Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from the American Bankers Association.

And I'm Jake Sherman. The Trump administration is in a state of panic over President Donald Trump's plan to close the southern border.

We spoke to several senior administration figures yesterday who described a White House freaked out by the implications

of closing the border, both for the USMCA, the president's top legislative priority, and because

they believe it will result in an immediate spike in the cost of consumer goods. There are people

in the White House who are trying to cobble together a plan to present to Congress that would

seek to tighten immigration laws a way to beg the

president off his close-the-border plan. Of course, you should be very skeptical anything would get

through Congress. Here's some evidence at 8.33 p.m. last night in London, a U.S. Coast Guard G5

that DHS Secretary Kirsten Nielsen typically uses took off from Stansett Airport just 24 hours after it landed.

Nielsen was in London for meetings and inside the White House there was discussion all day

Monday of bringing her back to the United States. This plane landed at DCA at 1136 p.m.

And we have a scoop. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy raised more than

$23 million in the first quarter of 2019, an extremely large hall believed to be the biggest

of any House Republican leader, including Speaker of the House. McCarthy transferred

$7.28 million to the NRCC last quarter.

Our colleagues, Natasha Kurecki, Mark Caputo, and Alex Thompson had the latest on Joe Biden with

this headline, friendly grandpa or creepy uncle, generation split over Biden's behavior.

While Burgess Everett and Marianne report that Senate Democrats are keeping their distance from

Biden, Kirsten Gillibrand, who is in the presidential race unlike Biden, said that Biden needs Burgess Everett and Marianne report that Senate Democrats are keeping their distance from Biden.

Kirsten Gillibrand, who is in the presidential race unlike Biden, said that Biden needs to address this directly with the American people. The Hartford-Curon has the most recent allegation. A Connecticut

woman said Biden touched her inappropriately at a 2009 fundraiser in Greenwich.

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