| | | | | President Trump waves after speaking to Boy Scouts during the National Boy Scout Jamboree at Summit Bechtel National Scout Reserve in Glen Jean, West Virginia. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images | | | But First, Tweets: Jeff Sessions is should-I-stay-or-should-I go?
Our Daily Melania: A sighting is imminent as the first lady goes to rally in Ohio
Great American Road Trip: Hunter makes a stop in El Paso, Texas | | | What the White House is Talking About:
President Trump heads to a rally in Ohio this evening, but not before welcoming Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to the White House for talks and a news conference.
What the White House Press Corps is Talking About:
This morning's Trump tweet storm, which was primarily targeted at Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The question now: Will Sessions step down? Or will he stay on, knowing the President is acting as a willful adversary?
Jared Kushner Returns to the Hill:
Today's testimony in front of the House intel committee might be more contentious than Kushner's closed-door meeting yesterday with Senate staff.
Also on Capitol Hill, the Senate is expected to vote later today on health care. If you've lost the thread, here's where we are.
But First, Tweets:
There were a lot this morning, again. But this one, where Trump mentions his son Barron, caught my attention -- both because he mentions his child by name and because he's using him to demonstrate just how ridiculous he finds the ongoing Russia investigation. | | Credit: @realDonaldTrump/Twitter
Our Daily Melania:
This evening the first lady will be introducing her husband before his remarks to supporters at his "Make America Great Again" rally in Ohio. (I'd like to think it's because I started a "Melania watch" when I grew worried that we hadn't seen her in so long.) Melania has done the intro-POTUS gig before, most recently in Poland on July 6.
Sean Spicer Sings "I Will Survive," Likes It:
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon spliced together a lot of Spicer clips to the tune of "I Will Survive," and it was pretty cute and funny. Spicer apparently thought it was fine, too. He posted it on his Facebook page: | | Credit: Sean Spicer/Facebook
Ivanka Trump Reads to Kids:
While her husband was prepped for his Capitol Hill appearance (see above), Ivanka Trump spent time with a group of young girls, ages 6 to 10, at an event at the National Museum of American History. She read "Rosie Revere, Engineer" to the kids, who were campers at Boys & Girls Clubs and YMCA STEM programs. After she read the book along with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Ivanka asked the girls what they would want to build as engineers and one of them said a car that could fly, to which Ivanka said, "if you need someone in the passenger seat, I'll join you." Then they all played at stations designed to encourage STEM learning. I took some pics. Ivanka was mobbed by the kids after the reading. | | Credit: Kate Bennett
I also noticed Ivanka was wearing a red string around her wrist, which is traditionally a folkloric or mystical symbol in the Jewish faith meant to ward off evil spirits. Earlier this month Jared Kushner was photographed in Idaho wearing one, too. | | Credit: Kate Bennett; Drew Angerer/Getty Images
I've Found Myself Just Staring at This Picture:
I mean. | | Credit: @SecretaryZinke/Twitter
It's Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, both former Scouts. I feel like it could be straight out of a Wes Anderson movie.
#ThisTown, IRL:
Spotted last night hanging out at Millie's, the Spring Valley restaurant beloved by DC's Bermuda shorts- and Lily Pulitzer-wearing set: Malia Obama. A tipster says she was waiting for a friend and chilled for a bit while patrons left her alone.
Dress Like the First Daughter:
I still maintain my confusion about Ivanka's decision-making process over her clothes and the events she chooses to wear them to. For example, to read to the kids today, she wore this $895 Jonathan Simkhai lace dress. It was pretty, but it was also cocktail attire, with a deep neckline and lace detail maybe more appropriate for evening. Dunno. Maybe it's me. What do you think? | | | Credit: Kate Bennett; net-a-porter.com | | What Washington is Talking About:
The Senate is set to vote today on a motion to proceed to debate as well as amendments on the House health care bill. Also, John McCain is back today.
What America is Talking About:
RIP to Microsoft Paint? The program is "not in active development" and could be removed, the company says.
