Good Monday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

Breaking legendary Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson has died, according to WTEM.

Thompson's Georgetown Hoy has won the 1984 national championship, making him the first black

coach to ever win an NCAA title. Welcome to Labor Day Week, new on Tuesday morning

at 9 a.m. We will host a special Playbook Live interview with Alex Lazary, the SVP of the Milwaukee

Bucks and Bucks assistant coach Vin Baker, an NBA veteran himself and native of the great state of

Connecticut. The most recent protests across professional sports began when the Bucks refused to take the court to face the Orlando Magic in the wake of the Great State of Connecticut. The most recent protests across professional sports began when

the Bucks refused to take the court to face the Orlando Magic in the wake of the shooting

of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Buc started a movement that led to players forcing a pause

across the league in the middle of the playoffs. We'll talk to the pair about political activity

in professional sports, what it feels like inside the

locker rooms and the executive suites. 65 days until election day, 65 days ago, playbook led

with Mike Pence's much maligned coronavirus briefing at HHS and Manu Raju's story on CNN about

Louis Gomerd saying he would wear a face mask only if he got COVID.

Spoiler alert, he ended up getting it.

This week's big book releases Donald Trump versus the United States inside the struggle

to stop a president by Mike Schmidt of the New York Times.

Schmidt has two Pulitzer's and is among the best reporters of our generation, so this is

guaranteed to be embusts.

We have two sneak peeks in playbook today.

President Trump called Shenzhou Abe last night. That's according to the pool. President

Trump said that Abe is the best prime minister in Japan's history. The first commercial flight

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