Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing. Stay tuned after

the show for a message from the Partnership for America's Healthcare Future. And I'm Jake Sherman,

The New York Times. Peter Baker has a story on Donald Trump versus Elijah Cummings. Baker writes this.

Most modern presidents have shied away from overt racial debates, but Trump seems to be going

out of his way lately to engage in one as he seeks to mobilize his base heading into an election

year.

The Washington Post reports that Maryland Governor Larry Hogan will address Trump's comments

today.

Think about this.

When talking about problems in white rural America, has the president talked about an infestation

and singled out congressmen

with days of personal attacks? And we've got news. We wrote a follow-up piece on the Democratic

Congressional Campaign Committee being in full-blown turmoil as the uproar over a lack of

diversity at the senior staff level has intensified. D-Triple C chair, Sherry Bustos, is making an

unplanned trip back to Washington

today following the outcry from top black and Latino lawmakers. Bustos is going for diversity

and inclusion training with D-Triple C staff later this month.

Breaking overnight, the AP is the latest out of Gilroy, California, where a gunman killed

three and wounded at least 15 at the annual

garlic festival before police fatally shot him. Axiose scooped that Dan Coates would step down as

Director of National Intelligence Sunday. Trump then announced he would nominate Representative

John Ratcliffe to replace him. Ratcliffe is a former federal prosecutor who was first

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