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Good Friday afternoon. NEWS -- PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is scheduled to address the congressional Republican retreat in West Virginia next THURSDAY. Pence speaks Wednesday night, according to people with knowledge of the schedule.

THE PRESIDENT is on a transatlantic flight until around 8 p.m. tonight.

NO DEAL -- "Schumer rejects Trump's immigration proposal," by Burgess Everett: "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer opposes the immigration framework released by the White House on Thursday, a potentially fatal blow for the legislation in the closely divided Senate.

"The New York Democrat accused President Donald Trump of using a proposed path for citizenship for Dreamers, the young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, as cover for making sweeping -- and damaging -- changes to the legal immigration system. ... 'This plan flies in the face of what most Americans believe,' Schumer said on Twitter. While Trump 'finally acknowledged that the Dreamers should be allowed to stay here and become citizens, he uses them as a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system and adopt the wish list that anti-immigration hardliners have advocated for for years.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a10962b868ec961900672283c6e454b26ad27fb32d10a4e0bed127fc548e4e64f43bc109af2ff03fc92f7

-- @RealDonaldTrump at 12:16 p.m.: "DACA has been made increasingly difficult by the fact that Cryin' Chuck Schumer took such a beating over the shutdown that he is unable to act on immigration!"

-- REALITY CHECK: The March 5 deadline is no longer. DACA is tied up in courts, and Republicans tell us they are pleased they no longer have to rush.

HARASSMENT FILES -- "Hillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008," by NYT's Maggie Haberman and Amy Chozick: "A senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young subordinate was kept on the campaign at Mrs. Clinton's request, according to four people familiar with what took place. Mrs. Clinton's campaign manager at the time recommended that she fire the adviser, Burns Strider. But Mrs. Clinton did not. Instead, Mr. Strider was docked several weeks of pay and ordered to undergo counseling, and the young woman was moved to a new job.

"Mr. Strider, who was Mrs. Clinton's faith adviser, a co-founder of the American Values Network, and sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during the campaign, was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton's 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock. He was fired after several months for workplace issues, including allegations that he harassed a young female aide, according to three people close to Correct the Record's management." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a1096ecfb6834e269a956e4034a68cb65afec1d3260f8dc31129b0b6215b75a670f9dea1e0af4862cb406

THE RNC FINANCE CHAIRMAN -- "Dozens of People Recount Pattern of Sexual Misconduct by Las Vegas Mogul Steve Wynn," by WSJ's Alexandra Berzon, Chris Kirkham, Elizabeth Bernstein and Kate O'Keeffe: "Not long after the billionaire casino mogul Steve Wynn opened his flagship Wynn Las Vegas in 2005, a manicurist who worked there arrived at the on-site salon visibly distressed following an appointment in Mr. Wynn's office. Sobbing, she told a colleague Mr. Wynn had forced her to have sex, and she repeated that to others later. ...

"Mr. Wynn later paid the manicurist a $7.5 million settlement, according to people familiar with the matter. ... Beyond this incident, dozens of people The Wall Street Journal interviewed who have worked at Mr. Wynn's casinos told of behavior that cumulatively would amount to a decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Wynn. Some described him pressuring employees to perform sex acts." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a1096fdda80990bd3cc51ae790b604ad413d411e163efe42b01ac5d8445113ca146fb40929fd3c19652db

-- "Sexual misconduct by judges kept under wraps," by CNN's Joan Biskupic and Aaron Kessler: "The federal judiciary occupies a distinct place in American life that makes what happens there potentially more striking than in other spheres. The nearly 900 federal judges who sit on trial and appellate courts are appointed for life. They have the authority to interpret the law on sex-based offenses. Their attitudes about harassment could reverberate in legal disputes that arise in other realms.

"But the judiciary itself is hiding the depth of the problem of misconduct by judges. CNN compiled and reviewed nearly 5,000 judicial orders related to misconduct complaints and available online over the past 10 years. The documents, covering an array of misbehavior beyond sexual misconduct, are remarkably short on details." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a1096360b3d4110a7e899941c9314000f51a86c25d68cbbcd015e4cfb4ce1fac6100da169725b5f4f14c0

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HAPPENING TODAY, via Matt Nussbaum: "Pence is set to join a group of GOP senators for a 12:30 lunch event with donors to the [NRSC] at the Trump International Hotel, a few blocks from the White House. Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) are also expected to attend.

"The vice president will then travel to the [RNC], where he is slated to participate in a series of private meetings, including one with RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, make calls to donors and greet RNC staff, according to an administration official.

