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Hey, good morning. It's Playbook co-Arthur Eugene Daniels. It's Wednesday, August 16th. Here's what's driving the day today.

An exclusive interview by our boy Burgess over on the Congress team with Kirsten Cinema. The Arizona Independent talks to him about Biden's border policy.

She takes on Schumer, Jeffries, and the White House overall.

Spoiler alert, she's not happy.

So you guys will want to check that one out.

And also Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, who was indicted on Monday in Fulton County, has filed to move the case brought against him into federal court.

And the filing Meadows's lawyer said nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se,

arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the president's behalf,

visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call on the president's behalf, visiting a state government

building and setting up a phone call for the president. One would expect a chief of staff to the

president of the United States to do these sorts of things. And also today, we take a look at how

Biden world continues to stay very quiet about the indictments of Donald Trump and his

cohort, especially as you have Democrats continuing to whisper behind the scenes that they might

want to hear from the president, if not the president, his team at some point on these,

especially because it is a political punch they can use against

the likely Republican presidential nominee. Joining me now to discuss this constantly evolving

situation is our White House Bureau chief, our man Jonathan Lamere. Johnathan, good morning, sir.

Great talk to you, Jay.

Yeah, thanks for coming. So I want to start with this kind of concept that, first of all,

talk to me a little bit about how Donald Trump, a guy who you also used to cover,

has kind of hit the lottery when it comes to this politically. At least so far Trump has.

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