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DRIVING THE DAY
HOLD-YOUR-BREATH SATURDAY ... It feels like we're all watching the same season of a television show, and we're in between episodes, waiting to see what happens next with BRETT KAVANAUGH'S nomination to the Supreme Court and ROD ROSENSTEIN'S job.

OK, KAVANAUGH: FORGET THE NOISE, because there are four key votes: SENS. SUSAN COLLINS (R-MAINE), JEFF FLAKE (R-ARIZ.), BOB CORKER (R-TENN.) and LISA MURKOWSKI (R-ALASKA). Two of these four are retiring. Let's call them the Court Quartet.

-- There are three general scenarios in thinking about what happens to Kavanaugh. Scenario 1: DR. CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD does not testify, and Republicans push Kavanaugh through. This puts the Court Quartet in a really tough position. They will have given Ford the opportunity to talk, and if she chooses not to, they have political cover to vote yes. Murkowski might vote against him because of Alaska issues -- the state's governor and lieutenant governor have come out against Kavanaugh.

-- Scenario 2: Kavanaugh withdraws. He decides the fight isn't worth it. This is certainly possible, and you should watch for this in the coming days.

-- Scenario 3: Ford testifies. This is the worst outcome for Republicans. They'd be put in a position of deciding whether they believe her or not weeks before Election Day.

THE POLITICS: REPUBLICANS can't look like they are ignoring a victim or railroading her. So far, they've given her lots of opportunities to talk. But they have said the leeway will come to an end soon.

NOW FOR ROSENSTEIN. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein survived the night after the New York Times' Adam Goldman and Mike Schmidt reported that he said he was thinking about taping PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP to prove he was not fit to be president. He denied it vociferously. The NYT story

-- READ THE TEA LEAVES, and you get the sense that Trump will not fire Rosenstein. Last night, SEAN HANNITY said this: "I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody." Hannity said it was a set up.

-- ANNIE KARNI (@anniekarni): ".@IngrahamAngle deleted her tweet that said 'Rod Rosenstein must be fired today.'"

-- TRUMP'S ALLIES IN CONGRESS were telling us last night that this is a distraction. They want Rosenstein to fork over ANDY MCCABE'S documents so people can judge whether the FBI and DOJ are on the level or not.

Good Saturday morning. 45 DAYS until Election Day, and the government shuts down Friday. if you're a Democrat, you look at all of this and feel pretty good.

THE PRESIDENT is at his golf club in New Jersey.

QUICK COMMERCIAL BREAK ... STUNNING AD ... ARIZONA REP. PAUL GOSAR'S siblings have cut an ad for his opponent! Gosar is a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. The minute-long spot

MORE ON KAVANAUGH ...

-- @ChuckGrassley at 11:27 p.m.: "Five times now we hv granted extension for Dr Ford to decide if she wants to proceed w her desire stated one wk ago that she wants to tell senate her story Dr Ford if u changed ur mind say so so we can move on I want to hear ur testimony. Come to us or we to u" ...

... at 11:42 p.m.: "Judge Kavanaugh I just granted another extension to Dr Ford to decide if she wants to proceed w the statement she made last week to testify to the senate She shld decide so we can move on I want to hear her. I hope u understand. It's not my normal approach to b indecisive" ...

... at 11:55 p.m.: "With all the extensions we give Dr Ford to decide if she still wants to testify to the Senate I feel like I'm playing 2nd trombone in the judiciary orchestra and Schumer is the conductor".

-- ELANA SCHOR and BURGESS EVERETT, "Grassley extends deadline on Kavanaugh accuser's decision to testify".

-- WAPO'S JESSICA CONTRERA, IAN SHAPIRA, EMMA BROWN and STEVEN HENDRIX: "Christine Blasey Ford wanted to flee the U.S. to avoid Brett Kavanaugh. Now she may testify against him": "When Donald Trump won his upset presidential victory in 2016, Christine Blasey Ford's thoughts quickly turned to a name most Americans had never heard of but one that had unsettled her for years: Brett M. Kavanaugh.

