WRAPPING UP SCHIFF: Rep. ADAM SCHIFF (D-Calif.) -- who has shortly been vaulted to a place of prominence atop the Democratic Get together -- wrapped up his prosecution of President DONALD TRUMP last night time around 9 p.m. after three days of tight and compelling testimony.
HOW DO YOU JUDGE THE JOB SCHIFF and the Democrats did? Their rhetorical expertise, their preparation and the depth of their argument have been roundly praised by both events and most all observers. It’s very clear that Democrats knew exactly what they have been doing by making SCHIFF the lead manager, and filling his staff with gifted orators. SCHIFF did seem to tick off Republicans, or at the least give them a purpose to say they’re ticked off -- extra on that under.
-- WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT SCHIFF: NYT, by Sheryl Stolberg: “‘I have to say this,’ [Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim] Inhofe advised reporters Friday morning within the Capitol. ‘Schiff could be very, very effective.’”
BUT SCHIFF WRAPPED yesterday by asking Republicans to vote for witnesses -- an illustration of just how robust of a job Democrats have.
ON WITNESSES … THE LATEST THINKING within the Capitol among both Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans won't vote for witnesses. Sensible cash is on a 51-49 vote -- although nobody actually has an concept at this level.
AN INTERESTING QUESTION TO PONDER: Politically, if you’re a Republican, can you vote for witnesses -- and if witnesses fail, are you able to then vote to acquit? There are two faculties of considering on this: Yes: When you vote for witnesses, and they fail, you possibly can vote to acquit because you possibly can say, “I tried to get extra info. The Senate stated no, so I needed to make a choice based mostly on what we had.” No: How are you going to consider you need extra info after which vote to acquit?
HAPPENING THIS MORNING: From a Dem aide: “At this time, Managers for the U.S. House of Representatives will file a 28,578-page trial report with the Secretary of the Senate for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. The trial document serves as the evidentiary foundation informing the Senate impeachment trial and supplies a everlasting accounting to the Senate and the public of the evidence gathered towards the President of the USA. This report doesn't embrace hundreds of documents and testimony that President Trump is blocking from Congress and the American individuals.”
HOW SCHIFF IS PLAYING … THE NATION’S FRONT PAGES … Arizona Republic: “Trump ‘is who he is’” … Los Angeles Occasions: “Democrats end arguments with a dire warning” … S.F. Chronicle: “Last word from Schiff -- oust him or it won’t stop” … San Diego Union Tribune: “DEMOCRATS PRESS OBSTRUCTION CASE” … Miami Herald: “Democrats say oust Trump or he’ll do it again; ‘he is who he is’” … Tampa Bay Occasions: “Schiff: Trump must be stopped” …
… New York Occasions: “DEMOCRATS PRESS CASE OF OBSTRUCTION BY TRUMP” … Charlotte Observer: “Trump ally Meadows takes defender role up a notch” … Portland Oregonian: “Schiff: ‘You know it’s not going to stop’”
REPUBLICANS NOT MOVED … JOHN BRESNAHAN and BURGESS EVERETT: “Trump finds nearly unwavering loyalty from Republicans after Dem case”: “Senate Republicans spent three days listening to the Home impeachment managers present a comprehensive case for removing President Donald Trump from office — an elaborate, multimedia narrative laying out a wide selection of offenses allegedly committed to profit the president’s personal political fortunes at the expense of the nation.
“A small minority of GOP senators might finally find yourself mildly criticizing the president’s conduct in requesting investigations into Joe Biden and delaying army assist to Ukraine. But any expressions of disapproval are muted, or defined away as an trustworthy mistake by a annoyed president who just needed to battle corruption in Ukraine. …
“[I]t could be very unlikely that multiple or two Republican senators are even considering a vote to convict Trump and remove him from workplace, far from the 20 needed to succeed in the 67-vote threshold required by the Constitution. GOP leaders and aides privately doubt any Republican will forged such a vote, particularly after they hear from Trump’s protection group over the subsequent few days, and notably if a key procedural vote on hearing witnesses is defeated next week.”
NYT’S CARL HULSE on A1: “Few G.O.P. Senators Display Any Hint of Being Swayed by Democrats’ Arguments”
OUTRAGE OF THE DAY … BURGESS EVERETT: “Republicans furious after Schiff cites supposed menace to GOP senators”: “Lisa Murkowski thought Adam Schiff was doing a reasonably good job prosecuting the case towards President Donald Trump as he made his opening arguments. That's, until he learn an anonymous quote warning Republican senators to vote with Trump or end up with their ‘head on a pike.’
