🚨 @JimVandeHei is the latest "Decider" on with @BrodyMullinsDC and @camoosomiller sharing the details of our new book Simplify.
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⚡️ NEW: I joined @DanaPerino on her @foxnewsradio podcast to preview my book "Simplify" w/ @JimVandeHei + @roylschwartz out Sept 15.
We discussed the book's Confront, Delete, Amplify framework and how it can help in all aspects of work and life.
youtu.be/Gw5H7JCNTPI
⛰️Summit in Blue Ridge Mountains: Treasury @SecScottBessent & @federalreserve Chair Kevin Warsh land in Asheville NC for #G20 w finance ministers + central bank govs
• Flew together from Joint Base Andrews
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⛰️ Top CEOs, MAGA influencers & global economic leaders will converge on the Blue Ridge Mountains as @SecScottBessent hosts the G20 Finance Ministerial in Asheville, N.C., from 8/29 to 9/1
Not the usual climate talk ... Bessent will push growth policies
www.axios.com/2026/08/19/trump-bessent-g20...
🚨 NEW: Warning from GOP to Big Tech
@NRSC memo, obtained by @axiosalex Isenstadt, warns DATA CENTER BACKLASH could cost Ohio @SenJonHusted his seat ... and make the issue even more toxic in both parties
👀 See the memo
www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-m...
🧠@maggieNYT, marking 7 weeks of "Regime Change" with @jonathanvswan at No. 1, unpacks her estimate that 70% of Trump's brain goes to renovation, construction & other DC projects
• It's a Trump Rosetta Stone
📱Maggie's captivating mental map of Trump 👇
www.axios.com/2026/08/13/trump-haberman-le...
💡@axios CEO @JimVandeHei, who foresaw seismic media shifts TWICE, says we're at the end of one era and the start of something new & much bigger:
We've hit POST-PROCESSABLE VELOCITY: speed of change exceeds our ability to understand & respond in real time www.axios.com/2026/08/09/post-processable-...
🚀 NEW MOONSHOT ... @axios @jimvandehei walks through 7 ideas in his @WSJ piece on how America can WIN AI:
"We could be launching a society-wide effort to bring government, business, academic institutions and families together. So far, we're blowing it"
⚡6 mos into the search for Nancy Guthrie, @SavannahGuthrie's mom, a source close to the case tells me it's "stalled," with no promising leads:
"There is growing pressure to solve this case. This case has struck a chord — people are watching very closely" www.axios.com/2026/08/02/nancy-guthrie-sea...
🚨AI MOONSHOT ... @JimVandeHei for @WSJ:
America Risks Blowing the AI Race ... 7 ways the US can still dominate
Like after WWII or 9/11, we need to mobilize on a shared national project w/ a clearly defined goal & a clear competitor to beat
🎁 Gift link
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-doomerism-jim-vande...
🚨NEW in @axios AM: The administration is close to greenlighting restoration of Claude Fable 5, the powerful Anthropic model pulled 15 days ago over security
The blackout jarred the Claude-pilled: the top of the line, already in user hands, yanked offline www.axios.com/2026/06/27/anthropic-fable-5...
🥊"The Cost of Blind Loyalty" ... Column by @axios @JimVandeHei & me w @zacharybasu reporting:
Years of Republicans submitting to Trump, often against their judgment, have curdled into a rolling crisis as DC nears the likely end of the 2-year GOP monopoly www.axios.com/2026/06/26/trump-senate-repu...
📺NEW in @axios AM
@FoxNews is expected to announce today that @MrsErikaKirk, CEO of @TPUSA, will sit down with @JesseBWatters (and take him behind the scenes) for her first TV interview since @charliekirk11's death
Interview will air 11/5 on "Jesse Watters Primetime" @ 8 pm ET
🏛️NEW in @axios AM + @axios DC ... @WhiteHouse data via @cuneytdil & @MarcACaputo
48% of non-immigration-related arrests during Trump's DC police takeover (101 out of 212) have taken place in two of the most crime-hit areas (Wards 7, 8), per a WH analysis www.axios.com/2025/08/19/trump-dc-crime-cr...
🚨🚨 NEW in @axios AM: @KatieMiller tells me she has left her full-time work for @elonmusk — and today will launch a podcast aimed at conservative women
Miller has interviewed @VP @JDVance, @sagesteele & @MikeTyson ... and hopes to have Musk as a listener & guest
Full story👇
👀@pmarca calls @ezraklein/@DKThomp's "Abundance" "REALLY GOOD" & sees opening for bipartisanship
Marc Andreessen tells @JTLonsdale @ Reagan National Economic Forum:
"If the country is growing faster, it's going to be happier, whichever side of the political spectrum you're on"
👂Hear for yourself: @axios @MarcACaputo & @AlexThomp obtain extensive audio of President Biden's interview w/ special counsel Robert Hur
•Long pauses as POTUS searches his memory, mutters
•The Map Room's ticking clock fills the silences
Clips here 👇 www.axios.com/2025/05/16/biden-hur-tape-sp...
