| | | | | President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, senior advisor Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump observe a moment of silence Monday at the White House during the 16th anniversary of 9/11. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images | | | New Miss America Wants to Be a Politician: Cara Mund, Miss North Dakota, took the crown and is dreaming big
Bannon on Trump's Comey Firing: He called it the worst mistake in "modern political history"
Tiffany Trump at NYFW: First daughter sat in on fashion shows, including one by a designer she wore for the inauguration | | | What the White House is Talking About:
President Trump honored the memory of September 11th this morning in ceremonies on the White House South Lawn and at the Pentagon.
What the White House Press Corps is Talking About:
A lot of "where I was when ..." stories are going around newsrooms today about the events of 9/11. Also, reporters are digging out from Hurricane Irma coverage. Briefing schedule still TBD.
The Latest on Irma:
Everyone's keeping tabs on the storm and the damage it caused as it swept through Florida. When asked whether he'll visit the storm zone, Trump told reporters "very soon." He was briefed on the damage again this morning.
Guys, It Wasn't a Yoga Mat:
Unclear how one of the two items thrown over the White House fence in a minor security incident today was described as a yoga mat, but it was, and the Internet liked it. | | New Miss America Wants to Be a Politician:
So, I'm back from my week in Atlantic City where I had the (life-altering?) experience of being a preliminary judge for Miss America. Basically, me and my fellow six prelim judges did all the heavy lifting in hours of interviews and then judging three nights of preliminary competitions. These are essentially Miss America competitions but with all 51 contestants, not just the final 15. We ultimately picked the finalists and passed them along to the celebrity judges for the main event.
In short, I was blown away by all of the young women. Sure, a few were sort of pageant-y robots, but the majority were smart, successful, driven, passionate ladies who looked at the Miss America Organization as we all should: as the largest distributor of scholarships for young women in the country. The 51 women in this week's competition have already earned a combined $1.2 million in scholarship money. And, yes, I might have sipped the Kool-Aid, but I now understand that Miss America is far more than a beauty pageant.
It was hard to pick a winner, but I'm proud to say that my number-one favorite, Cara Mund, Miss North Dakota, took the crown. Before Cara, no one from North Dakota had ever even made it to the top five. I loved her because she grew up in Bismarck, worked her ass off and she wants to be in government. Also, she told her high school guidance counselor that she wanted to go to Brown University and he told her that wasn't going to happen. She made it her mission to prove him wrong. Last year, Cara graduated from Brown with a business degree. | | Credit: Donald Kravitz/Getty Images for Dick Clark Productions
Here's how she answered an interview question last night about whether Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord was right or wrong:
"I do believe it's a bad decision. Once we reject that, we take ourselves out of the negotiation table and that's something that we really need to keep in mind. There is evidence that climate change is existing so whether you believe it or not, we need to be at that table, and I just think it's a bad decision on behalf of the United States."
P.S: Cara wants to be the first female governor of North Dakota, so I might move there?
When I hugged her congratulations last night on the stage after she got the crown (the first time I was actually allowed to interact with her on a personal level) she grabbed me and said she had watched all of my news reports and that she would love to talk to me more about politics. Five minutes after her life changed forever, the girl's already out to get on the job.
Cara also got a Twitter shoutout from Senator John Hoeven, for whom she interned: | | Credit: @SenJohnHoeven/Twitter
Dress Like the First Lady:
Yesterday Melania Trump wore something sort of out of character: color. She's been way into the muted neutrals lately, so it was almost shocking to see her in this funky $695 Calvin Klein red shirt. | | Credit: Olivier Douliery/Getty Images
Melania accessorized with her tan Hermès Birkin bag and these $595 Christian Louboutin "Solasofia" nude flats. | | What Washington is Talking About:
The Senate is holding a moment of silence this afternoon to honor the victims of 9/11. Also, the House Homeland Security Committee has a hearing about threats on the 16th anniversary of the attack.
In sports news, the Nats clinched the NL East title last night and celebrated by pouring champagne all over each other.
What America is Talking About:
Irma has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves further inland today into Georgia. More than 5.7 million people are without power.
Poll of the Day:
Nearly one in five Americans say the US response to the 9/11 attacks -- including how the country came together, sympathy for the victims and the bravery of first responders -- is when they felt most proud of their country, per a 2016 survey by Pew and A+E Networks' HISTORY. | | Credit: Pew
How Rubio Spent Irma:
Sen. Marco Rubio and his family rode Hurricane Irma out in their Miami home. He told our Jake Tapper Sunday that his home is not on the coast or in a flood zone, and his roof, built in 2005, can withstand a category 3 storm. "There really wasn't anywhere in Florida that I could point to and say, 'If you go there, you're not going to see the storm,'" he said. "It's going to cover all of Florida, I know people that went to Georgia that are now trying to get out of Georgia."
Shoutout to This Man on a Riding Lawn Mower:
I love this image, sent in by a reader, of a man in Fanning Springs, Florida, riding his power mower and handing out water to drivers stuck in standstill traffic as people evacuated Friday. | | Credit: Tad Wootton
Bannon Calls Trump's Comey Firing the Worst Mistake in "Modern Political History":
That's what he told "60 Minutes," and he blamed President Trump's firing of former FBI Director James Comey for Robert Mueller's investigation. "I don't think there's any doubt that if James Comey had not been fired, we would not have a special counsel, yes," he said. "We would not have the Mueller investigation."
Why You Should Think Twice Before Moving Next to an Embassy:
File this under #DCProblems. The Washington Post is out with a look at what it's like for Kalorama residents who live next to vacant embassies. They're basically foreign soil, and countries don't have to adhere to local building codes, meaning embassies for countries like Argentina, Cameroon, Iran, Pakistan and Serbia can become eyesores, and the only recourse neighbors have is ... the State Department.
Tiffany at NYFW:
Tiffany Trump was front row at a fashion show Saturday for Taoray Wang, the designer she wore at the Inauguration. The brand shared not one but two photos of the first daughter from this weekend. | | Credit: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images For NYFW: The Shows
She was also at Philipp Plein, where Nicki Minaj and Future performed. In February, she was at a Philipp Plein show, and the designer defended her to TMZ. "Tiffany Trump isn't a politician," he said at the time. "I don't think really she has anything to do with the drama and all the discussion going on. Can you blame someone, like a family member, can you blame a daughter? ... I just think it's not right to judge or treat someone not with respect because she or he is the daughter or son of somebody people might not like." | | Credit: @adwarren/Instagram Stories
Street Art Sighting:
Spotted on the US-Mexico border in Tecate, California: this mural of a boy peeking over the border fence by French artist JR, pictured below. | | Credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images
Send me your pics of political street art to coverlinehunter@cnn.com, tweet me @hunterschwarz or tag @cnncoverline on Instagram. | | | | | | |
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