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Presented by Facebook: The unofficial guide to official Washington. | | | | | |  | | By Tara Palmeri | | | | | | |  | DRIVING THE DAY | | If a “New York minute” is a few passing seconds, then the opposite is a “McCarthy minute” — something that drags on and on for hours. On Thursday night, at 8:38 p.m., House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY took to the House floor with a speech designed to delay Democrats’ passage of the Build Back Better package. This morning, at 5:10 a.m., some 8 hours and 32 minutes later, he finally stopped talking. It was a de facto filibuster made possible by the “magic minute” rule in the House — which gives the body’s top leaders unlimited amounts of time to speak. In 2018, then-Minority Leader NANCY PELOSI used that privilege during a debate on the Affordable Care Act to deliver the longest speech in House history: 8 hours and 7 minutes. Now, McCarthy broke Pelosi’s record. His whole spectacle peeved Democrats. From what he said — “ABIGAIL SPANBERGER said nobody elected Biden to be FDR,” he proclaimed early in the night, prompting a shout of “I did!” from Rep. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (h/t NBC) — to the sheer inconvenience of having to push back the BBB vote yet again. But then again, after months of wrangling, what’s another few hours? The House will resume its normal functions at 8 a.m. this morning, and vote on BBB shortly after. Here’s the thing … | • | Mask on, mask off. That as the name of the game for ANTHONY FAUCI at JONATHAN KARL’s book party Tuesday night at Café Milano. As gawkers tried to snap pictures of him indoors not wearing a mask, America’s doc would put it on and take it off depending on whom he was around. SALLY QUINN — who’s known Fauci since his days as a young NIH doctor, when he inspired a love interest in one of her erotic novels — asked him why he was at a party with a mask in hand, not on face. “I said, ‘You seem pretty ambivalent about your mask’ because no one else was wearing one,” Quinn told Playbook. “He said, ‘I just decided that if anyone came up that I didn’t know, I would put my mask on.’”
Quinn added that “paparazzi” were surrounding Fauci trying to get that “gotcha moment” of the Covid czar without a mask on. Guests had to show proof of vaccination to enter the party. “He was being safe,” Quinn said in his defense. “He knew everyone was vaccinated. If it was someone we knew, he would trust them, and if it was somebody else, he didn’t.” Another guest observed Fauci’s mask on/mask off dance, but said that the mask was firmly on when he came to the rescue of a guest who had collapsed . We reached out to Fauci via NIH but didn’t hear back Thursday night. | • | Speaker Pelosi has hinted strongly this will be her last term in the House. And back in her district, buzz is building over her potential successor — and the possibility that her daughter, CHRISTINE PELOSI, could make a play for the seat. San Francisco insiders say there’s no doubt that Christine wants it if her mother retires. But the competition will be fierce for a seat that hasn’t been truly up since 1987. One potential candidate, state Sen. SCOTT WIENER, has strong LGBTQ backing and has been laying the groundwork at the grassroots and local levels.
Christine — who heads the California Democratic Women’s caucus and is a DNC executive committeewoman — would start with enormous advantages, like universal name ID and access to her mother’s fundraising list. But according to people close to Christine, there are concerns about the perception of nepotism if and when her mother endorses her. It’s also unclear how San Francisco, with its hyper-engaged electorate, would react to the prospect of a dynastic House seat.
We’re told that Christine is making sure to avoid looking like she’s overtly jockeying for the seat, which wouldn’t serve her or her mother well. Democrats are relying on Nancy Pelosi to raise gobs of cash for the midterms; lame-duck status would hurt that cause. As for the speaker’s office, Pelosi’s spokesperson gave us the same line he’s offered others who ask: “The speaker is not on a shift, the speaker is on a mission.” | • | In a sign that Dr. MEHMET OZ seems serious about running for Senate in Pennsylvania, veteran Republican strategist JON LERNER has been calling around on his behalf to gauge support for the political neophyte. DONALD TRUMP insiders say that this might become an issue for Oz because Lerner is associated with candidates whom Trump dislikes, including the man Oz would try to succeed, retiring Republican Sen. PAT TOOMEY, and NIKKI HALEY. Trump reportedly blocked Lerner from joining then-VP MIKE PENCE’s national security team because he was convinced that Lerner was a “Never Trumper.”
