IS THAT A MEA CULPA? … SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO spoke to the The Sunflower, the scholar paper at Wichita State: QUESTION: “Thanks. Invoice Taylor, a fellow West Level grad who’s served in each administration since 1985 – each events – testified earlier than the House. The White House line characterised it – he and others as ‘radical unelected bureaucrats.’ I feel you responded briefly to that yesterday, however I’m curious: Do you continue to trust in your prime Ukrainian diplomat?”
POMPEO: “I don’t speak about personnel stuff. It just – it’s not truthful to any of the staff. However I’ll say this: I've a duty leading this huge organization. I’ve watched Bill. He and I have talked about Ukrainian policy at some size: how do you're taking down corruption; how do you now assist the brand new leader there, President Zelensky; how can we ship on America’s nationwide security pursuits. And he and I have been in full accord on that. We – he and I each share in this vision for a way American pursuits in Ukraine can properly be represented, and I have each cause to assume that he’s nonetheless on the market banging away at that drawback set.
“However I will say this: All of us, as human beings, can get it fallacious, too. We see things by way of a certain prism; we tackle issues in a certain method. All of us have a duty to ensure we’re getting it as right as we will each day. And so I don’t assume by nature of the fact that I work on the State Department means I get all the things proper day by day.
“I feel that’s true for all the people who work on the United States Division of State. Certainly, I have seen State Department officials interact in conduct that was not applicable, that wasn’t proper, that didn’t mirror the very best values of the Overseas Service and American diplomacy all over the world. And so my obligation as the organization’s chief is to type by way of that, to parse via it, to ensure that we collectively are delivering on behalf of the American individuals each day.”
THE SCOTSMAN: “Trumps ‘annoyed’ at lack of ability to pursue ‘overseas investment’ offers, says Trump Org government,” by Martyn McLaughlin: “Donald Trump’s most senior government in the UK has stated the Trump family is feeling annoyed at being unable to pursue ‘overseas investments’ and overseas enterprise opportunities, whereas additionally revealing that ‘everyone in the Trump Organisation goes to put in writing a e-book.’
“Sarah Malone, government vice chairman of Trump Worldwide Scotland, steered that since assuming the presidency, Mr Trump’s personal “liberties and freedoms” have been curtailed because he can't go to his Scottish properties to play golf as and when he pleases.” The Scotsman
GREAT READ … NYT’S MARK LEIBOVICH: “Donald Trump’s Present to Mitt Romney: Relevance”: “‘The most effective personnel choice he made was not selecting me,’ Mr. Romney stated. ‘I wouldn't have lasted so long as Rex Tillerson,’ he added of the eventual selection ‘and perhaps a bit of longer than Anthony Scaramucci did,’ referring to the White Home communications director who lasted less than two weeks within the job.” NYT
Good Saturday morning. UGH. THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS couldn't convert anything Friday night time, and misplaced to the Houston Astros Four-1. The World Collection is now 2-1. Tonight is a must win for the Nats -- at the very least in our eyes.
SPOTTED at the recreation: Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), Jeff Flake, Carl Hulse, Doug Andres, Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman, Brian Fallon, Jen Palmieri, Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Invoice Hamilton, Connolly Keigher, Doug Landry, Alex Hornbrook, Luke Russert, Alex Moe, Derek Flowers, Dana Bash, Paul Kane, Jonathan Karl, Ken and Emily Spain, Jacob Leibenluft, Wolf Blitzer, Charlie Anderson, Brianna Keilar, Scott Mulhauser and Kara Carscaden, Patrick Dillon, Nicole Runge and Jed D’Ercole, Geoff Garin, Jon Allen, Frank Thorp, Hallie Jackson and Jake Perry.
SPOTTED at Salt Line for the Locust Group’s World Collection pregame: Ben Jenkins, David Bernhardt, Brendan Belair, Joe Maloney, Jeff Morehouse, Matt Haller, Erica and Matt Farage, Patrick Mellody, Geoff and Tita Freeman, Rebecca Spicer and a few rogue Astros fans Alan and Katie Ahlrich.
