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Good Tuesday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Today, we're taking you on a little field trip to the West Wing, giving you an inside look at who's occupying the most important real estate in Biden's White House.

But first, here's what's driving the day in Washington.

Yeah. House. But first, here's what's driving the day in Washington. Long live.

Filibuster. Long live, the filibuster. That's what Mitch McConnell's probably saying to himself,

as his week-long standoff with Chuck Schumer finally comes to an end.

Late last night, the minority leader signaled he'd let go

of his demand that the agreement over how the two parties split the new 50-50 Senate include an

explicit protection of the chamber's supermajority threshold, something critics including former

President Obama have derided as a relic of the Jim Crow era. Here's how it went down. That dynamic duo of

moderate Democrats, Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema, said, look, we don't care what Schumer says.

We're going to stick up for that 60-vote requirement. Manchin gave this quote to Politico's

Senate chief, Burgess Everett. If I haven't said it very plain, maybe Senator McConnell

hasn't understood. I want to basically say it for you. I will not vote to change the filibuster.

And using a word not often heard in describing McConnell's negotiation tactics, the West Virginia

Democrat added, I hope that with that guarantee in place, he will work in a much more amicable

way. This isn't the first time Mansion and cinema have stuck out their necks for the filibuster,

but McConnell took their statements and ran with it. His allies are already calling it a win

if you look at the long game, which is basically the title of McConnell's memoir. The leader

showed he could drive the

narrative all week long, even from the minority. His maneuver even had White House officials

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