Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from Jewel Labs. And I'm Jake Sherman. We're kicking off this morning with a thought bubble. Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a moment on Twitter last week in which they agreed to work together to craft a bill to ban former members of Congress from lobbying. It's not a new idea.

Various members have proposed this over the years, but the pairing of crews in AOC was new.

Here's a reality check.

Companies are not going to suddenly decide they don't need former members of Congress

to represent their interests in D.C.

A ban could push the entire industry into the shadows and encourage former lawmakers

to work

as unregistered consultants who effectively perform the same duties as their card-carrying lobbyist

competitors. Few, if any, people running for office get into public service with the express

intent of wanting to schlep around the Capitol asking their former colleagues for favors

or meetings when they were no longer

serving in government. Talk to any former member, and they usually cringe at the awkwardness of it all.

But often after a career in Washington, it is the one thing they are most qualified to do.

And the president was back on Twitter this morning, just before landing in London, 9 a.m. there,

4 a.m. in D.C. He had this to say about Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London.

Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as mayor of London, has been foolishly

nasty to the visiting president of the United States, by far the most important

ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.

He followed that with. Khan reminds me very much of our dumb and incompetent mayor of New York City,

de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job, only half his height. In any event,

I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom and I'm looking very much forward to

my visit, landing now. The Daily Telegraph reports that Trump will no longer have a bilateral meeting

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