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Today's show, Kevin McCarthy plays good cop, bad cop, within the House, GOP.

It's your Politico Playbook daily briefing.

On Friday, after a group of seven House conservatives issued a public letter outlining

the demands that GOP leader Kevin McCarthy would need to meet to win their support in his bid for

Speaker, allies of McCarthy quietly reached out to several moderate Republicans with the request,

according to sources familiar with the conversations. The Freedom Caucus rabble-rousers had reiterated their demand that McCarthy

restore a now-200-year-old, now infamous House rule known as the motion to vacate, which allows

any one member to force a Housewide vote to oust the Speaker

at any moment. McCarthy's allies wanted the centrist's to push back hard on the proposal,

which the Speaker hopeful fiercely opposes. If they did, McCarthy would be able to point to

their opposition, say his hands are tied, and refuse to give in to

conservatives' demands. Fast forward to this week, on Tuesday, the Centrist Republican

Governance Group, which boasts 50 members far more than the Freedom Caucus' three dozen or so,

agreed in its weekly lunch that it would oppose conservatives proposed rules of changes,

news that leaked to Leanne Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer from the Washington Post on Wednesday morning.

A few hours later, some members of the governance group met with McCarthy to double down on that position,

as CNN's Mel Zanona reported.

But the backstory of the Moderates Flux reported here in Playbook for the first time,

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