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Hey, good morning. I'm Playboy co-author, Eugene Daniels. It's Wednesday, May 10th. Here's what's driving the day in Washington. There was quite a bit of news that popped in the afternoon, an evening on Tuesday, starting with around 4 p.m., President Joe Biden meeting with the big four, Chuck Schumer at McConnell in the

Senate, Hakeem Jeffries, and Kevin McCarthy in the House to talk about the negotiations around

federal spending and the debt limit. Something that we saw that we did not think we were going to

see was President Biden coming out in front of cameras and press and taking

questions? And so we got quite a bit of information on how the White House is thinking about it.

And more importantly, some insight into how the meeting actually went. President Biden said that

three of the four had kind of a cordial conversation, making it seem like, based on some reporting

that's out there that Kevin McCarthy

was the one who wasn't that cordial. This is going to continue to drive not just today or yesterday,

but the weeks and weeks in Washington. Because first of all, everyone is worried about this.

Folks that you talk to who that have been through this over and over and over again,

they say that this time feels like

we're going to get closer to the brink than ever before. It might even go over the cliff. And so what

President Biden and the rest of them are doing over the next few weeks is going to be vital to that.

Also, you have President Biden saying he will skip his G7 trip in Japan later this month if

they don't have a deal. And that's something I think that

folks were looking forward to. Today, President Biden is headed to Bahala, New York. It's a GOP-held

district that he carried in 2020. He is going with the GOP representative for the area of Mike

Lawler. And why this is interesting and kind of fascinating is because it underscores how this administration is hoping to peel off some moderates in the GOP to kind of run around Kevin McCarthy on the debt ceiling if necessary.

They think that centrist like Lawler, who is one of the more vulnerable Republicans except for re-election, as you guys probably know, is going to be scared and buckle

under the pressure as it gets closer and closer to the debt ceiling. So what I would watch if I was

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