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Washington Life features some of the most successful and savvy women leaders in Washington with a special look at these investors. Led by Dr. Satchiko Kuno, Time Warner’s Carol Melton and former Time Warner cable chief Gail MacKinnon are part of the new group.
Tucker Carlson with Matt Drudge, Howie Kurtz and friends at the White House Correspondents Garden Brunch.
Veteran news and talk show host, and founder of The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson will join the Fox News Channel daily line up. He has been the weekend host of Fox and Friends. His friends cheered his return to the week day, but he will step away from his news duties at The Daily Caller. Carlson hosted a show at MSNBC and CNN and is credited with discovering liberal firebrand, Rachel Maddow.
Bloomberg Politics’ Griffin Hammond, Alexander Trowbridge, and Matt Negrin have created a satirical video based on hit film Ocean’s Eleven. Griffin, Alex, and Matt, devise an elaborate plan to find out whether the presidential election can be rigged, and venture to Las Vegas, Nevada to do some reconnaissance. The video gives viewers interesting factoids about the state of the voting system while refuting some of the claims made by presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The video features cameos from Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson, CBS “This Morning” host Charlie Rose, actor Donny Deutsch, NBC host Kasie Hunt, Vox’s Liz Plank, Bloomberg’s Megan Murphy, Joe Weisenthal, Querry Robinson, Steven Yaccino, Kendall Breitman, TJ Ducklo, and Lauren Spurr.
You can find the latest election updates from Bloomberg Politics here.
It was another golden night at the 68th annual Emmy Awards for HBO’s VEEP.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus a.k.a. President Selina Meyer, kicked off the gala with one of the evening’s biggest laughs with her cameo in the opening vignette: Emmy host Jimmy Kimmel discovers she’s riding in the back of a limousine driven by former Republican presidential candidate, Governor Jeb Bush.
This year, the beloved actress took home her fifth consecutive win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. During her acceptance speech, she charmed the crowd by apologizing for her show’s unintended influence on the current political climate.
Her win was a poignant won, when Louis-Dreyfus revealed her father William Louis-Dreyfus passed away on Friday at the age of 84.
VEEP won the top prize from the Television Academy for Outstanding Comedy Series for the second year in a row. Afterwards, VEEP Emmy winners Dave Mandel, Lew Morton and Peter Huyck were seen entering Jimmy Kimmel’s after party which included every major comedy player from James Corden and Jimmy Fallon to Chris Rock and Amy Schumer. Tom Arnold to Jeff Ross, Matt Damon to Kit Harrington and Sophie Tucker. John Mayer dancing to a rockin band, while guests dined out on gourmet liquor, BBQ, and Pizza. The no photos rule gave the 300 or so guests an intimate vibe, but the crowd cheered for Veeples Tony Hale, David Mandel, Lew Morton and Peter Huyck.
On the latest episode of Bloomberg’s Masters in Politics podcast, hosts Tammy Haddad and Betsy Fischer Martin spoke with EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. Dowd said she believes things will only get nastier between now and November 8th.
“I think the next 55 days is going to be the craziest and the meanest slice of politics we’ve ever seen,” Dowd said.
That includes the upcoming presidential debates, the first of which will be held on September 26th at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt will moderate despite Donald Trump’s efforts to have no moderators at the debates.
Dowd told MIP that it’s important to have someone on hand, especially because she believes both candidates have a fluid relationship with the truth.
“You need someone who is really on it. You have to have someone who can fact check in their head in real time. So that’s more important than ever so these things can’t be treated as an entertainment extravaganza even if they’re entertaining. You’ve got to have people who really are steeped in the issues.”
EMILY’s List, a political action committee dedicated to helping elect pro-choice Democratic women, has endorsed Hillary Clinton. Schriock told “Masters in Politics” hosts Tammy Haddad and Betsy Fischer Martin, that she believes women voters are really looking for candidates who are leading on strong economic issues based around the family, and is disheartened by the childcare policy plan Donald Trump announced this week. She wishes he had stuck closer to the plan his daughter Ivanka proposed at the Republican National Convention.
“What I’m saddened by is that Ivanka at the convention laid out a really nice vision for affordable childcare. That is not the policy that they rolled out this week, and the policy that Donald Trump decided to take on is one that is not going to have the effect. I continue to say that I’m ready for Ivanka to switch parties and become a Democrat because [she] sounds like one already. I am ready to sit down with her at any time to discuss her political future as a Democratic woman.”
Schriock considers Donald Trump’s announcement a half-hearted effort to woo back female Republican voters who are questioning whether they can support the nominee after some of the negative remarks he has made about women in the past and throughout the campaign.
“I will say that for someone who clearly has realized with less than 60 days out that he has a gigantic problem with women voters, he is just trying to throw something together and that is what that policy looked like.”
You can check out the full interview here.
Julianne Donofrio’s six-years-in-the-making film is set to debut August 11th at the national Quilt Trail Gathering in Greeneville, Tennessee. The film follows Donna Sue Groves, who started the quilt trail movement, where quilt squares are hung on barns along driving routes, creating an elaborate network that combines art and travel in unlikely places.
The feature length documentary, “Pieced Together,” follows Groves as she navigates through personal hardship and sheds light on the movement she began with her neighbors in Adams County, Ohio.
