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


GOOD FRIDAY AFTERNOON. SCOOP -- NEW -- OBAMA FUNDRAISES FOR DCCC/DSCC: BARACK OBAMA will be the guest of honor Nov. 14 for the "House and Senate Victory Dinner" in New York, according to a copy of the invite. HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI and SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER are also listed on the invite.

"President Obama's presidency was distinguished by dignity and progress for the American people. His accomplishments are well known - from the longest stretch of private sector job creation to the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to his leadership in saving the planet to historic Wall Street reforms," Nancy Pelosi wrote to invitees. Contribution levels vary from $15,000 per person to attend the dinner, to up to $100,000 per couple to be listed a dinner chair. The invite http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7d4730639cf99bb1b4c51ab73eb25d4135f90498af6b86587a1d720f7eef17701e4e58a85b12dbed54a1b35fe7025c39

FROM MICHAEL CALDERONE -- The Atlantic removes Leon Wieseltier from the masthead: Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg told staff Friday that Wieseltier, in light of the sexual harassment allegations against him, will no longer be a contributing editor at the magazine. He noted that Wieseltier's title was "largely honorary in nature," but that in any case, they were removing his name from the masthead. Goldberg reiterated that the magazine has "zero tolerance for workplace harassment of any kind."

SWAMP CHECK -- "Tax Plan Has Lobbyists Swarming, Lawmakers Asking What's in It?" by Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur, Lynnley Browning and Anna Edgerton: "Special interests from realtors to dairy farmers will be trying to save their industry-specific tax breaks, said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity. His group, which is backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, supports ending such breaks. 'It's pretty fierce,' Phillips said. 'We met with Brady on Tuesday and he was saying their offices are swamped with all the special interest groups swarming in asking to be protected.'

"President Donald Trump has promised that middle-class Americans will be the biggest beneficiaries of the tax overhaul. But it remains to be seen which groups will lose their advantages -- a necessary step to help pay for cutting tax rates. Even Republican members of [Ways and Means chair Kevin] Brady's committee say they don't know whether any decisions have been made.

"'The problem is that Ways and Means has somewhat been kept out of the loop with details,' Representative Jim Renacci of Ohio, a member of the House tax-writing panel, said in an interview. 'There are still a lot of hurdles to get it done.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7d4730639cf99bb1efb3cc4219c5b238d4e78d127bc959a232fa7a64c0fe1eadfc9c028a611c4b63022334a08d2b6033

MCCONNELL WORLD VS. BANNON -- Senate Leadership Fund (@Senate_Fund): "Failing @BreitbartNews: traffic plummets 20% this year, desperate for attention! SAD!" Linking to an Axios post about media traffic trends http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7d4730639cf99bb11f8fb72c74c7a87018fed1dcf18ac898c0a5243803787e0941673be5a7911f0a1b34c898190159a4

LANHEE CHEN in the NYT: "How Republicans Can Make a Deal on Health Care": "In my view, Republicans should focus on revisions and improvements to the state-innovation-waiver provision in the A.C.A. As part of that provision, Section 1332 allows states to receive federal financial support in a lump sum and to waive or revise many of Obamacare's most noteworthy provisions, including its mandates, the structure and administration of subsidies provided by it, and covered benefits. In return for this flexibility, states must certify that the changes will still result in coverage that is as comprehensive, affordable and widespread as that provided for under the law."
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ON THE PRESIDENT'S MIND -- @realDonaldTrump at 6:58 a.m.: "Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning, never wins elections!" ... at 6:59 a.m.: "Thank you @foxandfriends. Really great job and show!" ... at 7:09 a.m.: "Congratulations to @SpeakerRyan, @GOPLeader, @SteveScalise and to the Republican Party on Budget passage yesterday. Now for biggest Tax Cuts" ...

... at 7:16 a.m.: "Good luck to @Joy_Villa on her decision to enter the wonderful world of politics. She has many fans!" ... at 7:38 a.m.: "JFK Files are being carefully released. In the end there will be great transparency. It is my hope to get just about everything to public!" ... 8:50 a.m.: "Happy birthday to the great @TheLeeGreenwood. You and your beautiful song have made such a difference. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" ... at 9:33 a.m.: "It is now commonly agreed, after many months of COSTLY looking, that there was NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Was collusion with HC!" ... at 10:52 a.m.: "Diane Black of Tennessee, the highly respected House Budget Committee Chairwoman, did a
GREAT job in passing Budget, setting up big Tax Cuts" The president also sent a tweet thanking Florida Gov. Rick Scott for thanking him for hurricane recovery efforts.

