Good Wednesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing,

sponsored by the Better Medicare Alliance. And I'm Anna Palmer. The push had been coming for weeks,

and now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it official. The Senate is expected to stay

in the first two weeks of August. The Kentucky Republican has a legislative wish list of what needs

to be addressed before lawmakers head home.

It includes repeal and replace Obamacare, passing the National Defense Authorization Act,

lifting the debt ceiling, and reauthorizing the user fee structure for medical devices,

according to several case readers.

The narrative today, the White House is under siege.

It's partially true.

They're trying to figure

out how to handle the fallout from Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian government emissary

who was looking to pass along info about Hillary Clinton. Tara Palmieri and Josh Dossy detail how

White House aides are feeling helpless as the Donald Trump Jr. scandal blossoms. The New York Times

Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman,

have the inside scoop on how Trump's team debated how to respond to the reporting.

Maggie and Peter had the nugget of the day. Trump himself and his staff wrote his son's

original statement. They also note that Trump might fire his longtime attorney, Mark Casowitz.

The Washington Post, Phil Rucker and

Ashley Parker report on how there's still a movement inside the White House to replace Reince

Prebus. Say what you want about Reince, but he has nothing to do with the scandals engulfing

this administration. His job is literally impossible. He has to impose order on a president

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