Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing, sponsored by Starbucks.

And I'm Anna Palmer. We're watching the Senate Republican health care bill closely. And one person

everybody is trying to read the tea leaves on is Mitch McConnell. The Kentucky Republican wants

a vote on the health care bill next week, no matter what. Don't expect him to drag this

process out like leadership did in the House. He wants to put senators on the record and move on.

Our Politico-pro colleagues have the skinny on winners and losers in the Senate bill. Winners,

the wealthy, the young and healthy, GOP governors who fought Obamacare, some health industry groups,

the losers, poorer, older

insurance consumers, people struggling with addiction, planned parenthood in its clients,

and public health agencies. Former President Barack Obama resurfaced on Facebook yesterday,

writing omissive about the GOP health care overhaul. The takeaway, Obama wants lawmakers to take a step back, and as he writes,

consider that the rationale for action on health care or any other issue must be something more

than simply undoing something that Democrats did. Huff Pose Sam Stein writes that Obama is

returning to the campaign trail this fall.

Our colleague Josh Dossi sent us a new Dossy download on Trump. He tells us that Trump is

still upset about special counsel Robert Mueller. And although he has signaled intense interest

in helping whip votes in the GOP health care bill, he hasn't fully engaged yet. Expect him to

focus his attention on conservative

members in the Senate like Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson. Annie Carney has the story on how the end to Trump

putting out the possibility of tapes of his conversation with fired FBI director James Comey came to a

less than dramatic end. In the end, Trump tweeted that he did not have the tapes.

On Capitol Hill, our colleagues Heather Kagle and John Bresdenahan, are focused on

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