JEB: ‘no more powerful ... influence on this earth than the Christian conscience in action’ – BRADY may miss 6-8 games -- B’DAY: Dana P

Presented by

By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; [email protected]), and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; [email protected])

FIRST LOOK -- RAND PAUL, campaigning in Silicon Valley, names chief technology officer: “Ron Schnell has an incredible computer science story starting when he entered the business as a child prodigy in 1975 at 9 years old. He went on to program the ‘kernel’ the UNIX Operating System at Bell Labs, The A/IX Operating System at IBM, and the Solaris Operating System at Sun Microsystems.”

-- TECH COUNCIL members (many more coming): Scott Banister, entrepreneur and angel investor, co-founder of IronPort and an early adviser and board member at PayPal ... Patrick Byrne, entrepreneur, e-commerce pioneer, CEO and chairman of Overstock ... Michele Weslander Quaid, founder and CEO of Sunesis Nexus LLC and most recently, Google’s Chief Innovation Evangelist.

-- JOE KILDEA joins the comms team as Rapid Response Director.

MOTHER’S DAY is tomorrow.

EXCLUSIVE – “Inside the ‘Clinton Cash’ war room: How Hillary’s team worked furiously to attack, undermine and debunk the book that threatened to disrupt her campaign,” by Annie Karni: “In early March, ... before Hillary Clinton ... announced her campaign, [communications director] Brian Fallon and research director Tony Carrk began holding regular war room meetings with a team of eight volunteers on a serious mission: Fighting back against a forthcoming book, ‘Clinton Cash,’ that threatened to seriously disrupt the campaign in its infancy. ...

“The campaign systematically raised questions about the objectivity of author Peter Schweizer and, according to sources with knowledge of the deals, strategically leaked details of the book to news outlets to undercut the exclusivity of excerpts given to reporters at The New York Times and Washington Post, who had ... special deals with Schweizer. Sources close to Clinton described meetings at her personal office in Midtown Manhattan that were so focused that when Fallon’s twins were born April 8 — four days before Clinton officially launched her campaign — he continued to join the conferences by phone from the hospital in Washington ...

“ The game plan at first was two-pronged: debunk author Peter Schweizer by stressing his ties to Republicans and his close friendship with the Koch brothers, while a second group of research and communications operatives pushed positive messages the campaign would roll out while the book was making headlines. ... Clinton would make news herself with a speech on criminal justice — where she called for an end to mass incarcerations — and a newsy speech on immigration, where she vowed to expand on President Obama’s executive actions to include another 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. ...

“Campaign operatives leaked single chapters of the book to national media outlets, sources with knowledge of the deals said — a strategy that allowed them to undercut the reporters who, through exclusive agreements with Schweizer, had obtained early copies of the entire tome, and also to attack the content at the same time. Schweizer, in an interview, said he was aware of the strategy. ... ‘They didn’t want to share the complete book, just chapters. For me, the power of the book is in the pattern of the behavior.’ ...

“‘The campaign didn’t get paralyzed,’ said Tom Nides, a vice chairman at Morgan Stanley and a close Clinton confidant ... ‘They didn’t get in a bunker, they kept supporters up to date daily— it felt very proactive. ... This could have gotten nutty ... She herself was a more relaxed Hillary. I’ve gotten universal feedback from these meetings [fundraisers in D.C. and NYC] that she’s excited to be there, she hung around. She was supposed to be at the event for an hour-and-a-half, she stayed for almost two hours. She didn’t act like she had to get back to the bunker. She was upbeat, positive, and not defensive.’” http://politi.co/1FbSIk5

JEB BUSH’S REMARKS today at Liberty University commencement in Lynchburg, Va., where he quoted C.S. Lewis and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was introduced by President Jerry Falwell Jr., son of university’s founder: “My Dad thought very highly of your father ... and knew him as a loyal friend. Jerry Falwell had a gift for friendship, spoke to everyone, and turned his back on no one. ... Whatever the need, the affliction, or the injustice, there is no more powerful or liberating influence on this earth than the Christian conscience in action. How strange, in our own time, to hear Christianity spoken of as some sort of backward and oppressive force. ...

