News Notes: Harwood, Wolf and Honoring Novak

• Politico caught up with CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent John Harwood post-President Obama’s OTR-turned-viral Kayne “jackass” comment. “The custom in television, as I understand it, is that when you have an interview of this kind, the little chit-chat when you are getting ready to sit down to do the real interview is off the record,” he said.

And on ABC’s Terry Moran: “My understanding is that he tweeted it without realizing it was understood to be off the record,” Harwood said, while describing Moran as “a class act and a good journalist.”

• Wolf Blitzer will have an exclusive interview with President Hamid Karzai about “U.S.