"Kavanaugh - a judge on the prestigious U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia - was among those mentioned as a possible replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016. When Trump nominated Neil M. Gorsuch, Ford was relieved but still uneasy. ...

"Ford had already moved 3,000 miles away from the affluent Maryland suburbs where she says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a house party - a charge he would emphatically deny. Suddenly, living in California didn't seem far enough. Maybe another hemisphere would be. She went online to research other democracies where her family might settle, including New Zealand." WaPo

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-- SLEUTHING ... "Kavanaugh ally says he did not communicate with White House or Supreme Court nominee about theory of another attacker," by WaPo's Elise Viebeck, Emma Brown and Bob Costa: "A conservative legal commentator on Friday denied communicating with the White House or Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh about his theory that the woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault was mistaking him for someone else. 'I have not communicated at all with [White House counsel] Donald McGahn or anyone at the White House, or Judge Kavanaugh, about the topic of the Twitter thread,' Ed Whelan said in a brief interview with The Washington Post. ...

"On Sunday, Ford noticed that - even before her name became public - Whelan appeared to be seeking information about her. That morning, Ford alerted an associate via email that Whelan had looked at her LinkedIn page, according to the email, which was reviewed by The Post.

"LinkedIn allows some subscribers to see who views their pages. Ford sent the email about 90 minutes after The Post shared her name with a White House spokesman and hours before her identity was revealed in a story posted on its website. A White House spokesman said Friday that neither Kavanaugh nor anyone in the White House gave Ford's name to Whelan before it was disclosed by The Post.

"After The Post contacted the White House for comment Sunday morning, deputy White House press secretary Raj Shah called a number of Trump allies to warn them about the upcoming story, according to a person familiar with the calls, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

"He disclosed Ford's identity to a number of these people but did not talk to Whelan, the person said. Other White House officials, including McGahn, also made calls according to a second person, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. Whelan did not respond to a request for comment on how he first learned of Ford's identity." WaPo

-- KNOWING MARK JUDGE: "'100 Kegs or Bust': Kavanaugh friend, Mark Judge, has spent years writing about high school debauchery," by WaPo's Marc Fisher and Perry Stein: "A review of books, articles and blog posts by Judge - a freelance writer who has shifted among jobs at a record store, substitute teaching, housesitting and most recently at a liquor store - describes an '80s private-school party scene in which heavy drinking and sexual encounters were standard fare.

"Judge wrote about the pledge he and his friends at the all-male school on Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, Md., made to drink 100 kegs of beer before graduation. On their way to that goal, there was a 'disastrous' party 'at my house where the place was trashed,' Judge wrote in his book 'God and Man at Georgetown Prep' Kavanaugh listed himself in the class yearbook as treasurer of the '100 Kegs or Bust' club.

"'I'll be the first one to defend guys being guys,' Judge wrote in a 2015 article on the website Acculturated. He described a party culture of 'drinking and smoking and hooking up.' During senior year, Judge said he and his pals hired a stripper and bought a keg for a bachelor party they threw to honor their school's music teacher. 'I drank too much and did stupid things,' he said in his memoir." WaPo

-- BACK STORY, via ELIANA JOHNSON: "PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi": "It turns out that the Keystone Cops detective work by conservative legal activist Ed Whelan - which set Washington abuzz with the promise of exonerating Brett Kavanaugh, only to be met by mockery and then partially retracted - was not his handiwork alone. CRC Public Relations, the prominent Alexandria, Virginia-based P.R. firm, guided Whelan through his roller-coaster week of Twitter pronouncements that ended in embarrassment and a potential setback for Kavanaugh's hopes of landing on the high court, according to three sources familiar with their dealings.

"After suggesting on Twitter on Tuesday that he had obtained information that would exculpate Kavanaugh from the sexual assault allegation made by Christine Blasey Ford, Whelan worked over the next 48 hours with CRC and its president, Greg Mueller, to stoke the anticipation. A longtime friend of Kavanaugh's, Whelan teased his reveal - even as he refused to discuss it with other colleagues and close friends, a half dozen of them said." POLITICO

-- BREAKING ... NBC NEWS' HEIDI PRZYBYLA: "Spokesman for GOP on Kavanaugh nomination resigns; has been accused of harassment in the past": "A top press adviser helping lead the Senate Judiciary Committee's response to a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment allegation against him.

