Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing sponsored by AARP.

The president and the White House are fond of saying that it's Democrats who are standing in the way of a big time rewrite of the nation's immigration laws.

Next time he tries to squarely blame Democrats, we should ask him this.

How did purging top officials at DHS move you closer to an immigration overhaul?

The president has been stodied by both the legislative process and his administration.

If you're a vulnerable Republican senator, how do you feel about the president

vowing to get tougher at the border?

There are a slew of backlash stories to the president's decision to clean house at DHS.

The Washington Post reports that Senator Chuck Grassley said in an interview that he was very

concerned about reports Trump would also fire the director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services. Burgess Everett, John Bresdenhan, and Melanie Zanona quote John Cornyn as saying, it's a mess, summing up the dynamic on the border and in Washington. Cornynett and Joni Ernst both had supportive words for the job DHS Secretary Kirsten Nielsen was doing.

The Wall Street Journal reports the U.S. moved to Washington. Corny and Joni Ernst both had supportive words for the job DHS Secretary Kirsten Nielsen was doing.

The Wall Street Journal reports the U.S. moved to impose tariffs on $11 billion worth of EU goods.

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An interesting spotted for you, former Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli, who has been mentioned as a potential

nominee for DHS, was hanging out with hundreds of other UVA basketball fans at the

Marquette Hotel in downtown Minneapolis before last night's NCAA National Championship,

Virginia won, asked if he had been contacted about being on the DHS Secretary shortlist.

He said he was just rooting for UVA tonight.

Stephen Shepard writes about a new Politico Morning Consult poll that found that Joe Biden is still

atop the Democratic field after a rough week. The morning consult surveys found that Biden still had

the support of 32 percent who said they intend to participate in a Democratic primary or caucus.

That's nine points ahead of

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