PRESIDENT TRUMP to Eric Bolling about going to recreation 5 of the Astros/Nationals: “Houston’s an awesome staff, they have been in the White Home very lately, as you realize, getting their great award and accolades. They usually’re an amazing group. So we’ll see what happens. However it’s going to be a great collection.”
IMPEACHMENT CLIP PACKET …
-- HAPPENING TODAY: The panels investigating impeachment will interview PHILLIP REEKER, the appearing assistant secretary of European and Eurasian affairs.
-- AP: “Home Democrats get a authorized victory in impeachment inquiry,” by Eric Tucker: “A decide has ordered the Justice Department to offer the House secret grand jury testimony from particular counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, handing a victory to Democrats as they gather proof for the impeachment inquiry towards President Donald Trump.
“In a Friday ruling that additionally affirmed the legality of the impeachment inquiry itself, U.S. District Decide Beryl Howell ordered the department to turn over the materials by Oct. 30. A Justice Division spokeswoman stated it was reviewing the decision. The administration can attraction.” AP
-- WAPO’S CAROL LEONNIG and JOSH DAWSEY: “Trump annoyed as White Home effort to defy impeachment inquiry fails to halt witness testimony, advisers say”: “After weeks of dismissing the impeachment inquiry as a hollow partisan attack, President Trump and his closest advisers now recognize that the snowballing probe poses a critical menace to the president — and that they have little energy to block it, based on multiple aides and advisers. …
“In a sign of the growing realization of his potential jeopardy, Trump has introduced again Jane and Marty Raskin, legal protection attorneys who have been a part of his legal staff throughout the Mueller investigation, to help him navigate the impeachment inquiry, alongside together with his lawyer Jay Sekulow and White Home legal professionals. Their return is a late acknowledgment, some White House advisers say, that the details coming out are dangerous for the president and that each his White Home and private attorneys have to try to get in entrance of what else might emerge.” WaPo
-- KYLE CHENEY: “Former Bolton aide asks courtroom if he's required to testify in impeachment probe”: “A prime aide to former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton filed go well with Friday to decide whether or not he's required to comply with a subpoena to seem before Home impeachment investigators, a transfer that would mire the testimony of a key witness in litigation as President Donald Trump seeks to block his cooperation with lawmakers.
“Charles Kupperman, the previous deputy nationwide security adviser — who briefly succeeded Bolton after he left the administration last month — is asking a district courtroom decide to determine find out how to resolve the conflict between the Home subpoena and the president's directive.
“In a Friday letter to Kupperman's lawyer Chuck Cooper, who can also be representing Bolton, White House counsel Pat Cipollone indicated that Trump had directed him not to honor the House subpoena and asserted that Kupperman is ‘completely immune’ from testifying because of his regular interactions with Trump.
“‘Absent a definitive judgment from the Judicial Branch ... Plaintiff will successfully be pressured to adjudicate the Constitutional dispute himself, and if he judges wrongly, he'll inflict grave Constitutional damage on both the House or the President,’ Cooper wrote in a courtroom filing.” POLITICO
-- WHAT JARED IS READING “Trump says impeachment has given him experience with broken criminal justice system,” by Daniel Lippman in Columbia, S.C. and Caitlin Oprysko
DAILY RUDY … FINKEL IS EINHORN, EINHORN IS FINKEL … NYT’S KEN VOGEL: “Giuliani Is Drawing Attention to Hunter Biden’s Work in Romania. However There’s a Drawback.”: “Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s private lawyer, signaled this month that he planned to open a new entrance in his assaults towards former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — work accomplished by Mr. Biden’s son Hunter Biden for a rich Romanian business government dealing with corruption fees.
“However there’s an issue with that technique: Mr. Giuliani participated in an effort that might have helped the identical government, and was in reality recruited to take action by Louis J. Freeh, a former F.B.I. director who had been brought onto the matter by Hunter Biden.
