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

And I'm Jake Sherman. The AP's reporting the shots were fired at the gate of the U.S. Embassy in Turkey, but no one was hurt.

A scoop this morning of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where there are the headline speakers for Paul Ryan's annual retreat for top donors and political

allies. Also speaking, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Kevin Brady, Condoleezza Rice, and Mitt Romney.

We've got a first in playbook, the Senate Leadership Fund, American Crossroads, One Nation, and Crossroads GPS.

The four outside groups supported by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

have raised nearly $100 million this election cycle. That far exceeds the $68.3 million

the group had raised in 2016 over the same time period. The Senate Leadership Fund had its

best July fundraising effort ever, raising $26 million.

SLF and American Crossroads have $47.3 million cash on hand.

Meanwhile, One Nation and Crossroads GPS have raised $38.5 million to the end of July

and have $17.8 million cash on hand.

Stephen Law, as the left president and CEO, attributed the July uptick to Democrats' reaction

to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, saying that it convinced

our donors of the absolute importance of holding the Senate majority.

The New York Times is reporting that Trump's legal team has no idea how much and what Don McGahn told Bob Mueller's team.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has a piece on McGahn's cooperation. They write,

the bottom line is that readers should remain skeptical about what is reported about Mueller's probe,

waiting to see the evidence he actually produces.

Our colleague, Darren Samuelson, has the Manafort trial preview.

Jury deliberation begins at 9.30 a.m. reporters will be camped out in the courtroom waiting

for the jury to end deliberations. The New York Times has a scoop this morning that Michael

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