Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Energy for Progress. Here's a question worth

pondering. We are 298 days until the election. Are you at all convinced that impeachment

will remain as poignant a political issue as it is now.

Republicans feel confident they've put Red District Democrats in a bad spot for supporting

impeachment. But they're equally confident it will be very difficult to keep them in that

bad spot for the next 10 months. Think about the last week in politics. The U.S. killed

Qasam Soleimani.

Allies got nervous.

The world wondered if Iran would strike back.

Iran did.

President Donald Trump said he wouldn't escalate further.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in the middle of holding the impeachment articles.

Now she's at the end of holding them.

And you have to wonder, what else will happen between now and

November that will make impeachment seem like ancient history? This is some back of the napkin math,

but bear with us. If impeachment starts next week, you should expect it to end in late January.

That leaves nine full months between the end of impeachment and election day. In this

environment, that's at least 270 news cycles. The New York Times is the latest on Jared Kushner's

ever-evolving role in the White House, noting that he was missing when administration officials

gathered in the situation room to discuss the repercussions of killing Soleimani despite having the Middle

East in his portfolio. It's his 39th birthday. Our colleague Anita Kumar was in Toledo, Ohio,

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