The quilt square movement has sprung up from this small community and has now gone nationwide, with trails in over 40 states and more forming in Canada and elsewhere.
Ms. Donofrio is a veteran filmmaker and news who previous worked for ABC News and Haddad Media. She is a graduate of Syracuse University.
The film’s website can be found here.
You can find out more about the National Quilt Trail Gathering here.
Be sure to check out this interview with filmmaker Julianne Donofrio here.
The Republicans have set up camp in enemy territory at a boxing arena in South Philadelphia where they will host a series of press conferences during the week of the DNC. Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, Reince Priebus, Chairman of the RNC, and Sean Spicer, Chief Communications Director of the RNC spoke on the record and organized a brief Q&A for the audience. Responding to a question from Tammy Haddad, CEO of Haddad Media, Paul Manafort and Reince Priebus denied any possibility of the Trump campaign or the RNC being hacked.
The theme of their setup was “Enough” complete with dice, cornhole, and other games all “rigged” for Hillary to win as well as a poster with a “setlist” of her scandals dating back to the 1980s.
You can watch the full video here.
The hosts of Bloomberg Masters in Politics podcast Tammy Haddad and Betsy Fischer Martin are in Cleveland covering the Republican National Convention this week.
As the GOP is trying to quell divisions within their ranks, they spoke with the former head of the Republican Party, Mike Duncan.
Duncan discussed a couple of theories about the conspicuous number of empty seats at this year’s nominating convention. “I suspect that future conventions may learn something from this one. I’m not sure that we’re going to need four days in the future. I think maybe programs will be a little bit tighter in the future.”
Duncan also expressed optimism that Donald Trump would be able to unify the Republican Party. “Party unity is important for anyone running for president,” Duncan said. “You’ve got to get somewhere around 90% of the support for your party to have a chance to get elected if you look at historic trends. I assume that that will continue in the future and I see Donald Trump moving toward that.”
He also made some predictions for Trump’s cabinet picks if he were to become president. “He’s talked about some of them. I think you see Governor Christie obviously. Newt Gingrich is someone being discussed in a very high role.” Duncan said that he believed Trump would make announcements beforehand. “That would be my recommendation.”
You can check out the full interview here
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The HBO Films presentation of “All the Way” has earned eight Emmy nominations for the 68th Annual Primetime Awards, including Outstanding Television movie.
Bryan Cranston, reprising his Tony Award-winning role as President Lyndon B. Johnson, is up for Lead Actor in a Limited Series. “All the Way” follows President Johnson’s first year in office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The film, directed by Jay Roach, also stars Anthony Mackie (Martin Luther King, Jr.), Melissa Leo (Lady Bird Johnson), Bradley Whitford (Hubert Humphrey) and Frank Langella (Sen. Richard Russell).
Roach is nominated once again for Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie Or Dramatic Special. He previously won Emmys in the same category for the HBO films “Recount” and “Game Change.”
The eight nominations:
Outstanding Television Movie:
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Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie:
Bryan Cranston, “All the Way”
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie
Melissa Leo, “All The Way”
Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie Or Dramatic Special
Jay Roach, “All The Way”
Outstanding Hairstyling For A Limited Series Or Movie
“All The Way”
Outstanding Makeup For A Limited Series Or Movie (Non-Prosthetic)
”All The Way”
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Limited Series, Movie Or Special
”All The Way”
Outstanding Music Composition For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
“All The Way”
HBO Home Entertainment recently released “All the Way” on Digital HD and will release the film on DVD with Digital HD and Blu-ray with Digital HD on September 6th.
The 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will air live on ABC 7e|4p on September 18 with host Jimmy Kimmel.
Photo Courtesy of Haddad Media
In filings with the Federal Elections Commission Monday, the Donald Trump campaign revealed that over $1 million was spent on Trump-owned companies such as his Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago, to which he paid over $400,000. Trump’s campaign paid nearly $350,000 for private jet and helicopter expenditures through TAG Air, also owned by Trump. Other expenditures include a $125,000 bill from Trump Restaurants, $35,000 for the Trump National Golf Club in Juniper, Florida, and nearly $30,000 for rentals and catering at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Also revealed in the FEC filings are the surprisingly empty coffers of the Trump campaign. Trump declared an astonishingly low $1.3 million war chest, the smallest ever for a modern presidential candidate. His on-hand cash is dwarfed by the Hillary Clinton campaign’s $42 million it raised from both private donors and super PACs. The Clinton campaign is expecting to spend well over $100 million on television ads alone before November.
It is unclear how the Trump campaign plans to make up this enormous deficit, and reports have surfaced that Donald Trump seems unwilling to reach out to big donors in the face of paltry fundraising numbers. Politico reported on June 15 that Trump walked out of a fundraising session coordinated by the RNC. According to the report, “Trump had promised [RNC Chairman Reince] Priebus that he would call two dozen top GOP donors, when RNC chief of staff Katie Walsh recently presented Trump with a list of more than 20 donors, he called only three before stopping, according to two sources familiar with the situation. It’s unclear whether he resumed the donor calls later.”
You can read the full story from Politico here.
For more on Donald Trump’s FEC filings click here.
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