"Garrett Ventry, 29, who serves as a communications aide to the committee chaired by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, had been helping coordinate the majority party's messaging in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford's claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago at a high school party. In a response to NBC News, Ventry denied any past 'allegations of misconduct.'" NBC News

-- WHAT?! ... "HUD Secretary Ben Carson claims Kavanaugh allegations are part of a centuries old socialist plot," by CNBC's Christina Wilkie: "Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson told an audience of conservative activists on Friday that the sexual assault allegations facing President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court are part of a plot by socialists to take over America that dates back more than a century.

"'If you really understand the big picture of what's going on, then what's going on with Kavanaugh will make perfectly good sense to you,' Carson said at the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington. '

"'There've been people in this country for a very long time, going all the way back to the Fabians, people who've wanted to fundamentally change this country.' The term 'Fabians' refers to the Fabian Society, a British socialist organization that was founded in the 19th century, and which today functions as part of the UK's Labour Party." CNBC

WILD STORY ... A man named LARRY RUBIN is in Mexico, calling himself the representative of the GOP in the country. The U.S. doesn't have an ambassador there. Jose Cardenas

BROCK LONG UPDATE ... "FEMA chief to reimburse government for personal use of federal vehicles," by Daniel Lippman: "FEMA Administrator Brock Long has been forced to reimburse the government for improper personal use of federal government vehicles and acknowledged 'mistakes' that he and FEMA made in using those vehicles. A DHS Inspector General investigation found there was 'inappropriate use' of the vehicles, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement released Friday night. ... POLITICO first reported last week that an IG investigation had been opened into Long's use of government Chevrolet Suburbans." POLITICO

EASY TO WIN ... "China Cancels Trade Talks With U.S. Amid Escalation in Tariff Threats," by WSJ's Lingling Wei: "China scotched trade talks with the U.S. that were planned for the coming days, according to people briefed on the matter, further dimming prospects for resolving a trade battle between the world's two largest economies. The decision to pull out of the talks follows the latest escalation in trade tensions. ... Chinese officials have said they wouldn't bend to pressure tactics. By declining to participate in the talks, the people said, Beijing is following up on its pledge to avoid negotiating under threat." WSJ

TAYLOR GOURMET is closing. That's bad news. Anyone want to buy it and save it? WaPo

BLOOMBERG'S BEN BRODY and JEN JACOBS: "White House Drafts Order To Look Into Google, Facebook Practices"

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THE INVESTIGATIONS ...

-- MUST READ ... WAPO'S ROS HELDERMAN: "How a British music publicist ended up in the middle of the Russia storm":

-- "Billionaire Backer of Maria Butina Had Russian Security Ties," by NYT's Mike McIntire: "An oligarch who helped finance a Russian gun rights activist accused of infiltrating American conservative circles has been a discreet source of funds for business ventures useful to the Russian military and security services, according to documents and interviews. The oligarch, Konstantin Nikolaev, emerged in July as the enigmatic backer of Maria Butina, the activist charged with conspiring to use the National Rifle Association to cultivate Republicans in the United States. Mr. Nikolaev has acknowledged underwriting her gun rights advocacy in the past, but denies any involvement in a Russian
influence operation and says his only dealings with his government are limited to routine business needs. ...

