Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Jewel Labs.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Our colleague Natasha Kareki is on the trail in Iowa and send in a dispatch

that Pete Buttigieg shrugged off three anti-gay hecklers as he drew some of the biggest crowds in the 2020 race so far in Iowa.

Natasha tells us that Buttigieg was unflinching as security escorted the men out and carried

on after cracking a joke or commenting on freedom of expression. One thing to watch,

Buttigieg drew more than 1,600 people after originally expecting around 50.

This comes pretty organically because he is yet to hire up many operatives in the state.

Meanwhile, CNN reports Trump critics in the Senate are mum on Bill Weld's 2020 bid.

Some personal news. Please tune in to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS tonight.

Anna and I will be talking about politics

and our new book, The Hill to Die on. On the immigration front, the New York Times is reporting

that the Trump administration has issued an order that could keep asylum seekers in jail

indefinitely while they wait for the request to make it through the system. The LA Times reports

that California is hitting back on the president's plans to dump

immigrants into sanctuary cities. Less than 24 hours ago, we wondered in Playbook if the president

was bored with the 2020 Democratic field. But he was tweeting last night, I believe it will be

crazy Bernie Sanders versus Sleepy Joe Biden as the two finalists to run against maybe the best

economy in the history of our country and many other great things. I look forward to facing

whoever it may be. May God rest their soul. Huh? May God rest their soul? The New York Times

reports that Trump has turned to commenting on the news

while he awaits the Mueller report. Mary Ann Levine is a story up that Republican senators are

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