Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza. It's Thursday, June 22nd. Here are two big

things that will be driving the day. The first, go over to Politico.com and check out Jonathan

Martin's latest column. It's one everyone we'll be talking about today. It's about Barack Obama

holding a series of conversations with young up-and-coming House members.

That is the big scoop in the piece, but J-Mart takes you behind the scenes of what this means for the Biden-Obama relationship.

It gets into a little bit of the history of that very complicated relationship.

Check out that piece.

The second thing driving the day will be the state dinner for Indian Prime Minister,

Narendra Modi. We want to get into a little bit more detail about what Modi's visit to Washington

means for Joe Biden's foreign policy. And to do that, I'm going to

bring in National Security Reporter, Alex Ward. Let's start with the big picture. What does the

United States and Joe Biden hope to get out of this meeting? And what does Modi hope to get out

of this meeting? So Biden at the 30,000 foot level is hoping to get a bulwark against China, right?

India is almost as of very shortly ago, the world's most populous country.

It is the world's largest democracy.

It is a country that is only growing in economic and military

strength. And so it is sort of the prize on the geopolitical chess board. If you are the United

States and you're looking to counter China, it's hard to do so without India. So by giving a state

visit to Modi, you are looking to not only make sort of economic and military

agreements, which they will do, and there will be some, including along the lines of, you know,

engine production, ship repair. But really, it is about a strengthening of the Washington New Delhi relationship to the

point that in Washington's hopes, India will be more friendly towards the United States than it would

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