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

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The Washington Post is teeing up the next battle this morning with a piece on how the Trump

administration is pushing for quick action to raise the debt limit ahead of a number of

deadlines in September.

While the Atlantic has a top talker on Trump's chief of staff, McMulvaney, saying he's having a ball.

Our colleague Nancy Cook reports that Mulvaney is trying to boost morale with popcorn and happy hours in the West Wing. President Donald Trump spoke with Fox News as Sean Hannity last night.

Trump said this was a coup. In his first interview since the Mueller report's release,

Trump repeatedly said the report proved no collusion and obstruction. Our colleagues,

Eliana Johnson and John Bresdenahan report that Trump's Biden insults are fueled by the belief that the former VP can win.

While John F. Harris has a look at how Joe Biden is still in a hurry.

The New York Times reports on the five questions that will determine if Biden can win.

They write, how will he handle the onslaught? Can he say above the fray? What's an Obama-Biden

Democrat? Does he have ideas for the future? And can he raise money without being defined by it?

Our colleague Theo Meyer notes that Biden is swearing off K Street cash, but lobbyists still like him.

Here's a thought.

Biden is always going to be a Washington insider.

It's unclear why he is swearing off K Street cash when one of his biggest focuses is making

sure he can compete on the money front.

Sure.

Downtowners aren't usually huge contributors to presidential candidates,

but he had his first event after his announcement hosted by Comcast exec David Cohen,

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