Playbook: What POTUS will say tonight

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DRIVING THE DAY

FALLING IN LINE — BILL BARR gave a newsy interview to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins yesterday, in which the former AG for DONALD TRUMP said he plans to support his former boss at the ballot box in November. More from CNN

Collins: “Just to be clear, you’re voting for someone who you believe tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, that can’t even achieve his own policies, that lied about the election even after his attorney general told him that the election wasn’t stolen … you’re going to vote for someone who is facing 88 criminal counts?”

Barr: “Look, the 88 criminal counts, a lot of those are —”

Collins: “Even if 10 of them are accurate?”

Barr: “The answer to the question is yes, I’m supporting the Republican ticket.”

THE MAIN EVENT — In a few hours, This Town will descend on the Washington Hilton in their glitzy finery for tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner (though none will be dressed better than Eugene, of course).

Ahead of his traditional remarks, President JOE BIDEN has been “sharpening his jokes” as he prepares to roast the press, Trump and himself at his third WHCD tonight, NYT’s Zolan Kanno-Youngs writes this morning.

Biden has told his share of knee-slappers over the years, and we’re not expecting different tonight, but he’s also “expected to issue a more serious warning at a time when journalists around the world are being jailed or detained more frequently for doing their job,” Kanno-Youngs writes.

Expect some recognition for WSJ’s EVAN GERSHKOVICH and freelance journalist AUSTIN TICE — who remain detained in Russia and Syria respectively — at some point during the evening.

Biden might also lob some criticism at his audience. During his Friday Sirius XM interview with HOWARD STERN, Kanno-Youngs points out, Biden said he felt the media wasn’t hard enough on Trump.

“I think some of them are worried about attacking him, worried about taking him on,” Mr. Biden said.

It’s a tale as old as time, of course: politicians complaining about unfair press coverage. But if Biden goes there on this matter in particular, expect some serious eyerolls. Most of the reporters sitting in front of him have done scores of critical stories about Trump over the years. (The Trump insiders who will be in the audience — including CHRIS LaCIVITA and LARA TRUMP — will certainly beg to differ.)

As for the main event: Last night’s parties were buzzing about COLIN JOST — and not just about his headline comedy performance tonight. The “Saturday Night Live” veteran (and former Staten Island Advance reporter!) showed up with wife SCARLETT JOHANSSON at CAA’s snazzy party at La Grande Boucherie after dining with SNL doyen LORNE MICHAELS at Cafe Milano.

Jost told folks at the CAA party he’s still refining his speech. To that end, we certainly hope he’s gotten a full briefing on KRISTI NOEM.

Speaking of …

JUSTICE FOR CRICKET — It was the political story that dominated the chatter at last night’s parties: the South Dakota governor boasting in her forthcoming book about how she killed her puppy wirehaired pointer because he was, essentially, too wild and obnoxious.

The question everyone’s asking: What was she thinking? Typically, politicians look to furry, four-legged friends to soften their images with the public. Remember Buddy, the Clintons’ chocolate lab, and Bo and Sunny, the Obamas’ Portuguese water dogs. GEORGE W. BUSH had his Scottish terriers Barney and Miss Beazley. The list goes on.

A few theories have emerged …

Noem writes that some construction workers saw her shoot Cricket as well as a family goat who, she complains, smelled bad and chased her kids around. Could it be she was trying to tell a bad story on her own terms before someone else did?

The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg has another theory: that someone advised Noem — who’s contending to be Trump’s running mate — to try to look tough for the former president.

“Noem wants to be VP. Noem is close to COREY LEWANDOWSKI who is a thuggish guy who thinks talking tough is a core part of MAGA and essential to impressing Trump,” Goldberg wrote in an X thread about how indefensible the story is. He adds: “If I had that attitude about my Carolina Dog, I would have shot Zoë a dozen times over when she was young.”

We made some calls to GOP operatives on the way to the CAA gathering last night and were told by almost every one of them that this story will probably be the nail in the coffin for Noem’s VP hopes. She was already on the outs given the weird dental promotion saga that had folks scratching their heads. This story is just making people question her political acumen — not to mention, her moral compass — even more.

While Trump himself isn’t much of a dog person, those people noted, he also wouldn’t condone killing a puppy.

