" about whether Trump should ask Putin to extradite the 12 Russians indicted on Friday. BOLTON: "I think it's pretty silly for the president to demand something that he can't get legally. ... For the president to demand something that isn't going to happen, puts the president in a weak position and I think the president has made it very clear he intends to approach this discussion from a position of strength." NYT's Mark Landler and Julie Hirschfeld Davis detail larger trend of the disconnect between Trump and his top aides http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=83f1bb8e6fff7452461c085763fbb4b19a1e12e682867bc85eedbc745ae4c702f009d64b96b37cce030f3141f5d97b03

-- SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY.) on with JAKE TAPPER for CNN'S "STATE OF THE UNION" via Quint Forgey: "Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday sought to justify Russia's interference in America's 2016 presidential race, claiming that all countries meddle in foreign elections. 'I think really we mistake our response if we think it's about accountability from the Russians. They're another country, they're going to spy on us,' Paul said. ... 'We're going to do the same.'

"'We all do it. What we need to do is make sure our electoral process is protected,' Paul said. 'They're not going to admit it in the same way we're not going to admit we were involved in the Ukrainian elections or the Russian elections.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=83f1bb8e6fff74526c56a95f47fe5158064ef092fbc8df2b84dcd7d3c5d50307cdb8bce9b17ed46870162beb2163398b


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CNN POLITICS on their Twitter feed (@CNNpolitics): "CNN's Jake Tapper explains that State of the Union invited and confirmed national security adviser John Bolton to come on the show, but the White House canceled Bolton's appearance #CNNSOTU" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=83f1bb8e6fff7452d7da95765979a51cedfa64dfcb1d7dd953d042eaf9dd3bf2dc709d70963e880cc7d366a6732e411d

TRUMP spoke with PIERS MORGAN aboard Air Force One before flying from London to Glasgow. MORGAN: "The skeptic in me would say: 'What is the incentive for America to do a great deal with the United Kingdom?"

TRUMP: "'We would make a great deal with the United Kingdom because they have product that we like. I mean they have a lot of great product. They make phenomenal things, you know, and you have different names -- you can say 'England', you can say 'UK', you can say 'United Kingdom' so many different -- you know you have, you have so many different names - Great Britain. I always say: 'Which one do you prefer? Great Britain? You understand what I'm saying?"

MORGAN: "You know Great Britain and the United Kingdom aren't exactly the same thing?"

TRUMP: "Right, yeah. You know I know, but a lot of people don't know that. But you have lots of different names. The fact is you make great product, you make great things. Even your farm product is so fantastic." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=83f1bb8e6fff745279530a39aaba333cbc5068ac896b2563633756114001ffcc6cc7938c57f1a2c06a1ca331561c50e5

-- @costareports: "Ahead of Putin meeting and following DOJ indictment, Pres. Trump said 'I can't tell you that,' when asked by @piersmorgan if Putin is a dictator. 'I assume he probably is. But I could name others also. Look, if we can get along with Russia that's a good thing,' Trump said."

Good Sunday morning. The World Cup final between France and Croatia is at 11 a.m. on Fox. THE PRESIDENT was playing golf this morning before leaving for Helsinki, according to pooler Katie Rogers of the New York Times.

BBC -- "Theresa May: Trump told me to sue the EU": "The U.S. president said on Friday at a joint press conference he had given her a suggestion - but she had found it too 'brutal'. Asked by the BBC's Andrew Marr what it was he had said, she replied: 'He told me I should sue the EU -- not go into negotiations.' ... Mrs. May laughed off the president's legal action suggestion, saying she would carry on with negotiations, but added: 'Interestingly, what the president also said at that press conference was 'don't walk away'. 'Don't walk away from those negotiations because then you'll be stuck. So I want us to be able to sit down to negotiate the best deal for Britain.'"
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=83f1bb8e6fff7452ac5167895217500e8a719741fed7bb440f801c97b8b377fcb912aeacbeed7c8ac28cba8ea0dcd690

ABOUT TRUMP'S TURNBERRY GETAWAY -- ANNIE KARNI in Glasgow: "President Donald Trump did not let the pressure of his high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin stand in the way of his typical Saturday routine: Tweeting followed by golf on a Trump-branded course. ...

