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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It is Friday, July 21st,

and the big story in Washington today continues to be the fallout from Playbook's Megascoop

that Trump World is furious at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for not following through on a promise

they say he made to former President Donald Trump. That promise is that he would hold a vote to

expunge Trump's impeachments and that he would hold that vote ahead of August recess.

There are some new developments, and joining me to discuss them is the one and only Rachel Bade,

who blew the story wide open yesterday and has been working the phones ever since. Good morning,

Rachel. Good morning. So Kevin McCarthy yesterday denied having a deal with Trump. How is that

going over in Trump World?

Zach, not well, as you can imagine. But before I get to Trump World, I think it's important to sort of digest what McCarthy said yesterday. You know, he said, quote, I don't have a deal. And the word choice was particularly interesting. And I talked to someone in Trump world who was like,

deal, deal what? That doesn't even make sense. It wasn't a deal. It was a promise, not a deal.

So it seems that McCarthy is trying to sort of select his language very carefully right now, so he doesn't anchor Trump. Trump World is still very much adamant that he made this promise,

even though he's sort of downplaying that he did publicly. And McCarthy has a lot of members

who are very angry with him right now. And that is why he's sort of been pushing back on this story.

We saw a lot of moderate Republicans come out yesterday and say publicly on the

record that they thought this was a bad idea. Privately, a lot of them, frankly, think what Trump

did on January 6th was wrong. But the reason they're giving publicly is that Trump was acquitted

in the Senate. So what's there to expunge? It's actually quite an interesting argument. But

none of them want to take this vote. And there's there to expunge? It's actually quite an interesting argument. But none of them want to

take this vote. And there's questions about whether they can do it even constitutionally. And because of that,

McCarthy is getting heat from his own members and he's trying to walk this very delicate line.

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