Good Thursday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook, sponsored by

Farma. And I'm Jake Sherman. We're kicking off this Monday with a deep dive into today's big

House immigration meeting at 9 a.m. in the Capitol. House Republican leaders are trying

to orchestrate a series of immigration votes in order to kill the discharge petition. In short,

Republican leaders want the power of

their majority back. Here's the state of play. Keep your expectations low. Meetings with 200-some

lawmakers and AIDS rarely turn into massive deal-making situations. Here are the two major issues at play

in thinking about a GOP immigration plan, the universe of DACA recipients that

would get legal status and whether that legal status would lead to a special pathway to citizenship

or not. And there are two camps that need to be taken care of, the so-called moderates, led by

Florida Representative Carlos Corbello, and California Representative Representative Jeff Denham and the House Freedom Caucus,

led by its chairman Mark Meadows of North Carolina and co-founder, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio.

There is skepticism and rightly so that the House Freedom Caucus will ever give in on a special pathway to citizenship.

If the mods don't get what they want, they still have the

discharge petition in their pocket, and they are three votes short. That would force a wide-ranging

floor vote on everything from the conservative bill penned by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte,

Virginia, to the Dream Act, to some version of a moderate bill penned by Will Hurd of Texas

and Pete Aguilar of California. Here's the crux of the issue, though. Nearly everyone involved in this process

understands that whatever passes, either via the discharge petition or the leadership-driven process,

will not become law. To be clear, this is a political exercise.

We've got a first in playbook. We told you a few weeks ago that the entire leadership would be attending a GOP fundraiser for Protect the House,

the big joint fundraising committee run by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Vice President Mike Pence.

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