“‘I assumed he was doing wonderful with ethical courage till he acquired to the top on a pike. That is the place he misplaced me ... he's an excellent orator,’ stated the Alaska Republican, whose vote is crucial in the Democrat’s push to subpoena new witnesses and paperwork within the trial. ‘You've got to give him that. And he was shifting proper along with good oratory ... it was just pointless.’
“The average Republican is among the few unpredictable senators in the course of the impeachment trial. But she appeared visibly upset throughout Schiff's remarks, as did Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). ‘Not only have I never heard the ‘head on the pike’ line but also I know of no Republican senator who has been threatened in any means by anyone in the administration,’ Collins stated.” POLITICO
THE TRUMP TEAM DEFENSE begins at 10 a.m. as we speak. President DONALD TRUMP instructed Saturdays are the backwater of television, however the networks are taking the proceedings reside with their prime expertise on the wheel.
IT’S A SHORT DAY TODAY: The session is predicted to wrap round 1 p.m., and the Senate will take tomorrow off and return Monday.
WHAT TO EXPECT TODAY … JAY SEKULOW informed a gaggle of us reporters within the Capitol yesterday that immediately can be like a “trailer … coming points of interest.” SEKULOW stated they can be talking quite a bit about JOE and HUNTER BIDEN.
-- DARREN SAMUELSOHN and KYLE CHENEY: “Trump's legal team to launch unbridled attack on Biden”: “It’s not the technique most legal professionals would take when a president’s job is on the line. However that is the Trump period and any norms from previous impeachment fights look like out the window. Greater than something, Trump’s legal professionals are aiming to make use of their nationally-televised platform to stamp out any lingering consideration by a handful of Senate Republicans to hitch Democrats in demanding new witnesses and paperwork to assist their prosecution.
“Whether that plan works remains to be seen -- a vote on the witness query looms subsequent week and a number of other GOP senators have advised they’re still open-minded. Trump himself is a wildcard in that debate. He has at occasions demanded that Republicans call his personal favored witnesses, including Biden, and at others has referred to as for a swift rejection of Democrats’ case.”
-- WAPO A1: “Trump’s defense team to target Bidens in counterpunch to impeachment charges,” by Rachael Bade, Bob Costa, Karoun Demirjian and Josh Dawsey
WHAT’S NEXT: We screwed up the timeline yesterday, so right here’s what we anticipate going ahead: WE ANTICIPATE the Trump protection will final at present and Monday. Then Senate questions are TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY -- Dems are anticipated to make use of this time, partially, to rebut the Trump protection. The talk on witnesses will in all probability be THURSDAY -- in all probability a vote on witnesses, as properly. If there are not any witnesses, we’d guess they’ll close FRIDAY, and deliberate into SATURDAY. Vote might come subsequent SATURDAY or MONDAY
-- IF THERE ARE WITNESSES, this entire timeline is blown up, and the method will continue for weeks. (h/t the POLITICO Hill workforce)
BY THE NUMBERS … AT LEAST 30 SENATE DEMOCRATS have made 114 cable TV appearances this week (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC and ABC), per a Senate Dem source.
CALIFORNIA REP. DEVIN NUNES raised $2.1 million in the remaining three months of 2019. He has $7.1 million available. OHIO REP. JIM JORDAN raised $1.3 million and has $1.eight million on hand. Both males filed their stories yesterday -- it’s due on Friday.
Good Saturday morning. PETE STARK, a former California Democrat, died at 88, per the San Jose Mercury News. He served within the House from 1973 to 2013, when he lost to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).
SPOTTED: Nikki Haley having dinner at L28 in Tel Aviv on Friday night time.
FOGGY BOTTOM BLOWUP: MARY LOUISE KELLY speaking about her interview with Secretary of State MIKE POMPEO: “I was taken to the Secretary's personal front room where he was ready and the place he shouted at me for about similar period of time because the interview itself. He was not completely satisfied to have been questioned about Ukraine. He requested, ‘do you assume People care about Ukraine?’
“He used the F-word in that sentence and lots of others. He asked if I might discover Ukraine on a map. I stated sure, and he referred to as out for aides to deliver us a map of the world with no writing. I pointed to Ukraine. He put the map away. He stated, ‘individuals will hear about this.’” The full interview
NYT’S MAGGIE HABERMAN and ANNIE KARNI: “Trump Might Skip Debates, or Seek New Host, if Course of Isn’t ‘Truthful’”: “President Trump’s marketing campaign is contemplating only collaborating generally election debates if an outdoor agency serves as the host, and his advisers just lately sat down with the nonprofit Fee on Presidential Debates to complain concerning the debates it hosted in 2016.