MUST BE NICE -- "World's witnessing a new Gilded Age as billionaires' wealth swells to $6tn," by The Guardian's Rupert Neate: "The world's super-rich hold the greatest concentration of wealth since the US Gilded Age at the turn of the 20th century, when families like the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts controlled vast fortunes. Billionaires increased their combined global wealth by almost a fifth last year to a record $6 [trillion] - more than twice the GDP of the UK. There are now 1,542 dollar billionaires across the world, after 145 multi-millionaires saw their wealth tick over into nine-zero fortunes last year." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=79cad1a340db7f778b730840885d95b9fbfcc9da9031ab0285161c5f08659a2c5b5455057b3a0716e549797a8b214216

ON THE WORLD'S STAGE -- "Spain's Lawmakers Vote to Seize Control of Catalonia," by NYT's Raphael Minder and Patrick Kingsley: "In a major escalation of Spain's territorial conflict, the Spanish Senate on Friday authorized the government to take direct control of the fractious region of Catalonia, just after Catalan lawmakers declared the region's independence. The dueling actions set up a potential showdown over the weekend, as Spain careened into its greatest constitutional crisis since it embraced democracy in 1978.

"The Senate voted 214 to 47 to invoke Article 155 of Spain's Constitution, granting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy a package of extraordinary powers to suppress Catalonia's independence drive. The measure will go into effect after it is published in the government register, which is expected to happen Friday night. ...

"Undeterred by the government's threat, and after a bitter debate, separatists in the Catalan Parliament passed a resolution to 'create a Catalan republic as an independent state.' Lawmakers opposed to independence walked out of the chamber in protest before the vote." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=79cad1a340db7f77ab64ce7d6f1f54e19fe54063dda0b7b982702705ce4f693d5f85214f601c55092480a610b8a0d29d

MARK YOUR CALENDAR -- "Carter Page scheduled for House intel committee interview," by Kyle Cheney: "Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, is scheduled to come before the House intelligence committee next week in its investigation into Russian meddling in the election. ... It's unclear if he plans to cooperate with the House's investigation when he's due to testify on Thursday. Page didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

"In an advisory, the committee described the interview as 'open' but slated to be held in a 'closed setting.' An aide said that means Page's testimony will be delivered without public or press present, but because the hearing is unclassified, a transcript may be made available later." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=79cad1a340db7f7753f539e7da7de09aecdfb2e0cdacf830121caa91f470c1f085d090d17a6e95061af72ccf11a6d320

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GRIMM'S COMEBACK TOUR -- OLIVIA NUZZI in NY Mag, "The Attempted Remaking of Michael Grimm": "Grimm owned one of the most centrist records in the 111th Congress. And then, after only four years in office, he resigned and assumed a new title: inmate 83479-053. He pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion after first being hit with a 20-count indictment related to his Upper East Side restaurant -- mail and wire fraud, filing false tax returns, perjury, hiring and employing undocumented immigrants, and so on. The establishment was called Healthalicious, and for four years before arriving in Washington, he was in the business of serving delicacies he called 'gym plates,' post-workout shakes
and, obviously, a variety of animal and plant proteins. ...

"But to the extent that Grimm was remembered at all outside of Staten Island once leaving Congress, it wasn't for Healthalicious or any victimless crimes he allegedly or admittedly committed during his stint as Meathead Emeril. It was for threatening to throw a local NY1 reporter 'off the f***ing balcony' in the rotunda and, somewhat repetitively, to 'break' him 'like a boy.' (He told me of that incident: 'It's perceived as if I was out of control in some way. I was 100 percent in control.')

"In a more sane time in our political history, that might have been it for Michael Grimm's political career. Maybe he'd have gotten lucky and ended up a Fox News pundit, or on the speaking circuit somewhere, or quietly and legally running Healthalicious 2.0. Fuhgeddabout holding office again as an ex-con best known for threatening graphic violence against a TV reporter as cameras rolled. But the sane times are over. In the ensuing handful of years, as he served his time in prison and got out, American politics came unglued in such a way that invited his return." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=79cad1a340db7f77e917304403181379b0f1258dee07e83d35034d3c8c538fd710b059d452ebd2490eb30311743130f2

