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Good first Monday of 2021 morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Politico Playbook

Audio Briefing. I hope you're awake because it's going to be a roller coaster week.

Let's start with what happened over the weekend. It was the phone call heard across the world.

So Mr. President, everybody is on the line. All eyes are on Georgia, where two critical runoff

elections that will decide who controls the Senate are happening Tuesday. But this past Sunday,

it went from national fascination to international spectacle, and that's courtesy of none other than Donald Trump.

The president was secretly recorded trying to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger,

a fellow Republican, to throw out votes for his opponent and, quote, find 11,000 votes for Trump.

That's right, two whole months after Election Day. So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes for Trump. That's right, two whole months after election day.

So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Tell us, I need 11,000 votes.

Give me a break. You know, we have that in spades already.

Trump's Twitter fingers were surprisingly quiet about the call yesterday as the news exploded online. But expect

the president to trash Raffensberger by name at his runoff Evor Alley tonight in Dalton, Georgia,

where he'll be stumping for two Republican candidates, Senators David Perdue and Kelly Leffler,

who are in a tight race against Democratic opponents John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

Now, the story of this extraordinary phone call was broken by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Washington Post.

But the backstory is almost as interesting.

It all started on Saturday.

Trump and his team reached out to Raffensberger for a chat,

and the Secretary of State

had a funny feeling about it, according to an advisor. You see, Raffensberger had been here before.

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