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Good morning.

I'm Jake Sherman.

Welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It's Thursday, April 8th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your three Washington headlines for the day.

We have a brand new excerpt from John Boehner's new book on the House.

Joe Biden really wants to negotiate.

That's the second story of the day.

Chris Coons, one of the president's top allies, talks to us about the president's

priorities on infrastructure and energy. So listen, Anna, myself and John Bresdenhand, the three

founders of Punch Bull News, three of the founders of Punch Bull News, covered John Boehner's

Washington when he was speaker for a long time, covered his entire speakership, and Bres has covered him

for 20 years. So we are particularly interested in his book on the House. And we got our hands on

a copy. Thankfully, it's out next week. And it is every bit as interesting as you'd think it would be.

There are tons of behind-the-scenes stories about Bainer's three decades in D.C. And there's a really interesting story that he tells at the beginning

of the book about an experience with Donald Trump. And I'm going to sum it up for you. Bainer was

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