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DRIVING THE DAY
WHAT'S ON PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MIND -- @realDonaldTrump at 7:38 a.m. tweeting from Bedminster, N.J.: "The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it's TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!"

... at 8:35 a.m.: "Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics -- and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!"

... at 8:45 a.m.: "...Why aren't Mueller and the 17 Angry Democrats looking at the meetings concerning the Fake Dossier and all of the lying that went on in the FBI and DOJ? This is the most one sided Witch Hunt in the history of our country. Fortunately, the facts are all coming out, and fast!"

... at 8:49 a.m.: "Too bad a large portion of the Media refuses to report the lies and corruption having to do with the Rigged Witch Hunt -- but that is why we call them FAKE NEWS!"

THE STORIES ... -- CNN's JAKE TAPPER and KAITLAN COLLINS: "Trump voicing concerns about son being entangled in Mueller probe": "President Donald Trump is concerned about whether his son Donald Trump Jr. might have exposure in the special counsel's Russia investigation, leading to his increasingly frenzied public agitation over Robert Mueller, sources close to the White House tell CNN.

"Trump has been concerned for months now that the Mueller probe could reach his family, and potentially his son-in-law Jared Kushner, but his focus has turned to his namesake in recent weeks, one person who speaks with Trump frequently tells CNN. This is one of several reasons Trump has upped his public attacks on Mueller, because he doesn't want him touching his family." CNN

-- AND THIS: "Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring," by WaPo's Phil Rucker, Bob Costa and Ashley Parker: "In private, President Trump spent much of the past week brooding, as he often does. He has been anxious about the Russia investigation's widening fallout, with his former campaign chairman standing trial. And he has fretted that he is failing to accrue enough political credit for what he claims as triumphs.

"At rare moments of introspection for the famously self-centered president, Trump has also expressed to confidants lingering unease about how some in his orbit - including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. - are ensnared in the Russia probe, in his assessment simply because of their connection to him." WaPo

ABOUT THAT DON JR. MEETING -- SUNDAY BEST -- GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS spoke with JAY SEKULOW on ABC'S "THIS WEEK": STEPHANOPOULOS: "I assume you agree with the president that he's not concerned. But he says the meeting, totally legal, done all the time in politics, but according to the email that special counsel Robert Mueller has, this was a meeting to get information ... on Hillary Clinton's campaign. How would that be legal?"

SEKULOW: "The question is, how would it be illegal? You have to look at what laws, rules, regulations, statutes are purportedly violated here. And when you really look at this, George, and you look at the comments that the president made this week via Twitter, if you look at the comments that my colleague Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani has stated, they're, in one sense, rather unremarkable in that the idea that this has been going on now for well over a year. Let's be honest with the American people, there are irregularities in this investigation, the likes of which we have not seen."

-- SEKULOW ON WHETHER DON JR. IS A TARGET OF THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION: "I don't represent Don Jr., but I will tell you I have no knowledge at all of Don Jr. being told that he's a target of any investigation, and I have no knowledge of him being interviewed by the special counsel."

THE TIMELINE: NYT'S PETER BAKER (@peterbakernyt): "Trump-dictated statement, July 2017: 'We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago.'

"Trump, August 2018: 'This was a meeting to get information on an opponent.'"


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MORE SUNDAY BEST -- CHRIS WALLACE spoke with SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FLA.) on FOX'S "FOX NEWS SUNDAY: WALLACE: "Should [the president] sit down and answer all questions?" RUBIO: "Well, it's easy to say that from a political realm, but that's not an interview. It's an interview with a law enforcement official, with a special prosecutor. There are plenty of people who are innocent whose lawyers would tell them do not sit down and answer questions from a prosecutor because there's all sorts of other problems involved with that.

"That's a decision for the president to make, alongside with his attorneys. It's my understanding from what I've read in the press he wants to do it. It's his attorneys who have questions about that, but there are plenty of innocent people whose lawyers tell them do not sit down with a prosecutor and answer questions."

