Good morning. I'm Playbook editor Mike DeBonis. It's Monday, April 24th. And it's a huge week for us here at Playbook. The White House Correspondence Center is on Saturday. And that's basically the Super Bowl for us here at Playbook and what we call the rest of the playbook cinematic universe. We'll have more on that in a second. But the fact is, it's just a big week for the news generally. For one, we're all

expecting President Joe Biden to launch his reelection campaign this week. Now, all the usual

caveats apply. He could still change his mind, et cetera, et cetera. But the plan still appears to be

that POTUS will launch round two with a web video on Tuesday. And there was reporting over this

weekend indicating that his campaign

team is falling into place. Several outlets have reported he's eyeing Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who's currently

a White House advisor as his campaign manager, and our Chris Cotelago and Sam Stein reported

Sunday that Michael Tyler, a longtime Democratic National Committee veteran, is likely to be

communications director. We'll obviously be watching closely as this plays out this week.

The other big news driving the week is in the House, where Speaker Kevin McCarthy is hoping to get

his Republican conference in line behind his plan to handle the debt limit and set himself up

for negotiations with Biden and congressional Democrats. He promised Sunday he'd be able to deliver in a Fox News interview, but he's still got some work to do with his most moderate and most conservative members. Our Rachel Bade is watching this really closely, and she's got a nice look ahead in this morning's newsletter. A vote could happen as soon as Wednesday, but expect that to

slip a day or two or potentially longer that things really go off the rails. And joining me now to

discuss this crazy week ahead is playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. Good morning, Eugene. Hello, De Bonas,

good morning. Are you ready? Are you prepped? Oh, my goodness. I've been calling it Hell Week.

It is. It is kind of our hell week. But I'm calling it a Hell Week, and I'm not even a White House

Correspondents Association board member. So I hesitate. It is an exciting week for the board.

Right. And Eugene, as a board member, will be sitting on the dais at the actual dinner,

but the real sort of like grind is this week of sort of getting there. It's the social calendar.

And it is like, it's this sort of event for what I like to call the Playbook Cinematic Universe,

where everybody is, it's like, it's not only C& bc and it's like you like go and drop dead you

know it's just like it is and the bonus what's really funny so last year was actually my first one

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