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

brought to you by JPMorgan Chase & Company. We've got more NBC buzz this morning with Jake

and media reporter extraordinaire Hadass Gold reporting that NBC and MSNBC are looking at the former

Johnny's half-shell space at 400 North Capitol

for a potential street-level studio.

There's other news from the network, Nicole Wallace, is taking over the 4 p.m. hour on MSNBC.

The former Bush administration communications director will host the show from New York,

and it will debut in May. Well, after a lot

of action on health care this week, we have where things stand at the end of the week. Republicans'

efforts on health care can be summed up pretty simply. Two steps forward, one step back. After

reviving what seemed like a dead health care package, President Donald Trump's

White House and House Republicans' efforts to try to pass a compromise package are once again

on life support. Speaker Paul Ryan and House leaders decided to postpone a vote on the package

to next week at the earliest. But it's unclear if they'll be able to find enough votes.

The math is pretty simple.

Republicans can lose roughly 22 votes.

Right now there are 15 House Republicans who are solidly opposed to the measure and another

20 that are leaning against voting for it.

Now, it's important to remember whatever the House does with Obamacare, it's only an opening

salvo.

Senate Republicans have barely engaged in the effort, and they would make major changes to

whatever the House passes.

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