-- "Rubio signals changes to election meddling bill," by Martin Matishak: POLITICO

-- CHUCK TODD interviewed SEN. ROY BLUNT (R-MO.) on NBC'S "MEET THE PRESS" about Trump's fake news tweets: TODD: "I guess the question is how do you convince the president that this is bad rhetoric - that this is dangerous rhetoric, not just bad decorum?" BLUNT: "I think the president really believes that a lot of the news is not accurate."

TODD: "Do you believe that?" BLUNT: "You can certainly - there's a vast variety of how the same news is reported, so somebody is not - that middle-of-the-road news that people my age grew up with is no longer the news." TODD: "I would respectfully disagree there, specifically at this show."

-- JAKE TAPPER interviewed REP. ED ROYCE (R-CALIF.) on CNN'S "STATE OF THE UNION": TAPPER: "What do you make of this major divide between where President Trump says we are, in terms of the threat [of North Korea] being over, and where the U.N. and Secretary of State Pompeo say we are?" ROYCE: "Well, here's - here's the situation. The -- the North Koreans have lied in every agreement that they have ever made. They have gone back on every agreement. They have strung out every agreement. They have used time in order to get concessions, to get money to put into their weapons program."

TAPPER: "Right." ROYCE: "What's different this time is that we have a maximum pressure campaign on finances, on sanctions that, frankly, make them feel the heat."

WHAT ELSE IS ON TRUMP'S MIND -- @realDonaldTrump at 7:59 a.m.: "Tariffs are working big time. Every country on earth wants to take wealth out of the U.S., always to our detriment. I say, as they come,Tax them. If they don't want to be taxed, let them make or build the product in the U.S. In either event, it means jobs and great wealth....."

... at 8:06 a.m.: "..Because of Tariffs we will be able to start paying down large amounts of the $21 Trillion in debt that has been accumulated, much by the Obama Administration, while at the same time reducing taxes for our people. At minimum, we will make much better Trade Deals for our country!"

ABOUT LAST NIGHT ... ALEX ISENSTADT in LEWIS CENTER, OHIO, "At Ohio rally, Trump seeks to head off blue wave": "President Donald Trump on Saturday implored his supporters to turn out for Republican congressional candidate Troy Balderson, as the party raced to fend off an embarrassing special election loss that could portend a November wave. During an hour-long rally in a sweltering high school auditorium, the president repeatedly lavished praise on Balderson, a state legislator who suddenly finds himself in a neck-and-neck contest for a House seat that Republicans have held for over three decades.

"'Troy Balderson, he's the guy,' Trump said before calling the candidate onto the stage. Looking to gin up the packed crowd, the president described Balderson as 'really smart' and a 'really hard worker.' And he tore into Balderson's 31-year-old Democrat opponent, Franklin County Recorder Danny O'Connor, calling him a pawn of Democratic leaders and giving him a Trumpian nickname: 'Danny boy.' 'You got to get out, because they want to take away what we've given them,' he said, adding that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi 'controls Danny O'Connor, whoever the hell that is.'" POLITICO

-- WORTH NOTING: Hope Hicks traveled on AF1 with the president, according to a pool report. Jonathan Lemire's tweet of his pic capturing Hope entering the Morristown, N.J., airport.

HEDGING THEIR BETS -- "Corporate America hikes contributions to key Democrats," by Theo Meyer: "Corporate PACs are increasing their contributions to several Democrats who are in line to lead powerful committees if their party retakes the House in November, another sign of the burgeoning expectations for Democrats' showing in the midterms." POLITICO

-- KEY STAT: "In the first half of this year, nine House Democratic ranking members - compared with just three Republican committee chairmen - raised at least 10 percent more from corporate PACs than they did in the same period in 2016, according to a POLITICO analysis of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics."

