Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing sponsored by BP.

And I'm Anna Palmer. It might put your mind at ease that August recess is around the corner,

but Congress has just 14 legislative days before the government shuts down. Yes, that's 14 legislative days,

including today, to pass a bill to keep the government open.

If you talk to top Republicans privately, they'll brush it off and say there is no way

President Donald Trump will want a confrontation roughly a month before the election in order

to get money for his border wall. A down payment to continue to build the wall

will be enough to keep Trump happy, some top Republicans believe. Of course, the uncomfortable

reality for Republicans is that they will almost certainly need Democratic votes to get a government

funding bill across the finish line. There are a healthy number of Democrats who don't want Trump

to have any money for his border wall.

It doesn't take much imagination to see the president unhappy with a small pot of money for his signature wall.

When the right goes crazy, it tends to rile the president up.

There isn't much room for error, and the president and his advisors believe that his immigration policy is a net positive for Republicans across the country.

And there's more internal discord on the Republican side on immigration reform.

Rachel Bade has a story up on how Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan are reneging on a promise to hold an immigration vote before the August recess, which puts McCarthy in an awkward spot

as he seeks to become the next

House speaker. Nick Shapiro, the former deputy chief of staff at the CIA, is waiting in

following stories that Trump is threatening to take away security clearances from his former boss,

John Brennan. He emailed us that Brennan hasn't made any money off of his clearance, writing that, quote, not one thing he has done for remuneration since leaving the government has been contingent on him having a security clearance. One doesn't need a security clearance to speak out against the failings of Trump. This is a political attack on career national security

officials who have honorably served their country for decades under both Republicans and Democrats

in an effort to distract from Mueller's investigation. Our colleagues Andrew Rastuchia and Nancy

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