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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook editor Mike DeBonis. It's Wednesday, April 19th.

There's a few big stories we're watching today. First off, we've got the Jack the Dipper story. It heads to Capitol Hill.

Members of the Senate are set to get a classified briefing this afternoon on the weeks of classified documents that were allegedly perpetrated by Jack DeShera, the Massachusetts National Guardsman. We're also on the lookout

today for Supreme Court action on the big abortion pill case. You'll recall that a federal

appeals court last week restricted access to the abortion pill. The Supreme Court laid out an

emergency order which expires right at midnight

tonight, so we're expecting the court to lay out its next steps at some point today. And we're also

processing the big media news yesterday, the surprise settlement in Dominion's lawsuit against Fox News,

who have now agreed to pay $787 million to settle defamation claims related to the 2020 election.

But this may not be the end of the story, though.

Fox still faces litigation from another voting machine company Smartmatic,

and the company shareholders are also expected to file lawsuits based on the allegations exposed in Dominion suit.

So yesterday was also a big day in the brewing Republican rivalry between

Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. I've got playbook co-author Rachel Bade on the line. She was following

this visit. Hey, Rachel. Good morning. So you did a lot of reporting around this, the DeSantis

visit to the Hill. And this was supposed to be sort of a little bit of a moment in the sun for DeSantis, kind of reveling in his status as the number one challenger to Donald Trump and probably the best positioned guy to take the nomination from him. But that's not exactly what happened, is it?

Yeah, no, not at all.

I mean, in the 24 hours leading to this much anticipated meeting between him and a lot of his

former colleagues in the House, we saw a number of Florida Republicans come out and endorse

Donald Trump, which was pretty pointed jab. John Rutherford

and Greg Stuby were the first two, Brian Mast, who is another Florida Republican, who is said

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