BEN SCHRECKINGER in GQ, "Inside Donald Trump's Shady Scheme to Keep Jon Bon Jovi from Buying the Buffalo Bills": "Back in early 2014, with the team for sale and potential buyers in the process of being narrowed to three finalists-Trump, Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula, and a group of Toronto investors led by Jon Bon Jovi-speculation was rampant that the would-be Canadian buyers planned to move the franchise north of the border. That's when a local fan group sprang up, hoping to turn sentiment in Buffalo against Bon Jovi and his partners. ... [W]hat almost nobody knew-until now-is that the whole thing was pulled together by the then-future president ... In the spring of 2014, Trump hired
veteran Republican operative and Buffalo resident Michael Caputo ... to create a group that would scuttle Bon Jovi's NFL chances." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=79cad1a340db7f77c62b8957e55ebbf2f952b3db160ecae62b85bd4d29707fe539a17d06f053677ebf6b3d16c4db34fe

P.R. UPDATE -- "Puerto Rico Is Burning Its Dead, And We May Never Know How Many People The Hurricane Really Killed," by BuzzFeed's Nidhi Prakash: "Funeral directors and crematoriums are being permitted by the Puerto Rican government to burn the bodies of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria -- without those people being counted in the official death toll. The result is a massive loophole likely suppressing the official death count, which has become a major indicator of how the federal government's relief efforts are going because President Trump himself made it one." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=79cad1a340db7f77fcbd9893cd1963022fdf41f73d0abf016beb9f037633f22feac57ce4f5c2c037d3f47b65db125ed6

HMM... -- "Corporate penalties have plunged at SEC since Trump took office," by Patrick Temple-West: "From February through September, the agency, now headed by Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton, collected $127 million in corporate civil penalties in 15 cases, according to a POLITICO review of SEC data. That compares with $702 million in 43 cases from February through September 2016.

"Notably, in December 2016 and the first 20 days of January 2017 -- just before President Barack Obama's SEC chief, Mary Jo White, stepped down -- the agency collected $231 million in 23 corporate cases. The tally, compiled from cases posted on the SEC's website, includes units of publicly traded companies." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=79cad1a340db7f771f30f6c08aad4657e2b2b7d9aee931cf0c8955af779b5c83346d8fcc47cd552a0a84e0f2295918f8

FIRST PERSON -- ELEANOR MCMANUS on CNN -- "Why I'm speaking up about Mark Halperin, and why I stayed I silent so long": "I don't quite remember what we talked about, but I do remember him asking me to sit down next to him on the couch. I thought it was awkward to sit on the couch when I was perfectly comfortable sitting in the chair across from his desk. But I complied, and I also remember him sitting a little too close to me. At one point I felt a bit too uncomfortable, and I stood up to thank him for the meeting. That's when he leaned in, tried to kiss me, and attempted to do a bit more. I didn't want to offend the man in charge of political programming at ABC News, and I tried to be
courteous and apologetic, and practically ran out of the office. ...

"Looking back, knowing what I know now, I should not have been so courteous and apologetic. I should have told him his actions were wrong and reported him to the ABC News HR department. But, as many have said before me, I was young and naive and didn't want to ruin my career before it even began.

"I'm telling my story publicly now because I hope that when this happens again to another young woman, and it will, she will not be so courteous and apologetic. I'm hoping women today will finally speak out in real-time -- when this behavior happens. Women cannot stay silent for fear it will damage their careers, because that only allows the aggressor to continue his behavior with other women." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=79cad1a340db7f7746eb5ff99e5d532347c9a560519cb0a7877d8ff3832fd7e96b9b7817da785b6dcd2eae0c3fd3c4e2

SPORTS BLINK -- "Gaffes, TV ratings concerns dominated as NFL, players forged anthem peace," by ESPN Magazine's Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr.: "League executives had spent that morning as they had the previous four weeks: grappling with a series of events the league and owners could not control, unleashed by President Donald Trump's harsh criticism of the decision by a handful of players to kneel during the national anthem. Morale was bad inside the league office, and the pressure was not letting up. There was the looming notion that sponsors would leave the NFL -- not just because of the protests but because of an array of challenges confronting the league, including the continuing
decline in TV ratings. Nearly all of the league's longtime sponsors, from Papa John's to USAA, were rattled, and fissures within the league offices and teams, to say nothing of the players, were starting to expand." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3ec6fe935ba8179b058acf8c27ef1add1f5a96c05e751d7220c296c0b7314ffdedea47bdc6a90de1b46dacdf1559d023

TODAY'S BEYOND THE BELTWAY -- Incoming leader of Florida's state Senate Dems apologizes for affair -- Massachusetts Dems criticize Trump's opioid announcement http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3ec6fe935ba8179b2e66f30520198204a824951951c4c6fbcbc04d106025e9eceba798028f8271bf1979505a5bbc2575

TRANSITIONS -- Eve Hill and Regina Kline, two former Obama-era DOJ civil rights attorneys, have launched Inclusivity Strategic Consulting, a practice focused on disability inclusion and employment.