🚨🚨🚨NEW in @axios AM:
@WhiteHouse to impose new Briefing Room seating chart, which for decades was managed by @whca, in coming weeks
WH official tells me it's a "fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today"👇
🏭NEW #TrumpTally addition, via @axios:
Johnson & Johnson plans to spend $55 billion in the U.S. during Trump's term on manufacturing, research and technology
• It's the latest pledge by big American companies, totaling around $1 trillion so far, to expand US manufacturing…
🚨NEW INSIGHT on Pentagon rotating @nytimes @NBCNews @NPR @Politico out of workspace NBC has been in for decades
🔪"Hope those hit pieces on Pete were worth it," a source close to @SecDef @PeteHegseth, but not involved in the decision-making, tells @axios www.axios.com/2025/02/01/trump-us-governme...
🚨 NEW: @Meta tells employees it's rolling back major DEI programs — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers, according to a memo obtained by @axios' @sarafischer & me
•Memo cites "changing legal and policy landscape surrounding" DEI
•No longer will have DEI team👇
🚨A Trump source tells @axios @JimVandeHei & me yesterday's @elonmusk @X storm, which sunk a huge spending bill, is the new playbook:
GOP lawmakers got "instant and overwhelming feedback. Before, it had to be slowly funneled through conservative press. Now there is a megapho…
🏛️NEW: @elonmusk is the most powerful civilian ever, @axios @JimVandeHei & I write
• Musk sits at the pinnacle of power in business, government & info
• Trump has 4 short years. Musk's influence cuts across government, media, business, space & time www.axios.com/2024/11/07/elon-musk-trump-e...
🚨Blue Wall danger: Worry grows among top Dems that Harris is stuck, even sliding a bit, after strong convention & debate
•Her media blitz, spending advantage & largely favorable coverage don't seem to be moving the needle much, if at all, these Dems say www.axios.com/2024/10/10/2024-polling-wisc...
🚨NEW: Inside Trump slump ... Advisers plead w/ him to adopt new hard-hitting, focused stump speech to define VP Harris as liberal, weak
• Praying he'll stop the recidivist improvisation
GOP source tells @axios Trump is "struggling to get past his anger"www.axios.com/2024/08/11/trump-slump-assas...
🚨🚨🚨 Report: Trump has repeatedly called @KamalaHarris a "bitch" in private www.axios.com/2024/08/10/trump-calls-harri...
🚨 SCOOP: Several top Dems privately tell @axios @JimVandeHei & me intolerable pressure from congressional leaders + close friends will persuade President Biden to decide to drop out of the presidential race, as soon as this weekend
Go Behind the Curtain👇www.axios.com/2024/07/18/president-biden-d...
🚨🚨 Trump advisers tell @axios @JimVandeHei & me this is their SWING STATE RANKING, hardest to easiest:
1. Pennsylvania
2. Wisconsin
3. Michigan
4. Georgia
5. North Carolina
6. Nevada
7. Arizona
>>@CookPolitical says only first 3 are still toss-ups www.axios.com/2024/07/10/trump-undecided-v...
🚨 Biden credibility crisis:
• His new reality: No benefit of doubt. Reporters, nervous Dems will pick apart every answer and dig into past meetings
• Top Dems tell us Biden made things worse w/ ABC interview by denying bad poll numbers, party panic www.axios.com/2024/07/06/biden-abc-intervi...
🗳️How @KamalaHarris would change the race as nominee ... Column by @JimVandeHei & me:
1. She'd immediately ensure Roe as a main focus
2. Dems would try to make age/fitness the GOP's problem
3. Dems would frame it as former prosecutor vs. convicted felon www.axios.com/2024/07/05/behind-the-curtai...
🚨 NEW: @HillaryClinton has a "very personal" book coming 9/17 — 7 weeks before the election — with a warning to voters about democracy's future
"Something Lost, Something Gained" includes her reflections on marriage, friendships and getting over losing www.axios.com/2024/06/25/hillary-clinton-b...
🚨SCOOP: Enraged Biden advisers scold Bibi for "stunt," @axios @BarakRavid reports
The White House canceled a high-level US-Israel meeting about Iran, scheduled for Thu, after Netanyahu released a video in English claiming the US withheld weapons & ammo
www.axios.com/2024/06/19/netanyahu-video-b...
🚨🚨🚨'25 agenda: If Trump wins, MAGA insiders will push to investigate, prosecute — even try to imprison — Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
"Of course [Bragg] should be, and will be, jailed," Steve Bannon, prosecuted by Bragg in a fundraising case, tells @axios
www.axios.com/2024/06/05/trump-alvin-bragg...