From the outside, Oz is the type of candidate Trump might embrace because, first and foremost, he’s famous. Also, a Trump insider said he appreciated that Oz came to his defense for using hydroxychloroquine to fight Covid. While Trump endorsed candidate SEAN PARNELL in the Pennsylvania race early on, his campaign appears to be stunted while he waits for the verdict of his custody battle with his estranged wife. If Parnell drops out of the race, Oz could have had a shot at a Trump endorsement or at least protection from a spicy Trump press release. Now, a source close to Trump said it’s less certain. Oz is expected to also bring on LARRY WEITZNER and CHRIS HANSEN. (Be sure to check out Holly Otterbein and Natalie Allison’s story this morning about Oz’s moves in Pennsylvania.) | • | Former Trump staffer MAX MILLER was sitting pretty in his bid for a House seat in Ohio after Rep. ANTHONY GONZALEZ (R-Ohio) announced his retirement and the former president endorsed him. But that dream has been dashed by redistricting : The seat that the 32-year-old is registered to run in no longer exists. So instead, Miller will likely have to challenge an incumbent in a safe seat or run in a swing district. Two sources close to the campaign said they are eyeing Ohio’s 13th District, which would be competitive. Another option would be to challenge a Republican incumbent, Rep. BOB GIBBS, but that wouldn’t be easy, either. | • | Former staffers for NYC Mayor BILL DE BLASIO are looking at ERIC ADAMS with envy because he has one thing going for him that they definitely did not: a governor’s mansion that isn’t a permanent antagonist. ”The biggest thing going for him is that he doesn’t have to deal with ANDREW CUOMO, ” said one de Blasio former staffer. De Blasio and Cuomo had a notoriously rancorous relationship. De Blasio aides said that they felt like Cuomo was trying to sabotage them every day because he saw him as a potential primary challenger.
“Adams is the most fortunate man in the world,” said Democratic strategist HANK SHEINKOPF, who has worked both for and against the disgraced ex-gov. Cuomo “would exert the power over the mayor to prove who was boss.” It helps too that New York Gov. KATHY HOCHUL is up for election and could use the support of a mayor who won by a landslide. “I don’t think we ever viewed [de Blasio] as a threat,” said Cuomo’s spokesperson RICH AZZOPARDI, laughing. | | | | A message from Facebook: Why Facebook supports updated internet regulations
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| | | | |   | | | BIDEN’S FRIDAY: — Morning: The president will get his annual physical at Walter Reed. — 3:15 p.m.: Biden will pardon the national Thanksgiving turkeys, PEANUT BUTTER and JELLY, in the Rose Garden. — 6:20 p.m.: Biden will depart the White House en route to Wilmington, Del., where he is scheduled to arrive at 7:15 p.m. VP KAMALA HARRIS’ FRIDAY: — 12:50 p.m.: The VP will depart D.C. en route to Columbus, Ohio. — 2:50 p.m.: Harris will tour Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 189 and meet apprentices with Labor Secretary MARTY WALSH. — 3:20 p.m.: Harris and Walsh will deliver remarks on the administration’s agenda. — 5:30 p.m.: The VP will depart Ohio to return to D.C. Press secretary JEN PSAKI will brief at 1 p.m. THE HOUSE will meet at 8 a.m. to continue debate and vote on the BBB. THE SENATE is in. | | | | BECOME A GLOBAL INSIDER: The world is more connected than ever. It has never been more essential to identify, unpack and analyze important news, trends and decisions shaping our future — and we’ve got you covered! Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Global Insider author Ryan Heath navigates the global news maze and connects you to power players and events changing our world. Don’t miss out on this influential global community. Subscribe now. | | | | | | | PLAYBOOK READS | | | 
