Good Thursday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by BP.

And I'm Anna Palmer.

Sean Spicer was spotted yesterday in New York City.

We hear that his private media tour as he searches for a new gig will continue through the end of the week.

Lorraine Wallard scoops that newly installed communications director Anthony Scaramucci earned $4.9 million from his ownership

in Skybridge capital and another $5 million in salary this year since he joined the Export

Import Bank. In his financial disclosure, Scaramucci lists assets worth as much as $85 million.

Not bad. Following the story, Scaramucci tweeted that he would be contacting the FBI,

the Justice Department, and Chief of Staff Reince Prebis following the week.

Here is one thing that is making President Donald Trump happy. Representatives Jim Jordan,

Matt Gates, Mike Johnson, and Andy Biggs are asking the House Judiciary Committee to direct

an investigation into former FBI director James Comey's management of Hillary Clinton and her emails.

Meanwhile, the health care debate rages on in the Senate and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has a new political gambit he's trying out.

Sungman Kim reports the New York Democrat said yesterday that Democrats will hold off offering

any more amendments in the health care floor fight until Republicans finally detail their actual

Obamacare repeal plan. At the same time, Paul Demko writes that the skinny repeal could have

big ramifications on the Obamacare markets. Killing the individual mandate would take away the

primary mechanism that helped build the Obamacare markets. Killing the individual mandate would take away the primary mechanism

that helped build the Obamacare insurance markets. The CBO estimated 16 million fewer people would

have coverage in a decade without the individual mandate tax penalty in place. And here's why

I worried Republican would vote against the skinny repeal. The pitch for Republican leadership is this.

Vote for the skinny repeal and you'll end up in a negotiation with the House for a full repeal bill.

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