"But it was the latest sign of Trump bending the presidency to fit the old lifestyle he misses - even down to sticking with his own [Twitter] account - rather than being shaped by the demands of the office he occupies. During the course of his trip, Trump has conducted himself more like his pre-presidential self than ever before, while traveling. ...

"At a black tie dinner on Wednesday night at Blenheim Palace, he made sure that the dinner included some familiar faces from home, among the Brits - including Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, a longtime Mar-a-Lago member and Trump friend, Wall Street billionaire Stephen Schwarzman and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=83f1bb8e6fff74526d0d5f8ab60cabc40c5a5340df5295973b3b30d32fe053b6a7d408c7594e8c548fc28a93b29add16

POTUS ABROAD -- "'The arrogant American': Trump avoids mixing with the public on trips to Britain, other foreign countries," by WaPo's David Nakamura: "President Barack Obama had just wrapped up a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron when they took a detour, visiting a school in South London where they rolled up their sleeves and engaged a pair of students in a table tennis doubles match. The version of ping-pong diplomacy in 2011 didn't result in a victory at the table - Obama later said the students 'whipped us.' But the informal photo op served a political purpose - presenting the two leaders as close partners in touch with the day-to-day lives of ordinary Britons.

"Such cultural moments have long been a staple of foreign trips for U.S. presidents determined to promote America's democratic values and openness to the world. George W. Bush shared fish and chips with Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in 2003, and Bill Clinton went sightseeing and dined with Blair at a local restaurant in 1997. Not so much for President Trump, who has pursued a radically different approach on his trips abroad, including to Britain over the past week.

"Hewing to a formal itinerary limited to working sessions with Prime Minister Theresa May and a tea ceremony with Queen Elizabeth II, Trump has studiously avoided interacting with the public at large. Aides have said the schedule was intentionally designed to keep the president far away from the mass protests in London that greeted his arrival." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=83f1bb8e6fff74520e5af9686afb55e02c3e13c4b7d4a0b05792acfb77dccb1d931a9c7a46eb13897948d68a2c78e7c1

RUSSIA WATCH -- "Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead," by NYT's Andrew Higgins and Neil MacFarquhar in Moscow: "When President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sits down with President Trump in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday for a meeting he has long wanted, he will already have accomplished virtually everything he could reasonably hope for.

"All he really needs to make his meeting with Mr. Trump a success is for it to take place without any major friction - providing a symbolic end to Western efforts to isolate Russia over its actions against Ukraine in 2014, its meddling in the United States election in 2016 and other examples of what the United States Treasury Department has described as Russia's 'malign activity' around the world. ...

"As with any negotiation, timing is everything, and Mr. Putin has been gaining a lot of momentum lately. He will arrive in Helsinki after presiding over the final game of the World Cup soccer tournament in Moscow on Sunday, and will meet an American president who has spent the last week berating his NATO allies and undercutting his host in Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bce53a3bbb87fe35506cfdcce4dd10fa42d9cf25ef30a93aa6ae1e501112105b7e892e18ba0ef74dbc685a83f2417c71

-- CBS' MARGARET BRENNAN (@margbrennan): "Russian FM Lavrov on Trump-Putin mtg: 'Yes, there will be interpreters.' // Q: Will there be no other aides in the room? Lavrov: 'Well, as things stand now. That is what the American side proposed and we are polite people, so we have agreed.'"

KNOWING BRETT KAVANAUGH - NYT A1, "Influential Judge, Loyal Friend, Conservative Warrior - and D.C. Insider," by Scott Shane, Steve Eder, Rebecca R. Ruiz, Adam Liptak, Charlie Savage and Ben Protess: "[A]s with any nominee, Judge Kavanaugh and his supporters are carefully shaping his narrative for the diverse Senate and the broader American public: his mother the judge, not his father the lobbyist; his parents' early struggles, not their second homes in the Florida Keys and on Maryland's Eastern Shore; his service as a children's sports coach and a Catholic volunteer, not his participation in some of the most bitter partisan fights in recent times.

