Good Monday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefings. Stay tuned

after the show for a message from Google. Much of the attention over the next two weeks will be

focused on July 17th when Robert Mueller comes to Capitol Hill for public testimony in front of the

House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. It's inevitable that Mueller's appearance will amp up

the conversation around impeachment, which has quieted down a bit. It's inevitable that Mueller's appearance will amp up the conversation

around impeachment, which has quieted down a bit. It's well documented that Nancy Pelosi

doesn't believe impeaching the president in smart politics. People around Pelosi have argued

that it places vulnerable Democrats in a tough spot and puts the House in jeopardy. Well, per new

Republican polling, she's got a point. The NRC pulled five

battleground districts and found impeaching Trump to be exceedingly unpopular. Impeachment registers

somewhere between 29% and 35% approval rating with disapprovals in the 50s and 60s.

Happening today, federal prosecutors are expected to unseal

new charges against Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier. They're going to accuse him of running

a sex trafficking operation that lured dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14, to his

upper east side home. That's according to the New York Times.

Ellie Honig, the CNN contributor and former federal prosecutor,

notes that the SDNY Public Corruption Unit is on the Epstein case.

Ellie writes,

I keep thinking back to 2008 when I was in the SDNY

and public corruption was on a seemingly routine interstate prostitution case.

Turns out, then New York Governor Elliott Spitzer was client number nine.

Nancy Pelosi has invited the U.S. women's soccer team to the Capitol for a visit

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