“In effect, Mr. Giuliani and Hunter Biden have been on the same workforce, if not on the similar time. And their work to help the enterprise government, together with that of Mr. Freeh, stood in distinction to efforts by america, including Vice President Biden while he was in workplace, to encourage anti-corruption efforts in Romania.” NYT
-- NBC: “Rudy Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter, heard discussing need for cash and trashing Bidens,” by Wealthy Shapiro
2020 WATCH …
-- AJC: “Democratic presidential debate sidesteps suburbs for star’s Atlanta studio,” by Jim Galloway and Greg Bluestein: “The Democratic presidential debate shall be held next month at Tyler Perry Studios, in response to a number of celebration officers, sidestepping the suburbs for the newly opened $250 million complicated close to Atlanta’s airport.
“The studio was chosen for the Nov. 20 debate after jockeying that pitted Perry’s studio in closely Democratic southwest Atlanta towards the sparkling new performance arts middle in Sandy Springs, once-solid Republican territory that’s turn out to be increasingly competitive.
“The hosts of the occasion, The Washington Submit and MSNBC, didn't comment, and some involved in the negotiations stated last particulars have but to be hashed out. But Stacey Abrams, the celebration’s 2018 nominee for governor, stated on social media that the ‘website is set’ for the studio.” AJC
-- COUCH CUSHION TIME … NYT’S SHANE GOLDMACHER: “‘We’re Asking You to Dig Deep’: Biden Seeks to Steady Finances as Allies Fret”: “Steve Ricchetti, one in every of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s closest confidantes, is reaching out to cautious donors to shore up help. The Biden presidential marketing campaign is watching prices — some employees members are sleeping at houses of volunteers — and dealing with criticism for spending on chartered jets. Mr. Biden’s staff can also be urging allies to redouble fund-raising efforts earlier than the calendar turns to 2020 and he has fewer days to dedicate to the cash trail.
“And in a confidential memo to prime bundlers this week, Mr. Biden’s campaign manager, Greg Schultz, sought to allay growing considerations that Mr. Biden is dealing with a cash crunch and gained’t have the ability to stay aggressive together with his rivals on the airwaves and on the bottom. ‘We may have the assets we need to execute our plan,’ Mr. Schultz wrote in the memo, obtained by The New York Occasions. However he simultaneously exhorted the money-raisers to do more: ‘We’re asking you to dig deep.’
“The Biden marketing campaign and its backers are racing to include fallout from revelations this month that his marketing campaign is spending extra money than it is taking in, in contrast to his leading rivals. Mr. Biden’s money available — $9 million — is now solely a fraction of what Senators Bernie Sanders ($33.7 million) and Elizabeth Warren ($25.7 million) have banked. He even has less on hand than two candidates, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Kamala Harris, who're properly behind him within the polls.” NYT
THE PRESIDENT’S SATURDAY … No public occasions.
CLICKER -- “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker -- 16 funnies
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman (@dlippman):
-- “A British actor left Hollywood to struggle ISIS. Now he’s marooned in Belize. It’s fairly a narrative,” by WaPo’s Manuel Roig-Franzia in San Ignacio, Belize: “How a bleeding-heart idealist with a Kalashnikov and a good IMDb web page obtained himself exiled from America.” WaPo
-- “The Shattered Afghan Dream of Peace,” by Luke Mogelson in The New Yorker: “Trump upended peace talks. Civilian casualties maintain climbing. After eighteen years of struggle, Afghans are suffering more than ever.” New Yorker
-- “Are Liberal Arts Schools Doomed?” by Eliza Grey in WaPo Journal: “The cautionary tale of Hampshire School and the broken business mannequin of American larger schooling.” WaPo Magazine
