POLITICO Playbook: What the booing of Trump says about his presidency

NOBODY OUGHT TO BE SURPRISED that the president was booed at Nats Park, in a metropolis the place more than 90% of voters choose his opponent in 2016. What was hanging, though, was that the response got here solely hours after President DONALD TRUMP proudly announced the demise of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, in a U.S. army raid.

WE’RE NOT SURE what the president expected to happen, however closeups of his face through the crowd’s reaction as identify was announced on the stadium PA present a smile hardening right into a slight scowl. How will he react at present?

IT’S A SIGN OF THE PRESIDENT’S ISOLATION, too, that he took solely his staunchest Republican allies with him to the game, together with the primary woman. Nats Park is probably one of many solely gathering locations on the town that pulls Republicans and Democrats in equal measure -- but his field was all pink.

THAT SAID … He was underneath no obligation to inform Speaker NANCY PELOSI ahead of the Baghdadi raid, but telling her and other prime Democrats would’ve purchased a huge chunk of goodwill. Pelosi -- a former prime Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee -- has been trusted with state secrets for decades. There is approximately zero probability she would’ve dialed up a reporter to leak the plans.

BREAKING … FT: “Brexit: EU agrees extension as Boris Johnson seems to trigger U.Okay. election — newest information”: “EU leaders have agreed to supply the UK an extension on the Brexit deadline from October 31 to the top of January after France gave up on its objections to such an lengthy delay.” FT

-- FROM LONDON PLAYBOOK: “EU ambassadors are meeting in Brussels this morning to agree a draft plan to grant the U.Okay. one other Brexit delay until January 31, 2020, with the option for the U.Okay. to go away sooner, either on the finish of November or the top of December, *if* the Withdrawal Agreement might be ratified in time.” More from London Playbook

HEATHER CAYGLE, JOHN BRESNAHAN and KYLE CHENEY: “Rep. Katie Hill to resign amid allegations of inappropriate relationships with staffers”: “Freshman Rep. Katie Hill is resigning from Congress after dealing with allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers in her office and on her congressional marketing campaign.

“‘It's with a broken coronary heart that at the moment I announce my resignation from Congress. This is the hardest factor I've ever needed to do, however I consider it is the neatest thing for my constituents, my group and our country,’ Hill wrote in a letter saying the news after it was first reported by POLITICO. …

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has taken a hard line in sexual harassment instances, stated in a press release that Hill had made the correct determination in stepping down. ‘[Hill] has acknowledged errors in judgment that made her continued service as a member untenable,’ Pelosi stated on Sunday night time. ‘We should guarantee a local weather of integrity and dignity within the Congress, and in all workplaces.’” POLITICO

-- L.A. TIMES COLUMNIST ROBIN ABCARIAN: “Democratic Rep. Katie Hill messed up, however she shouldn't have resigned”: “I really wish U.S. Rep. Katie Hill had not resigned.

“The Antelope Valley freshman Democrat has been charged with no crime, goes via what appears to be a miserable divorce, has all the time been frank about her bisexuality, had a relationship with a member of her campaign employees, however has denied an accusation that she had an affair with a male congressional staffer when she received to Washington, D.C., earlier this yr. She is now the topic of a House ethics probe.

“Ought to we've expected extra from her? Yes, and I'll get to that in a moment. But she has accomplished nothing — that we know of at the very least — that ought to have led her to step down.

“If certainly she had a sexual relationship with a staffer in her congressional workplace, that should have earned a slap on the wrist for the 32-year-old Democrat. To point out how significantly Congress takes that kind of thing, it wasn’t even till last yr that the House changed its rules to prohibit relationships between members and their staff. For decades, male lawmakers acquired away with these type of shenanigans. Wouldn’t you already know it, the primary one to fall afoul of the rule is a lady, and a bisexual lady, at that.” LAT

POST-GAMING BAGHDADI …

-- WAPO: “Regardless of Baghdadi raid, some analysts question U.S. means to stop ISIS resurgence,” by Karen DeYoung, Louisa Loveluck and Shane Harris: “[T]he raid got here amid rising concern that the diminishing U.S. army and civilian footprint, along with cuts in funding for stabilization and reconstruction, undermines that dedication in part of the world where U.S. leadership is essential both to American and international safety.” WaPo

-- WSJ: “Demise of Baghdadi Unlikely to Finish the Insurgency He Led,” by Isabel Coles in Erbil, Iraq, Jared Malsin in Istanbul and Warren Strobel: “A hobbled Islamic State may even be reinvigorated slightly than demoralized by Baghdadi’s dying, says Charlie Winter, a senior fellow on the Worldwide Centre for the Research of Radicalisation.

