| | | | | |  | | By Anna Palmer, Jake Sherman, Eli Okun and Garrett Ross | Presented by |  | | | NEW … HILLARY CLINTON, PETE BUTTIGIEG, SENS. TAMMY BALDWIN and KAMALA HARRIS, KRISTIN CHENOWETH, JOHN LEGEND, JAY LENO and other celebrities are hosting "Celebration for Change: 100 Days to Go," a Joe Biden fundraiser, on Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $15 to $1,000. The invite FRONT PAGE of the FLORIDA TIMES-UNION (JACKSONVILLE): "Convention called off … Florida adds record 173 virus deaths … School board approves delayed start" (h/t Alex Leary) -- "Florida adds record-high coronavirus hospitalizations, 12,000 plus cases," by the Tampa Bay Times' Romy Ellenbogen -- WGN AMERICA'S @BrianEntin: "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be at the White House this afternoon, according to his official schedule." CASH DASH -- In the Kansas Senate race, KRIS KOBACH raised $112,000 and has $136,000 on hand, ROGER MARSHALL raised $156,000 and has $1 million on hand, and BARBARA BOLLIER raised $670,000 and has $4.2 million on hand. (h/t James Arkin) THE LATEST IN COVID TALKS -- Neither chamber is in session this weekend working on coronavirus-related legislation. ALTHOUGH SENATE REPUBLICANS do expect movement next week, we'll have to wait to see what that looks like. ENHANCED UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS are slated to run out in one week. SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI and SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER put out a joint statement this morning: "This weekend, millions of Americans will lose their Unemployment Insurance, will be at risk of being evicted from their homes, and could be laid off by state and local government, and there is only one reason: Republicans have been dithering for months while America's crisis deepens. … "We had expected to be working throughout this weekend to find common ground on the next COVID response package. It is simply unacceptable that Republicans have had this entire time to reach consensus among themselves and continue to flail. Time is of the essence and lives are being lost." The full statement Happy Friday afternoon. Press secretary KAYLEIGH MCENANY is briefing at 1 p.m. TRUMP'S GOP -- "Republican Party officials hid COVID-19 mask purchases by labeling them 'building maintenance' in federal disclosures," by Business Insider's Dave Levinthal: "The RNC ordered the masks at a time when President Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans were refusing to cover their faces in public. The purchases reveal that Republican leaders were taking the coronavirus more seriously than they'd been publicly letting on." | | A message from Google: Helping small businesses get support from the community To help small businesses recover, Google has added gift card and donation options to Business Profiles on Google Search, giving customers the ability to support their favorite local businesses during a time when they need it most. Learn more. | | | VICE'S ELIZABETH LANDERS (@ElizLanders): "INBOX: tomorrow, @VP will travel to Nantucket, Massachusetts - he'll meet with Governor Baker on efforts to combat COVID-19." THE FATE OF DACA -- "'Whiplash': Trump and his team face an internal struggle over Dreamers," by Anita Kumar: "Every few days, the White House seemingly adopts, then abandons, a new strategy. Initially, Trump said he planned to file new paperwork to try to end the program, using guidance from the court's ruling. That never materialized. Trump later suggested he was seeking a deal with lawmakers to create a new version of the program. But the White House never reached out to lawmakers. Then, Trump floated a possible executive order, likely to narrow the program. That hasn't happened. And the clock is ticking … "The result is that few people, if any, know what will happen. Administration officials are telling different things to different people involved in immigration policy. And staffers are going back and forth internally with just over 100 days from the election. … Any action he takes is a political minefield." POLITICO -- AP: "White House seeks advice of 'torture memos' author on powers," by Jill Colvin and Mark Sherman: "President Donald Trump is relying on an outlier interpretation of a recent Supreme Court decision to assert broad new powers as he prepares to sign a series of executive orders in the coming weeks. The expansive view of presidential authority has been promoted by John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor known for writing the so-called 'torture memos' … "Yoo told The Associated Press on Thursday he's had multiple conversations with senior administration officials in which he's made the case that a June Supreme Court ruling that rejected Trump's effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, opened the door to enormous new presidential power. 'I said, "Why not just take the DACA opinion itself and do a search-replace. And every time it says 'DACA' ... replace it with 'skills-based immigration system,'" Yoo said he told the White House." AP Q FILES -- "QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Agent Margaritaville on the Run From Cops," by Vice's Mack Lamoureux … "The Shocking Secret Past of One of QAnon's Most Toxic Stars," by The Daily Beast's Will Sommer FOR YOUR RADAR -- "U.S. Jet Fighter Intercepts Iranian Passenger Plane Over Syria," by WSJ's Nancy Youssef, Aresu Eqbali and Sune Engel Rasmussen: "An American F-15 jet fighter flew within roughly 1,000 meters (1,094 yards) of an Iranian passenger plane in the vicinity of a U.S. air base in Syria on Thursday, a U.S. defense official said, an incident Iranian media said forced the aircraft to descend abruptly, injuring several passengers before landing in Lebanon. "The incident in Syria's airspace followed months of building tensions between the two countries, which experts have warned could lead to miscalculation and armed confrontation. … Iran called the maneuver 'harassment' and a violation of international aviation laws." WSJ | | | | DON'T MISS - POLITICO'S NEW "FUTURE PULSE" NEWSLETTER: The coronavirus pandemic accelerated long-simmering trends in health care technology and one thing is certain: The health care system that emerges from this crisis will be fundamentally different than the one that entered. From Congress and the White