In any case, there is already convincing evidence this whole thing backfired on Noem, so to speak.

In the hours after the story broke yesterday, Noem’s standing in the PredictIt betting market for GOP VP nominee tanked: She went from narrowly trailing Sen. TIM SCOTT among speculators to fourth place behind Rep. ELISE STEFANIK and former Rep. TULSI GABBARD this morning.

And a new “Noem Puppy Murder” instapoll conducted by Democratic pollster BENJY MESSNER of New River Strategies found that 81% of respondents disapproved of Noem killing her dog, with Republicans breaking 42%-21% against her in saying she would not be a good veep choice. Read the poll memo

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HERE COMES THE PILE-ON — Minnesota Gov. TIM WALZ on X last night: “Post a picture with your dog that doesn’t involve shooting them and throwing them in a gravel pit.”

WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY

At the White House

Biden, first lady JILL BIDEN, VP KAMALA HARRIS and second gentleman DOUG EMHOFF will attend the White House Correspondents Dinner at 8 p.m.

PLAYBOOK READS

9 THINGS THAT STUCK WITH US

1. SCOTUS WATCH: On the heels of the Trump immunity arguments at the Supreme Court this week, our colleague Josh Gerstein explores an incisive question: Is the Supreme Court just winging it? “Two years ago, conservatives relied on a strict interpretation of the Constitution’s text and original meaning to overturn the federal right to abortion. But on Thursday, as they debated whether Trump can be prosecuted for his bid to subvert the 2020 election, they seemed content to engage in a free-form balancing exercise where they weighed competing interests and practical consequences,” Josh writes.

“Some critics said the conservative justices — all of whom purport to adhere to an original understanding of the Constitution — appeared to be on the verge of fashioning a legal protection for former presidents based on the justices’ subjective assessment of what’s best for the country and not derived from the nation’s founding document.”

Related read: “Shocker From Top Conservative Judge: Trump Likely To Skate Completely,” by The New Republic’s Greg Sargent: “J. MICHAEL LUTTIG sees two potential outcomes from Thursday’s Supreme Court arguments. Both are grim for our democracy.”

2. THE NEW COASTAL AXIS: Although they are separated by miles of middle America, New York and Arizona are holding as the epicenters of 2024 right now — a dynamic that “underscores how little control Biden and Trump have over the circumstances shaping the election,” Sally Goldenberg and Liz Crampton write. “Deep-blue New York is home to the Trump trial, campus protests drawing national attention and five Congressional races that could tip control of the House. Closely divided Arizona is in an uproar over an 1864 abortion law, immigration and the indictment of 18 people accused of interference in the 2020 election. …

“Yet even as circumstances overtake the candidates, their parties and campaigns are sprinting to capitalize on both Arizona and New York — with Democrats attacking the southwest state’s abortion law and Trump’s campaign pushing his ad hoc campaign-style stops in Harlem and midtown on social media.”

3. THE ODD COUPLE: “A Match Made in MAGA: How a Friendship Helped J.D. Vance Land on Trump’s V.P. List,” by NYT’s Sharon LaFraniere: “In no small part, Mr. Vance owes his quick ascent into the Trump orbit to his unlikely friendship and ideological kinship with the former president’s oldest son [DONALD TRUMP JR.]. They text or talk nearly daily and try to meet up if they are in the same city, according to people who know them both. They are a social-media tag team, often reposting each other’s messages. … The friendship is among the MAGA movement’s more unusual pairings.

“Mr. Vance, 39, is a self-made man who had a fatherless childhood. Mr. Trump, 46, has been at the right hand of his billionaire father his whole life. Mr. Vance is wonky and well-spoken, a Yale Law School graduate and memoirist regarded as an intellectual standard-bearer for Trumpism. The former president’s son is sarcastic and foul-mouthed, a sharper reader of people than of policy papers and a political weather vane for his father. But the men share right-wing, nationalist politics and a vision for how the Republican Party should root out vestiges of old elites. In some ways, they represent the ego and id of the MAGA movement and, some Republican strategists argue, its next wave of insurgency.”