“‘In [the] coming days/weeks/months, it’ll be dashing to safe and consolidate its remnants beneath whatever new management construction emerges,’ stated Mr. Winter on Twitter. A senior U.S. official stated army strain must proceed on the remnants of Islamic State ‘otherwise the circumstances shall be ripe for them to reconstitute,’ as al Qaeda did in Iraq.” WSJ

-- AP’S JONATHAN LEMIRE: “Evaluation: With ISIS dying, Trump touts much-needed triumph”: “Imperiled by an impeachment inquiry and dealing with fierce overseas policy criticism from inside his own celebration, Trump reveled in the win Sunday, at first saying the raid like so lots of his predecessors, with solemnity for the mission in Syria and praise for the brave People and allies who carried it out.

“As the minutes handed, he reverted to the president who has tried to redefine the office and the way People view it, utilizing graphic language and awkward ad-libs while allotting criticism of his political foes, at house and overseas, and turning the triumph right into a moment, greater than something, about Donald J. Trump himself.

“Despite the Trumpian thrives, the president’s White Home reveal of al-Baghdadi’s dying gave him a destined-for-history image to put alongside Barack Obama’s iconic announcement of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It also provided him a reprieve from the escalating impeachment inquiry and a ready-made line for this 2020 reelection campaign.” AP

HAPPENING THIS WEEK: Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Senate Democrats will pressure a flooring vote on a decision to repeal the Trump administration’s 1332 waiver rule, which allows states to offer insurance policy that don't absolutely shield individuals with pre-existing circumstances and do not cowl important well being benefits reminiscent of prescribed drugs and maternity protection.

Good Monday morning. THE NATIONALS, ugh, whatever …

YES, TRUMP WAS BOOED, and some fans even chanted “Lock him up.” Video … Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who was within the field with him, informed the pool upon return to the White House that Trump stated, “Good pitching all the time beats good hitting.” Recreation 6, which is do or die for the Nats, is Tuesday night time at 8 p.m. in Houston.

SPOTTED in the president’s box on the recreation: Melania Trump, Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell, Graham, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).

SPOTTED at the recreation: former Redskins coach Jay Gruden.

IMPEACHMENT CLIP PACKET …

-- BURGESS EVERETT and JOHN BRESNAHAN: “Impeachment ghosts hang-out McConnell and Schumer”: “An up-and-coming congressman is operating for the Senate and railing towards impeachment. A rising senator within the other get together is decrying the White Home ‘smear campaign’ towards the investigation.

“The yr was 1998 and it was President Invoice Clinton who was beneath siege by an impeachment inquiry, just as President Donald Trump is now. At the time, Chuck Schumer was blasting the impeachment drive while Mitch McConnell referred to as for all sides to keep on with the information.

“Within the intervening 21 years, Schumer and McConnell may as nicely have swapped speaking factors. The politics of impeachment have all the time revolved around hypocrisy and partisanship. Nowadays, it’s simply turn into simpler to see. YouTube readily delivers embarrassing evidence of high-profile flip-flops: movies of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) arguing for impeachment in the ’90s have been a staple of Democratic Twitter accounts for weeks.” POLITICO

-- NYT’S NICK FANDOS and MIKE SCHMIDT: “Shifting Nearer to Trump, Impeachment Inquiry Faces Important Check”: “House impeachment investigators are rushing towards new White House limitations meant to block essential testimony and proof from the people who find themselves closest to President Trump — obstacles that might soon check the bounds of Democrats’ reality finding a month into their inquiry.

“What has been a quickly shifting investigation securing damning testimony from witnesses who've defied White House orders might quickly turn out to be a extra arduous effort. Investigators at the moment are making an attempt to secure cooperation from higher-ranking advisers who can supply extra direct accounts of Mr. Trump’s actions however are additionally more easily shielded from Congress.

“Democrats are more likely to face the first such roadblock on Monday, when one in every of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers is predicted to defy a subpoena as he awaits a federal courtroom to determine whether he can converse with impeachment investigators. But others might quickly comply with, authorized specialists and lawmakers say, forcing Democratic leaders toward a consequential selection: Try to drive cooperation by means of the courts or transfer on to begin making an argument for impeachment in public.” NYT

-- “Trump impeachment witnesses depart a path of tantalizing clues,” by Nahal Toosi: “They showed up, provided prepared remarks and answered hours of questions to lay out their aspect of the Ukraine-related impeachment inquiry now engulfing President Donald Trump.

