Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing,

sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Axios got its hand on nearly 100 internal

Trump transition vetting documents that show a bunch of red flags for officials who went on to get

some of the highest ranking jobs in the Trump administration. Some highlights. Scott Pruitts had a section titled Allegations of Coziness with Big Energy Companies.

Tom Price's had a section on criticisms of management ability, and Mick Mulvaney's,

flag included his comments that Trump is not a very good person.

Alex Eisenstein is up with a piece on Republicans launching Win Red today.

The online fundraising platform, they hope, will be the Republican answer to the Democratic Party's Act Blue.

Most smart Republicans are skeptical of this effort, not because they don't believe in the platform,

but because they do not believe a small dollar donor culture exists in their party.

And Politico is launching an issues tracker today. The 2020 Issues Tracker is a guide to the issue shaping the Democratic

presidential primary, explained by top-notch policy reporters in Politico's newsroom. Our colleague

David Siders identified the three issues to watch going into the debate,

Medicare for All, climate change, and taxes and income inequality. The AP has the latest on Iran,

with Iranians saying their bones are breaking under U.S. sanctions. And the Washington Post

has a piece up on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, sounding optimistic about North Korean negotiations.

The country has nuclear weapons while abrasive against Iran, which does not.

And our colleagues at Politico are also reporting that the Agriculture Department has buried stories that show the dangers of climate change.

On the 2020 front, the New York Times

is a story about how candidates are prepping ahead of the Wednesday and Thursday debates.

The opportunity on stage could be make or break for many of the candidates looking to stand out.

And the AP reports that Mayor Pete Buttigieg was criticized in an emotional town hall meeting

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