🚨🚨NEW: @blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman tells @Axios tells Axios he'll support Donald Trump as a "vote for change"
• Will donate to Trump, Senate GOP candidates
• Rising antisemitism sped his decision
• He earlier wanted a next-gen leader in '24
👇www.axios.com/2024/05/24/trump-2024-stephe...
🚨 SCOOP from @axios @BarakRavid: Biden administration puts hold on ammo shipment to Israel
•Serious concern in Israeli gov't
•First time since 10/7 the US has stopped a weapons shipment intended for Israeli military
•US fears Israel will invade Rafah www.axios.com/2024/05/05/israel-us-ammunit...
🚨🚨 @NikkiHaley will suspend her campaign with 10 a.m. remarks, top source tells @axios, confirming @WSJ
WON'T ENDORSE TRUMP: Instead, she'll encourage Trump "to earn the support of Republicans and independent voters who backed her," The Journal reports www.axios.com/2024/03/06/nikki-haley-suspe...
🧐NEW: Biden's cheat sheets, from @axios @HansNichols
Biden's reliance on notecards to explain his own positions, on questions he knows are coming (sometimes at closed-door fundraisers), is raising some donors' worries about his age
Behind the scenes👇
www.axios.com/2024/02/23/biden-notecards-f...
🚨 NEW @axios: @JohnKerry to leave @POTUS administration in coming months to help @JoeBiden campaign
>>Says Biden's reelection is "single biggest" difference that can be made on climate in '24
Deets ⬇️ www.axios.com/2024/01/13/john-kerry-biden-...
🚨 NEW in @Axios AM:
@maggieNYT & @jonathanvswan sign deal for definitive book on Donald Trump's final act in public life
• More enduring than a campaign book: Lots of juicy inside-the-room detail but also deeply reported, longer arc
👇 Full details:
www.axios.com/2023/11/27/scoop-haberman-sw...
🦊 NEW in @axios AM: @FoxNews sends cease-and-desist to @TuckerCarlson, who ramps up plans for "Tucker on Twittter"
>>Ep. 3, on Trump indictment, drops tomorrow
>>Tucker adds staff, books big-name guests
>>Lawyer tells me: "Tucker will not be silenced" www.axios.com/2023/06/12/fox-letter-tucker...
💰NEW: Trump campaign hauls in $5 million+ since indictment news broke
•Over $4m in first 24 hrs, as campaign announced
•Over $1m in second 24 hrs, campaign tells @axios
@JasonMillerinDC: "a whole new group of Trump supporters who are angered by" news www.axios.com/2023/04/02/trump-indictment-...
🚨 NEW ... @axios @SophiaCai99 aboard Trump Force One, leaving Waco after rally
Trump, w/o evidence, suggests Bragg has dropped Stormy case:
"I think they've already dropped the case ... It's a fake case. Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing"
www.axios.com/2023/03/26/trump-suggests-da...
🚨NEW in @axios AM: @SpeakerMcCarthy has given @TuckerCarlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from 1/6
Carlson producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove
📺 Excerpts begin in coming weeks www.axios.com/2023/02/20/kevin-mccarthy-tu...
📚NEW from @axios AM: Trump obsession w @maggieNYT included threats to expose sources — per her "Confidence Man," out Tue.:
Trump "would bellow that he wanted administration officials to obtain my phone records and identify my sources." No sign anyone did www.axios.com/2022/09/30/trump-maggie-habe...
🚽FIRST on @axios: Trump’s telltale toilet … @maggieNYT obtained these photos ahead of the Oct. 4 publication of her book “Confidence Man”
Source tells her pic on the left shows a White House commode
Pic on the right is from a Trump overseas trip www.axios.com/2022/08/08/trump-toilet-phot...
🍿 7,500-word reporting tour de force @jonathanvswan
Preparations for Trump II are far more advanced/ambitious than previously reported. What's happening behind the scenes is the REVERSE of the slapdash start to '17
REVENGE TOURS are on the drawing board www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radica...
🚨 SCOOP @sarafischer @axios:
CNN's Chris Licht scrutinizes talent for partisan tone ... monitoring anchors including Jim @Acosta, @brianstelter to see if they can comport w new style — no interviews that look like stunts
Those who can't may get canned www.axios.com/2022/06/07/cnn-evaluating-pa...
😢Sobering stat from @caitlinnowens leads @axios AM:
Guns have passed cars as the leading cause of death for America's kids, per CDC data
2/3 were homicides
Guns kill more young men; cars kill more young women
📨 Sign up for AM www.axios.com/signup/am-pm www.axios.com/2022/05/26/gun-deaths-childr...
🚨 SCOOP in @Axios AM: Former SecDef Mark Esper, fired by Trump, writes in "A Sacred Oath," out 5/10, that a red-faced Trump said as demonstrators filled DC after George Floyd's death:
"Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?" www.axios.com/mark-esper-book-trump-protes...