"The events are seen within Pence's office as an unofficial kickoff to the first quarter of 2018, during which he aims to do nearly 30 events for various GOP members between now and mid-April." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a1096b13affae3f4aa72d43f9b9ae7be2a2b25bc38570940df6402ff345b1095218d5a50f5ee77fc5cd71

DAVOS DOWNLOAD -- "Trump at Davos: 'America is open for business'," by Louis Nelson: "President Donald Trump on Friday touted America's economic successes in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, offering an assurance that the United States will remain engaged in the world. 'The world is witnessing the resurgence of a strong and prosperous America. I'm here to deliver a simple message. There has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the United States,' the president said while delivering an address at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. 'America is open for business, and we are competitive once again.'

"The president, who during a subsequent question-and-answer session referred to himself as a 'cheerleader' for his nation, urged the economic titans gathered in Davos to invest in the U.S., highlighting the package of tax cuts and reforms his White House helped shepherd through Congress last year as well as his administration-wide policy of slashing government regulations." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a1096da862121226955cad7258b3afc97365e13194eef5558e02146694f877b466b6052bd0f94ba9c12ce ... The transcript http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a10967b67ec654c4610a9adabaae21d810d68806ef01fd85a34a244b45438a8d4d84d9c7dffaea219bc08 ... Pics from Trump's visit to Davos http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a1096a837b9f8a762760bcdebdd1061c9260b4f3cd93e684f003eccbc8e91bb7f521d9d8765012cf3f274

-- @realDonaldTrump at 12:12 p.m.: "Heading back from a very exciting two days in Davos, Switzerland. Speech on America's economic revival was well received. Many of the people I met will be investing in the U.S.A.! #MAGA".

-- LISTEN TO POLITICO editor-in-chief John Harris and Davos Playbookers Ryan Heath and Florian Eder discuss the crowd reaction and impact of President's Trump's speech to the World Economic Forum http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a10962a7d3cd2eb2357775c96911d0c570a38054d0f7be7804421b8cdff22760a4db5e3f6bd8c193a3275

THE ECONOMY, STUPID -- "GDP Grew 2.6% at Year End, Slowing a Bit but Still Steady," by WSJ's Josh Mitchell and Ben Leubsdorf: "The U.S. economy grew steadily in the fourth quarter, losing a bit of momentum from the summer but mustering enough strength to extend one of its best stretches in recent years. Gross domestic product -- the value of all goods and services produced in the U.S., adjusted for inflation -- rose at an annual rate of 2.6% from October through December, the Commerce Department said Friday. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expected a 2.9% reading. ...The latest growth -- driven by solid increases in spending by American consumers and businesses -- capped the
economy's best year since 2014." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a1096b47503c3d4995ce13c531df48d309132f0b4c4306ea6dd2a536e349ebacd79f6bc864b0e68ff1234

TRUMP on TRADE DEALS to CNBC's JOE KERNEN (his first American, non-Fox News television interview in months) in Davos: "I like bilateral because if you have a problem, you terminate. When you're in with many countries, like with TPP -- so you have 12 if we were in -- you don't have that same, you know, you don't have that same option. But somebody asked me other day would I do TPP. Here's my answer. I'll give you a big story. I would do TPP if we made a much better deal than we had. We had a horrible deal. The deal was a horrible deal. NAFTA's a horrible deal, we're renegotiating it. I may terminate NAFTA, I may not. We'll see what happens." The full interview
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a1096d58bbe0f8d1c2de3e1547f2e3bdb3de7d6a080c0800bac73ed4ea7ab5979a77da1181b210713204c

-- TRUMP'S WORDS: "I'm a free trader. Totally. I'm a fair trader. I'm all kinds of trader, but I want reciprocal."

QUOTE OF THE DAY -- JEB BUSH on SEN. MARCO RUBIO'S immigration stance: "God forbid you actually took on something that was controversial and paid a political price." More from USA Today's Alan Gomez interview with the former Florida governor http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3a4fb695a56a10963831b6239e20f41ed80f2e7a115053d153ec45bf12fcb8b9d39f55e43cefed2dde9f79efb8a7a66d

FLIPPING THE SCRIPT -- WaPo's PHILIP BUMP: "Deep in Clinton country, voters stand by their candidate": "We don't hear much about how Manhattanites have responded to the first year of Trump's presidency, though, despite how much we've heard about how regions central to Trump's candidacy are still home to people who stand by their choice. There are a lot of reasons for not focusing on the views of people in Manhattan, including that the city is not without a voice in the media and that how it voted was not particularly surprising (compared to the fervent support Trump enjoyed in the Rust Belt). Nonetheless, we decided to see if voters in Clinton country stood by their candidate one year into
Trump's tenure. We know Trump's supporters are sticking with him, but are Clinton's sticking with her? Is Trump convincing any opponents to rally to his cause?" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=ff525d9b40ec273a30cb6e9ddee5a71a1817c8e7436c749fe0727acaa39ed3e045e887320d4316a61838fe67ecbf957e