“[I]t’s a depressing fact that when some people think of Christianity and of Judeo-Christian values, they think of something static, narrow, and outdated. ... [T]hat sure isn’t how it reads in the original. Offhand, I cannot think of any more subversive moral idea ever loosed on the world than ‘the last shall be first, and the first last.’ Likewise, is it really just some time-worn, pre-modern idea that God’s favor is upon the gentle, the kind, and the poor in spirit? ...

“It’s a voice like no other, whether it is captured on scrolls and paper, or in bits of data; seen in the example of Francis the saint, or of Francis the pope; affirmed by the witness of ancient martyrs, or by the witness of martyrs dying in His name today. No place where the message reaches, no heart that it touches, is ever the same again. ... Your generation is bringing the Christian voice to where it ... sometimes isn’t heard enough. ...

“I am asked ... whether I would ever allow my decisions in government to be influenced by my Christian faith. ... The simple and safe reply is, ‘No. Never. Of course not.’ If the game is political correctness, that’s the answer that moves you to the next round. The endpoint is a certain kind of politician we’ve all heard before – the guy whose moral convictions are so private ... that he refuses even to impose them on himself. ...

“I don’t know about you, but I’m betting that when it comes to doing the right and good thing, the Little Sisters of the Poor know better than the regulators at the Department of Health and Human Services. From the standpoint of religious freedom, you might even say it’s a choice between the Little Sisters and Big Brother – and I’m going with the Sisters. That case continues, and as usual the present administration is supporting the use of coercive federal power.”

SLIDESHOW – Day 1 of a two-day conference in Chicago, “Covering Campaigns: A conference for journalists reporting on the 2016 presidential election,” presented by the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and the Nieman Foundation #Covering2016 http://bit.ly/1EXlWjj

NEW NICOLLE WALLACE BOOK, “Madam President: A Novel”: Great bipartisan and cross-media-lines turnout last night to celebrate the third novel from bestselling author and co-host of “The View,” Nicolle Wallace. Among the revelers at the home of CNN’s Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash were Jennifer Psaki, who holds the job Nicolle once had in the Bush administration; Josh Bolten; Geoff Morrell; Mark Wallace; Andrea Mitchell; Jake Tapper; Kelly O’Donnell; Sara Taylor Fagen; Pam Stevens; Rebecca Copper; and Ali Zelenko. $16.38 on Amazon http://amzn.to/1EXu7w8

** A message from the National Retail Federation: Quiz: How much do you know about small businesses? Small businesses are a big deal, employing more than half the working U.S. population. Are you a small business expert? Test your knowledge with this 6-question quiz: https://nrf.com/smallbizquiz **

HILL CAFETERIA WORKERS – WashPost Sunday Business cover, bottom of page, “Congress’s tale of two cafeterias: Why House-side workers out-earn Senate-siders.”

WAIT! Before you read the article, can you guess why?

HERE’S the answer, from reporter Lydia DePillis: “[T]he House side is unionized and has been for about 20 years. The workers’ contract with Restaurant Associates sets minimum salaries for all staff, from $10.65 for a waiter to $17.45 for an a-la-carte cook, with twice-yearly raises. The union that represents them, Unite Here Local 23, says the average wage is $14.30. ... They get vacation time and paid sick leave ... The story of why the Senate cafeteria isn’t unionized ... is more of a story of union dysfunction.” http://wapo.st/1P8n2Rt

MESSINA INTERVIEW – “British Election Good News For Hillary Clinton, Cameron Aide Says,” by BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith: “[Messina said] that Hillary Clinton, rather than U.S. Republicans, should be taking hope from the victory of Britain’s right. Prime Minister David Cameron is ‘a progressive leader’ who ‘pushed for gay marriage and a world climate change deal and proposed to increase child care subsidies and cut taxes on the minimum wage,’ Jim Messina said in a telephone interview from London, where he said he’d just departed for a celebratory tea at 10 Downing Street.” http://bzfd.it/1dSZuPA

TWEETS DU JOUR -- @blakehounshell: “Weird. In British politics, they actually quit when they fail.” ... @daveweigel: “A reminder that David Cameron would be primaried in a hot minute if he was an American Republican

PIC DU JOUR -- M. Scott Mahaskey @smahaskey: “70 yrs later: Skies over ?#NationalMall filled with parade of American ?#warbirds in ?#VEDay celebration. ?#ww2flyover” http://bit.ly/1Krjkvv

