Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by AARP.

And I'm Jake Sherbin. The big story this morning, Keith Ellison is speaking. Alana Shore and Heather Kagle have the story with the Minnesota Democrat denying abuse allegations. He said, quote, I never behaved in this way. He also said, a video does not exist because, quote, I never behaved in this way and any characterization otherwise is false.

Ellison is battling four other Democrats for the nomination to be Minnesota's Attorney General.

He's also deputy chair of the DNC.

Karen Monahan is standing by her son's social media account, which first publicly revealed her

allegations, saying everything he said is true. The Star Tribune was also on the case. The paper

said it found no court records or reports of any incidents between Monaghan and Ellison.

Monaghan has written broadly on Twitter in recent weeks about ending an abusive

relationship, but she never mentioned Ellison by name. Ballots will be cast Tuesday in the DFL

primary for the AG race, a contest in which Ellison has been seen as a favorite to win.

More fallout from Amarosa,agalton Newman's taping of conversations

in the West Wing. Ileana Johnson writes that Amarosa's attack on John Kelly could backfire,

largely because she taped conversations in the White House Situation Room, something national security

experts say is exactly the type of integrity violation that Kelly fired her for. It's also a major

security breach. Daniel Lipman has a piece looking at the steep learning curve Trump is facing on

the diplomatic front. Aaron Samuelson has the report on the Manafort trial. It's day 10 and the

end is in sight. He writes that the government could rest its case as early as Monday.

It's unclear how Manafort's defense will come together, how many witnesses they'll call,

if any. Closing arguments could come as soon as Tuesday. For those keeping score at home,

Manafort has pleaded not guilty to an 18-count indictment in the Virginia trial.

That's five counts for filing false tax returns between 2010 and 2014, and another four

counts for failing to report foreign bank accounts, and then nine counts for bank fraud

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