PHOTO OF THE DAY: At the signing ceremony Friday for a bill providing peer support counseling for cops, President Joe Biden talks with Jacob Bomba, son of fallen officer Thomas Bomba. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo | THE WHITE HOUSE TOP HARRIS AIDE IS OUT — From Vanity Fair’s Abigail Tracy: “Harris’s communications chief ASHLEY ETIENNE is leaving the White House. … When Etienne joined the vice president’s office she told me she would stay for the first year, but still her departure comes after a raft of stories on infighting and low morale in the vice president’s office. It is not unusual for White House staffers to leave at the one-year mark. Etienne made the decision to leave at this time upon taking the job. Harris’s office has been beset by unflattering stories, centered largely on how public a role the vice president should have.” ALL POLITICS STATE OF DEMOCRACY WATCH, via CNN’s Gabby Orr: “Republican National Committee Chairwoman RONNA MCDANIEL said Thursday she recognizes Biden as the 46th president of the U.S., even as she claimed there were ‘lots of problems’ with the 2020 election that Republican candidates should address.” The statement “marked the first time the party chairwoman has clearly stated that Biden ‘won’ the 2020 election.” — SIREN: Wisconsin Republicans “are engaged in an all-out assault on the state’s election infrastructure,” reports NYT’s Reid Epstein , as they try to unwind the bipartisan election commission to assume partisan control of elections. There are potential felony charges in the works for most of the commission’s members, and Republican politicians are trying to usurp their power on the back of baseless election fraud claims. Sen. RON JOHNSON (R-Wis.) is now trying to persuade state legislators to completely take over federal elections. BELLE OF THE BALL — Virginia Gov.-elect GLENN YOUNGKIN was the rock star this week at the Republican Governors Association’s annual conference, where his victory was widely seen as a blueprint for the GOP to walk the Trump tightrope and return to power in Congress, reports Marc Caputo from Phoenix. Meanwhile, “Trump largely occupied a he-who-shall-not-be-named role in the conference,” as governors spoke more of the “Trump administration” than the man himself; most treaded with caution when referencing him. | | | |   | | | TV TONIGHT — PBS’ “Washington Week”: Philip Rucker, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Ryan Reilly. SUNDAY SO FAR … | CBS | “Face the Nation”: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) … Scott Gottlieb. | MSNBC | “The Sunday Show”: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) … Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) … Nii-Quartelai Quartey … Soledad O’Brien … Wilson Cruz … Perry Bacon Jr. … Michael Harriot. | FOX | “Fox News Sunday”: Chris Christie. Panel: Jason Riley, Susan Page and Harold Ford Jr. Power Player: Virginia Ali. | ABC | “This Week”: Anthony Fauci. Panel: Jonathan Karl, Averi Harper, Laura Barrón-López and Jonathan Swan. | Gray TV | “Full Court Press”: Jerome Adams … Jeanne Marrazzo. | NBC | “Meet the Press”: Panel: Kristen Soltis Anderson, Kelly O’Donnell, Al Sharpton and Betsy Woodruff Swan. | CNN | “Inside Politics”: Panel: Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Heather Caygle, Toluse Olorunnipa and Seung Min Kim. | | | | | | STEP INSIDE THE WEST WING: What's really happening in West Wing offices? Find out who's up, who's down, and who really has the president’s ear in our West Wing Playbook newsletter, the insider's guide to the Biden White House and Cabinet. For buzzy nuggets and details that you won't find anywhere else, subscribe today. | | | | | | | PLAYBOOKERS | | Gina Carano, former star of Disney+’s “The Mandalorian,” announced she will play a Secret Service agent in a biopic about Hunter Biden, directed by Robert Davi. Donald Trump endorsed Paul Gosar, naturally. AOC (and her French bulldog Deco), Jamaal Bowman, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar wished the world a “Happy Squadsgiving.” John Kennedy, the current senator, engaged in his own version of a red scare. Matt Gaetz said he might offer Kyle Rittenhouse an internship. FRENCH GET THE LAST LAUGH: Some of the most powerful players in Washington arrived at the French Embassy on Thursday night outfitted for a black-tie “Améthyste” gala in the spirit of celebrating “the U.S.