| | | | | An American flag is draped on a bench in Lafayette Park across from the White House Sunday where white nationalists and counterprotesters gathered for the Unite the Right 2 rally. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images | | | Trump Backs Harley Boycott: POTUS tweeted it would be "Great!" if people who own Harley-Davidson motorcycles boycotted the company
Omarosa Brought the Tapes: She had two secretly recorded tapes -- of Kelly and Trump -- that played during her recent TV hits
Unite the Right 2 Was Overshadowed by Counterprotesters: "Whose park? Our park!" | | | What Washington is Talking About:
The FBI fired Peter Strzok over his texts, Rep. Chris Collins has reversed course and said Saturday he is suspending his re-election campaign following his insider trading charges, and WMATA is facing criticism for providing white nationalists a police-protected, semi-private ride to their Unite the Right 2 rally Sunday.
What America is Talking About:
Some Google services allegedly track users' movements even if users set their privacy settings to not do so, according to an Associated Press investigation; Tiger Woods came in second at the PGA Championship to Brooks Koepka; and a group of women on a rainbow unicorn inflatable who got stuck in some weeds in a mucky lake in Minnesota were pulled in by a sheriff's deputy (does anyone else watch this and think "big mood," or just me?).
Poll of the Day:
Democrats are more likely to have a positive view of socialism than capitalism, according to a new Gallup poll. The poll found the percentage of Dems and Dem leaners who have a positive view of capitalism has fallen from 56% to 47% since 2016 while positive views of socialism went from 58% to 57% in the same time frame. | | Credit: Gallup
Among Repubs and Repub leaners, 71% have a positive view of capitalism and only 16% have a positive view of socialism.
Trump Backs Harley Boycott:
President Trump tweeted Sunday that it would be "Great!" if people who own Harley-Davidson motorcycles boycotted the company. His tweet came after he hosted the group Bikers For Trump at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course, and it's the latest salvo in his war on the company, which said in June it would move some production overseas because of tariffs imposed by the EU in response to Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum. Harley-Davidson did not respond to a request for comment from CNN. | | Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Omarosa Brought the Tapes:
The drama surrounding Omarosa's "Unhinged" book tour has reached levels I don't think we've seen for a book since "Fire and Fury." Here's what you need to know: - Omarosa released two recorded conversations in the past two days: one of her meeting with Chief of Staff John Kelly in the Situation Room where she was fired, which she played on "Meet the Press" yesterday, and the other with Trump after she was fired where he said he wasn't happy she was leaving, which she played this morning on the "Today" show. GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said that secretly recording in the Sit Room was "wildly inappropriate" and "a threat to our national security."
- The White House and the Republican Party are pushing back hard on Omarosa. Trump called her a "low-life" over the weekend and tweeted this morning about how many times he's fired her (which begs the question, why did you keep hiring her then?). And @GOP tweeted a compilation of pundits and journalists saying Omarosa is not credible.
- Some details from "Unhinged" are being disputed. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said he never saw Trump take a note written by him on a piece of paper and eat it, and Repub pollster Frank Luntz said he never heard Trump use the n-word.
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Unite the Right 2 Was Overshadowed by Counterprotesters:
The roughly 20 white nationalists who gathered in front of the White House Sunday were met by hundreds of counterprotesters. Lafayette Park was dissected by barricades, including two rows guarded by officers that separated the handful of white supremacists, many who covered their faces, from counterprotesters who shouted "Nazis go home" and "Whose park? Our park!" The counterprotesters included members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, and there were also just a lot of Washingtonians who came to tell the white supremacists they weren't welcome in the nation's capital. One year after the deadly rally in Charlottesville, the white supremacists' D.C. event was a flop. As one sign I saw there put it, "Losers 1865, Losers 1945, Losers Now, Losers Always." You can see more scenes from the counterprotests in my pinned Insta story. | | Credit: Hunter Schwarz
Avenatti Lays Out Possible 2020 Strategy:
Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti, who told CNN last week he's "seriously considering" a presidential run, spoke at the Dem Wing Ding fundraiser in Clear Lake, Iowa, Friday, and laid out a possible 2020 strategy that Michelle Obama would not approve of: "When they go low, I say, we hit harder."
"What I fear for this Democratic Party that I love so much is that we have a tendency to bring nail clippers to a gunfight," he said. "I believe that our party, the Democratic Party, must be a party that fights fire with fire." | | Credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Melania's Parents' Immigration Lawyer Calls Trump Rhetoric "Unconscionable:
Immigration lawyer Michael Wildes told our Erin Burnett Friday it was "unconscionable to scare people" into believing so-called "chain migration" is a disaster for the country, as Trump said. "This whole notion of chain migration actually is a beautiful bedrock of immigration law and policy called family reunification," Wildes said.
Stephen Miller's Uncle Wrote an Op-Ed About Him:
Miller's uncle, David S. Glosser, called his nephew a "hypocrite" in an op-ed for Politico. In it, Glosser traced their family's own immigrant past and wrote, "I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, who is an educated man and well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family's life in this country." Oof.
More Than 100 Newspapers Are Running Editorials on Trump's War on the Press:
Led by the Boston Globe, more than 100 newspaper editorial boards will publish editorials Thursday "on the dangers of the administration's assault on the press," per the Globe's editorial board. Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe's deputy editorial page editor, told CNN the paper began pitching other papers recently and the response has been "overwhelming." "We have some big newspapers, but the majority are from smaller markets, all enthusiastic about standing up to Trump's assault on journalism," Pritchard said.
Street Art Sighting:
This anti-KKK "No Hoods In My Woods" poster by D.C. street artist Absurdlywell was spotted on a utility box on 17th and H St., near Lafayette Park, ahead of the Unite the Right 2 rally Sunday. | | Credit: Hunter Schwarz
If you spot political street art, tweet me @hunterschwarz, tag me on Instagram @hunterschwarz, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com with your sighting so I can feature it in COVER/LINE.
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