“The Dec. 19 assembly between Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., a outstanding Republican and co-chairman of the fee, Brad Parscale, the marketing campaign manager for Mr. Trump’s re-election effort, and one other political adviser, Michael Glassner, got here soon after Mr. Trump posted on Twitter that the 2016 debates had been ‘biased.’ Mr. Fahrenkopf stated the meeting was cordial, but that Mr. Parscale primarily reiterated Mr. Trump’s complaints.” NYT
NYT’S JONATHAN MARTIN on A1, from Fort Dodge, Iowa: “A Major Fear for Democrats: Will the Party Come Together by November?”
SANDERS TAKES THE LEAD, per a brand new NYT/Siena poll.
TRUMP’S SATURDAY: Nothing on the schedule.
CLICKER -- “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker -- 17 keepers
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman (@dlippman):
-- “Is Venture Capital Well worth the Danger?” by The New Yorker’s Nathan Heller: “The business shaped the past decade. It might destroy the subsequent.” New Yorker
-- “What Schizophrenia Does to Households,” by Abigail Jones in WaPo Magazine: “A mom, a son, an unraveling mind — and a psychological health system that may’t keep up.” WaPo Magazine
-- “Fertility Inc.: Inside the large business of babymaking,” by Fortune’s Beth Kowitt: “One in eight couples struggles to conceive. No marvel buyers are injecting money into the business.” Fortune
-- “The Enemies of Writing,” by The Atlantic’s George Packer -- per ALDaily’s description: “What is the enemy of writing as we speak? Worry — of moral judgment, public shaming, social ridicule, and ostracism. The mob has the ultimate edit.” Atlantic ... “Defend your friends,” by Douglas Murray in Spectator USA
-- “Protest Tech: Hong Kong,” by Richard Byrne and Michael C. Davis in Wilson Quarterly: “[T]he high political stakes of these protests – and the vivid photographs accompanying them – obscure an equally consequential international impression created by the territory’s tenacious pro-democracy motion: The streets of Hong Kong have turn into a teeming laboratory for the way forward for organized protest in a surveillance state.” Wilson Quarterly
-- “Who Needs to Play the Status Recreation?” by Agnes Callard in The Level Mag: “Within the Importance Recreation, members jockey for place. This often works by means of informal references to wealth, expertise, accomplishment or connections. The Levelling Recreation makes use of empathy to equalise the gamers: So I'd performatively share emotions of stress, inadequacy or weak spot; or categorical discontent with the Powers that Be; or residence in on a supply of communal outrage, frustration or oppression.” The Point Mag (h/t TheBrowser.com)
-- “Advertising Psychiatric Medicine to Jailers and Judges,” by Max Blau in The Atlantic: “Drug corporations are courting jails and judges via refined advertising efforts.” Atlantic
-- “Throwaway society: Rejecting a life consumed by plastic,” by The Japan Occasions’ Andrew McKirdy: “Japan produces an estimated 9 million tons of plastic waste annually, with disposable packaging and meals containers accounting for more than 40 %. But how exactly does plastic consumption influence us on a personal degree?” Japan Times (h/t Longreads.com)
-- “The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming,” by The New Yorker’s Rebecca Mead: “Britons are skipping the heated pool and rediscovering the pleasures of lakes, rivers, and seas—even in winter.” New Yorker
-- “American Psycho: An Oral History, 20 Years After Its Divisive Debut,” by Tim Molloy in Movie Maker -- per Longform.org’s description: “In January 2000, American Psycho bombed at Sundance. It was just the start.” Movie Maker
-- “A Science-Based mostly Case for Ending the Porn Epidemic,” by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry in American Greatness: “We all know what porn does to the brain, because the medical science is strong. As a result of social science is far softer, we will’t know for certain what causal impacts porn has on society, if any. However once we understand that we now have to be rather more humble on this area, we will nonetheless make prudential judgments.” American Greatness
Ship tricks to Eli Okun and Garrett Ross at politicoplaybook@politico.com.
TRANSITIONS -- DHS is adding three new public affairs staffers: Sofia Boza-Holman as press secretary, Brandy Brown as director of strategic communications and Elizabeth Ray as senior adviser to the assistant secretary. Boza-Holman was most lately director of strategic media for VP Mike Pence. Brown was most lately comms director for Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.). Ray was most just lately VP of accounts at CRC Strategies.
