Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio

briefings. Stay tuned after the show for a message from Google. President Donald Trump said

Monday that UK ambassador Kim Derek was not well liked or well thought of within the United

States. But many members of the Trump administration socialized with Derek, as the New York

Times Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman separately pointed out.

The British ambassador in his mansion on Massachusetts Avenue, just next to the VP's residence,

are centerpieces of the D.C. political media axis. So we decided to list a bunch of times senior Trump administration officials or figures within the president's orbit attended parties

thrown by Derek and the British embassy. For example, Derek threw New Year's parties that were attended by Kellyanne Conway.

He threw an inauguration party in honor of Donald Trump attended by Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie.

Check out playbook for a more full list.

Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin threw a dinner for the Emir of Qatar last night.

In attendance at the president's

table was Bob Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, who was arrested earlier this year on

allegations that he solicited another to commit prostitution. Congress comes back into session today

the beginning of a three-week stretch until the August recess. Here's what you need to know. The odds for

passing the USMCA, the president's deal to replace

NAFTA, got higher in recent weeks with Nancy Pelosi saying that, yes, Democrats want to pass it,

but they need some specific changes on different sections. It won't pass before the August recess,

but certainly needs to pass before the end of the year. Most insiders believe it would be next to

impossible to clear a trade deal during of the year. Most insiders believe it would be next to impossible to clear

a trade deal during a presidential year. But critical fiscal issues loom. First, there's the debt

limit. The nation's statutory borrowing cap could come due as early as September. That's earlier

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