Good Wednesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Google.

And I'm Jake Sherman, the House Senate Committee that will negotiate the legislative future of Donald Trump's border wall

meets for the first time this afternoon in HC5, a room in the Capitol basement.

When the president opened up the government last week, he did so on the advice of some

advisors who were leading him to believe that a large-scale immigration compromise was possible,

if not even likely, with Democrats.

But immigration policy is trickier than just about any other issue Congress deals with.

Remember, in 2013, the Senate spent five months wrestling over immigration policy.

It passed a bill only to see the effort die in the House. That was with Barack Obama and the White

House and John Boehner, a speaker. It was before the wall and before Donald Trump.

Axios' Jonathan Swan scooped that White House aide Jared Kushner has spent some time with a white

board, sketching out how he could transpose his success in passing criminal justice reform on immigration

reform.

The massive difference?

Republicans and Democrats broadly agreed on criminal justice reform and wanted to see the

same policies put into law.

Kushner may not remember this because it was before his

stint in Washington, but Obama and Paul Ryan had an agreement in principle to pursue criminal justice

reform, but ran out of time before the end of his presidency. Here's what to watch for. Left of their

own devices, the House and Senate appropriators, the folks in the committee, could absolutely come to a funding agreement.

Watch to see how involved the White House gets.

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