Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from every town for gun safety.

And I'm Jake Sherman. President Donald Trump landed in D.C. just after 8 p.m. last night,

having returned from Hanoi empty-handed after negotiations with North Korea's dictator,

here's what awaits him. The New York Times

has a story on the president ordering high-ranking government officials to give Jared Kushner

a security clearance despite misgivings from intel officials and the White House's top lawyer.

House Democrats were already probing security clearances, so this just added more fodder.

After something close to 30 hours of testimony this week, Michael Cohen emerged from a closed

seven-hour House Intel Committee hearing yesterday, accompanied by this news.

He's coming back on March 6th for another hearing.

Intel Committee was primarily focused on Russia and collusion. And if that wasn't

enough, six days later on March 12th, Intel chairman Adam Schiff, will have Felix Sater, who Cohen

testified worked in Trump Tower and was linked to the Trump Tower Moscow project in an open hearing. Congress appears

to be increasingly interested in the inner sanctum of the Trump organization. House Oversight

Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings has flirted with bringing Eric Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump in front

of his committee. And he seems nearly certain to want to question Alan Weisselberg, who handled

the books for Fred and Donald

Trump, to D.C. to chat with his committee, so to take stock, the next two weeks are going to be

dominated by big-time high-profile Trump oversight hearings, and the Times just put on A1,

a story that will dominate the news today, set up another hearing and another investigation

shortly afterward. The president left Vietnam with

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