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Good Monday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Like any political enterprise, the White House is always keen to figure out what news will drive the week.

Just what line of questioning will dominate the chatter in Washington on Capitol Hill and on cable news broadcast.

It's safe to say that much

of the chatter will center around President Donald Trump and his team's most recent go-around on

the self-destruction carousal. The Senate is back this week, and there will be pockets of the

House back, too, and they will get these questions. Are you comfortable with the president's

abrupt decision to fire the

U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, a man who Trump appointed? Do you agree with

the president's decision to tell his advisors to slow down the nationwide testing regime to avoid more

positive results? Do you believe the president's campaign team is up to the task of winning an election

if they so badly misjudge the crowd that was going to show up in Tulsa. And furthermore, if they didn't change the locale, if they knew it was going to fall short of expectations. Much of this is avoidable, of course. And if you ask the White House why the president decided to do something like fire the U.S. attorney or meander into saying he asked officials to slow testing for a deadly virus,

you won't get a satisfactory explanation because this kind of behavior in decision making is

questionable at best and self-immolation at worst. But with fewer than five months until election day,

this is how the president is deciding to behave and he will force his whole party to answer for

him. Also driving the news this week, the police overhaul bill. Senate Republicans need cooperation from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

and Democrats to debate the legislation. Democrats don't much like the bill, authored by Senator

Tim Scott, a Republican of South Carolina, and they have two basic choices, debate it and try

to amend it or block it.

Senator Doug Jones, a Democrat from Alabama, was on MSNBC's KCDC and said that he doesn't like Scott's bill.

But he also thinks there needs to be an open debate, so he's inclined to proceed with a debate on the bill,

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