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2020 WATCH -- "Democrats' 2020 presidential fight gets an early dress rehearsal," by David Siders in New Orleans: "An unwieldy field of top Democrats clamored for critical ground in the run-up to the 2020 presidential primary over the weekend, courting progressive activists as they tilt toward a full-on campaign.

"In a three-day audition of presidential campaign themes at the annual Netroots Nation conference, Sen. Kamala Harris, (D-Calif.) pledged to not be 'shut up' by critics of 'identity politics,' while Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) lamented 'things that are savagely wrong in this country.'

"At a forum across town, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called the criminal justice system 'racist ... front to back.' For a Democratic Party desperate to keep its focus on the looming midterms, the gathering laid bare how quickly attentions can turn to 2020 - and how volatile the pre-primary contest remains." POLITICO

CANDIDATE WATCH: DEVAL PATRICK told CNN'S JAKE TAPPER: "I'm not ready to be a candidate for 2020 yet."

Good Sunday morning. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK AHEAD: President Donald Trump has a series of dinners on the books this week. Monday, he'll have dinner with supporters. Tuesday, he has plans to break bread with CEOs. Wednesday, he is having dinner with supporters. And, Thursday, Trump is hosting a roundtable with state leaders on prison reform.

THE SENATE and HOUSE are on recess next week. The Senate will return Aug. 15. WAPO'S PAUL KANE: "Scaled-back Senate recess creates a 'coalition of the cranky' in Congress": WaPo

FOR YOUR RADAR -- "Venezuela's Maduro: Drone attack was attempt to kill him," by AP's Scott Smith and Christine Armario in Caracas, Venezuela: "Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dodged an apparent assassination attempt when drones armed with explosives detonated while he was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers being broadcast live on television, officials said.

"Caught by surprise mid-speech, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, looked up at the sky and winced Saturday after hearing the sound of an explosion pierce the air. 'This was an attempt to kill me,' he said later in an impassioned retelling of the events. 'Today they attempted to assassinate me.'" AP


FIRST LADY WATCH -- "Melania breaks with Trump on LeBron criticism," by Brent D. Griffiths: "First lady Melania Trump broke with President Donald Trump on Saturday over her husband's criticism of LeBron James, saying through a spokeswoman that she is open to visiting a school for at-risk children launched by the basketball star this week. 'It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today,' the first lady's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. ...

"It's the latest in a series of recent public pushbacks the first lady has delivered against her husband's actions and statements, although Grisham maintained in a further statement that Melania was not 'taking sides' in continuing her focus on helping children." POLITICO

UPDATE -- "Newseum pulls 'fake news' shirt after backlash," by Brent D. Griffiths: "The Newseum on Saturday pulled the sale of a T-shirt bearing the message 'you are very fake news' following an online backlash against the merchandising of the slogan frequently employed by President Donald Trump to undermine journalists' work.

"'The Newseum has removed the "You Are Very Fake News" T-shirts from the gift shop and online,' a statement posted on the media-focused museum's website read. 'We made a mistake and we apologize. A free press is an essential part of our democracy and journalists are not the enemy of the people.'" POLITICO
PLAYBOOK READS


PHOTO DU JOUR: President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Olentangy Orange High School in Lewis Center, Ohio, on Aug. 4. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

WHAT AMERICA IS READING -- San Diego Union-Tribune: "Brown asks Trump for wildfire aid: More evacuations ordered in N. California as firefighters battle 17 blazes across state" ... Salt Lake Tribune: "Plural persuasion: Girls in the polygamous Kingston Group still marry as young as 15, sometimes leaving Utah to wed cousins" ... Houston Chronicle: "Energy firms fear sanctions on Russians" ... Minneapolis Star Tribune: "With Trump plan, seeking benefits risks deportation" ... Boston Globe: "Boston schools are becoming resegregated" ... Idaho Statesman: "Scott Pruitt is gone, but his EPA remains, thrilling Idaho industry and irking environmentalists" ...

