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

Get this. Late last night, the House Rules Committee had to meet because there was a big error in one of the Republican immigration bills.

The legislation gave $125 billion to the border wall instead of $25 billion.

That's quite the difference. There was a big blow up on the

House floor yesterday, a screaming match between two power centers in Congress. House Speaker Paul Ryan

and Mark Meadows were in a shouting match in the middle of the House floor. The screaming match was

over immigration and could threaten whatever comes to the House floor today. Hands were waving,

fingers were pointed at each other. We hear the fight is calmed down, but the lack of trust

between conservatives and Republican leadership hobbles the House of Representatives. It's completely

possible that today, when the immigration bills come up on the floor, both the conservative

option and compromise immigration bill fail. That would put some egg on Trump

and GOP leaders' faces. Annie Carney and Ileana Johnson point out that President Trump did what he never

does. He backed down. He signed an executive order reversing his family separation policy

that the administration had been defending last and even this week. In Duluth, Minnesota last night, the president told a pact house that the administration had been defending last and even this week.

In Duluth, Minnesota last night, the president told a Pact House that the media never talks

about the American victims of illegal immigration.

He didn't talk much about separating families, but also mused about why the elite is called

the elite.

He said, I have a much better apartment than they do. I'm richer than

they are, and I became president and they didn't. Probably all true. Meanwhile, R&C Chairman

Rona Romney McDaniels dropped out of an appearance at the Naleo National Conference. If you read one

thing today, read Alex Eisenstadt on Rudy Giuliani getting involved in a House race in Louisiana

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