| | | | | President Trump walks out of the White House before boarding Marine One on Sunday. Credit: Andrew Harper/Bloomberg via Getty Images | | What the White House is Talking About:
President Trump's public schedule today only consists of lunch with Vice President Pence and later his daily intelligence briefing.
What the White House Press Corps is Talking About:
--Shutdown Day 17.
--Is Trump going to declare a national emergency to try to get border funding?
--Also, the Kevin Spacey arraignment today in Nantucket.
Trump to Border:
Sarah Sanders announced via Twitter the President will visit the US-Mexico border: "@realDonaldTrump will travel to the Southern border on Thursday to meet with those on the frontlines of the national security and humanitarian crisis. More details will be announced soon."
A National Emergency Could Actually Happen:
Washington is flummoxed about how Trump could decide to impose a national emergency to get funding for his wall -- but he says he could. "I may declare a national emergency dependent on what's going to happen over the next few days," Trump said on Sunday as he left for Camp David for an afternoon of meetings. Despite a working weekend of discussions between Democrats and members of the administration, there still doesn't appear to an end in sight for the government shutdown as it enters week three.
Airline Industry Feeling the Effects:
It's not just Washington that's affected by the shutdown -- families and workers and entire industries are now facing the reality of not having a paycheck. Trump may have said on Friday that he thinks landlords will go easy on tenants, but there's no guarantee. And though pay raises for members of the Cabinet have been frozen, that's little comfort to people like TSA employees, who have been working without getting paid. There are now widespread TSA sick-outs happening at major airports, and the Air Line Pilots Association has written a letter to the President, letting him know they are concerned about the "safety, security and efficiency" of their industry.
The scary truth about the shutdown is that no one really knows what's going to happen next, or for how long things will remain the way they are. I've been checking CNN's live shutdown update page a lot. | | Our Daily Melania:
After 10 straight days in Palm Beach at Mar-a-Lago -- to spend time with her son, according to her spokeswoman -- Melania Trump landed back in Washington last night. With the exception of some 48 hours at the White House and a stealth Christmas trip to Iraq, FLOTUS was at her winter home for about 12 days, all told. She left an antsy and Twitter-happy husband back at the White House.
Seriously, Though. Decide Already:
If I have to read another story about Joe Biden getting ready to decide his decision time for his deciding about the 2020 race, I will scream. Or just totally stop caring. The latest is he's going to decide whether to run for President sometime within the next month -- but that's not when he'll declare it, that's just when he's going to decide it.
Meanwhile, tomorrow marks the launch of Senator Kamala Harris's new memoir, "The Truths We Hold," wherein she outlines her platform philosophies for what is shaping up to be *her* run for the White House in 2020. Here's a look at Harris and what she's thinking from our Maeve Reston.
News You Can Use About Potential 2020 Candidates:
Senator Cory Booker was spotted at the movies this weekend with actress Rosario Dawson. | | Like, Why Was "Old Lady" the Golden Globes Trend?:
I have never been more disappointed in an awards show than I was by last night's Golden Globes. TBH, I'm already on the fence about whether to watch them anymore because I have issues with how actors and actresses talk about how important their craft is, mostly while floating high above what we here on earth like to call reality. But, I digress.
Perhaps the weirdest thing about last night is that it seemed most of the stylists (wardrobe and hair and makeup) appeared to be on strike or something? Or phoning it in? And the trend, besides I guess what could be called "metallic" was "Granny chic." Also, no, I did not like Lady Gaga's dress. It would have been okay for the Oscars, but it was too much for the more cocktail feel of the Golden Globes, in my opinion.
The literal best things to come out of the evening from an entertainment standpoint were the Fiji Water girl and that the actress from "This is Us" maybe called "GLOW's" Alison Brie the b-word on a hot mic. The rest was just an aesthetic nightmare of boring jewelry, aged updos, weird silhouettes and prints, and general blah-ness: | | Credit: (top row) Emma Stone in Louis Vuitton, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Caitriona Balfe in Moschino and some bobby pins, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Emily Blunt in (macrame?) Alexander McQueen, Valerie Macron/AFP/Getty Images; (bottom row) Rachel Brosnahan in Prada, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Alison Brie in Vera Wang, Valerie Macron/AFP/Getty Images; Lucy Liu in Galia Lahav Couture, Valerie Macron/AFP/Getty Images
If I had to scrounge for a best-dressed, I would probably go with Charlize Theron, who stuck with minimalist black and white Christian Dior Haute Couture and some serious jewelry. | | | Credit: Valerie Macron/AFP/Getty Images | | What Washington is Talking About:
The Supreme Court is holding its first day of oral arguments of the year, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg won't be on the bench. It's the first time she has missed a session, but she'll still read arguments and vote. Meanwhile, Reps. Joaquin Castro and Xochitl Torres Small are leading a delegation to Alamogordo, New Mexico, today to investigate the death of a young migrant boy who died in US custody.
What America is Talking About:
Disneyland is hiking ticket prices as much as 25%; and a Gallup poll found 16% of Americans say they would permanently leave the US if they could under President Trump, a higher percentage than occurred under Presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush.
AOC's Already Doing "60 Minutes":
Less than a week into her time in Congress, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already doing "60 Minutes." Ocasio-Cortez told Anderson Cooper there is "no question" Trump is racist, chalked up factual errors she's made as "clumsy" while saying "it's not the same thing as the president lying about immigrants," and suggested a tax of up to 70% for those who earn $10 million.
Also in AOC news, on Friday, her tweet responding to video of her dancing in college became her most RTed tweet ever. It's been retweeted more than 159,000 times and viewed more than 19.5 million times. | | Credit: CBS
Warren Calls For No Dem PAC Money in 2020:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her not-officially-a-presidential-campaign-yet in Iowa this weekend with roundtable and organizing events. She said she hopes the entire Democratic field refuses to take PAC money to show "our primary is not for sale to billionaires."
She also told a voter who asked about her DNA test that her decision was to "put it all out there," and that she's not a person of color or member of a tribe. "Tribal citizenship is very different from ancestry," she said. "Tribes -- and only tribes -- determine tribal citizenship, and I respect that difference."
Snoop on the Shutdown:
Snoop Dogg is upset about the shutdown. He weighed in on it on Instagram, calling on federal workers to not vote for Trump in 2020 for what he's putting them through.
"Look what he do," Snoop said of Trump. "Ya'll are honest, blue collar hardworking people, and suffering. So if he don't care about y'all, he really don't care about us."
TSwift's Liberal Transformation is Complete:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she endorsed Democratic candidates last year, but now we really know Taylor Swift leans left after she said she's a "huge fan" and "obsessed" with the Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale." The pop star made the comments in a video shown on E!'s "Live From the Red Carpet" at last night's Golden Globes to actress Elizabeth Moss, who said the cast sing along to TSwift on set.
Street Art Sighting:
This image of Ginsburg that reads "I Dissent" was taped to the back of a street sign across from the Supreme Court Sunday afternoon: | | Credit: Hunter Schwarz
Tag or DM me your political street art sightings @hunterschwarz on Twitter or Instagram, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com. | | | | | | |