-- “Inside the Telephone Firm Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers,” by Joseph Cox in Vice -- per TheBrowser.com’s description: “They tortured. They killed. They usually ran a telephone company. The one factor led to the other. Two Scottish gangsters referred to as ‘The Brothers’ needed safe communications for his or her international drug trafficking enterprise. In order that they built their very own cell phone community and marketed it to the underworld basically. Enterprise boomed — as did the automotive bombs they used to deter rivals.” Vice
-- “Pompeo Was Driving High—Till the Ukraine Mess Exploded,” by Garrett Graff in Wired: “The U.S. secretary of state could also be a Trump favourite, but the Ukraine scandal appears to threaten Mike Pompeo’s ambitions for greater office.” Wired
-- “Zero Tolerance” -- PBS: “‘Frontline’ investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a strong political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to faucet into populist anger, rework the Republican Celebration and crack down on immigration.” PBS
-- “Not Your Father’s Masculinity,” by Matt Labash within the NYT: “Why maintain fuzzing distinctions that for millenniums have resisted fuzzing? Punish the sex criminals and pelvic pinball wizards. Good riddance to all of them. But in any other case, let males and ladies be men and women, nevertheless that appropriately breaks, without laboring so onerous to fuse them. Perhaps our opposites attracting, which the furtherance of our species has trusted, isn’t a design flaw, but its very essence.” NYT
-- “The inconceivable battle to save lots of Jakarta, the sinking megacity,” by Peter Guest in Wired UK: “Sea degree rise, subsidence and political inertia, might quickly see Jakarta develop into the first megacity claimed by local weather change. A final-ditch plan to save lots of the town will not be sufficient.” Wired UK (hat tip: Longreads.com)
-- “Once Upon a Time in Burbank” -- November problem of Vainness Truthful: “A $7 billion cope with Steve Jobs and Pixar ushered in a new era of prosperity for Disney. In an exclusive from his new e-book [‘The Ride of a Lifetime’], CEO Bob Iger opens up about how an unlikely friendship made magic.” VF … $16.89 on Amazon
-- “The Transformation of Condé Nast,” by Kyle Chayka in The New Republic -- per ALDaily.com’s description: “Condé Nast’s components: ‘attraction to a moneyed, aspirational readership.’ As shiny magazines decline, is anything lost along with the elite tastemaker-editor?” TNR
-- “My Yr on a Shrinking Island” -- Longreads: “Former baker Michael Mount explores the interaction of group, cookie dough and altering terrain on Martha’s Winery.” Longreads
-- “Adam Driver, the Unique Man,” by Michael Schulman in The New Yorker: “Why so many administrators need to work with Hollywood’s most unconventional lead.” New Yorker
MEDIAWATCH -- Fox Information’ Catherine Herridge obtained the Tex McCrary Award for Journalism, awarded by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
Ship tricks to Eli Okun and Garrett Ross at politicoplaybook@politico.com.
SPOTTED: Greg Craig deplaning at DCA on Friday. … Joe Lieberman heading to his aircraft in Terminal B at DCA on Friday.
SPOTTED at Friday night time’s 51st annual black-tie Meridian Ball: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Abby Blunt, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Stephanie Grisham, Paul Ryan, Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Megan Beyer, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Debbie Meadows, Reps. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), Tommy and Alexandra Hicks, Michael Froman and Rod Rosenstein, Brian Hook, Hogan Gidley, Jessica Ditto, Josh and Ali Rogin, Stuart and Gwen Holliday, Carlos Gutierrez, Charlie Rivkin …
… Michelle Kosinski, Adrienne Arsht, Kasie Hunt, Nathan Daschle and Leah Campos, Kate Bennett, Ian Steff, Thomas Plofchan, Mike and Jill Sommers, Elizabeth Landers, Capricia Marshall, Jeremy and Robyn Bash, Cecilia Vega, Niki Christoff, Meridith McGraw, Michael and Diana Allen, Steve Clemons and Andrew Oros, Ed Luce, Ali Velshi, Jim Acosta, Abby Phillip, Morgan Ortagus and Jonathan Weinberger, Ann and Lloyd Hand, Janet and Jim Blanchard, Stuart and Ann Stock, Laurie Fulton, Carrie Budoff Brown, Luiza Savage and Brad Bosserman.
TRANSITION -- Bethany Aronhalt is becoming a member of the American Petroleum Institute’s communications group. She beforehand was senior director of media relations on the Nationwide Retail Federation.