"They do not let on that Judge Kavanaugh is by legacy and experience a charter member of elite Washington: His family's government-centric social circle, his two summer jobs on Capitol Hill, his White House service, his golfing at the capital's country clubs, his residence in one of the richest suburban enclaves in America. Nor do they note that Judge Kavanaugh's nomination is the culmination of a 30-year conservative movement to shift the judiciary to the right." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bce53a3bbb87fe35045b187e8ffaae8fb0f24cf4d85cfce8ba3bc43a1a4dae61821c41eb8035e87c620868befa8d0982

SOME GOOD NUGGETS FROM THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE WORLD ...

-- AARON SCHOCK, who goes on trial for more than 20 federal crimes in January, spent another $28,511 on legal fees. He has just $73,153 on hand, and has $746,985.45 in debt to Jones Day. Jones Day represented him when he resigned from Congress. Don McGahn, now White House counsel, did some work for Schock at Jones Day.

-- MJ HEGAR's "Doors" campaign video -- made by Mark Putnam -- was a viral hit (http://bit.ly/2NTyYbB). She's also raised a pile of money. Hegar, who is running against Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), raised $1.1 million in the second quarter of 2018. She has $867,266.98 on hand. The Putnam video cost $41,118.


Playbook Reads


PHOTO DU JOUR: President Donald Trump waves to protesters while playing golf at Turnberry golf club, in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 14. A dozen demonstrators staged a protest picnic on the beach in front of the golf resort. | Peter Morrison/AP Photo

2020 WATCH -- NYT'S ALEX BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN: "Warren is Preparing for 2020. So Are Biden, Booker, Harris and Sanders": "Mr. Biden, 75, is preparing to test a contrasting message this fall, with plans to campaign up to four days a week after Labor Day, people familiar with his strategy said. In his speeches so far, Mr. Biden has struck a gentler chord than Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren, delivering paeans to bipartisanship and beckoning Democrats to rise above Mr. Trump's demagogic taunts. ... Mr. Biden's most important step so far has been to help install a close ally, James Smith, as the Democratic nominee for governor in the early primary state of South Carolina."
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bce53a3bbb87fe35598fc451e78dc38eeee043ce94da190d32a2d0cb4bd6419df5c7a9d2aea5c1f239ee749dc23b8b21

-- DAVID SIDERS: "Mayors muscle into 2020 presidential race": "No mayor has ever sprung directly from City Hall to the White House. But that historic streak stands to be tested in 2020, with at least three Democratic mayors mulling presidential campaigns: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

"They're exploiting a newfound opening for politicians at the municipal level, one enabled by broader economic and cultural forces, among them the rise of the Democratic Party's diverse and ascendant Obama coalition." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bce53a3bbb87fe35010c61310f19bccc03c3cb615a87143470e9a1b359b7fa6eb952d9ef65c160009422ea187a4974cb

OUCH! -- "Feinstein gets progressive smackdown," by California Playbookers Carla Marinucci and Jeremy B. White: "California Democrats, torn by infighting between moderate and progressive factions, rebuked Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bid for a fifth term - for the second time this year.

"The state party's executive committee voted Saturday to endorse progressive state Sen. Kevin de León in the general election, signaling what many fear will be a divisive Democrat-on-Democrat battle going toward to the fall in California, where the party hoped to put the focus on a host of crucial congressional races that could determine control of the House of Representatives.

"The endorsement delivers a lifeline to de León's struggling campaign - and the party's imprimatur, which is accompanied by valuable access to slate cards, email lists and voter outreach machinery that will allow him to reach an estimated 2 million Democratic voters. And he could also get an infusion of federal campaign cash shared with the party, party officials said." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bce53a3bbb87fe35e39b0b137bce050db43d66fa14106504667fde8fc70ee75a423a3b38f53d62b8926358206190e663


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IVANKA INC. - "Hudson's Bay Company In Canada Dumping Ivanka Trump Products," by HuffPost's Mary Papenfuss: "Canada's oldest department store chain is dropping all Ivanka Trump products. Hudson's Bay Company, founded in London in 1670, has already eliminated more than 150 items from its website, including clothing, shoes and jewelry. It will also phase all of the first daughter's products out of its 90 stores across Canada in the fall. ...