“However the current and former U.S. officers … additionally left a trail of clues for investigators to comply with. The breadcrumbs — word of a cable right here, point out of a meeting there — are scattered across what’s been made public from the testimonies.” POLITICO

-- NOT HAPPENING TODAY: Former John Bolton deputy Charles Kupperman was resulting from testify this morning. However on Friday evening, he filed a lawsuit asking a federal courtroom to rule on which to obey: a congressional subpoena or White House orders that he not give a deposition. As of Sunday night time, per CBS, his lawyer stated he wouldn’t testify in the present day.

THE PRESIDENT’S MONDAY … THE PRESIDENT will depart the White House at eight a.m. for Andrews, the place he’ll fly to Chicago. He will arrive at O’Hare at 9:20 a.m. and fly to Soldier Subject, before heading to the McCormick Place Conference Middle. He'll arrive on the International Affiliation of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference and Exposition at 10 a.m. Central time, and he'll signal an government order and converse at 10:25 a.m.

At 11:20 a.m., he’ll depart for the Trump International Lodge & Tower Chicago, where he’ll have a fundraiser. He is scheduled to fly again at 1:35 p.m. At 5:45 p.m., he'll host Halloween at the White Home.

THE TIMES OF ISRAEL carried out an e mail interview with Jason Greenblatt, who's leaving his position as the president’s Middle East peace envoy. What he didn't reply: “Greenblatt declined to offer answers to questions about his designated successor, Avi Berkowitz, who critics charged is just too inexperienced to take over a portfolio as difficult as Center East peace; and about how he actually felt about a few of Trump’s extra controversial selections, comparable to chopping funds to Israeli-Palestinian coexistence tasks last yr, or, extra just lately, his withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria.” Times of Israel

2020 WATCH -- “Democrats confront the prospect of a long primary,” by David Siders: “Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are holding steady, Bernie Sanders is bouncing again from his coronary heart assault and Pete Buttigieg is springing to life in Iowa.

“After months of consolidation, there are signs the top tier of the Democratic presidential main may be increasing, leaving Democrats to confront the prospect of an enduring, multi-candidate contest that would drag on long into next yr.”

-- JOE BIDEN ON ‘60 MINUTES’ … Highlights … Video … Transcript

BAGHDADI FACT CHECK -- “Watching the Raid Was Like a Movie, the President Stated. Except There Was No Stay Audio,” by NYT’s Helene Cooper, Julian Barnes and Thomas Gibbons-Neff: “In describing the demise of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Sunday, President Trump used dramatic, even cinematic language to painting the daring American commando raid that introduced down the Islamic State chief who, the president stated, died ‘screaming, crying and whimpering.’

“Mr. Trump described the video footage he watched from the White Home State of affairs Room as ‘something really superb to see.’ The experience, the president stated, was ‘as if you have been watching a movie.’

“What the president saw, in accordance with army and intelligence officials, was overhead surveillance footage on a number of video screens that, collectively, offered numerous angles from above, and in real time. … [T]hose surveillance feeds could not show what was occurring in an underground tunnel, a lot less detect if Mr. al-Baghdadi was whimpering or crying.” NYT

BEYOND THE BELTWAY … AP: “Fires unfold amid energy outages in Northern California”: “As almost 200,000 individuals remain beneath evacuation order from menace of wildfire, a number of the hundreds of thousands of people in Northern California on monitor to get their electrical energy again might not have power restored earlier than one other attainable spherical of shut-offs and debilitating winds.

“Pacific Fuel & Electric Co. has notified more than 1.2 million individuals that they could have their electricity shut off for what could possibly be the third time in every week and the fourth time this month.

“Meanwhile, greater than 2.four million individuals who lost electricity over the weekend have been awaiting restoration as hurricane-force winds whipped by way of the state, fueling a wildfire in Sonoma County as smaller spot fires cropped up.” AP

I’M NOT CRYING, YOU’RE CRYING -- “As his Alzheimer’s looms, Charles and Pam Ogletree take one last walk in love,” by The Boston Globe’s Jenna Russell

MEDIAWATCH -- ABOUT THAT BAGHDADI HEADLINE … WAPO STATEMENT: "Publish correspondents have spent years in Iraq and Syria documenting ISIS savagery, typically at great private danger. Unfortunately, a headline written in haste to painting the origins of al-Baghdadi and ISIS didn’t talk that brutality. The headline was promptly changed." (by way of CNN’s Brian Stelter)

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SPOTTED: Robert Mueller sitting in top notch on a United Airlines flight from DCA to Denver on Sunday. Pic on the Denver airport tram … Supreme Courtroom Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the opening night time of “Othello” at the Kennedy Middle on Saturday evening, where she was greeted with a standing ovation.