BIRTHWEEK (was Friday): Joel Klein turned 73
BIRTHDAYS: Katy Tur … Hillary Clinton is 72 … Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) is 75 … Catherine Sullivan, EVP of worldwide communications at BCW International (h/t Bennett Richardson) … Mark Landler, NYT London bureau chief … USA In the present day’s Caren Bohan (h/ts Ben Chang) … Taffy Brodesser-Akner … Paula Faris … Tom Johnson … Nico Pitney, political director at NowThis … Jef Pollock, president of International Strategy Group … Frank Lavin … Jeff Rubin, communications director at the Washington Institute for Close to East Policy … Scott Jennings, principal at RunSwitch Public Relations and a CNN contributor, is 42 … Richard Yamada … Phil Blando … Mark Rozell … Ilia Rodriguez … Jessica Church … Morgan Corr … Cotton Puryear … Dani Feldman of CoStar Group … Bolivian President Evo Morales is 6-Zero … Nick Gwyn … Perry Apelbaum … Amanda Smith is 31 … Richard Goldstone …
… Betsy Hoover … Seth Morrow, Senate marketing campaign manager for Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), is 3-Zero (h/t Alex Schriver) … Clément Rousseau … Emily Herman of Aisle 518 Methods is 25, celebrating with pals in Paris … Kaylie Hanson Lengthy … NARAL’s Sasha Bruce … POLITICO’s Amanda Leader … Kristin Lynch, comms director for Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) … Christine Stineman … Craig Frucht, senior strategist at BergDavis Public Affairs … Glover Park Group’s Aleta Greer … Bianca Brosh of the “As we speak” present … Beth Ver Steeg … PAE’s Derrick McLane is 34 … Kim Waskowsky of Rep. Troy Balderson’s (R-Ohio) office … Aiden O’Connell … Simon Boehme … Shilpa Pesaru … Megan Lubin … Kerri Forrest … John Grady … Jill Salyers … Sam Speth … Andrea Roper … Jerry Crawford is 7-Zero … Adam Klaus … Caroline Cunningham … Kirk Fabel … Jake O’Donnell … Molly Fitzgerald
THE SHOWS, by Matt Mackowiak, submitting from Austin:
-- CNN’s “State of the Union”: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) … Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas). Panel: Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Rick Santorum, Jen Psaki and Mike Rogers.
-- “Fox News Sunday”: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) … Kellyanne Conway. Panel: Ben Domenech, Jonathan Swan, Gillian Turner and Mo Elleithee.
-- NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Panel: Lanhee Chen, Jeh Johnson, Andrea Mitchell and Amy Walter.
-- ABC’s “This Week”: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) … Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas). Syria panel: Joseph Votel, James Stavridis and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. Panel: Matthew Dowd, Chris Christie, Yvette Simpson and Susan Glasser.
-- CBS’ “Face the Nation”: Trey Gowdy … Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) … Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) ... Susan Rice. Panel: Jamelle Bouie, Nancy Cordes, Jonah Goldberg and Olivia Nuzzi.
-- CNN’s “Inside Politics”: Toluse Olorunnipa, Catherine Lucey, Lisa Lerer and Heather Caygle.
-- CNN’s “Dependable Sources”: Catherine Rampell, Andrew Marantz and Sarah Ellison … Joe Klein … Ezra Klein … Bill Frischling … Jeff Zucker.
-- Fox Information’ “Sunday Morning Futures”: Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) … Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) … Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.).
-- Fox Information’ “MediaBuzz”: Mollie Hemingway … Jeanne Zaino … Beverly Hallberg … Corey Lewandowski … Philippe Reines … Joe Buck.
-- CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”: Samantha Power …Jimmy Lai … Iván Duque.
-- Univision’s “Al Punto”: Jesús Esquivel … Edgardo Buscaglia …José Miguel Vivanco … Salvador Nasrallah … Pete Buttigieg … report on Mexican Lucha Libre.
-- C-SPAN: “The Communicators”: FCC Commissioner Christine Wilson, questioned by Axios’ Margaret Harding McGill … “Newsmakers”: Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ailing.), questioned by The Hill’s Juliegrace Brufke and POLITICO’s Tim Starks …..
Src: POLITICO Playbook: Pompeo talks about getting it ‘wrong’
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