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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author, Ryan Liza. It's Tuesday, December 5th.

Here's what's driving the day. The participants for Wednesday night's Republican presidential

debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama are set. It'll be Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek

Ramoswamy, and Chris Christie,

who is teetering on the edge of being disqualified. North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham did not

qualify for the debate. That's the second one he's missed. And last night, he dropped out of the race.

Donald Trump will once again be skipping the event.

Liz Cheney's new book, Oath and Honor, is out today. The former vice chair of the January 6th

committee told MSNBC last night, quote, Donald Trump is not an acceptable alternative. He is not

the lesser of two evils. He is a completely unfit man for office. He has already shown us what he would do, and he can never be near the Oval Office again. Finally, the Biden administration's supplemental aid package, which includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and the border is headed for a vote in the Senate,

one that is likely to fail as bipartisan Senate talks over asylum rules have stalled out.

Joining me now to break down the complicated politics of the supplemental negotiations

is Politico White House reporter Jennifer Habercorn. Good morning, Jen.

Hi, Ryan.

Let's start with what happened with these bipartisan negotiations over border security,

which, of course, was the price that Republicans were requiring to pass the Ukraine supplemental.

What happened to them over the weekend? And what do we know right now

about the status of those negotiations? Well, Chris Murphy, the top Democrat negotiator and

James Langford, the top Republican, left the Senate on Thursday saying they were going to talk

through the weekend. But by Friday, those hopes for talks through the weekend fell apart.

Senator Chris Murphy said that at that point, he realized that Republicans were never going to move to the middle, as he said.

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