BIRTHDAYS: Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) is 83 … Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) is 63 … Jack Oliver is 51 … Nancy Gibbs … Joe Conason, EIC of Nationwide Memo, is 66 … NAM’s Mark Isaacson … Kate Conway … Ed Payne … Eleni Towns … Zach Pleat … NYT’s Jeremy Peters (h/t Mitchell Rivard) … WaPo’s Michael Scherer … Tina Tchen, president and CEO of Time’s Up (h/t Hilary Rosen) … POLITICO’s Alessandro Sclapari and Chris Parisi … Adam Kovacevich, head of Americas authorities relations at Lime … Dave Martinez … Charles Aldinger … Erika Reynoso, VP for public affairs communications at Wells Fargo (h/t Emily Teitelbaum) ... Iva Benson, EVP at Rubenstein … Dan Kaniewski … Angela Calman, VP of comms at Oscar Health ... Ashley Jones, senior adviser to Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján, celebrating in LA (h/t husband Justin Davey) … Adam Falkoff, president of CapitalKeys … Danielle Inman … David Woodruff is 49 …
… Mallory Hunter, founder and president of Hunter Operations … Luke Graeter, legislative assistant for Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) (h/t Emily Saleme) … Emily Passer, senior director of digital communications for NBC Information … Brian Dunn ... Evan Lukaske is 31 … Christine Gianakis ... Eleni Gill ... Jason Jay Sensible ... Heather Marrison ... Josh Randle (h/t Tammy Haddad) ... Connor Wolf is 3-0 ... Meaghan Lynch … Kevin Helliker, editor of Brunswick Assessment, is 61 ... Joelle Terry ... Mary Lynn Jones Rynkiewicz ... Tina Kelley … Lucette Moran … Sefira Fialkoff … Parker Erickson … Dae Lim ... Mark Bottini ... Heather Bellow is 51 ... Erik Smulson is 53 ... Wes Caudell is 4-Zero ... Houston Ruck … Amy Mitchell ... Michelle Goodman … Dan Carol … Laura Simolaris … Cory Mason … Chet Culver is 54 … Susan Torricelli (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Phil Beshara … Karen Ray Bishop … ICM Partners’ Michael Glantz is 6-0 … Ron Beitelspacher
THE SHOWS, by Matt Mackowiak, filing from Austin:
-- NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) … Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) … Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Panel: Lanhee Chen, Mark Leibovich, Amy Walter and Kristen Welker.
-- CNN’s “State of the Union”: Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) … Robert Ray … George Conway. Panel: Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Mia Love, Wajahat Ali and David City.
-- ABC’s “This Week”: Friends to be announced.
-- CBS’ “Face the Nation”: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) … Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) … latest CBS News Battleground Tracker with CBS Information elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto. Panel: Kelsey Snell, David Nakamura, Phil Rucker and Ramesh Ponnuru.
-- “Fox News Sunday”: Andrew Yang … Alan Dershowitz … Brianne Pfannenstiel and Dave Worth. Panel: Ben Domenech, Jennifer Griffin and Jane Harman. … “Power Player of the Week” phase with Ian Bohen (reside from Des Moines).
-- CNN’s “Inside Politics” (two-hour particular): Maggie Haberman, Julie Pace, Michael Shear, Seung Min Kim, Paul Kane, Michael Gerhardt, Ross Garber, Abby Philip and Lisa Lerer.
-- Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures”: President Donald Trump (re-air of interview from earlier this week).
-- Fox Information’ “MediaBuzz”: Stephanie Grisham … Mollie Hemingway … Mo Elleithee … Kat Timpf.
-- CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”: Panel: Martin Indyk, Zanny Minton Beddoes and Kishore Mahbuhbani … Iraqi President Barham Salih … Carrie Lam.
-- CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: Oliver Darcy and John Avlon … Susan Glasser and Melanie Zanona … Salena Zito and Lyz Lenz … Glenn Greenwald.
-- Univision’s “Al Punto”: Aileen Marty and George Diaz … Ray Baca, Ana Laura Zepeda and Anthony Aguero … Deisi Arreces-Huitz and Artemio Arreces … Gilbran Ramirez.
-- C-SPAN: “The Communicators”: Huawei Applied sciences USA chief safety officer Andy Purdy, questioned by POLITICO’s Joel Hendel … “Newsmakers”: Senate Leadership Fund President & CEO Steven Regulation, questioned by National Journal’s Leah Askarinam and WaPo’s Jacqueline Alemany … “Q&A”: “Iowa Press” host David Yepsen.
-- MSNBC’s “Kasie DC”: Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) … Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) … Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) … Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) … Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) … Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) … Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig … Yamiche Alcindor … Paul Kane … Lanhee Chen … Matt Gorman.
-- Grey TV’s “Full Courtroom Press with Greta Van Susteren”: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) … Kevin Cirilli.
-- Sinclair TV’s “America This Week with Eric Bolling”: Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) … Rudy Giuliani … Corey Lewandowski … Peter Schweizer … Ameshia Cross.
-- “Mack on Politics” weekly politics podcast with Matt Mackowiak (download on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify or Stitcher): Darrell Issa.
Src: POLITICO Playbook: Schiff -- and what’s next
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