Good Friday morning, I'm Anna Palmer. And welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by AARP.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Breaking overnight, North and South Korea aimed to declare an end to their longtime stalemate this year.

The two-signed a declaration toward the common goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

This would be a massive victory for President Trump who will get

credit for bringing the two parties to the table. New this morning, you are invited to our next

playbook interview. We'll sit down with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on May 8th in D.C. Democrats

have as good of a chance as ever at taking back the House majority. Who better to talk to than the former speaker, who could be House Democrats next speaker?

The Senate Air Wars are in full effect.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce dropped a whopping $750,000 on media for this week,

supporting Rick Scott and opposing Senator Bill Nelson in Florida. And Senate

Majority Pack disclosed spending more than $425,000 on a media buy supporting Senator John

Tester in Montana. The chaplain speaks. Heather Kagle and I wrote a story yesterday about how Paul

Ryan asked the House chaplain to step down. The chaplain did not speak on the record, but he spoke to the New York Times, which quotes him as saying he still doesn't know why he was asked to resign. Father Conroy said he didn't want to politicize this incident when he asked if differences in politics were a factor. Speaker Ryan is a Catholic, while Conroy is a Jesuit, a branch that is viewed as much more liberal. There's a few stories out this morning on the state of play in the Trump administration.

The Times has a piece up on how many people in Trump's orbit often end with a crash.

The paper also highlights a pretty fascinating stat.

Half of the top aides who came to the White House with the president in 2017 are gone.

On the investigations front, Josh Gerstein is reporting that Trump's comments on ongoing legal matters in court could upend his attorney's legal strategy,

while the Wall Street Journal has a must read on the awkward exile of Michael Cohen.

The New York Post is reporting that the feds

have seized more than a dozen of Cohen's phones. On the election front, Alex Eisenstadt is up with a

piece about the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seeking redemption in the ugly West Virginia

primary. Longtime McConnell advisor Josh Holmes has called blanket ship mentally ill. Purchase

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