| | | | | President Trump returns to the White House Saturday from West Virginia, where he held a rally. Credit: Chris Kleponis/Pool/Getty Images | | | How the FBI's Kavanaugh's Investigation Could Take Place: "If they want to put 500 agents on this tomorrow, they could do that"
Kanye West Calls for 13th Amendment to be Abolished: Ratified in 1865, the amendment abolished slavery
A Different Kind of Art Gallery: New exhibit believed to be the only gallery dealing with contemporary politics | | | What Washington is Talking About:
The Supreme Court begins its term today with just eight Justices; lawmakers are waiting on findings from the FBI investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, which Sen. Jeff Flake called for Friday; Canada signed onto a new trade deal between the US and Mexico last night; and Bryce Harper may have just played his last game as a Washington National, but it's still tbd.
What America is Talking About:
Las Vegas is marking the anniversary of last year's music festival shooting, Elon Musk said he will step down as Tesla chairman and pay a $20 million fine in connection with him tweeting about a $420 share price as a marijuana joke; and Jennifer Lopez just ended her Las Vegas residency, bringing in more than $100 million in ticket sales.
Reminder:
Rent is due.
Poll of the Day:
Typically, losing presidential candidates become more popular with time, but that hasn't happened for Hillary Clinton, whose favorable rating remains a low 36%, according to a Gallup poll released Friday. | | Credit: Gallup
September 2018, a Retrospective:
From Colin Kaepernick's Nike ad to "Fear" and the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, September was filled with cultural-defining political moments. Here's your retrospective for September: | | Credit: Hunter Schwarz
How the FBI's Kavanaugh Investigation Could Take Place:
Our David Shortell has a look at what the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh could look like. "They could just about drop everything else they're doing, every other background check for generals to get the next star, and cabinet secretaries and US attorneys," Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director and senior CNN law enforcement analyst said. "They could wrap everything. If they want to put 500 agents on this tomorrow, they could do that."
If Kavanaugh Lied, Confirmation is Over, Lawmakers Say:
Sens. Flake and Chris Coons told CBS' "60 Minutes" that if the FBI's investigation into Kavanaugh finds that he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee, his confirmation is over.
Kavanaugh's Yale Classmate Claims He Wasn't Honest About Drinking:
Chad Ludington, a North Carolina State University professor who said he drank with Kavanaugh at Yale, said in a statement to CNN that the Supreme Court nominee made a "blatant mischaracterization" about his drinking during his hearing.
"I can unequivocally say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking, and in downplaying the degree and frequency of his drinking, Brett has not told the truth," Ludington said.
He said he doesn't believe "heavy drinking or even loutish behavior of an 18 or even 21 year old should condemn a person for the rest of his life." But he said if Kavanaugh "lied about his past actions on national television, and more especially while speaking under oath in front of the United States Senate, I believe those lies should have consequences."
Ye Calls For 13th Amendment to be Abolished:
Kanye West, who now is maybe just going by Ye, performed his "I Love It" with Lil Pump on "Saturday Night Live" dressed as sparkling water. (Lil Pump was bottled water.) After the show, Ye went off about politics in a rant that wasn't aired while wearing a MAGA hat, which he called his "Superman cape."
"There's so many times I talk to like a white person about this and they say, 'How could you like Trump? He's racist," he said. "Well, if I was concerned about racism, I would've moved out of America a long time ago."
Ye said people should, "follow your heart and stop following your mind. That's how we're controlled. That's how we're programmed," and accused the media and entertainment business of being "90% liberal." He said, "It's so easy to make it seem like it's so so one sided." | | Credit: Saturday Night Live/YouTube
On Sunday, the rapper tweeted a photo in his MAGA hat that appeared to be taken on a private jet. In the tweet, West suggested repealing the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. In a follow-up tweet, which really didn't do much to clear things up, he tweeted, "the 13th Amendment is slavery in disguise meaning it never ended We are the solution that heals." | | Credit: @kanyewest/Twitter
He did not, however, release his new album Yandhi, which he had said would drop Saturday.
Kate McKinnon as Lindsey Graham is Maybe Now My Favorite Kate McKinnon Impersonation:
ICYMI, she shows up at about the 10-minute mark. | | Credit: Saturday Night Live/YouTube
Street Art Sighting:
A new Washington gallery exclusively showing political art opened this weekend. The Center for Contemporary Political Art's "Defining the Art of Change in the Age of Trump" features about 90 pieces from American artists.
The exhibition features a lot of anti-Trump art, including a portrait of Trump made from tiny hands flipping the bird that greets guests when they walk into the space. The center's founder, Charles Krause, told Cover/Line in an interview Sunday said they were open to art that was in support of Trump but didn't receive any among the more than 500 submissions they received from almost 300 artists from across the country. | | Credit: Hunter Schwarz
Krause began collecting political art from around the world when he was a foreign correspondent for outlets including The Washington Post and CBS. He believes the space is the only political art gallery dealing with contemporary issues in the country.
"For a lot of reasons, political art is not acceptable in the United States," he said. "Museums won't show it. Galleries won't show it."
He traces museums' modern attitudes to political art back to McCarthyism, saying the New York art world believed they were a target.
"I think at that time the galleries and museums and everybody got together and they wiped away the political theories of a number of major artists," he said. | | Credit: Hunter Schwarz
After "Defining," Krause said he hopes to host five themed, open-call shows a year. Topics he's interested in exploring include truth and white supremacy. "Defining" is open to the public Wednesdays through Sundays through November 14. | | 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. | | | | | | |