4. ANOTHER KIND OF FLORIDA MAN: Freshman Rep. JARED MOSKOWITZ (D-Fla.) “has made it part of his mission to push back with his own bit of theater — including cosponsoring a bill to name a Florida federal prison after former President Donald Trump, or daring a House committee to take a vote on impeachment,” Gary Fineout writes from Tallahassee. “The 43-year-old attorney and former head of the state’s emergency management agency may be on paper just a first-term backbencher coming from a former battleground state. But he’s carved out a role for himself by helping undermine the push by Republicans to impeach President Joe Biden, and has even been mentioned as a possible candidate for governor in the future. And even some Republicans will admit that he has been effective.”

Said Moskowitz: “I’m interested in fighting fire with fire. I saw the most extreme elements participating in this sort of thing. I saw that debating them with logic and reason in a professional manner didn’t get you anywhere.”

5. I.C. STARE: “Putin Didn’t Directly Order Alexei Navalny’s February Death, U.S. Spy Agencies Find,” by WSJ’s Aruna Viswanatha, Dustin Volz, Warren Strobel, Alan Cullison and Thomas Grove: “U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that [Russian President VLADIMIR] PUTIN likely didn’t order [ALEXEI] NAVALNY to be killed at the notoriously brutal prison camp in February, people familiar with the matter said, a finding that deepens the mystery about the circumstances of his death. The assessment doesn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for Navalny’s death, but rather finds he probably didn’t order it at that moment.”

6. CAMPUS UNREST FALLOUT: “Red states prodded colleges about free speech. Israel-Gaza made it complicated,” by Juan Perez Jr.: “A wave of pro-Palestinian unrest is not only challenging lawmakers who cemented campus free speech protections in recent years, but also creating a political test for laws and legal doctrines honed during the Civil Rights era and the Vietnam War. The moment is forcing higher education officials to balance their obligations to free expression with the legal authority they possess to limit defiant disruptions as antiwar demonstrations spread and graduation season approaches.”

7. BEHIND THE BLUSTER: “Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them,” by AP’s Matt Brown and Steve Peoples: “The Trump campaign removed its point person for coalitions and hasn’t announced a replacement. The Republican Party’s minority outreach offices across the country have been shuttered and replaced by businesses that include a check-cashing store, an ice cream shop and a sex-toy store. And campaign officials concede they are weeks away from rolling out any targeted programs. … There are signs of frustration on the ground, where Republicans believe Trump has a real opportunity to shift the election by cutting into President Joe Biden’s advantages with voters of color.”

8. THE SHAWN FAIN EFFECT: “This electrician and union leader could be Biden’s secret weapon in Michigan,” by WaPo’s Jeanne Whalen and Toluse Olorunnipa: “Fresh off some historic wins for the labor movement, [the United Auto Workers president] could be the man who makes the biggest difference for President Biden in key Midwestern swing states in the fall. The union leader has soared to prominence over the past year by leading the UAW to some of its most significant gains in decades. He’s a captivating speaker who commands the attention and trust of many workers at a time when Biden is struggling to connect with voters because of higher prices and Israel’s destructive war in Gaza.”

9. COMING ATTRACTIONS: “Trump’s Filibuster Threat Sets Up Clash with Senate Republicans,” by Bloomberg’s Zach Cohen and Steven Dennis: “Senate Republicans are girding for a demand by Donald Trump to undo the chamber’s filibuster traditions in order to advance his agenda if he returns to the White House. … But any attempt to eject that rule would face staunch opposition from the vast majority of Senate Republicans, who in interviews ruled out doing away with the super-majority threshold in the event they regain the majority in November.”

CLICKER — “The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker — 16 funnies

GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Ryan Lizza:

— “The threat,” by WaPo’s Ruby Cramer: “In a time of rising anger, what happened to one man who threatened Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

— “In Defense of Trump,” by N.Y. Mag’s Andrew Rice: “Todd Blanche is a surprisingly competent lawyer. And he’s on track to keep his client out of jail until the election.”

— “How Do We Know What Animals Are Really Feeling?” by NYT’s Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy: “Animal-welfare science tries to get inside the minds of a huge range of species — in order to help improve their lives.”

— “Inside the Kenyan cult that starved itself to death,” by Carey Baraka for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine: “During covid-19 a preacher lured thousands of people into a remote forest. Then he told them to stop eating.”

