Good Friday morning, I'm Blake Hounschel and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Pharma. We're kicking off this morning with some

inside dope on next week's big hearings with special counsel Bob Mueller. House judiciary and

intelligence staff briefed reporters, including our own Andrew Desiderio,

about what to expect at the hearings, which are set to last five hours. Judiciary aids say they want

to bring the Mueller report to life for voters. Their focus will be on a few instances of potential

obstruction by the president. They are directing former White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller,

ordering McGahn to deny he ordered Mueller's firing, and asking Corey Lewandowski

to deliver a message to Jeff Sessions, the former attorney general. They'll also ask about

the scope of Mueller's investigation. Meanwhile, the Intelligence Committee will focus

on the Trump campaign's efforts to welcome and use Russia's help in 2016. But unlike

judiciary, Intel wants to force Mueller to go beyond the four corners of his report.

Here's what's not to expect. Bombshells. Democrats are already downplaying expectations, saying they don't expect dramatic revelations from Mueller next week.

Our colleagues scoop last night that Trump will tap Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as the next Secretary of Labor.

A partner at Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, Scalia met with Trump on Thursday,

and White House officials had been calling Senate offices to assess their comfort level with Scalia.

And then Trump just tweeted it out, as he so often does.

Ted Heson also scooped that some Trump officials are looking to slash refugee admissions

to zero next year. Our colleagues, Heather Kagle and Sarah Ferris report that the Twitter

feud between representatives Hakeem Jeffries and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has ended. Meanwhile,

AOC was in Silver Spring last night, where the Washington Post reports

that she gave a fiery defense of herself, saying, we will not go back to the days of injustice.

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