Good Friday morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing,

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Jake is in New Orleans. He flew down there to check out Vice President Mike Pence fundraise

with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise at a private event at the World War II Museum.

We wanted to catch the vibe of the GOP fundraising circuit with two of the party's top names

and see what Republicans were talking about as the Milstrom swirls at the White House.

First things first, they were not talking about the drama at all, not one iota.

By the way, Pence's remarks, which were pooled, there was media in the

room and he said nothing about fake news. He didn't criticize the media once. Despite the

constant drama in D.C., especially at the White House, Scalise and Pence were a draw. They raised

$1.4 million for the Great America Committee, Pence's

PAC, and Scalise's Victory Committee. Pence has done two or three money events each week for the last

few months, and he plans to keep up the schedule in the weeks ahead. That is helpful, because he can

go far more places than Trump. He has trips planned next week to Minnesota for the GOP there

and to Wisconsin. Here's some House GOP tea leaf reading. Pence has raised piles of cash for

Protect the House, his joint fundraising committee with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

But the VP is still keeping his hands in the Scalese camp by making a trip here on the back

of a swing to Houston and lavishing praise on Scalise. Pence jetted back to Washington on Air

Force 2 after the event. Kellyanne Conway is fundraising this morning for House Republican

Conference Chairman Kathy McMorris Rogers in Spokane. And on the other side of things, the AP spoke with

Nancy Pelosi, and she maintained that she isn't going anywhere. She said, I have a following in the

country that's unsurpassed by anybody, unless they're running for president. She said Trump and

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