CLICKER – “The nation’s cartoonists’ take on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker – 16 keepers: http://politi.co/1Ep1hkX

HAPPENING TODAY -- PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION – EU Embassies Open House in DC: “[T]he European Union Embassies and the EU Delegation to the United States open their doors to the public for the annual EU Embassies’ Open House: a day of family fun, food, culture and more. The event [from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.] offers visitors a ... [way] to experience the cultural heritage and national traditions of the 28 member countries.” www.euopenhouse.org The brochure: http://bit.ly/1zRUpkx

--The annual Georgetown Garden Tour is also being held today: www.georgetowngardentour.com

TIME’s annual “Letters from Mom” feature -- Savannah Guthrie to her child Vale, “Remember when we first met?” http://ti.me/1KScYpR ... Nikki Haley to her children Nalin and Rena, “You keep me grounded” http://ti.me/1IgLoCL ... Chirlane McCray to her children Dante and Chiara, “Use Your Gifts to Create a More Just and Equal World” http://ti.me/1KhZiDo ... Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers to her children Cole, Grace and Brynn, “You Have Made Me a Better Legislator” http://ti.me/1IOqfAv .. All the letters: http://ti.me/1Pp2dvQ

GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:

--“Mass Incarceration: The Silence of the Judges,” by U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in the NY Review of Books, reviewing “What Caused the Crime Decline?” by the Brennan Center for Justice: “For too long, too many judges have been too quiet about an evil of which we are a part: the mass incarceration of people in the United States today. ... Basically, we treat them like dirt. ... Unless we judges make more effort to speak out against this inhumanity, how can we call ourselves instruments of justice?” http://bit.ly/1JwuSNV

--“Rise of the machines” – The Economist in the latest cover story: “Artificial intelligence scares people—excessively so.” http://econ.st/1cgI0LR

--“Split Image,” by Kate Fagan for espnW: “On Instagram, Madison Holleran’s life looked ideal: Star athlete, bright student, beloved friend. But the photos hid the reality of someone struggling to go on.” http://es.pn/1zL1pQ5

--“The Science of Craving,” by Amy Fleming in the May/June issue of More Intelligent Life: “For almost three decades, [Dr Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan] has swum against the tide of established thinking, to map the brain mechanics of the reward system—the part of the brain that lights up on scans when people enjoy something, whether it’s cake, snogging, heroin or Facebook.” http://bit.ly/1DWNbqt (h/t TheBrowser.com)

--“Overkill,” by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker: “An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially. What can we do about it?” http://nyr.kr/1P6whRX

-- “Engineers of Addiction,” by Andrew Thompson in The Verge: “Slot machines perfected addictive gaming. Now, tech wants their tricks.” http://bit.ly/1RlxZh6

--“A League of His Own,” by Tariq Panja, Andrew Martin, and Vernon Silver in Bloomberg Businessweek: “How [longtime FIFA head] Sepp Blatter controls soccer.” http://bloom.bg/1zROZ9j (h/t Longreads.com)

WHAT HOLLYWOOD IS READING -- “Obama Romantic Dramedy Casts Actors for Barack, Michelle Roles,” by The Hollywood Reporter’s Etan Vlessing: “Parker Sawyers has been cast to play a young Barack Obama in Southside With You. The romantic dramedy cast the U.K.-based American actor opposite Get On Up star Tike Sumpter as a young Michelle Obama. ... Southside With You covers the eventful evening in 1989 when a young associate named Barack Obama tried to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson on a date that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.” http://bit.ly/1ImMzSM

MEDIAWATCH -- “Google Says 46% of Web Video Ads Are Never Viewed,” by AdAge’s Tim Peterson: “Sometimes while the pre-roll is playing, people might switch to another tab or scroll down to the comments section, leaving the video ad playing out of view. Then there are the more malicious examples of publishers putting video ads inside out-of-the-way banners that play automatically when a page loads. Nearly half -- 46% -- of the video ads running across the desktop and mobile web never had a chance to be seen, according to Google.” http://bit.ly/1bDN3FK

PUBLISHER OF THE WORLD – “Bloomberg’s gun safety sets up an editorial operation,” by Capital New York’s Jeremy Barr: “Everytown for Gun Safety, the nonprofit advocacy organization co-chaired by Michael Bloomberg, is launching an adjacent news operation, scheduled to debut in June ... James Burnett, who resigned from The New Republic in January as part of a larger staff exodus, has signed on as editorial director of the project.” http://bit.ly/1P6uRXO

