Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

Donald Trump did it. The United States is now one of three countries on planet Earth to drop out of the Paris Climate Accords.

We caught you up with all the news yesterday in our afternoon newsletter. So here's some fresh impact.

Washington State, New York, and California will band together to try to enact their

own climate accord. Bob Iger and Elon Musk have dropped out of presidential councils because they

disagree with the decision. Angela Merkel said the decision by the United States is extremely

regrettable, and I'm expressing myself very reservidly. By the way, this will be a major topic

on every Trump foreign trip now. New, Donald Trump called

Fox News's Kim Gilfoyle before announcing the decision, and how did EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

celebrate by eating at La Diplomat, the French Bistro on 14th Street. Of course, there are winners and

losers in this, and no one is a bigger loser here than Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who both

lobbied against this pullout. Annie Carney, a true Kushnerologist, says the couple is not measuring

their impact on a decision-by-decision basis. Kelly Ayat, the former senator from New Hampshire,

is joining the board of BAE Systems. Austin Wright, John Brezenhan, and Kyle Cheney report that

the House Russia investigation is putting witness interviews on hold. This might be folly, but Andrew Rastucci is reporting the White House

is rallying conservative groups on infrastructure spending. They might want to rally people

who actually have a vote in Congress. Burgess Everett and Josh Dossy scooped the White House's

urging agencies to ignore Democratic oversight requests. Subscribe to Playbook at politico.com

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