Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing sponsored by U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

And I'm Jake Sherman. John Dingle is dead at 92. I wrote the obituary with John Bresna.

Dingle was the longest serving member of Congress and his tenure stretched from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama.

He passed away on Thursday. The president will receive

his annual physical today at Walter Reed. We've got some news this morning. The D-Truple C raised

more than $3 million at a dinner at the W Hotel last night, hosted by House Ways and Means

Committee chairman, Richie Neal, and members of his panel. Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced

the cash hall at the dinner. It comes as Democrats are focused on stockpiling cash to re-elect

their frontline members and target 33 new Republican seats, the majority of which Republicans

won by five or fewer points. And the post has a look at how Democrats are struggling to answer for

allegations against Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax after coming out together

denouncing Brett Kavanaugh. One week until the government shuts down, Ileana Johnson,

Burgess Everett, and Gabbyor report the president is increasingly feeling trapped given

congressional Republicans are unwilling to back a government shutdown or national emergency Everton-Gabior report the president is increasingly feeling trapped, given congressional

Republicans are unwilling to back a government shutdown or national emergency declaration to build

the wall. Andrew D. Sedario and Darren Samuelson preview the big story today. Acting Attorney General

Matt Whitaker will testify before the House Judiciary Committee. The New York Times scooped

that a year before journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed,

the Saudi prince told an aide that he would use a bullet on him if he didn't return to Saudi

Arabia and stop being critical of the kingdom.

Laura Baron Lopez and Stephanie Murray have a look at how billionaire Tom Steyer is

trying to pressure House Democrats to impeach

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