... Des Moines Register: "Blowing Up Trouble: A utility's push for more wind turbines is irking some residents" ... Arizona Republic: "The last stand: After decades of mismanagement and ever-rising temperatures, can Arizona's forests still be saved?" ... Orange County Register: "Democrats hold back on saying the 'I-word': Those seeking Orange County seats want to wait before committing to impeach President Donald Trump" ... Seattle Times: "Will we now commit to saving our orcas?" ... Greenwich Time: "'Crime against humanity': Greenwich man files human rights complaint against Trump".

DEEP DIVE -- "Beyond the N.R.A.: Maria Butina's Peculiar Bid for Russian Influence," by NYT's Matt Rosenberg, Mike McIntire, Michael LaForgia, Andrew E. Kramer and Elizabeth Dias: "Twelve days after a young Russian gun-rights activist gained access to some of America's most prominent conservatives, at an elegant dinner near the Capitol, a Republican operative was eager to keep the momentum going.

"In a February 2017 email, the operative, Paul Erickson, proposed another 'U.S./Russia friendship' dinner. He noted that the activist, Maria Butina, who now is accused of being a covert Russian agent, was making an 'ever-expanding circle of influential friends.' Ms. Butina, he wrote in the email, had just met Susan Eisenhower, the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, during a visit to Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.

"The Russian woman had also gotten to know the ex-wife of a supermarket heir, who had endowed an institute dedicated to furthering American-Russian relations, and the 'silky smooth' former Russian diplomat who ran it. Then there was the recipient of the email, George O'Neill Jr., a Rockefeller relative and conservative writer. He was helping pay Ms. Butina's bills, said a person familiar with their relationship, and hoped to make her the centerpiece of his own project to improve America's ties to Russia.

"In bringing charges against Ms. Butina, 29, last month, federal prosecutors described her activities as part of a campaign, supported by Russian intelligence, to use gun rights as a Trojan horse to make her way into conservative groups and advance Moscow's interests in the United States." NYT

2018 WATCH -- "White Nationalists Love Corey Stewart. He Keeps Them Close," by NYT's Danny Hakim and Stephanie Saul in Woodbridge, Va.: "Corey Stewart stands at the end of a long driveway that leads back in time, to his 18th century plantation manor hidden in woods behind a modern housing development. Mr. Stewart, the Republican Senate nominee from Virginia, treats the brick home like a living museum, complete with buttons from Redcoats, a Civil War soldier's belt buckle and a room dedicated to George and Martha Washington, who were once visitors.

"Both Mr. Stewart and his opponent, Senator Tim Kaine, were born in Minnesota, which makes it all the more unusual that Mr. Stewart has styled himself as a champion of the Confederacy and its statues, and, as he puts it, 'taking back our heritage.' This has made him a popular figure with white nationalists, much to the horror of many Virginia Republicans. While Mr. Stewart has disavowed some on the extreme right, interviews with dozens of his friends, colleagues, supporters and fellow Republicans yielded a portrait of a political opportunist eager to engage the coarsest racial fringes of his party to advance his Trumpian appeal." NYT


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BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:

-- "The Stoner Arms Dealers," by Guy Lawson in Rolling Stone in March 2011, reprinted by Longform: "Working with nothing but an Internet connection, a couple of cellphones and a steady supply of weed, the two friends - one with a few college credits, the other a high school dropout - had beaten out Fortune 500 giants like General Dynamics to score the huge arms contract." Longform

-- "A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen," by Bernhard Zand in Der Spiegel: "Nowhere in the world, not even in North Korea, is the population monitored as strictly as it is in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China, an area that is four times the size of Germany and shares borders with eight countries, including Pakistan, Afghanistan Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. Oppression has been in place for years, but has worsened massively in recent months. It is targeted primarily at the Uighur minority, a Turkic ethnic group of some 10 million Sunni Muslims." Der Spiegel