— “Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?” by The Guardian’s Daniel Immerwahr: “In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence?”

— “Most people are disgusted by these animals. These New Yorkers are filling their homes with them,” by Vox’s Benji Jones: “In NYC, many wildlife rehabbers see pests as part of a thriving urban ecosystem.”

— “How a Massive Hack of Psychotherapy Records Revealed a Nation’s Secrets,” by Bloomberg’s Drake Bennett: “Aleksanteri Kivimäki was a hacker wunderkind with a mean streak. Now he’s on trial for the largest crime in Finland’s history.”

— “America’s First Olympic Breakdancer Is Ready to Take Gold,” by Brandon Sneed for Rolling Stone: “Victor Montalvo set out to be the best breaker in the world. Nobody ever thought that would mean spinning for a medal.”

— “The Losing Battle to Beat Antisemitism in the Age of Misinformation,” by Bryan Bender for POLITICO Magazine: “Arizona has mandated Holocaust education but so far it has failed to match the onslaught of denial on social media.”

PLAYBOOKERS

OUT AND ABOUT — SPOTTED at CAA’s kickoff party at La Grande Boucherie last night: Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson, Doug Emhoff, Chris Pine, Lorne Michaels, Savannah Guthrie, Wolf Blitzer, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Laura Coates, Ashley Biden, Naomi Biden and Peter Neal, Andrea Mitchell, Dana Walden, Peter Alexander, Olivia Nuzzi, Karine Jean-Pierre, Mary Bruce, Libby Leist, Amy Entelis, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Alex MacCallum, Phil Mattingly, Joey Gonzalez, Laura Jarrett, Rachel Scott, Jonathan Karl, Rick Klein, John Berman, Joe Fryer, Pamela Brown, Mark Ein, Heather and Ryan Zimmerman, KC Sullivan, Wendy McMahon, Dana Walden, Steve Richetti, Mike Donilon, Meena Harris, Jordan Klepper, Debra O’Connell, Matt Friend, Andrew McCarthy, Jim Sciutto, Ari Melber, Kelly O’Donnell, Ari Shapiro, Courtney O’Donnell, Mark McGrath and Kyle Margolis.

— Comcast NBCUniversal and the Motion Picture Association hosted a reception at the MPA last night honoring NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, this year’s president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, where Cesar Conde and Charles Rivkin welcomed guests with toasts. SPOTTED: Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.), Fran Drescher, Gene Sperling, Steve Benjamin, Kristen Welker, Savannah Guthrie, Patrick Steel, Evan Ryan, Hallie Jackson, Jessica Rosenworcel, Chuck Todd, Rebecca Blumenstein, Peter Alexander, Symone Sanders-Townsend, Steve Thomma, Julie Pace, Anna Palmer, Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

— SPOTTED at a WHCD welcome dinner hosted by Katherine and David Bradley and Laurene Powell Jobs with The Atlantic, National Journal and Government Executive, where guests were treated to a live version of PBS’ “Washington Week” hosted by moderator Jeffrey Goldberg with Anne Applebaum, Laura Barrón-López and Asma Khalid: Jake Sullivan, Anna Deavere Smith, Sean Penn, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Julián Castro, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Mitch and Cheryl Landrieu, Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, UAE Ambassador Yousef al Otaiba, Joe Kennedy, Jessica Rosenworcel, Cesar Conde, Jen Palmieri, Enes Kanter Freedom, Katherine Maher, Sara Just, Michel Martin, Mary Louise Kelly, Kaitlan Collins, Nicholas Thompson, Peter Lattman, Mark Leibovich and Savannah Behrmann.

— Semafor co-founder and CEO Justin Smith hosted the third-annual Semafor house party at his home in Kalorama to celebrate the weekend with Caribbean-inspired food and beverages by Michelin-starred chef Chris Morgan and rocksteady vibes. SPOTTED: SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman, Canadian Ambassador Kirsten Hillman, Ben Smith, Kadia Goba, Benjy Sarlin, Shelby Talcott, Molly Jong-Fast, Jan Bayer, Katherine Viner, Kasie Hunt, Ben LaBolt, Heather Podesta, Eric Hilton, Sam Feist, Jim Bankoff, Molly Ball, Hogan Gidley, Vedant Patel, Jay Carney, Max Tani, Charlotte Klein, Lydia Polgreen, Juleanna Glover and Claudia Russo.

