Good Friday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

In case you missed it, the president was in Montana last night for a political rally.

The New York Times has a report out of Great Falls, Montana, where the president mocked the Me Too movement, attacked Elizabeth Warren, and said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is fine. Republicans have

privately warned us that they think a trade war with China is enough to cost them their majority

in the House, the everyday economic impact, higher prices, businesses laying off employees

would blunt any positive impact of tax reform, while the trade war is here. Combined that

with rising gas prices for four months

before election day. The Wall Street Journal has a story up on how the U.S. and China have begun to dig in

for an expected long trade war. And the post reports that despite Trump initiating a trade war,

his businesses continued to benefit from partnerships with the Chinese government.

And of course, the big news yesterday was EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigning.

The Post writes that Pruitt survived for a long time because of his close relationship with Trump,

but in the end, Trump had his chief of staff let Pruitt know it was time to go.

The New York Times, meanwhile, has a story about how one of Puitt's aides was fired last summer after she questioned deleting sensitive meeting details.

And Eric Wolf has a story up on how environmentalists are concerned about Pruitt's replacement,

Andrew Wheeler. They describe him as a smarter, more plugged in in Washington than Pruitt.

Here's the latest on the Supreme Court pick.

Politico is reporting that Raymond Kethledge is getting an 11th hour push as a potential consensus pick, while the Times reports that the frontrunner, Brett Kavanaugh, once argued

broad grounds for impeachment.

And on the political side of the equation, Alana Shore, details how keeping Dems united on SCOTUS will be Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's biggest challenge yet.

And Democrats like Senator Claire McCaskill in Missouri are bracing for an onslaught of attacks about SCOTUS.

Burgess Everett reports from Marshfield, Missouri.

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