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Good Monday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Politico Playback Audio Briefing.

We've got a lot to dig into this morning. But before we unpack yesterday's first big post-presidency speech from Donald Trump, here are three stories driving the day.

Number one, Biden is backing the Amazon Union drive. The press

broke with historical precedent in a video last night, stopping just short of endorsing a union,

but throwing his support behind workers' right to try. The choice to join a union is up to the

workers, full stop, full stop.

Now, Biden's long fancied himself a friend of organized labor.

Remember his campaign promised to be the most pro-union president you've ever seen?

Until last night, though, he'd been staying away from efforts to organize Amazon's workers at a facility in Alabama.

Now, it looks like Biden's making good on that

campaign pledge. The second story we're watching, Dems are dumping their plan B for a $15 minimum wage.

The Washington Post scoops that two progressive bigwigs, Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden,

are dropping their push to slap tax penalties on corporations that pay their

employees too little. Basically, the idea was too complex to flash out on such a short deadline.

Remember, Chuck Schumer's promised the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill will pass by March 14th.

That's when unemployment benefits expire and the ball is in the Senate's court after the House passed the package over the weekend.

The pressure on the Senate to get it passed is even stronger now that a third COVID vaccine, Johnson & Johnson's, was approved on Saturday.

The third big story this morning, Andrew Cuomo, is trying to stop the bleeding.

The New York Gov released a statement apologizing for

inappropriate comments to female aides while arguing that his words were, quote,

misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. He added that at work, sometimes I think I am being

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