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

And I'm Jake Sherman.

Attention West Wing.

The AP put out a bulletin at 416 this morning that Turkish media is reporting that a court rejected an appeal for an American pastor's release from detention.

This has been a big focus of the White House the last couple

weeks and has caused a large rift between Washington and Ankara. On the political front, Amarosa

is continuing to dominate the news. There's a debate raging among Trump supporters and some reporters

about whether the media should cover Amorosa. Trump supporters argued that she has no credibility

and should be ignored. Some in the media say that she also has no credibility and is merely trying

to sell books. Right now, she seems to be one of the only people who worked in the White

House who has not signed a non-disclosure agreement, and therefore can speak honestly about the administration.

She might not have credibility, but she does have, while they might be possibly illegal,

definitely deceitful and certainly unprincipled tapes.

She's giving a nearly unprecedented view into a White House that has been prone to obfuscating.

The president in the White House's

retort that Amarosa had previously been nice to Trump falls flat. Trump said lots of nights

things about a lot of people, including Jeff Sessions, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Amarosa.

She's in it for the money and publicity. Well, that's probably true, too. The Washington

crowd doesn't like her because she's further amplifying the reality show

melodrama that Washington has become. Our colleague Annie Carney has the big picture take looking at how

Trump staffers are living in fear of Amoros's next tape. The slow release of the tapes is having

the same effect on the White House as it did on the Daily Dumps WikiLeaks had on Hillary Clinton's

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