FIRST PERSON -- DAVID CARR’s daughter -- “My Dad, My Mentor: How Do You Say Goodbye to Your Father?” by Erin Lee Carr in Glamour: “As I followed him into the media world ... he counseled me on the best way to get my voice heard. ‘Don’t be the first to speak,’ he would tell me. ‘But if you do, say something important.’ I took notes every time we spoke on the phone about my work, and if he didn’t hear the click of the keyboard, he’d ask why I wasn’t committing his advice to paper (or pixels). ... He was constantly typing, talking, learning, moving.

“He had a hunger for knowledge, trivial or monumental, and he expected me and my sisters to share that curiosity. When I was a teenager, he assigned books for us to read. He issued quizzes to ensure that our vocabulary was as extensive as he thought it should be. ... He taught us to challenge information, places, and people—and never, ever to settle for less than the best of anything.” http://glmr.me/1ImNUci

DOG TAG BAKERY’s special pie -- Penny Lee emails friends: “As many of you know, my mother was not only an amazing person, but a gifted baker who had a special love for making pies. ... One summer, she had a pie booth at the Alaska State Fair, where she made and sold over her 300 of her famous Raspberry Cream pies ... Her life was all about making other people smile and celebrating the goodness in us all. In that spirit, on Mother’s Day weekend, I’ll be teaming up with the folks at Dog Tag Bakery in Georgetown to honor my mother, and all mothers, by baking and serving my mother’s famous pie.” www.dogtagbakery.org

CLINTON ALUMNI – Heather King to Theranos – release: “Theranos Inc., the ground-breaking consumer health care technology company [challenging traditional blood and other lab testing has] announced that Heather King has been hired as General Counsel. ... King served as Special Assistant and Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and helped lead Senator Clinton’s campaigns ... [and] run the Senator’s Washington office.” http://bit.ly/1bCgaZP

STATE DEPARTMENT PROTOCOL DEPARTURE LOUNGE – Two political appointees in the Protocol office at the State Department. Carl Gray (last week) and Alisa La (Friday) are both departing State to decamp to NYC to work for Hillary Clinton 2016. Carl was a Visits officer (State visits, presidential travel, foreign ministers meeting w/ Sec. Kerry, etc.) and Alisa was in the Ceremonials division (covering almost all of Sec. Kerry’s events that take place at the Dept.)

THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD: “On Monday, the President will deliver remarks at an event bringing together emerging entrepreneurs from across the United States and around the world to highlight the importance of investing in women and young entrepreneurs to create innovative solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges, including poverty, climate change, extremism, as well as access to education and healthcare. ... On Tuesday, the President will participate in a discussion with Robert Putnam, professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Arthur Brooks, president of [AEI], at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University. The discussion will be moderated by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post columnist and professor in Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

“On Wednesday, the President will meet at the White House with King Salman of Saudi Arabia to build on their close consultations on a wide range of regional and bilateral issues. Later on Wednesday, the President will welcome leaders and delegations from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates – to the White House. ... On Thursday, the President will welcome the Gulf Cooperation Council leaders and delegations to Camp David to continue their discussions. On Friday, the President will deliver remarks at the National Peace Officers Memorial Service at the Capitol.”

SPORTS BLINK – Comcast SportsNet New England, “Patriots fear lengthy suspension for Brady”: “Sources with the Patriots I have spoken with tell me they are fearful of a lengthy suspension, perhaps in the six- to eight-game range, for Brady in the aftermath of the Wells Report.” http://bit.ly/1KTsRMH

--BILL SIMMONS still hasn’t tweeted about his departure, announced yesterday by ESPN with a statement and a N.Y. Times article. http://nyti.ms/1Er2PL6