-France relationship and America's engagement with the world,” according to the invite from host Steve Clemons. But little did they realize the true meaning: “Améthyste” is the name of the French nuclear submarines that the U.K. and Australia reneged on a deal to buy with the backing of the U.S. But that little detail didn’t detract from the levity of the occasion at the home of Ambassador Philippe Etienne, where Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) held court, even arriving with his own body man/body blocker, an unnamed woman who did not work in his office but claimed to be his “best friend.” Before he arrived, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) cracked that Manchin’s “chariots are coming through” and that they should “blare the horns” for the senator’s arrival. Coons wasn’t wrong. Wherever Manchin went, there was a procession. Other guests included: Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), retired Gen. David Petraeus, Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), Wolfgang Puck, Symone Sanders, Heather Podesta, Matt Kaminski and Alexandra Geneste, Isiah Thomas, Jonathan Kott, Jonathan Stahler, David Frum, David Sanger, Jesse Rodriguez, Michael LaRosa, Joyce Cummings, Liz Landers, Jim Acosta, Rashida Jones, Kevin Cirilli, Ali Rogin, Jeff Zeleny, Phil Rucker, Ashley Parker, Daniel Lippman, Bob Costa, Tyler Pager, Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Williams, Tammy Haddad and Kim Dozier. WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST: VP Kamala Harris has advice for anyone trying to make it in a man’s world: “You have to eat ‘No’ for breakfast.” That’s what she told Colada Shop owner Daniella Senior when the VP visited the D.C. hot spot last month. Senior shared Harris’ advice to a crowd of women at a charity shop night Wednesday at the Logan Circle Shinola store to benefit Vital Voices, a nonprofit that supports female leaders in economics, politics and human rights. She was among six other women who hosted the event, including artist Maggie O’Neill, Angie Gates, Dr. Kelly Bolden, Deloitte’s Kim Myers and me. Other guests included: Shannon Washburn, Ali Dukakis, Bob Crowe, Stephanie Allen, Courtney Flantzer, Ryan Williams, Alex Katz, Katherine Schneider, Vinoda Basnayake, Adrian Fenty, Dannia and Maha Hakki, Faida Fuller and Jillian Harding. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Swing Left has named its first board of directors: Paulette Aniskoff, partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive; Andrew McLaughlin, founder and CEO at Higher Ground Labs and an Obama alum; Justin Myers, executive director at Blue Leadership Collaborative; Maria Salamanca, partner at Unshackled Ventures and former COO of Swing Left; Ethan Todras-Whitehill, president and co-founder of Swing Left; and Catherine Vaughan, founder of Flippable and former co-executive director of Swing Left. TRANSITIONS — Christian Ford is joining DLA Piper as a partner in the litigation practice. He most recently was deputy assistant A.G. in DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy. … Jacqueline Cohen is now a VP in Waxman Strategies’ environmental policy practice. She previously was chief environmental counsel for the House Energy and Commerce Committee. WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Roshan Patel, executive director of the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association and partner at 50 State, and Meredith Patel of Barre3 Old Town and Old Town Media on Nov. 9 welcomed Pippa Louise Patel, who joins big brother Rhodes. Pic HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Twitter’s Jack Dorsey … Annie Tomasini of the White House … WaPo’s Matt Viser and Dana Hedgpeth … David O’Boyle … Time’s Sam Jacobs and Vera Bergengruen … Emerson Sprick … Matt Lloyd of Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-Ohio) office … Eric Finkbeiner … Meghan Burris of MKB Strategies … Mike Deutsch … Robert Marcus of the House Foreign Affairs Dems … Neil Bjorkman … Brad Bauman of Fireside Campaigns … Barb Leach … Katie Peake of J.A. 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