"Mr. Nikolaev has been an investor in a gun company run by his wife that developed a sniper rifle used by the Russian National Guard, which reports directly to President Vladimir V. Putin. He is also a major investor in a satellite imagery firm that has a license from the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., to handle classified information." NYT

HOLLYWOODLAND -- "Joe Biden Set to Hold Beverly Hills Fundraiser Hosted By Jeffrey Katzenberg," by the Hollywood Reporter's Peter Kiefer: "The former vice president will dust off his fundraising chops for an Oct. 3 fundraiser that will be held in Beverly Hills, just weeks before the country heads to the polls for the midterm elections. The $5,000 per plate event is being organized by Gonring, Spahn and Associates along with Jeffrey Katzenberg. Proceeds will benefit Biden's PAC American Possibilities, which supports Democratic candidates and causes." THR
PLAYBOOK READS


PHOTO DU JOUR: President Donald Trump shakes hands with Missouri Attorney General and Senate candidate Josh Hawley during a campaign rally Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, in Springfield, Mo. | Charlie Riedel/AP Photo

MORE TRUMP BOOKS! -- "The Future Of Publishing Is Just Books About Donald Trump Forever Until You Are Dead," by BuzzFeed's Steven Perlberg: "Millions of readers have taken a well-deserved break from a frenzied news cycle to sit down, relax, and read some books about Donald Trump. Now there are more accounts on the way. Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, reporters covering the White House for the Washington Post, have a book in the works, according to three people familiar with the matter. Chuck Todd, host of NBC's Meet the Press, also will team up with Politico writer Michael Kruse for a book, according to sources familiar with the project. Todd declined to comment. Kruse, Rucker, and Leonnig
did not return requests for comment." BuzzFeed

HMM -- "Ex-Trump Lawyer Tried to Help Pay Legal Fees for Manafort, Gates," by WSJ's Rebecca Ballhaus: "A top lawyer for President Trump this year sought to help pay legal fees for Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, initially trying to divert money from the White House legal defense fund and later soliciting donors and pledging $25,000 of his own. In both cases, the president's advisers objected to the lawyer's actions over concerns it could appear aimed at stopping the two former aides from cooperating with investigators. John Dowd, who at the time was heading Mr. Trump's legal team, at the start of the year told associates of the president he wanted to direct money from the legal defense
fund set up for White House officials and campaign aides to the lawyers for Messrs. Manafort and Gates, according to people familiar with the matter." WSJ

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CLICKER - "The nation's cartoonists on the week in politics," edited by Matt Wuerker - 11 keepers

GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:

-- "For Valentino Dixon, a wrong righted," by Max Adler in Golf Digest: "With an investigation Golf Digest helped open, an Erie County court vacated Dixon's murder conviction after he had already served 27 years in jail." Golf Digest

-- "David Boies Pleads Not Guilty," by NYT's James Stewart: "When I arrived on a late July afternoon for an interview with David Boies at his mansion in Westchester County, displaced furniture filled the foyer and workmen occupied much of the famed litigator's home. Water from an unchecked bathtub had cascaded through the house, reaching all the way to his cellar and his vast collection of rare wines. ... Mr. Boies said he had no plans to retire. ... He's busy on a constitutional challenge to the Electoral College. On a pro bono basis, he's representing a sex-trafficking victim in a suit against the billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein." NYT

-- "Inside One Police Chief's Hunt for Justice in a Pair of Unsolved Mississippi Murders," by Adam Leith Gollner in October's Vanity Fair: "After two women were found brutally murdered in the Delta in the mid-90s, a 'magnolia curtain' of silence descended. But a one-time local police chief won't let the case die." VF

-- "R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile," by NYT's Jon Caramanica - per ALDaily.com's description: "The death of the celebrity profile. It's been supplanted by Instagram and the first-person essays of the famous. The loss to public culture is real." NYT

-- "How to Live Better, According to Nietzsche," by Becca Rothfeld in October's Atlantic: "John Kaag's fascinating new book about the German thinker seeks to tether philosophy back to the mess of daily experience." Atlantic ... $17.10 on Amazon

-- "Missing the Dark Satanic Mills," by Deborah Cohen in the N.Y. Review of Books, reviewing "Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World," by Joshua B. Freeman: "The largest factories served as beacons of modernity, conjuring up either the horrors or the delights to come. But whether size mattered otherwise - in the productivity of a country's industrial sector, its capacity for innovation, or its working conditions - is doubtful. In 1871, when Britain produced one fifth of all manufactured products in the world, the average British manufacturer had fewer than twenty workers." NYRB ... $19 on Amazon (h/t TheBrowser.com)

