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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Wednesday, January 3rd.

Some news this morning. President Joe Biden is headlining a pair of big speeches in the coming week first in honoring

the third anniversary of January 6th, the storming of the Capitol. He'll head to Valley Forge,

Pennsylvania. Yes, that's the iconic encampment where former president George Washington,

then a top general, rallied troops through the difficult winters in the Revolutionary War.

Biden will talk about the danger of a second Trump presidency and what's at stake for democracy.

A familiar tone we've heard pretty often lately from him.

The next week, he's headed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he'll speak to Mother

Emmanuel AME Church.

Yes, that's the same church where nine parishioners were murdered by a white

supremacist in 2015. It's just the latest signal of a campaign eager to shore up its standing with

black voters and show that the administration isn't taking their support for granted. It's also Biden's

fourth trip to South Carolina, the state that single-handedly boosted him to the Democratic nomination in 2020.

It will also be the first state to have a party-sanctioned primary here in a few weeks.

In speaking of politically advantageous field trips by high-profile politicians, today's big news,

Speaker Mike Johnson is on the U.S.Mexico border with about 60 House Republicans.

They're hoping to up the pressure on Biden to do more to address the migrant crisis.

The visit obviously comes at a critical time.

CBP officials have projected that apprehensions on the border have reached a new record in December,

some topping 10,000 migrants a day.

Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott's political ploy to bus migrants to Democratic-leaning cities, while heavily criticized, has arguably gotten the

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