Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Google. This is new. The White House told us last night that

Ben Garrison, a cartoonist who drew a cartoon that had been widely labeled as anti-Semitic,

will no longer be attending the administration's social media summit. As of Tuesday, Garrison was invited.

He posted the invite he got on Twitter, and people in the administration were privately defending

the invitation. Of course, it doesn't take much to see why the cartoon is considered anti-Semitic.

We link to it in Playbook. It shows the Rothschilds, a Jewish family, controlling George Soros,

another Jew on puppet strings,

who in turn has David Petraeus and H.R. McMaster wearing military garb attached to puppet strings.

Jews controlling the strings of government is a decades-old anti-Semitic meme.

But it did take all day to get the White House to engage on this subject. At first, they

responded to questions about Garrison by offering a boilerplate statement saying that President Trump wants to engage directly

with people who have experienced social media bias. But they wouldn't say if, and why he was

invited, punting on the guest list. We then started asking questions directly of people who have

hailed Trump as a leader quashing anti-Semitism. People like

Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt, and members of Congress. Greenblatt, Kushner, and his spokesman

Avi Berkowitz did not respond to emails. It was then that a senior administration official told

us Garrison would no longer be attending the event. Members of the House Republican leadership

denounced anti-Semitic imagery. One week until Bob

Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill, but last night the Wall Street Journal broke some interesting news.

House Democrats are looking to talk to James Quarles and Aaron Zebly behind closed doors the same

day Mueller would appear in an open hearing. The Justice Department does not want either man to testify, although neither of them work

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