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

And I'm Anna Palmer. We're kicking this morning off with an Omarosa observation. This is the second time President Donald Trump has been entangled with a woman who is equally adept at playing the media.

First, it was Stormy Daniels.

Now, it seems like Omarosa has gotten into Trump's head.

Let's break it down.

Omarosa is a Trump insider who's gone rogue.

She's publicly hinting that she's betrayed Trump and the White House in the worst way,

by surreptitiously recording hours of private

conversations that she might or might not release depending on how events unfold.

Oh, and by the way, she said on hardball last night that she'd be glad to pass the tapes over to

Robert Mueller, should he ask. She's making it clear that she isn't control, not Trump in the White House.

She clearly isn't keeping quiet, and the attempt to pay her off didn't work.

The president's brand is savvy in strength.

Omarosa's putting him back on his heels.

And in that, the president risks looking weak.

The president was tweeting about her last night.

He tweeted at 9.50 that Mark Burnett called to say

there are no tapes of The Apprentice, where I use such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed

by wacky and deranged Amorosa. I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have. She made

it up. Look at her many recent quotes saying such wonderful and powerful things about me, a true champion of civil rights until she got fired.

Amarosa had zero credibility with the media.

They didn't want her interviews when she worked in the White House.

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