Hello, I'm Adam Redd.

And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Wednesday, August 6th.

And this is the Playbook podcast. This morning, I have the pleasure of once again welcoming back our White House reporting ace, Megan Messerley. Megan, thanks so much for joining the show.

Of course. Great to be here again, Adam. Let's, thanks so much for joining the show. Of course.

Great to be here again, Adam.

Let's get right to what's driving the day.

First up, the biggest story of the day is once again, surprise, mid-cycle redistricting

around the country as the focus of the fight shifts from Texas and California to a number of other Republican-controlled states

where the White House is tightening the screws and pushing local leaders to draw new

gerrymandered maps. The latest flashpoint, it turns out, is Indiana. President Donald Trump

is dispatching Vice President J.D. Vance to Indianapolis Thursday to meet with

Governor Mike Braun. Unless there be any doubt about what's on the agenda, Governor Braun

told reporters yesterday that he thinks they're going to come into every state that's got the

possibility of a pro-GOP gerrymander happening. This is a fascinating development here.

And what's interesting to me is there's not a lot of appetite from the Republican supermajorities in the legislature to do this

from those that I've talked with. Even Mike Braun yesterday essentially said that there was no

commitment made to Vance coming here. They would talk about it.

They would also talk about a lot of other topics. The vice president's office confirmed his

visit for me late last night. Megan, we're hearing about Missouri and Ohio as well. But when we

pressed the White House earlier this week on what they were going to do about the Democratic walkout,

they seem to take a pretty hands-off approach. It's been really interesting to see on one hand,

this is something that President Trump pushed for, right, getting Texas to undertake this

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