Good Monday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by the PepsiCo Foundation.

And I'm Anna Palmer. It's John Kelly's one year anniversary as White House Chief of Staff.

Eliana Johnson is kicking off our week with a look at how Kelly became chief in name only,

and how his effort to implement more traditional processes in the White House have failed.

She writes that many of Trump's advisors and friends, don't believe the president wants a chief

of staff at all.

The president is swearing in a new VA secretary today, Robert Wilkie, and the Washington

Post is reporting he plans to reassign or sideline Trump loyalists in power at the agency

in an attempt to have the

historically nonpartisan agency returned to its roots. Our colleagues, Burgess Everett and Alana

Shore report on Senate Democrat strategy to defeat Brett Kavanaugh, first and foremost asking

Democratic senators like Joe Manchin to keep their powder dry and not announce their support for

Trump's pick. On the election front, a lot of people

are watching a special election in Ohio's 12th district and believe it will be a sign of what will

happen in November. For what it's worth, Democrats and Republicans we talk to believe that Troy

Balderson, the GOP candidate, will win this race. It's a solidly Republican district which has been held by Republicans

for decades. And our colleague Brent Griffiths has the latest on John Lewis. He was released

Sunday evening from a Georgia hospital and was given a clean bill of health after being

hospitalized for undisclosed reasons. The annual Coke donor retreat this weekend caused a stir.

Charles Koch told reporters he would work with Democrats who share his values. Alex Eisenstadt

reports that kind of talk was not welcomed by Steve Bannon, who told Alex the Koch should

shut up and get with the program of supporting Trump's presidency. On the trail, the New York Times

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