Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by BP.

And I'm Jake Sherman. The president is meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this morning at 1130.

The meeting is about government funding which runs dry at the end of September. We wrote about this tight timeline at the top of playbook yesterday. As we wrote,

Congress now has 13 legislative days, including today, to prevent a government shutdown.

And attention to L.A. readers and listeners, we're coming for you. We are pumped to share

that we'll be in Los Angeles, August 16th, for a live interview with Lieutenant Governor

Gavin Newsom, the Democratic candidate for governor of California,

and Jim Brulte, the chairman of the California Republican Party.

This event is part of our Politico-AARP Decider series.

California playbook author Carla Maranucci,

one of the state's most wired political reporters, will join us.

The doors open at the

intercontinental Los Angeles downtown at 8.30 a.m. You can RSUP now because this event is sure

to fill up quickly. The New York Times has the anecdote of the day, reporting that on Trump's

recent trip abroad, he was upset because the TVs on Air Force One were turned to CNN, not Fox.

Another example of Trump increasingly selecting information and bending the truth to his own

narrative, the paper writes.

Our colleague Alana Shaw reports that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be on Capitol Hill

today amid a debate about new sanctions on Russia.

And the big breaking story last night was Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, releasing

the audio of a tape that appears to show Trump discussing payments involving an ex-playboy

model. Andrew Astushia and Darren Samuelson report that the audio is choppy and difficult to hear

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