Hey, good morning, playbookers on Rugu Mola Boland. It's Tuesday. Today's show, a new book highlights friction in the White House. It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

The White House has worked hard to project a united front between President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamla Harris and their respective

teams. But the upcoming book from Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns at the New York Times,

this will not pass, Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future reveals some frustrations

at the highest levels of the White House between the Biden and Harris camps, as well as the vice

president's angst over the policy portfolio she was given.

Playbook got its hands on some juicy excerpts.

Harris' allies complained throughout the first year of the administration that she was

handed an impossible portfolio.

According to the book, Kate Bettingfield, Biden's comms director, not only grew tired of

the criticism that the White House was mismanaging Harris, she blamed the vice president. Marnon Burns Wright, quote, in private, Benningfield had taken to noting that the

vice presidency was not the first time in Harris' political career, that she had fallen short of

sky high expectations. Her Senate office had been messy, and her presidential campaign had been a

fiasco. Perhaps she suggested the problem was not the vice president's death.

Benningfield did respond in an email Monday night. Quote, the fact that no one working on this

book bothered to call to fact-check this unattributed claim tells you what you need to know.

Vice President Harris has a force in this administration, and I have the utmost respect for the

work she does every day to move the country forward.

The Biden White House had been remarkably leakproof in the first several months,

but that began to change after Harris's trip to Guatemala in June to address immigration,

with reports of dysfunction in her office finding their way to print.

That ticked off Biden, according to the book.

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