| | | | | A groundskeeper clears slush and snow Thursday on Capitol Hill. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images | | | Inside Facebook's Crisis Response: New York Times story is a doozy
Dressing a First Lady Sounds Stressful: "You have to anticipate every avenue of attack and every possible outcome"
Kanye Doesn't Know Much About Politics, Kim Says: She called Ye misunderstood and a bad communicator | | | What Washington Is Talking About:
Kevin McCarthy was elected House minority leader; 17 House Democrats signed a letter saying they won't vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker; Sen. Jeff Flake says he won't vote for President Donald Trump's judicial nominees unless legislation protecting Robert Mueller's investigation gets a vote; and the District got hit with its first snow of the season.
What America Is Talking About:
Bat Kid is cancer free; the Country Music Association Awards paid tribute to the Thousand Oaks, California, shooting victims and honored Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour as Album of the Year; and a federal judge in Florida has extended the time some voters can fix signature problems with their provisional and mail-in ballots.
Poll of the Day:
A CNN poll re-interviewing respondents who participated in a survey before the election found 57% are happy with the election results, compared with 34% who said they're disappointed. | | Credit: CNN
Making Up For Veterans Day?:
The President and first lady head today to the Marine Barracks in southeast Washington, and Trump is scheduled to give public remarks about the military later today at the White House. Making up perhaps for not doing anything to commemorate Veterans Day on Monday?
Trump Backs Prison Reform Bill:
Trump said Wednesday he backs the bipartisan prison reform First Step Act, which he said will "make our communities safer and give former inmates a second chance at life after they have served their time." cc: Kim Kardashian.
Avenatti Arrested on Suspicion of Domestic Violence:
Michael Avenatti was arrested Wednesday night in Los Angeles on suspicion of domestic violence, Los Angeles police said. Avenatti posted bail, called the accusations "completely bogus" and said he's confident he'll be "completely exonerated."
Inside Facebook's Crisis Response:
The New York Times published a report on how Facebook has responded to crises such as Russian interference and Cambridge Analytica, and it's a doozy. There was allegedly internal debate over whether then-candidate Trump's 2015 Facebook post calling for a "complete and total shutdown" on Muslims entering the country violated the company's terms of service. Joel Kaplan, a Facebook exec who worked in the George W. Bush administration, said shutting down Trump's account or removing the post would stoke conservative backlash.
The article also accuses Facebook of knowing about Russian interference as early as spring 2016 and said they took a political oppo-research strategy to handling its crises with Definers Public Affairs, a firm founded by Republican operatives. The firm is connected to the conservative news site NTK Network, which published articles critical of other tech giants, and is accused of trying to link anti-Facebook advocacy to George Soros.
In a blog post titled "New York Times Update," Facebook said there were a "number of inaccuracies in the story" and said it severed ties with Definers on Wednesday night.
Dressing a First Lady Sounds Stressful:
Meredith Koop, Michelle Obama's stylist, said dressing the former first lady involved gaming out the public's response. "You have to anticipate every avenue of attack and every possible outcome," she told The New York Times. She said she would consider different logistics, how much Obama would be sitting vs. standing, and she would also go to foreign policy meetings and research the countries Obama visited. "I would try to make a case for things: This is why it makes sense, why this designer, this cut," she told the paper.
Now Koop is styling Obama for her "Becoming" book tour, and her goal is for Obama to look "powerful" and "chic." She also thinks will be more pants than dresses, since dresses have an association with Obama as a first lady. Case in point: | | Credit: Jim Young/Getty Images
Kanye Doesn't Know Much About Politics, Kim Says:
Kim Kardashian West said her husband is "very misunderstood and the worst communicator" and that they actually have "very similar politics" while speaking with CNN political commentator Van Jones at Variety and Rolling Stone's Criminal Justice Reform Summit.
"He's very not political, actually, he just happens to like Donald Trump's personality, but doesn't know about the politics," she said. "So, I've educated him recently. I think it gets really misconstrued." | | Credit: Variety
She also said she didn't come out on social media to correct him because she believes everyone has to follow his or her own journey. "I know his heart, so I know that one day what he's been trying to say will come out," she said. "It's taken a little long so I'm jumping in and helping out, but I know his heart so I never really stress too much."
Ye Sings BSB with Zuck:
Kanye West tweeted a photo of him and Mark Zuckerberg with mics and wrote, "We sang Backstreet Boys I want it that way," with no further explanation or context. Amazing. | | Credit: @kanyewest/Twitter
Texas Midterm Reunion:
Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke saw each other for the first time since the election, at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. O'Rourke spotted Cruz and went over to congratulate him on winning, wrote Tiffany Easter, who got a pic. "Thanks for the conversion, courage, humility, and inspiration," Easter tweeted. "Post-election doesn't mean the conversation and civic engagement stops -- in fact, it means the opposite. Thanks for your public service!" | | Credit: @TiffanyEaster/Twitter
Street Art Sighting:
This portrait of Trump in what appears to be a headdress with the words "American Chief?" was spotted in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. | | 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.
P.S.:
Mariah Carey's "Glitter: soundtrack has re-entered the iTunes charts following a #JusticeForGlitter hashtag campaign. It's currently the No. 1 most downloaded album, ahead of Imagine Dragons' Origins and the "A Star Is Born" soundtrack. Carey tweeted, "I CAN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY." Strong work, lambs.
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