BIRTHDAYS: Joel Kaplan of Facebook … Dana Perino … David Gergen … Ezra Klein … Theo LeCompte, deputy chief of staff at Commerce and CAP alumnus, celebrating this afternoon at Ted’s first Nats game (h/t Jenni) … Huffington Post is 10 ... Laura Burton Capps (hat tip: Mom, Bill, Oscar) ... Mark Leibovich is 5-0 ... Gregg Keller, Scott Walker adviser (h/t Matt Mackowiak) ... John Ashcroft ... Portland’s pre-eminent power couple, Maine Dems Exec Director Jeremy Kennedy and his State Rep fiancee Matt Moonen (h/t Simon Thompson) ... Third Way President Jon Cowan turns 5-0 … Politico’s David Pereira and Victoria Guida ... PBS’ Nihal Krishan ... Virginia White … Chris Ullman, the bow-tie wearing whistling world champ and head of comms for Carlyle ... Gregory Whitten, director of strategy and plans for EHR at the Pentagon ... Lauren Decot, DSCC deputy comptroller ... NewsChannel 8’s Melanie Hastings …

... McClatchy’s Greg Gordon ... Kent Knutson, V.P., Government Relations, The Home Depot … Parker Poling … Reeve Hamilton, exec. director of media relations for Texas A&M University System and Texas Tribune alum ... Republican consultant Kevin Shuvalov … CPSC Commissioner and former New Mexico state legislator Joe Mohorovic will be 44 (h/t Ryan J. Radford) ... Virginia Dent, comms. director for Rep. Rick Allen and Fischer and Romney press team alum … Jack Peterson of Urban Swirski & Assoc. ... The Daily Beast’s Justin Miller, an Atlantic and New York Magazine alum ... Matt Hessburg … Rick Boxer … Jill Hassenfelt … Peter Drummond … Ian Osborne ... Nikki Thomas Richards ... Stu Sandler ... Brian Sowa ... Nicholas Jackson ... producer-director James L. Brooks is 78 ... Candice Bergen is 69 ... Billy Joel is 66 ... Rosario Dawson is 36 ... Grace Gummer (TV: “American Horror Story”) is 29 (h/ts AP)

BIRTHDAY TUE.: Matthew Hiltzik ... CNN senior producer Hardy Spire (h/t Becky Perlow)

THE SHOWS, from @MattMackowiak, filing from Austin:

-- NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina; Reno Gazette-Journal columnist and Ralston Reports’ Jon Ralston; “State of the American Mother” discussion with Deloitte, LLP CEO Cathy Engelbert, Prince George’s County, MD public school teacher Kishanna Poteat Brown, The Shriver Report founder and NBC News special anchor Maria Shriver and Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg; political roundtable with Yahoo! News columnist Mat Bai, Washington Post columnists Ruth Marcus and Kathleen Parker and former RNC chairman Michael Steele

-- ABC’s “This Week”: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson; U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC); political roundtable with Slate Magazine’s Jamelle Bouie, PBS co-host Gwen Ifill, National Review editor Rich Lowry and Fox News host Greta Van Susteren; “Sunday Spotlight” segment with former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command and University of Texas System chancellor Adm. William McRaven (U.S. Navy, Ret.)

-- CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR); U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT); Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA); “Deflategate” report discussion with USA Today’s Jarrett Bell and The New York Times Magazine’s Mark Leibovich; political roundtable with National Journal’s Ron Fournier, Bloomberg TV co-host and Bloomberg Politics managing editor John Heilemann and USA Today’s Susan Page

-- “Fox News Sunday”: Dr. Ben Carson; U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX); political roundtable with Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume, The Associated Press’ Lisa Lerer, Heritage Action for America’s Michael Needham and Fox News contributor and The Washington Post’s Charles Lane; “Power Player of the Week” segment with Arsenal of Democracy Flyover’s Pete Bunce

-- Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” (10am ET / 9am CT): U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE); former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus (Ret.); former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-ME); roundtable with former Romney campaign policy director and the Hoover Institution’s Lanhee Chen, former Reagan White House advisor and Fox News political analyst Ed Rollins and author, journalist and Fox News contributor Judith Miller

-- Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” (11am ET / 10am CT): Roundtable with The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis, Roll Call’s Christina Bellantoni, The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky, The Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio, The Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff, Fox News contributor Ric Grenell and radio show host Richard Fowler

-- CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8:30am ET): Roundtable with CNN.com’s Nia-Malika Henderson, CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, NPR’s Steve Inskeep and The Daily Beast’s Jackie Kucinich