SPOTTED at a ceremony awarding Dave Chappelle the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on the Kennedy Middle on Sunday night time: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bob Menedez (D-N.J.), David Rubenstein, Deborah Rutter, Lorne Michaels, Capricia Marshall, Tim and Anne Keating, John Legend, Jon Stewart, Susan Rice and Ian Cameron, Elizabeth Bagley, Tiffany Haddish, Q-Tip, Orson Porter, Thurgood Marshall Jr., Gina Adams, Bradley Cooper, Missy Owens and Rod O’Connor, Stuart Bernstein, UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, Neal Brennan, Patrick Steel and Lee Satterfield, Bret and Amy Baier, Heather Podesta, Juleanna Glover, Adrian Fenty, Howard Fineman and Amy Nathan and Steve Ciccone.

SPOTTED at Mike Bloomberg’s CityLab dinner at the National Museum of African American Historical past and Culture on Sunday night time: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Patti Harris, Kevin Sheekey, Jim Kenney, Melvin Carter, Zdenek Hrib, Maureen Orth, David and Katherine Bradley, Aneesh Chopra and Rohini Dhir, James Anderson, Steve Clemons, Shawna Thomas, Craig Gordon and Kim Sajet.

TRANSITIONS -- Erica Elliott Richardson and Sonja Nesbit are joining FTI Consulting as managing administrators. Richardson beforehand was director of external affairs on the CFTC. Nesbit previously was senior authorities relations director at Arent Fox.

WEEKEND WEDDINGS -- Steven Groves, White Home deputy press secretary, and Caitlin Thompson, deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at HUD, obtained married Saturday on the St. Regis. The couple met at Heritage. Pic … SPOTTED: HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Jim DeMint, Emmet Flood, Ty Cobb, Monica Rodriguez and Jeff Bednarczyk, James and Kimberly Wallner, Rachel Bovard and Lawrence Stanley, Caroline Vanvick, Andrew Peek, Andrew Hughes, Jim Frogue, Todd Thurman, Maggie and Abby Delahoyde, Jeff and Mary Catherine Murray, JP Tyson, Ed Corrigan, Cameron and Angie Seward, and Raffi and Morgan Williams.

-- Georgette Spanjich, co-founder of Plurus Strategies, and Charlie Kerr, an intelligence analyst for the Air Pressure, received married Saturday at Black Horse Inn in Warrenton, Va. Pic … SPOTTED: Kevin Ball, Phil Cardarella, Kevin Carter, Derek Conrad, Jean Cornell, Alan McQuinn, Alyssa Franke, Kristian Hoysradt, Morgan Gress Johnson, Brian Johnson, David Leiter, Tamera Luzzatto, Sarah Litke, Richard Phillips, Joe Vidulich and Ashley Wolos.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Jonny Slemrod, associate at Harbinger Methods. An fascinating e-book he just lately read: “I just lately read ‘Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders’ by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry after seeing the movie ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ It's a fascinating read and a wild story.” Playbook Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Invoice Gates is 64 … WaPo’s David Finkel is 64 … David Ford, Ogilvy’s chief U.S. comms officer … Zach Hunter, VP at American Motion Community and Congressional Leadership Fund … Justin Discigil, press secretary for Home Power and Commerce Republicans, who celebrated by finishing the Spartan warrior trifecta -- pic(hat ideas: Zack Roday) … Teresa Vilmain (h/t Jon Haber) … Max Cummings … Bridget Walsh, VP for government affairs and public policy at Boehringer Ingelheim … E&E’s Dylan Brown … Matt Patton of Google … Jeanie Figg … CNN senior photojournalist Peter Morris … Ansley Rhyne … Alison Starling … Susan E. Roberts … Helena Andrews … Vince Chadwick … Stefanie Christensen …

… Doug Band … Scott Harrington … Nadia Garnett (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Margaret Given, editorial producer for CNN’s “New Day” … Louise Dodsworth … Adam Bozzi … Acee Agoyo ... Alex and Brett Harris ... Brian Witkofsky is 52 ... Steve Hartell, director of U.S. public policy at Amazon (h/t Jodi Seth) ... Uber’s Alix Anfang … Peter Savodnik ... Sam Weston ... Jason Rodriguez ... CBS’ Meghan Zusi ... Zach Williams ... Asher Hildebrand (h/t Seve Gaskin) ... Simon Pereira ... Griffin Anderson ... former Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) is 62 … Andrew Cooper (h/t Tim Burger) … Darlene Setter … Sarah Beaulieu ... former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is 63

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