Good Tuesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by ExxonMobil.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Here's the latest on where things stand on immigration. The decision to bring President Donald Trump to Capitol Hill at 5.30 this evening was relatively last minute. Talk started in GOP leadership on Friday and continued over the weekend before the Saturday

announcement.

The president will speak in HC5, the party's Capitol basement meeting room before the first

vote series of the week.

The idea is the president will sell Republicans on voting for both immigration bills, the

hardline proposal penned by Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlat,

and the compromise bill penned by the Republican leadership. Goodlatte has no chance of passing.

It's expected to fall between 60 and 70 votes short. The compromise bill has a prayer, but most people

involved in the planning believe it's also likely to fail. Two ways this passes, according to people

in the leadership. If the president somehow gives

a rousing speech that moves a few dozen votes, or if members of the House feel like this is a way

to stop family separation at the border. There are those in Republican leadership who believe

this to be a waste of the president's time and effort, and believe it further elevates immigration

as an issue when Republicans would rather be talking about the economy. Okay, let's get to reality. Here's what we expect. In the coming weeks, it seems nearly certain

that Congress will have to consider legislation to prevent the government from separating families

at the border. Senator John Cornyn, a Republican of Texas, is working on a plan, as is Representative Mark Meadows,

the Republican from North Carolina. An interesting twist, Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican of Texas,

up for re-election, announced yesterday he's introducing a bill that would mandate the government

keep families together and authorize shelters to house families. The bill would also

expedite court hearings for immigrants and asylum seekers. But let's take a second to reflect a

minute. This is in the category of the Department of Defies Belief. The White House is making

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