Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Monday, July 22nd, and there is only one story, obviously, driving the day to day. Yes, the fallout from President Joe Biden's sudden decision yesterday to end his reelection campaign. Biden publicly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. And as of last night,

much of the party seems to be rallying behind her, which frankly is good news for our very own Eugene

Daniels, who is very well sourced in Harris's orbit. Thank God. But there are a lot of chess pieces

still on the board. So let's unpack some of this with my playbook co-authors, Eugene. Hello, Eugene.

Hi. And Ryan Lissa. Hey, Ryan. Hello. So I have to say I was literally sitting on the couch

yesterday, eating popcorn, swear to God, while reading the coverage and texting and calling a bunch of

sources. I'm going to start with Ryan. Ryan, what do we know about how this unfolded,

given that Biden was so adamant that he was not going anywhere? I think the short version is he

was bunkered down in Rojobath with very few AIDS, really just four. And most of the White House

and the campaign and the Democratic leadership did not know about the decision

until about a minute before he hit Send on that posting on the website formerly known as

Twitter and looked like he briefed some the wider campaign and White House and Democratic Leadership universe right

before he had sent and right after. So they kept it very, very closely held. Biden was up

Saturday night writing that letter. And the universe of people that were with him were

Roshetti and Anthony Bernal and Annie Tomasini and Mike Donalin,

who just the day before some White House staffers were criticizing as the deadenders who,

their words, not mine, who were, you know, sort of reinforcing and egging by non and perhaps

delaying this decision.

But it seems like some weekend conversations with the likes of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi

and maybe the threat of a lot more Democrats, especially a lot more Democratic senators,

going public and perhaps even Nancy Pelosi.

As our colleagues reported, going public this perhaps even Nancy Pelosi, as our colleagues reported,

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