Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Political Playbook Audio Briefing,

sponsored by the American Bankers Association. And I'm Anna Palmer. Politico Magazine is out with the first

excerpt of Jake and my new book The Hill to Die on, out April 9th, with our look at how Trump

conspired with the Freedom Caucus to shut down the government. They're lousy politicians.

They're lousy on policy.

They got the worst ideas in the world, but they stick together.

Trump said of the Democrats in an interview in late November, just weeks before the shutdown.

And the Republicans do not stick together as well, okay?

There's no question about it, and I respect them for that.

And I tell the Republicans that.

I say, these people stick together, even if it's bad.

They stick together.

We hope you enjoy the entire excerpt.

And if you'd like to hear more, Jake and I will be on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday to talk about the book for the first time.

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the president after the bar letter. The post sums it up with this headline, potentially damaging

information in Mueller report ushers in a new political fight. The New York Times weighs in at how

Trump is ignoring his own history by taking a jab at Joe Biden. The Washington Post had an interview

with Speaker Nancy Pelosi where she said she would rather build on Obamacare, and it isn't yet

convinced that Medicare for all would achieve

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