Poll of the Day:
The 2018 midterms will be the first election in which millennials will pass baby boomers to become the largest generation eligible to vote. They will make up 32% of America's voter-eligible population, according to the Center for American Progress. | | I'm driving cross-country for COVER/LINE. You can read about it every day in the newsletter and follow along on Instagram, at @cnncoverline and @hunterschwarz. To read about past stops on the trip, click here.
~The Great American Road Trip 2017~ Stop No. 6: El Paso: | | You could spend an entire two-week road trip in Texas alone. I split the more than 600-mile drive from Dallas to El Paso into two days (9 hours in the car on a weekday when I also have to write C/L was just not going to happen). I drove through miles of oil fields, and through Eastland, where gas station bathrooms had no water and turned guests away (the city was put under a boil advisory for three days because of a leak in a water supply line). In Midland, I was confused by the steep hotel prices until I saw their packed parking lots filled with new trucks and found out workers come from around the area to work in oil fields there (weekend rates are much cheaper). Marfa was an pre-filtered Instagram dream come true (and I hated going to the Marfa Prada without Kate).
But the biggest surprise was El Paso. Whenever I tell people where I'll be stopping on this trip, they sometimes have a negative reaction. But, guys, I really, really like El Paso. When we think about The Great International Cities of America, we tend to think of New York or Los Angeles or another big coastal city, but El Paso is just about as international as they come. Mexico is literally right there. Everywhere you go you see the mixing of English and Spanish, of American culture and Mexican culture. It's also has all the signs of an emerging hipster hot spot, with shipping container coffee shops and rooftop pools.
What El Paso is Talking About:
Collapsed storm drains caused three sinkholes to appear in West El Paso, which are being repaired. This weekend, a sinkhole swallowed a whole car.
El Paso's Must-See Political Spot:
The Wall. President Trump hasn't made any physical progress on one of his most famous campaign promises, but in El Paso, there's already been a wall for years. You can drive alongside it (take Paisano Drive) and walk up to it in places. Every so often you can see Border Patrol agents parked in their trucks. It's one thing to hear about The Wall, it's another thing to see one that predates Trump's candidacy. | | Credit: Hunter Schwarz
Meet Josh Cocktail, Director of OutPost:
Life on the road can be a grind for touring musicians, and Outpost hopes to make it better. It's a "sustainable rest stop for artists traversing throughout the country on tour," says director Josh Cocktail.
Artists can drop in to an Outpost location to do laundry, shower, and pick up provisions for the road like chips, toothbrushes, toilet paper, and tampons (it's not, however, a place for them to spend the night).
If the mood strikes, they can even record.
"Artists need somewhat of an oasis when they're on the road to creatively stay passionate about what it is they're doing," Cocktail says. | | Credit: @cnncoverline/Instagram/Ryan Alexander
The program was started by the Participation Agency, based in New York, and El Paso is the first location. "When we first started connecting out this program, we knew that in needed to be in cities that were very easy for artists to access that were on US tour routes," he says. "A lot of brands really focus on New York and L.A., because they look at them as the most populous cities and they're culture hubs," but putting Outpost locations along US tour routes can help musicians step outside of their bubbles.
El Paso, is "a city that should be visited," Cocktail says, and one that will grow. "I think El Paso's the most community-oriented border city because it's one community. People that live in Juarez work in El Paso and people that live in Juarez go to school in El Paso." He remembers touring as a musician himself and being surprised at just how close Mexico was.
"I think artists appreciate being able to go into a city that most likely they're not from ... and be able to kind of experience a new community," he says. "It's a big country. There's a lot of places to go."
Shoutout to my Grandma:
A side note to my El Paso stop: My grandma lives there, and during the presidential campaign she'd always call and ask when I was coming by for work. I'd have to tell her the campaign was probably not going to come to Texas. So when I came through on the road trip, I surprised her and she asked if she could come with my to my interview. She ended up making friends with everyone at Outpost and now I'm wondering if I should bring her with me to interviews more often. Probably yes. | | | | | | |
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