Good Thursday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from the American Beverage Association.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Joe Biden is finally in. Natasha Karecki sends us this dispatch.

The announcement goes live at 6 a.m. across social media platforms.

And Joe Biden's going to talk about his candidacy as a battle to reclaim the soul of America.

Once the video is live, the campaign will roll out more details about staff and his travel

over the next several weeks.

That will include a union heavy kickoff Monday in Pittsburgh.

And then on to early presidential states where he's likely to hold fundraisers as well.

Biden will attend a fundraiser in Philadelphia

later today at the home of Comcast executive David Cohn. It's hosted by a litany of Pennsylvania

politicians. He will also head to South Carolina in early May, where people involved in his operation

tell us that Biden's likely to hold a fundraiser there.

Mark Caputo and Natasha Karecki scooped that he had a call with top donors yesterday, telling

people that money is important and he's going to be judged on it in the first 24 hours of his

campaign. Imagine this. Donald Trump could quite easily claim the Mueller report exonerated him

and quickly pivot to show how he's getting stuff

done by working on an infrastructure bill. It would be an obvious play for a president who has been

hampered by investigations from almost day one. But the president can't stop talking about Robert

Mueller. Infrastructure doesn't drive news cycles. And the special counsel's witch hunt has been a familiar

punching bag for the president for the past two years.

A lot of people discount this president as undisciplined or unsavvy, but that's giving him way too little credit.

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