RUDY ALUMNI -- LARRY LEVY has been named the 2017 Lawyer of the Year by the Republican National Lawyers Association. Levy, who was chief counsel to the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee and served as special counsel for three NYC mayors, is at Greenberg Traurig. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3ec6fe935ba8179bc37e03a56cf104b5f13b54ac7813bd032a1a494b787d5980d1e1bbf4adb1ac6f034bcd40de034b47 (h/t Healy Baumgardner, CEO of the 45 Group)

WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Chase Downham, SVP of state operations and grassroots strategies at Americans for Prosperity, and Gloria Downham welcomed Dominic Downham. Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3ec6fe935ba8179bb9bffd44b5cce3cd55778d59d7777a6f83bad468faaa14eeb8b4ddd2a9896cbdc622cde0eebe43e8

-- OBAMA ALUMNI -- Sara Aviel, an Obama White House and Treasury alum, and Marty DiMarzio, a principal at Deloitte, email friends and family: "We are delighted to welcome Adira Aviel DiMarzio to our family. Adira means 'mighty, strong, and powerful' in Hebrew ... Adira ... weighed 7 lbs 5 oz, measured 19.5" in length, and came with a full head of hair + highlights, a voracious appetite, and a strong grip." Pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3ec6fe935ba8179b59cce6f61bb2822830bf848588e88251a3c00512f4316c966fc972175040f5cbafbb633b90595832 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3ec6fe935ba8179b9b0384b0076ed2ac9ad6df84d0dfae517ced96da56b6cb699044011887712b4e707749ac46738a95

--HILLARY ALUMNI -- Marisa Greenwald Kenney, an alum of former Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)'s office and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) now a VP at Parthenon-EY in Boston and Keith Kenney of Fidelity welcomed Maxwell Goff Kenney, coming in at 7 pounds and 7 ounces. Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3ec6fe935ba8179bd0924aee70eb0160c9c85305cc43978001091ea931d292da2b46eef12662fc7904f04366f45bec2b ... With uncle Michael Greenwald http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3ec6fe935ba8179bad88fcde6b91317db0b37bd2bb09bfde9dcb6e425a1a55523502e36e5e7f9d1c37b44fbd33b32ce8

POWER ALUMNI -- Harvard Law School is hosting its bicentennial this week and kicked it off last night with a panel including Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Elena Kagan, and retired Justice David Souter.

SPOTTED: Jane Sullivan Roberts, Jane Harman, Joanna Breyer, Robert Zoellick, Michael Chertoff, Lawrence Summers, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.),Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Reps. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.), Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), and Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), Eric Lander, David Gergen, Samantha Power, Anne Marie Slaughter, Loretta Lynch.

OUT AND ABOUT -- The Catholic Information Center held its 6th annual John Paul II Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last night, honoring the late Fr. Arne Panula. SPOTTED: John Sullivan, Fr. Paul Scalia, Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-Pa.), former Rep. Mike Ferguson (R-N.J.), Sean Fieler, Bill Mumma, Montse Alvarado, Greg and Charmaine Mueller, Leonard Leo, Peter Redpath, Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Mitch and Rosie Boersma, Fr. Charles Trullols, Mary Eberstadt, Andrew Walther, and Jeanne Mancini.

--Pool report: "[T]he historic Georgetown property of Congressman and Mrs. Francis Rooney [was the site of] the kick-off of Build our Future PAC (BOF), which supports conservative millennial candidates. The event had 120 guests and raised more than $70k." SPOTTED: Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), BOF and Team Rooney Finance Chair Fritz Brogan and Brooke Brogan, Marty Obst, Amb. Joe Russo, Garrett and Ashley Marquis, Wynn Radford, Boris Epshteyn, Reed and Julie Landry, David Tafuri, Jessica Lycos, Scott Preston, Gator Greenwill, Whitney Van Meter, Megan Cummings, Kevin Curran, Ford O'Connell, Meredith Good-Cohn, Michael Bars, Nolan and Casey Harte.

BONUS BIRTHDAYS: Sara Latham ... Emily Vander Weele of Weber Shandwick

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