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Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Thursday was the deadliest day for D.C., the Washington Post reports.

There were also nearly 2,000 new coronavirus cases. And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have a new red line.

They are now saying they will not agree to any coronavirus stimulus bill that does not include

protections for employers from lawsuits in the post-coronavirus world called liability protection.

An aide told us Thursday night that liability protections are a, quote, red line in the upcoming

negotiations.

Democrats thus far have been equally vehement that these protections stay out of the bill,

so buckle up for CARES 2 or Phase 5 or whatever you'd like to call the next bill.

We should see it in the next month or so.

McConnell called into WLCL in Louisville and said that he had called Major League Baseball Commissioner

Rob Manfred and asked about the chance of baseball this summer.

He said sports would be a great morale booster for the country and an indication that we're

going to begin to get back to normal.

McConnell said the season could start around the 4th of July, and teams would play either at their spring training

sites in Arizona or Florida or at home to empty stadiums. Happening this morning, Joe Biden will be

on MSNBC's morning Joe at 8 a.m. this morning to talk about Terror Reed's sexual assault

allegations. Biden has done 25 interviews since

Reid first spoke about the alleged incident with Katie Helper, March 25th.

Trump came to Biden's rescue yesterday saying he thinks Biden should respond, but it could also be

false accusations. Biden said during a fundraiser Thursday night that he views himself as a transition candidate and that

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