"Officials cited the poor sales performance of the product line owned by the senior White House adviser. ... Hudson's Bay, which is headquartered in Toronto, is the 40th Canadian company that has dropped Ivanka Trump's products since the boycotts were launched, according to the founder of the movement, Shannon Coulter." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bce53a3bbb87fe351ff3889f4e3ca20fe8c3227f6849dfb96acc5f2b660866aa391a8f4bf0b120884f5ef17f3c2ff692

FOR YOUR RADAR - "Western allies plan White Helmets evacuation from Syria," by CBS News' Kylie Atwood and Margaret Brennan: "As Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's regime violently assaults the southern region of Syria, an area formerly protected by the Trump administration, the members of the all-volunteer rescue organization known as the White Helmets are in danger of assassination. Once favorites to win the Nobel Peace Prize for their life-saving efforts in rebel-held territory throughout Syria's brutal seven-year war, these rescue workers are now in need of rescuing themselves.

"CBS News has learned the question of how to extract the emergency workers was raised with President Trump in multiple conversations with allied countries on the sidelines of the NATO summit. The Netherlands, U.K., France, Canada and Germany are scrambling to find a way to save the lives of an estimated 1,000 volunteers and their family members. Around 300 of them are considered to be in imminent danger." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bce53a3bbb87fe352ab726ec751e6e7caaa603f140edd46fa166e2ad2d1b8406a34947f3143a1338da418f592645ecf1

BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman, filing from Great Barrington, Massachusetts:

-- "I Know What Incarceration Does to Families. It Happened to Mine," by Michiko Kakutani in the NYT: "My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II. The faded photo of my mother, my aunt and my grandparents, standing in front of the Topaz Relocation Center barracks ... used to feel like an artifact from a thankfully distant era ... And yet today in America under President Trump, the news is filled with pictures and stories of families and children being held in detention centers." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e5711c2f54930eb6b4f408f255f70324edcb36b7c543376360c29ce5763bc9ae553a9f74b5c8fda5a8

-- "'Google Was Not a Normal Place': Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company that Changed Everything," by Adam Fisher, in an excerpt of "Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)," in Vanity Fair: "A behind-the-scenes account of the most important company on the Internet, from grad-school all-nighters, space tethers, and Burning Man to the 'eigenvector of a matrix,' humongous wealth, and extraordinary power." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e50b1c83af9dff521518450f229b1fc263e0b52a7d89b57cee6a2582ada4d574cc278345c410f6bd59 ... $18 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e5b7bdb26e2245a139be58ca1cc83c816a43f15f275425d0182c23da54991c7bbf036ea012e354cda5

-- "What's the greatest book about politics? Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and others weigh in," by Steve Israel in WaPo - with book picks by Nancy Pelosi, Jeb Bush, David Axelrod, David Petraeus, Sherrod Brown, Peter king, Adam Schiff, James Stavridis, Seth Moulton, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and others: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e5af8df85f893dac0a98ac8a9a958ce6778aba278e79334ad3325c9ee18f811f95ed994893c4252a97

-- "Her Husband Was a Princeton Graduate Student. Then He Was Taken Prisoner in Iran," by Laura Secor in the N.Y. Times Magazine: "Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband - one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e56bca1bcc2de7bf5aa053f1f7770ea56d086db8a6bfa75f6166ca1d1166cf6d6ae61771d6ce8077df

-- "Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart - Or His Handler?" by Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine: "A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e57df3f69872ee3ebb5dcd374a6b77f55faff5c4e28e04281d46e4d46137903c8b6216606ae2e7e059

-- "How Democrats would be better off if Bill Clinton had never been president," by Neil Swidey in The Boston Globe: "A look at the Clinton blunders that continue to damage his party today -- and what might have happened if George H.W. Bush had won a second term." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e54ea79ed71a75130c1d8e9b4bf4d717688e598e0462e43c2a5ce982e6aaa54013bfe6dcdf753dbdf4