-- "A Prescription for Forgetting," by Diane Mehta in Longreads: "Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories." Longreads

-- "What do we owe her now?" by Elizabeth Bruenig in WaPo in Arlington, Texas: "Twelve years ago, Amber Wyatt reported her rape. Few believed her. Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her." WaPo

-- "How Maya Rudolph Became the Master of Impressions," by Caity Weaver in the NYT Magazine: "The actress and comedian can move up and down the scales of race, age and gender with hilarious ease - a talent that grew from finding her place in a world where no one looked like her." NYT

-- "Tell Me It's Going to be OK," by Miya Tokumitsu in The Baffler: "Believers in capitalist liberal democracies may cluck at the over-the-top Maoist inquisitions devoted to revolutionary self-criticism, but our society encourages us to practice the same extravagant self-loathing, only privately." Baffler

-- "The Disappeared," by ProPublica's Hannah Dreier: "Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better - and searched MS-13's killing fields for answers." ProPublica (h/t Longform.org)
PLAYBOOKERS
OUT AND ABOUT - Pool report: "Carl Hulse, Mark Mazzetti and NYT colleagues of Mark Leibovich hosted a book party last night at WeWork, on G Street, in honor of Mark's 'Big Game: the NFL in Dangerous Times,' which debuted this week at #11 on the New York Times bestseller list. Leibovich, whose 2013 'This Town' spent 12 weeks on the Times bestseller list, wore a game-official New England Patriots helmet during remarks, while Hulse (in a Chicago Bears jersey) and Mazzetti (distributing football cards) stood by and an NFL Films highlight reel played on a big screen in the background." $18.30 on Amazon

SPOTTED: Scott Moyers, Liz Calamari, Elisabeth Bumiller, Bill Hamilton, Mark Landler, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Paul Kane, Binyamin Appelbaum, Adam Goldman and Allison Hoffman, Alan Rappaport, Hanna Rosin and David Plotz, Lizey Leibovich and Eleanor Gallay, Peter Canellos, Paul Volpe, Matt Rosenberg and Katherine Finnerty, Jeremy Peters, Robert Pear, Mike Shear, Lisa Lerer, Nell Henderson, Emmarie Huetteman, Maureen Dowd, Maria Comella ...

... Ruth Marcus, Sally Quinn, Mallory Shelbourne, Roger Simon, Jonathan Weisman, Jennifer Steinhauer, Antonia Ferrier, Karen Tumulty, Paul and Lisa Farhi, Samantha Smith, Lauren Fritts, Craig Brownstein, Brian Jones, Alex Conant, Keven Madden, Emily Yoffe, Zeke Miller, Mandy Grunwald, Margaret Carlson, Bob Draper, Michael Shaffer and Brian Jones.

SPOTTED: Elton John chatting with Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) before a concert last night at the Capital One Arena. During the concert, he "took a break to thank his members of the band and then gave a shout out to thank Rep. Granger for their friendship and work together helping the less fortunate through her service on the House Appropriations Committee on State and Foreign Operations," per our tipster. Pic of the two

BIRTHDAYS: Ryder Sherman is 1. He's celebrating with his cousins, his aunts and uncle and both sets of grandparents. ... Amy Chozick ... Carl Cameron is 57 ... Kelly Ilagan, WH liaison at Commerce ... Politico's Sarah Cabrera ... incoming Politico Massachusetts Playbook author Stephanie Murray ... TJ Ducklo, senior comms director at NBC News, is 3-0 ... Marc Charon ... Rita Medina ... Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is 66 ... Rich Meade, vice chairman of Prime Policy Group, is 51 ... Natalie Daly ... Katie McBreen, National Retail Federation V.P. of comms and public affairs ... Jon Romano, senior adviser to R.I. Gov. Gina Raimondo (h/t wife Jenn and son Leo) ... Center for Public Integrity
national security reporter Patrick Malone (hat tip: Dave Levinthal) ... Bianca Opris ... Becca Lauer of American Bridge ... Molly Mirhashem ... Edelman's Kelsey Cohen ... Mary Kalbach Horan ... former Rep. Tim Wirth (D-Colo.) is 79 ... former Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) is 72 ...

