| | | | | Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attend the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday. Credit: Nicole Craine/Bloomberg via Getty Images | | What Washington is Talking About:
The House Judiciary Committee will request documents from Donald Trump Jr., the Trump Organization, and people working in the White House, its chair Rep. Jerry Nadler told ABC's "This Week"; and Sen. Rand Paul has come out against President Trump's national emergency declaration, calling it "dangerous" to give the President "extraconstitutional powers" and giving lawmakers enough votes to pass a measure blocking it. Trump said he will veto the measure.
What America is Talking About:
A tornado in Alabama killed at least 23 people; and HBO aired Part 1 of its documentary "Leaving Neverland," in which two men accuse superstar Michael Jackson of abusing them.
Trump on Track to Set New Record:
In his first year in office, Trump averaged about six false or misleading statements a day. In his second year, that rose to almost 16.5 a day, and so far in 2019, he's averaging 22 a day.
Trump has made a total of 9,014 false or misleading statements during his time in office, according to the Washington Post Fact Checker. That includes more than 100 such statements made during his two-hour CPAC speech Saturday.
Pols Join March in Selma:
Marchers marked the 54th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, Sunday, including several presidential candidates, past and present: Sens. Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Sherrod Brown, and Hillary Clinton. At an event where she received an award, Clinton said "we are living through a full-fledged crisis in our democracy."
"This is a time, my friends, when fundamental rights, civic virtue, freedom of the press, the rule of law, truth, facts and reason are under assault," she added.
How Many Clicks Does It Take?:
The San Francisco Chronicle's Tal Kopan noticed on Friday that Cory Booker's campaign website was hard to find on Google. His campaign seems to have since rectified that; when I searched "Cory Booker" this morning, an ad for his site popped up first thing.
It made me wonder how easy it was to find the rest of the 2020 candidates' websites on Google. Below is how many Google pages I had to click through until I came across either a link to or an ad for a candidate's official campaign website as of this morning:
1 click: - Cory Booker
- Julián Castro
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Jay Inslee
- Bernie Sanders
- Elizabeth Warren
- Marianne Williamson
- Andrew Yang
2 clicks:
3 clicks:
Rag & Bone Trademarked "44":
Two days after former President Obama showed up to the Duke-UNC game in his custom "44" Rag & Bone bomber jacket, the company filed a trademark for the number as a word mark. Per the US Patent and Trademark Office filing, the trademark is for clothing ranging from bomber jackets and motorcycle jackets to henley shirts and rugby shirts. Hat tip to attorney Josh Gerben, who spotted the filing. | | | Credit: via US Patent and Trademark Office | | Hickenlooper Uses Mountains in Campaign Logo:
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced his presidential campaign today in an interview on "Good Morning America" and in an online announcement video that focuses on his time as governor and tracks his career from geologist to politics. His logo sets his last name in the typeface Uniform Bold with a mountain image that reminds me of the Adidas mark in light blue, purple, and white. It's a riff on a logo Hickenlooper used as a gubernatorial candidate, as pictured below at a 2014 campaign event. | | Credit: Hickenlooper campaign/RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Obama Portraits Credited for Smithsonian Bump:
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery had a record 2.3 million visitors in 2018, an increase of about 1 million over 2017, thanks in large part to the portraits of former President Obama by Kehinde Wiley and former first lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald. "They have brought in so many people," museum volunteer Mary Francis Koerner told the Washington Post.
Street Art Sighting:
This mural of JFK and MLK outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is part of a larger mural titled "World Stage Legacy" by David Flores. It was painted for the Special Olympics World Games in 2015. | | Credit: Hunter Schwarz
Tag or DM me your political street art sightings @hunterschwarz on Twitter or Instagram, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com.
P.S.:
Bernie Sanders walked out to Jay Z's "Brooklyn Go Hard" at his announcement rally Saturday in Brooklyn. You can spin it and the other songs presidential candidates have walked out to at their announcement rallies here.
Kate Bennett is off. Her section will return Wednesday. | | | | | | |
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