-- "Should we hide the locations of Earth's greatest trees?" by Robert Earle Howells in the San Francisco Chronicle - per Longreads.com's description: "When everyone wants to photograph themselves beside the world's biggest coastal redwoods, the trees' roots get trampled, soil compacted, and visitors damage the objects of their affection. So can the National Park Service protect certain ancient trees by concealing them?" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e5c65ba75e25eb4f203417a2c6868bcd28e51a24e2118da64e541f4bb4709757c6785f0489f0dfb388

-- "The Fast and Furious Michael Avenatti," by Matthew Shaer in the N.Y. Times Magazine: "In representing the porn star Stormy Daniels, the lawyer thinks he can bring down a president - one cable-news appearance at a time." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e54424dec994c50c8943393e890e1071204d1972a390f9d07bd2c3f40f274da435d63f1fb7160380d8

-- "Donations from candidate's father fueled high-spending race for California's No. 2 position," by Tim Burger in the L.A. Times: "The spending by self-made Sacramento real estate magnate Angelo Tsakopoulos through a political action committee of the California Medical Assn. has drawn scrutiny. ... Tsakopoulos gave millions to the CMA's PAC promoting his daughter [Eleni Kounalakis, the former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary]."
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=254926dfc7a022e5491f77e22a11cf9291e3bfc81b6e197d2ee5d460a86832018daf00d4f85191a69f78c8105b0f64ea

-- "The Extinction of the Middle Child," by Adam Sternbergh in The Cut - per Longreads.com's description: "Statistics show that a family's ideal size has shrunk to two kids, leaving the middle child to go the way of the mastadon." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=97c6ecf7f87de147dd6a061ee5d5c8e5fc7362197f17ed77d8674bfd7cdcbafc217423f86e96386cfbb54a35645470c5

-- "How 20-Year-Old Kylie Jenner Built A $900 Million Fortune In Less Than 3 Years," by Forbes' Natalie Robehmed - per TheBrowser.com's description: "Kylie Jenner's cosmetics start-up has just seven full-time and five part-time employees. Everything is outsourced. Yet Forbes values the company at $800 million, and Jenner, who is 20, at $900 million. 'Another year of growth will make her the youngest self-made billionaire ever,' displacing Mark Zuckerberg, who banked his first billion at 23. 'As ultralight startups go, Jenner's operation is essentially air. All Jenner does to make all that money is leverage her social media following.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=97c6ecf7f87de147687de71d0700cce22b2b6e070812982be2e4f52d1bda0b29fe664a4e422f702d22a8d7c6785ab0de

-- "What Is 'Sharp Power'?" by Christopher Walker in Democracy Journal: "Beijing and its surrogates have also scaled up their political interference in democracies, with Australia and New Zealand serving as testing grounds. Australia's authorities have mapped out an unprecedented effort by the Chinese Communist Party to 'infiltrate Australian political and foreign affairs circles, as well as to gain more influence over the nation's growing Chinese population.' Similar intrusions have come to light in New Zealand." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=97c6ecf7f87de1479a46636f2bf2dca9b6028b2c1a5e4b0399b6102a03846e084048afb1424679e37bac7a80e7a53593

-- "When Rio Tinto Met China's Iron Hand," by Kit Chellel, Franz Wild, and David Stringer in Bloomberg Businessweek: "In 2010, four employees of the mining giant were jailed and accused of stealing commercial secrets. Today, the company is more reliant on China than ever." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=97c6ecf7f87de1479c822f289096bf8660e1e47dd2366275a7c5fbf8cf8e6f4de9557ed3dc5e4dbb82814032a4b09eed
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SPOTTED: Mick Mulvaney last night at Biergarten Haus on H Street ... Sheriff Dave Clarke walking at Rhode Island Ave NW and 17th Street - pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=97c6ecf7f87de14773dc5cfe314f2c733940cf3acb21ee7b0131172239c09fe3b3b7970ce20589521433fe6564c37f7e