-- "Tyrian Purple: The disgusting origins of the colour purple," by Kelly Grovier in BBC: "It took tens of thousands of desiccated hypobranchial glands, wrenched from the calcified coils of spiny murex sea snails before being dried and boiled, to colour even a single small swatch of fabric, whose fibres, long after staining, retained the stench of the invertebrate's marine excretions." BBC

-- "The Bible Tells Me So," by Shawn Crawford in 3 Quarks Daily: "For a Baptist, the Bible exists like gravity. Not believing in gravity will not change the outcome if you step off a building; not believing the Bible will not change the consequences if you ignore its precepts and commands. To really understand what it means to be Baptist, you must understand the unique place the Bible holds in every facet of life. The central reality of existence is not God but rather the words he left behind." 3 Quarks Daily

-- "Axes of Evil," by Josh Dean in Atavist: "The job of cutting down the [poplar] tree [in the DMZ] would fall to teams from the Second Engineer Battalion, protected by two platoons of infantrymen, and South Korean special forces. An infantry company would hover in 20 Huey helicopters, with 12 AH-1G Cobra gunships flying alongside. Tank-busting F-4 Phantoms would fly in slightly higher orbit, and strategic bombers would orbit higher still, visible on North Korean radar." Atavist

-- "The Believer," by Sam Lipsyte in Believer Magazine in Oct. 2006: Michel "Houellebecq may be an artist for our age, but he's got none of the media-ready gabbiness or false compassion that goes with it. Even his narcissism doesn't seem to stem from the usual brew of selfishness and insecurity. It's a cold, glittering thing. Life is painful and disappointing. And then you die. He may be a major writer, but you wouldn't want him, say, running a country." Believer Mag

-- "How Lolita Seduces Us All," by Caitlin Flanagan in the Atlantic's September issue: "A new book about a terrible crime sheds light on the novel's enduring allure." Atlantic (h/t ALDaily.com)

-- "How to Edit a Human," by Tom Whipple in 1843 Magazine's August/September issue: "In the next five to ten years, CRISPR plants will almost certainly reach supermarkets. Eventually, a CRISPR baby will be born. The technology is too easy. There is no world government to stop its use; many argue no one should do so anyway." 1843

-- "Growing Up Jobs," by Lisa Brennan-Jobs in September's Vanity Fair, in an adaptation of her upcoming book "Small Fry": "Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan were 23 when their daughter was born. Lisa Brennan-Jobs remembers the pride and pain of a childhood spent navigating the vastness between her struggling single mom and Apple's mercurial founder." VF ... $15.60 on Amazon

-- "Surrendering to Rising Seas," by Jen Schwartz in Scientific American's August issue: "Retreating from the coasts, in concept or practice, is not popular. Why would people abandon their community, the thinking goes, unless no better alternatives remained? To emergency responders, retreat is a form of flood mitigation. To environmental advocates, it's ecological restoration. To resilience planners, it's adaptation to climate change. Everyone agrees, however, that retreat sounds like defeat." Scientific American

-- "Johnny Mathis, the voice of the '50s, was always ahead of his time. Now he's ready to talk about it," by Karen Heller in Beverly Hills in WaPo: "Mathis's self-discipline extends to a practice of limited talking in the days before a concert to maintain his lustrous tenor, 'which is everything' - his livelihood, his identity. His music became the soundtrack for people's lives, for their loves and heartaches. And literal soundtracks: 'Goodfellas,' 'Silver Linings Playbook,' 'Mad Men.'" WaPo

-- "The Impermanence of Importance," by David Runciman in the London Review of Books, reviewing "The World as It Is: Inside the Obama White House," by Ben Rhodes: "'As an African American, [Obama] had an ingrained scepticism about powerful structural forces. He had priced in the shortcomings of the world as it is, picking the issues and moments when he could press for the world that ought to be. This illuminated his almost monkish discipline in trying to avoid overreach in a roiling world." LRB
PLAYBOOKERS
SPOTTED: Sylvester Stallone chatting with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross outside of the Paper Store in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard (pic ... another pic) ... Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) walking near USDOT yesterday