OH GOOD -- "Lesson learned: White House mentions Jews in Holocaust Remembrance statement," by Matt Nussbaum http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=ff525d9b40ec273a292487313021c6de0a91c33d80cd6902cbba150ae995679172e89eb5613b8ab42bdc52f918d408da

VALLEY TALK -- "The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google," by Wired's Nitasha Tiku: "[O]utspoken diversity advocates at Google say that they are being targeted by a small group of their coworkers, in an effort to silence discussions about racial and gender diversity. In interviews with WIRED, 15 current Google employees accuse coworkers of inciting outsiders to harass rank-and-file employees who are minority advocates, including queer and transgender employees. Since August, screenshots from Google's internal discussion forums, including personal information, have been displayed on sites including Breitbart and Vox Popoli, a blog run by alt-right author Theodore Beale, who goes by the
name Vox Day. ...

"What followed, the employees say, was a wave of harassment. On forums like 4chan, members linked advocates' names with their social-media accounts. At least three employees had their phone numbers, addresses, and deadnames (a transgender person's name prior to transitioning) exposed." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=ff525d9b40ec273a1a1e0ed07ec98384985e6e424c2bb2b3cd6ac4752eb8e5a63d326351af6ad91e8d81abf81ce13c89

TV TONIGHT -- PBS' "WASHINGTON WEEK" with Bob Costa: Brian Bennett, Ylan Mui, Mark Mazzetti, Yeganeh Torbati, Carol Leonnig, Karen Tumulty, Jake Sherman and Michael Crowley.

MORE SUNDAY SHOWS -- NBC's "Meet the Press": House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ... Robert Gates ... Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) ... Panel: Tom Brokaw, Kasie Hunt, Rich Lowry, Heather McGhee.

MEDIAWATCH -- "Second Top Daily News Editor Under Investigation For Harassment," by HuffPost's Andy Campbell and Maxwell Strachan: "Alexander 'Doc' Jones, the managing editor of the Sunday paper at the New York Daily News, is under investigation for alleged workplace harassment, HuffPost has confirmed. This is the second investigation into a top editor at the newspaper to come to light this week." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=ff525d9b40ec273a4558188029bc42438651b59066908d6fce530b2a636e46005d03b057bf7400578b7b6b486ed93948

-- DERL MCCRUDDEN has been named deputy managing editor for digital and visual journalism at the AP. He has been the AP's head of international video since 2014.

TRANSITIONS -- Jeffrey Werner is joining Panasonic as VP for corporate and government affairs next week. He was previously at Daimler North America Corporation. ... Neal Urwitz has been hired as a VP in the corporate practice at Edelman. He was most recently the director of external relations at the Center for a New American Security.

--OBAMA ALUMNI: Jasmine El-Gamal, a former Pentagon adviser during the Obama administration, and Susannah Cunningham, an alum of the Enough Project, this week launched a non-profit, Only Through U.S., a new group that aims to counter efforts to stoke fear in the aftermath of terror attacks.

SPOTTED: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on a Southwest flight on Thursday from DCA to Nashville. Alexander, who sported a red tie and brown shoes, sat in the back of the plane, per a tipster. ... Henry Kissinger breakfasting at the Hay Adams.

SPOTTED at a screening for more than 100 plus Obama NSC alums last night of "The Final Year" at the Landmark E Street Cinema (trailer: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=ff525d9b40ec273a75519677cd480c70e7c0b6c123b5725222186861113dcf4bd87b72ae55ac4cbd2a5d54f06af882aa Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes who spoke after the screening, Ned Price, Rumana Ahmed, Graham Brookie, Ben and Ashley Chang, Charlie Kupchan, Jon Wolfsthal, Michelle Patron, Eric Pelofsky, Joyce Connery, Emily Horne.

SPOTTED last night at an R Street Institute open house: Tevi Troy, Andy Ferguson, Jason Russell Stephanie Slade, David Bahr, Shoshana Weissmann, Jim Swift, Jacqueline Klimas and Kyle Feldscher, Asawin Suebsaeng and Liz Nolan Brown, Ethan Epstein, Alice Lloyd, Ryan Nabil, Zach and Rebecca Bernbach Graves, Jared Meyer, Tim Carney, Grant Addison, Tom Stanton, Charles McCray, Robby Soave, Walter Olson, Mark Calabria and Stephanie Slade.

BONUS BIRTHDAY (was yesterday): Jack Burger, a retired geologist and journalist now working on novels (hat tip: son Tim)

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