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

Stay tuned after the show for a message from the American Public Transportation Association.

We're kicking off this morning with the playbook scoop. Senators Ron Johnson and Claire McCaskill,

the two top lawmakers in the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,

are threatening to subpoena CMS administrator Seema Verma. The two write that they have asked Verma to testify since April 20th,

but she has repeatedly declined to confirm that she will testify.

She has also declined to confirm her availability and has offered a subordinate at CMS to testify.

That's not going to be enough for senators who want to hear from the Senate confirmed official.

Interesting split screen going on this week.

Speaker Paul Ryan has arranged a Thursday evening briefing with FBI director Christopher

Ray, Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen, and Director of National Intelligence,

Dan Coates.

The topic, election security.

But at the same time, Eric Geller reports that the White House has

eliminated its top cyber advisor post in an effort to streamline authority.

New Politico Morning Consul poll finds voters' confidence in Trump is rising when it comes

to North Korea.

Steve Shepard writes, a combined 50% of voters have either a lot or some confidence in Trump to handle North

Korea. That's a slight increase from last month when 47% had some measure of confidence in Trump.

Overall, there's been a steady increase in the number of voters who have a lot of confidence

in Trump from 24% in March to 28% in April to 31% in the new poll. At the same time, the AP is reporting that North Korea has threatened to cancel talks with

the U.S. and South Korea over military exercises with the South.

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