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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It's Thursday, July 13th. Here's what's driving the day. Guess what? It's the president. He is not here in the United States, but his kind of good news-filled week is driving a playbook and also a lot of the chatter here in Washington, D.C.

First of all, the president is now in Helsinki, Finland after spending time with NATO leaders.

He had a big speech on Wednesday that seems to have gone over pretty well.

The White House and administration feel really good about it.

And you haven't heard anyone attacking him on it. So when you're president, that's a pretty good deal.

He left Lithuania after meeting with the Ukrainian president, after meeting with the Turkish president,

after Turkey finally relented and allowed Sweden into NATO. Also, good economic numbers. You have inflation hitting

3% in June, which is the lowest since March 2021, which is a very long time. So the administration

is feeling good about this news. They're feeling good about President Biden. And joining me to

discuss all of that is my colleague on the White House team, Adam Kankran.

He covers the Biden economic policy and how it affects things and many, many other things.

He's a Renaissance man. Good morning, Adam. Good morning. It's great to be where.

Yeah. First time. First time ever. It's about time. Welcome. We'll see if it's the last time.

Well, this is a possibility.

So Biden has been getting some good news kind of overall. So first, there's NATO happening. You have Sweden getting into NATO. He had this big speech on Wednesday that went over really well. And you have this economic news where inflation hit

3% in June, which is the lowest since March of 2021, which is a very long time. You have a story

up this morning about how his economic dream is becoming reality. But then the question,

as we always do, political, how long can he sustain it? So talk to me a little bit about how Biden world is feeling because they seem to be riding kind of high this week.

Of course. And the question here is always what's next.

I mean, it has been a good week for Biden. And he hasn't even been in the country.

But this economic news, maybe that's the key for him.

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