WEEKEND WEDDINGS -- OBAMA ALUMNI -- Sean Savett, press secretary for Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and an O'Malley alum, married Taylor Lustig, an Obama W.H. and Dept. of Labor alum who is now external affairs manager at Pepsi at the Standard Club in Chicago Saturday night. Pool report: "Highlights of the stunning affair included: a cocktail hour including lamb chops, a sushi station, and chicken and waffles; Sean's Dad's toast ending with the Philadelphia Eagles fight song; and the band rocking out until 1 a.m." Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=97c6ecf7f87de147b40fb3ca2084224ecc0fb993810e22c922c211ba10dd75c9073eea310ac2825bb8552c16720cdb24 ... NYT announcement http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=97c6ecf7f87de147c733fa8a549603413430203d3c2bd80614cf8ed50d1a12b5274c6e64cb8d871ca880d673e30f7f10

SPOTTED: Kenny Thompson, Jess Wright, Ashley Allison, Yochi and Anne Dreazen, Matt Corridoni, Carlee Griffith, bridesmaid Katie Glueck, groomsmen Dan Conston and Alfred Artis, Ben Garmisa, Nichola Greenblatt, Julia Bradshaw, Evan Keller and Daniel Wolman.

-- Natalie Andrews, Congress reporter for the Wall Street Journal, married Christopher Silva, the housing director at American University, in a ceremony in Logan, Utah, where they met. Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=97c6ecf7f87de1476a5aa3b61a9db0f0aa71cf8fad65e3b821bd419032734f6509190c5a2c1dd2fd68006f034718dbbb

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Ted Goodman, communications director for John James for U.S. Senate in Michigan, turned 27 (hat tip: Tori Sachs)

BIRTHDAYS: Chris LaCivita is 52 ... WaPo's Paul Kane, who was out at Saltline last night with Reid Wilson and Brad Dayspring ... Gareth Rhodes ... Arianna Huffington is 68 (h/t Herbie Ziskend) ... Jim Merrill of New Hampshire ... Jeremy Bird, founding partner and president of 270 Strategies, is 4-0 ... Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America ... Penn Staples ... Heather Higginbottom, COO of CARE and former Obama deputy secretary of state (h/ts Jon Haber) ... Liana Balinsky-Baker of Reuters ... Ariel Zirulnick of The New Tropic in Miami (h/ts Emily Stephenson) ... Catherine Moeder-Brady, staff assistant at WH Office of Management and Administration ...
Karin Johanson ... Zach Wahls ... Dan Hewitt, VP at Entertainment Software Association (h/t Alex Slater) ... Svetlana Legetic, co-founder of Brightest Young Things ... Dr. David Lippman is 73 (h/t son Daniel) ... Amanda Fernandez (h/t Ben Chang) ... Alex Lasry, SVP of the Milwaukee Bucks and lead of the #Milwaukee2020 DNC Convention bid, celebrating in Connecticut with his niece who shares a bday (h/t Melanie Fonder Kaye) ...

... Elliot Gerson, EVP at the Aspen Institute, is 66 ... Susan McCue (h/t Tim Burger) ... Elizabeth Reyes, a digital strategist at Saguaro Strategies (h/t Andy Barr) ... Wallis Annenberg, president and chairman of the board of the Annenberg Foundation, is 79 ... Edelman's Ericka Perryman ... Andrew Usyk ... Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) is 66 ... Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) is 6-0 ... Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) is 57 ... Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) is 52 ... Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) is 58 ... Dan Auger ... Chad Stovall ... Chris Duffner ... Michael Francisco ... Taylor Lindman ... Seth Grossman ... Bloomberg's Jodi Schneider, now in Hong Kong ... Jackie Spinner ... Hilary
Leighty ... Jason Wheeler ... Jamil Poonja ... Helen Hare ... Gwendolyn Ward ... Allison Steil ... Bekah Geffert ... Campbell Roth ... Marisa McAuliffe ... Erica Fein ... Babak Talebi is 39 ... Brunswick Group partner Mark Palmer (h/t George Little) ... Deb Rosen ... Kandy Stroud (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)

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