— Crooked Media and Vote Save America hosted a reception at Grazie Mille last night, where guests enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and specialty cocktails, including the “Vod Save America” and “Crooked Tea.” SPOTTED: Jon and Emily Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, Lucinda Treat, Shaniqua McClendon, Louis Virtel, Madeleine Haeringer, Savannah Guthrie, Michael Feldman, Kara Swisher, Amanda Katz, Kyle MacLachlan, Jen Psaki, Ben LaBolt, Robert Gibbs, Jay Carney, Robin Reck, Ashley Parker, Luke Russert, Christine Delargy, Eugene Scott, Mehdi Hasan, David Risher, David Hogg and V Spehar.

— SPOTTED at the UTA party last night at Fiola Mare: second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jay Sures, Claudia Russo, David Rubenstein and Caryn Zucker, Peter Neal and Naomi Biden, Dan Koh, Oliver Darcy, Andrew Bates and Megan Bates-Apper, Chris Krebs, Ryan Williams, Daniel Lippman, Tammy Haddad, John McCarthy, Jen Psaki, Liz Johnson, Alex Marquardt, Trey Yingst, Alex Arbaiza, Dean Lieberman, Rob Flaherty and Carla Frank, Bert Kaufman, Jake and Irene Sherman, Anna Palmer, Olive Leatherwood, Ben Haas, Max Tani, Jim Acosta, Sam Feist, TJ Ducklo, Adrienne Elrod, David Risher, Alex Lupica and Alyssa Dudek.

— SPOTTED at the Washingtonian and Qatar WHCD party hosted by Cathy Williams and Qatari Ambassador Meshal Bin Hamad Al-Thani last night: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Wolf Blitzer, Sunny Hostin, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, George Conway, Kathleen Biden Buhle, Molly Jong-Fast, Jonathan Martin, Anna Palmer, Awenate Cobbina, Heather Podesta, Barbara Humpton, Mark Ein, Bill Anaya, Carol Leonnig, Alex Isenstadt, Carol Lee, Ashley Parker and Michael Bender, Ben Pauker, Carl Hulse, Ali Vitali, Juleanna Glover, Ann Compton, Catie Edmondson, Liz Johnson, Gloria Dittus, Carol Melton, Chris LaCivita, Manuel Roig-Francia, Will Swenson, Christina Sevilla and Kim Wehle.

— SPOTTED at Voto Latino Foundation’s Our Voices annual WHCA event yesterday evening: SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman, Reps. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.), Julián Castro, Marco Davis, Jose Diaz-Balart, Marianna Sotomayor, Fin Gomez, Mark Lima, Rosario Dawson, Maria Teresa Kumar, Wilson Cruz, Christina Kolbjornsen, Jennifer Molina, Luis Perez Fernandez, Arlette Saenz, Ernie Apreza, Carlos Elizondo, Sol Ortega, Isabel Lara, Ana Cabrera, Janelle Rodriguez, Cesar Conde, Rashida Jones, Luis Fernandez, Mónica Gil, Gemma Garcia, Lori Montenegro, Cristina Londoño, Javier Vega and Leticia Herrera.

— Vinoda Basnayake hosted the Women Building New Media’s “Helmet to Heels” by Suzanne Kianpour yesterday evening, honoring women in global security and journalists in conflict zones, sponsored by Veuve Clicquot at Ciel Social Club, where Jamie Angus MCed and guests sipped complimentary Veuve champagne and “News with Suz” speciality cocktails, with proceeds going to the American University of Afghanistan. The host committee: Juleanna Glover, Alyssa Farah, Lauren Culbertson, Anastasia Dellaccio, Tara Palmeri, Rina Shah, Gissou Nia, Morgan Ortagus, Hagar Chemali, Laurie Segall, Kristin Cecchi, Coral Wright and Jordan Kaye Colvin. Also SPOTTED: Courtney Cardin, Jon Finer, Andy Rabens, Liz Landers, Liz Johnson, Alice Stewart, Heather Wild, Katie Pavlich, Ali Rogin, Shawn Giangeruso, Kevin Baron, Maura Gillespie, Luke Russert, Norwegian Ambassador Anniken Ramberg Krutnes and U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia Richard Buangan.