... Tommy Burr (h/t Connor Richards) ... BuzzFeed's Dara Levy ... Caroline Schaber ... Justin Germany, a McCain and Bush alum now at Outlaw Media, is 39 ... Lavin Gartland ... Shannon Graves ... Lynn Reed ... Doug Boles ... Charlotte Gruen ... Lois Cassano ... Chelsie Paulson ... Diana McLellan ... Tandy Dickerson ... Ambassador David Pressman, now a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner ... CNN national security producer Jamie Crawford ... Jerald Watson ... Mike Rossetti ... Mayer Brown partner Ken Geller ... Athan Koutsiouroumbas ... Jennifer Donahue ... Chris Carlson ... Devika Ranjan ... James Slepian ... Nick Everhart ... Brett Broesder ... Brian Wright O'Connor is 62 ... Heather Dawn
Thompson ... Lynn Reed ... Stacy Kerr ... Jack Pagano ... Hayley Zachary (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)

THE SHOWS, by @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin:

CNN

"State of the Union": U.S. Amb. to the U.N. Nikki Haley ... Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii)

Fox

"Fox News Sunday": Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Panel: Jason Miller, Bob Woodward, Gillian Turner and Juan Williams ... "Power Player of the Week" segment with D.C. United's Wayne Rooney

NBC

"Meet the Press": Mike Pompeo ... Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) ... Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) ... new NBC/WSJ poll ... author Marvin Kalb ("Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism and the Threat to American Democracy"). Panel: Helene Cooper ... Jonah Goldberg ... Eliana Johnson ... Chris Matthews

ABC

"This Week": Panel: Matthew Dowd, Cokie Roberts, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) ... Patrick Gaspard and Sheryl Gay Stolberg

CBS

"Face the Nation": Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) ... Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) ... Nikki Haley ... Anthony Salvanto and Ed O'Keefe and the latest CBS News/YouGov battleground tracker. Panel: Dan Balz, Reihan Salam ("Melting Pot or Civil War?"), Seung Min Kim and Amy Walter

Fox News

"Sunday Morning Futures": Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) ... John Bolton... Tom Fitton. Panel: James Freeman and Mark Penn

Fox News

"MediaBuzz": Emily Jashinsky, who recently joined The Federalist as culture editor ... Sara Fischer ... Capri Cafaro ... Susan Ferrechio ... Mara Liasson ... Katrina Pierson ... technology analyst Shana Glenzer

CNN

"Inside Politics": Mike Bender, Molly Ball, Manu Raju and Rachael Bade (substitute anchor: CNN's Dana Bash)

CNN

"Fareed Zakaria GPS": Mike Bloomberg ... author and Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif ("Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening")

CNN

"Reliable Sources": Panel: Jill Abramson ("Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas"), Charlotte Alter, TheLi.st writer and founder Rachel Sklar and Charles Blow ... Olivia Nuzzi and David Zurawik ... Olivier Knox

Univision

"Al Punto": Carmen Yulín Cruz ... Guillermo Moreno ... former Dominican Republic prosecutor and politician Guillermo Moreno ... Proceso's Jesús Esquivel ... Mediaset's Dori Toribio ... Univision News' Pablo Gato ... musician Pepe Aguilar

C-SPAN

"The Communicators": Open Markets Institute executive director Barry Lynn, questioned by Ashley Gold ... "Newsmakers": House Majority PAC executive director Charlie Kelly, questioned by Alexis Levinson and Sean Sullivan ... "Q&A": Major Garrett

MSNBC

"Kasie DC": Michael Steele ... Katty Kay ... Alexi McCammond ... Jon Meacham ... Sam Stein ... Gregg Nunziata ... Eddie Glaude, Jr. ... Steve Kornacki ... former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

Washington Times

"Mack on Politics" weekly politics podcast with Matt Mackowiak (download on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher or listen at MackOnPolitics.com): Chris Stirewalt ("Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists").

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