House, to state legislatures and Silicon Valley, Future Pulse spotlights the politics, policies, and technologies driving long-term change on the most personal issue for voters: Our health. SUBSCRIBE NOW. | | | | | PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION ... WAPO'S FENIT NIRAPPIL (@FenitN): "BREAKING: Starting Monday, D.C. will require people coming from 'high-risk' areas to self-quarantine for 14 days. High-risk defined as the 'seven-day moving average of daily new coronavirus cases is 10 or more per 100,000 people.' Don't have a list of states yet … [Muriel Bowser's] presentation also suggests that indoor dining, sports and hair cuts are on the chopping block if trends grow worse." FRIDAY DOWNER -- "A Vaccine Reality Check," by The Atlantic's Sarah Zhang: "A vaccine, when it is available, will only mark the beginning of a long, slow ramp down. And how long that ramp down takes will depend on the efficacy of a vaccine, the success in delivering hundreds of millions of doses, and the willingness of people to get it at all. It is awful to contemplate the suffering still ahead. It is easier to think about the promise of a vaccine." Atlantic INTERACTIVE -- "How the U.S. Compares With the World's Worst Coronavirus Hot Spots," by NYT's Lauren Leatherby: "The surge in the United States is so extreme that, once adjusted for population … 10 states are recording more new cases than any country in the world." NYT A COVID TRAGEDY -- "The Church Deacon Died of Covid-19. Then His Body Went Missing: After Mitzi Hallman's husband of 42 years died this spring, there was more heartache to come," by WSJ's Michael Phillips WHAT BILL BARR IS UP TO -- "He thought he had asylum. Now, he could face a death sentence," by Betsy Woodruff Swan: "Late last month, Attorney General Bill Barr quietly reopened a sprawling case that spans four decades and two continents. It involves the killing of a president, a decades-old death sentence, and a hard-fought battle for asylum pitting a former Bangladeshi military officer against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "For almost 15 years, the case was closed. But now, thanks to Barr, it's back. And immigration lawyers say the move sends a chilling message to people who have received asylum in the U.S. It signals, they argue, that even after years of successful legal battles, any protection could still be revoked out of the blue. "They also say the move's timing is inscrutable. The legal team for the military officer––wanted by Bangladesh's government for decades––says they suspect foul play, and that if the U.S. deports him, he is all but certain to be executed." | | | | BECOME A CHINA WATCHER : The U.S. is talking about China in a way it hasn't since the days of Mao Zedong's rule. While experts say there is a "zero percent" chance of a decoupling between the two world powers, the era of seamless globalization is over. Join the conversation and gain expert insight from informed and influential voices in government, business, law, tech, and academia. China Watcher is as much of a platform as it is a newsletter. Subscribe today. | | | | | HOT ON THE LEFT -- "Did New York Just Get the Nation's Most Liberal Legislature?" by NYT's Jesse McKinley and Luis Ferré-Sadurní: "A slew of progressive challengers upset entrenched incumbents in the New York Legislature in the recent Democratic primary, cementing their movement's influence in Albany and making it likely that the state government will become one of the most liberal in the nation. "The results, held up for weeks because of delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak, set up potential clashes between an emboldened Legislature eager to push the priorities of the left and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a moderate Democrat who generally favors a get-it-done philosophy." NYT HMM -- "DHS admits it made false statements in defense of denying Global Entry to New Yorkers," by CNN's Geneva Sands and Priscilla Alvarez: "The admission in a court filing came on the same day the department announced it will allow state residents to participate in the program again. DHS blocked New Yorkers from the program over provisions in a state law protecting the information of undocumented immigrants applying for driver's licenses to be shared with federal immigration enforcement agencies." CNN RACIAL RECKONING -- "How One of America's Whitest Cities Became the Center of B.L.M. Protests," by NYT's Thomas Fuller in Portland, Ore.: "During 56 straight nights of protests here, throngs of largely white protesters have raised their fists in the air and chanted, 'This is not a riot, it's a revolution.' They have thrown water bottles at the federal courthouse, tried to pry off the plywood that protects the entrance and engaged in running battles with police officers through clouds of tear gas. In recent nights, the number of protesters has swollen into the thousands." NYT -- AFTERNOON READ: "The worst-case scenario: Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record," by WaPo's Hannah Dreier in Huntsville, Ala. CORRECTION DU JOUR, on the NYT UFO story: "An earlier version of this article inaccurately rendered remarks attributed to Harry Reid, the retired Senate majority leader from Nevada. Mr. Reid said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied; he did not say that crashes had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades." NYT IN MEMORIAM … WWSB: "Buchanan staffer passes away after battle with COVID-19": "Suncoast Congressman Vern Buchanan announced Friday that one of his field representatives passed away after a battle with COVID-19. Gary Tibbetts, a field representative for the congressman, was being treated at Manatee Memorial Hospital after a positive diagnosis of the novel coronavirus." WWSB … Buchanan's remembrance | | | | A message from Google:   After suspending in-store events, Denver bookstore Second Star to the Right used Google Meet to host virtual storytimes for their community over video conferencing. Watch. | | | | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family Playbook | Playbook PM | California Playbook | Florida Playbook | Illinois Playbook | Massachusetts Playbook | New Jersey Playbook | New York Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our politics and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