— Tammy Haddad hosted the Washington AI Network luncheon yesterday, featuring an interview with Meta’s Joelle Pineau. Guests interacted with demos including the Quest 3, Instagram live from Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and a peek into the future of home assistance with Spotty, a robot dog who demoed with Lynda Carter, SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman and Pamela Brown. Guests also received Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that translate text in five languages. SPOTTED: Glenn Fogel, Asad Ramzanali, Chris Krebs, Symone Sanders-Townsend, Luxembourg Ambassador Nicole Bintner-Bakshian, Yamiche Alcindor, Pascal Confavreux, Senay Bulbul, Alexandre Mirlesse, David Ginsberg, Olivia Igbokwe, Jon Cardinal, Reema Dodin, Elizabeth Falcone, Tina Anthony, Julissa Marenco, Liz Johnson, Allison Biasotti, Olivia Zhu, Nick Schmit, Cat Zakrzewski and Maggie O’Neill.

— SPOTTED at the Johns Hopkins and CPJ “In the Crosshairs Protecting Journalists in 2024” event yesterday: British Ambassador Karen Pierce, David Bowker, Debra Tice, Pavel Butorin, Anne Godlasky, Rachel Jones, Nicholas Wu, Bill McCarren, Jason Conti, Erika Gudmundson, Cat Rakowski, Jodie Ginsberg, Caitlin Vogus and Sara Cohen.

ENGAGED — Bill Gullotta, a prosecutor at the Justice Department, and Sarah Istel, deputy general counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee and coach for the National Prison Debate League, got engaged on April 14 in Washington. The couple met through friends.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Kelli Burke, deputy chief of staff of comms for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Maj. John Burke, an action officer in the plans, policies and operations office of the headquarters Marine Corps, on April 18 welcomed Audrey Anne Burke, who came in at 9 lbs, 2 oz. Pic … Another pic

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) … Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) … West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice … Christopher Garcia … White House’ Jamie Citron … Hannah Kim … The Intercept’s James Risen … WaPo’s Dana Milbank … Bruce Mehlman … POLITICO’s Aubree Weaver, Francesca Porreca, David Smydra and Sarah Punjwani … Erica Elliott Richardson … Michael Crittenden of the Levinson Group … Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute … Austin Hacker … Bloomberg’s Mike Shepard … Enterprise Mobility’s Downey Magallanes … Sean Dugan of America’s Health Insurance Plans … Jon Fasman … Global Situation Room’s Brett Bruen … NCTA’s Mansoor Abdul Khadir … Alexandra De Luca … Goldman Sachs’ Lee Brenner … Norberto Salinas … David Hudson of Aluta Strategies … EMILY’s List’s Christina Reynolds and Callie Fines … Dan Lindner … former Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) … Connor Walsh of Build Digital … U.S. News & World Report’s Lauren Camera … Will Brown of the U.S. Travel Association … Doug Rediker … Mary-Kate Fisher … Dan Gerstein … BGR Group’s Dan Farmer

THE SHOWS (Full Sunday show listings here):

CBS “Face the Nation”: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell … Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) … Catherine Russell … Robert Pape … Robert Costa … Jan Crawford.

CNN “State of the Union”: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) … Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin … LA Mayor Karen Bass … Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Panel: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), David Urban, SE Cupp and Ana Navarro.

FOX “Fox News Sunday”: Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) … Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) … Jonathan Turley. Panel: Stef Kight, Juan Williams, Mollie Hemingway and Tiffany Smiley. Sunday Special: Stephen Breyer.

NBC “Meet the Press”: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell … Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) … Ruby Bridges. Panel: Geoff Bennett, Jonathan Martin, Marc Short and Jen Psaki.

MSNBC “The Weekend”: Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) … DNC Chair Jaime Harrison.

NewsNation “The Hill Sunday”: Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.). Panel: Tia Mitchell, Daniella Diaz, Bob Cusack and David Drucker.

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Correction: An earlier version of this newsletter included an incorrect byline for a POLITICO story about the Supreme Court. It was written by Josh Gerstein.