-- CNN’s “State of the Union” (9am ET / 12pm ET): Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Brett McGurk; author and historian Alex Kershaw (“Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family’s Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris”) and WWII Navy veteran (D-Day invasion – Omaha Beach and later the Pacific Theatre) Nick Zuras; U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI); national security roundtable with former Bush administration DHS Secretary and former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-PA), CNN commentator and former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and CNN political commentator, Republican strategist and Hamilton Place Strategies partner Kevin Madden (substitute host: CNN’s Jim Sciutto)

-- CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”: (SUN 10am ET / 1pm ET): Former Bush administration NSA director and CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden (USAF, Ret.); The Economist economics editor Zanny Minton Bedoes; author and historian David McCullough (“The Wright Brothers”); co-author Stephen Dubner (“When to Rob a Bank…And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants” and “Freakonomics”)

-- CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (SUN 11am ET): Author Peter Schweizer (“Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Business Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich”); CNN contributor and USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan; co-author and CNN contributor Michael Weiss (“ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror”); media critic and Women In Media & News executive director Jennifer Pozner and A&E’s “8 Minutes” cast member and Families Against Sex Trafficking founder and executive director D’Lita Miller; The Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik and New York Times columnist Charles Blow (guest anchor: former CNN Washington bureau chief and The George Washington University’s Frank Sesno)

--Univision’s “Al Punto” (SUN 10am ET / 1pm PT): Hillary Clinton campaign national political director Amanda Renteria; Univision News Republican political analyst and former U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL); Democratic political analyst Freddy Balsera; author and former Major League Baseball player Jorge Posada (“The Journey Home”); author Pierpaolo Barbieri (“Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War”); singer Alejandro Sanz

--C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30pm ET): Author Peter Nowak (“Humans 3.0”) ... “Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET): U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI), questioned by Roll Call’s Emma Dumain and The Hill’s Vicki Needham ... “Q&A” (SUN 8pm ET / 11pm ET): Author Kate Andersen Brower (“The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House”)

-- NPR “Weekend Edition Sunday” (SUN 8am-10am ET): Guest host: NPR’s Rachel Martin: Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell; “For The Record” segment on one transgender woman’s story of coming out in the workplace; NPR international correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton (Durban); Wired associate editor Alex Davies; The Sporkful’s Dan Pashman; author Holly Bailey (“The Mercy of the Sky”)

-- MSNBC’s “UP with Steve Kornacki”: (SUN 8-10am ET): The Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel; The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift; former Baltimore deputy state’s attorney Page Croyder; political strategist and LJW Strategies founder L. Joy Williams; U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR); White House domestic policy director Cecilia Munoz

-- MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry”: (SUN 10am-12pm ET): WeTheProtestors.org’s DeRay McKeesen; The New York Times Magazine’s Jay Caspian Kang; Race Forward social media manager Tara Conley; The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery; GlobalGrind.com editor-in-chief Michael Skolnick; Columbia University’s Robert Klitzman; reproductive rights attorney Melissa Brisman; NBC BLK contributor and Politini co-host Danielle Moodie-Mills; The University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Jonathan Rosa

-- WUSA 9 “Capital Download” with Derek McGinty and Susan Page: (SUN 8:30am ET): U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD); U.S. Rep. John Delaney (D-MD); political roundtable with The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty and USA Today’s Paul Singer

-- SiriusXM’s “No Labels Radio” (SAT 10am ET & 8pm ET / SUN 6am ET & 9pm ET): Co-hosted by former Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-UT) and former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT): The Daily Beast’s John Avlon; Fortune Magazine’s Alan Murray; Mount Sinai Hospital’s Dr. Kenneth Davis; MSNBC co-hosts Abby Huntsman and Ari Melber.

** A message from the National Retail Federation: Retail is Small Business. In fact, no other industry has more small businesses — more than 98 percent of retailers are small companies with fewer than 50 employees. Small Business Week 2015 is May 4-8, but we celebrate small business year round, with programs and resources including Retail Across America and the Small Business Retail Council. Learn more about NRF’s small business initiatives and check out the latest small business stories. http://nrf.com/smallbusiness **

POLITICO Playbook, presented by the National Retail Federation – JEB: ‘no more powerful ... influence on this earth than the Christian conscience in action’ – BRADY may miss 6-8 games -- B’DAY: Dana Perino, Leibo is 5-0, Laura Burton Capps, Theo LeCompte