WEEKEND WEDDINGS - OBAMA ALUMNI: "Jacqueline Kappler, David Litt" - N.Y. Times: "Ms. Kappler, 32, is the legislative director for Representative Hank Johnson, Democrat of Georgia. She graduated from Albright College in Reading, Pa., and received a law degree from Catholic University of America in Washington. ... Mr. Litt, 31, is a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama and the author of 'Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years' (Ecco, 2017). He graduated from Yale. ... The couple met through the dating app OkCupid." With a pic. NYT ... Wedding Instapic

-- "Suzanne Goldenkranz, Seth Samuels" -- Times: "Ms. Goldenkranz, 31, is an associate director in the performance technologies division at EAB, an education consulting firm based in Washington. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. ... Mr. Samuels, 36, is the chief analytics officer at the Messina Group in Washington, a political and business consulting firm. The groom graduated with high honors from Wesleyan University and received a master's degree from University of California, Berkeley." With a pic. NYT

WELCOME TO THE WORLD - OBAMA ALUMNI: Lauren Belive, head of federal public policy at Lyft and alum of House Rules and the Obama White House's office of legislative affairs, and Jeffrey Zubricki, director of global public policy at Walmart and a Senate Commerce and Jay Rockefeller alum, welcomed Zuzu Isabella Zubricki. Baby pic ... Another pic ... A third

BIRTHDAYS: Ryan Wrasse, comms director for Sen. Thune ... Taylor Griffin ... Matt Anderson, SVP for public affairs at Blackstone ... Sharon Weber, DSCC Midwest finance director ... Jeremy Flantzer ... Matt Mandel ... Heidi Nel, principal at the Raben Group (hat tip: Jen Nedeau) ... Rufus Gifford, former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark who is now a candidate for Congress in Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district, is 44 (h/t Eric Fanning) ... Bloomberg congressional reporter James Rowley ... Kristofer Eisenla ... Nicolas Boullet ... Nev. Gov. Brian Sandoval is 55 ... Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) is 65 ... Lila Cohn is 3-0 ... Alicia Amling, COS for Temerity Capital Partners and a CBS News alum ...
Cary Gibson, VP at Farragut Square Group ... Molly Donlin O'Driscoll, deputy COS at the RNC ... Melissa Canu ... Pete Snyder is 45 (h/t Tim Burger) ... Cicely Simpson, alum of the National Restaurant Association ... Howard Leib is 6-0 ... Edelman's Aaron Walker and Kassandra Meholick ...

... Michael Chandler, managing editor at MemoryWell ... Lisa Geller is 25 (h/t brother Eric) ... Katie Vlietstra, VP for government relations and public affairs at the National Association for the Self-Employed (h/t Kristofer Eisenla) ... Hunter Anne Stoner ... Colleen Fisher ... Donte Donald ... James Franklin Blue III ... Christine Forester ... LATimes' Jim Puzzanghera ... Jenniffer González ... Ashley Pitts ... Kathy Rust ... Monique Dorsainvil of Facebook's public policy team and an Obama WH alum ... Monica Thompson ... Dana Ferreira ... Nicholas Rodman ... Steven Leraris ... Scott Vance ... Kristy Huxhold ... Jeff Kupfer ... TV producer Marla Ratner (h/t Kelley McCormick) ...
Mary Beth Bakke ... Abby Milberg ... ABC News' Luis Martinez ... Patrick Ewing ... Dennis Lonergan ... Corey Johnson ... Jason Pollock ... Ron Bouchard is 52 ... Topf Wells ... Julie Hughes ... Tom Healy ... Miguel and Alejandro Balkin (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)

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