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

And I'm Anna Palmer. The New York Times scooped that a fourth Texas Republican,

Representative Kenny Marchant, is expected to announce his plan to retire in 2020,

rather than face re-election in a state that is becoming more competitive. In 2018, he won his seat by only three

points. As of now, 11 House Republicans are retiring or seeking another office in 2020. Only three

House Democrats have said they won't run again. A Democratic source told us yesterday that Gina Ortiz

Jones, Representative Will Hurd's Democratic

opponent, raised $100,000 in the 24 hours after Hurd's retirement.

The latest in the shootings in Texas in Ohio, the Washington Post's front page banner headline

is two cities, 13 hours, and 29 deaths.

The Dayton Daily News is reporting the man who killed nine people in Dayton's Oregon

District was kicked out of high school for making a list of girls he wanted to kill.

Police said they still haven't identified a motive for Sunday shooting. The AP is up with a piece

about the victims of the shooting, including a mom who died protecting her baby.

From 30,000 feet, the Washington Post's Phil Rucker has a look at how Trump's anti-immigrant

rhetoric is looming over the El Paso shooting, with the president regularly railing about the

Latino migration as an invasion of our country. He writes, after yet another mass slaying,

the question surrounding the president is no longer whether he will respond as other presidents

once did, but whether his words contributed to the carnage.

The New York Times notes the shooter wrote that his views predate Trump as if anticipating

the political debate that would follow the shooting.

The Times writes, but if Mr. Trump did not originally inspire the gunmen, he has

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