Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by United Health Group.

I'm Jake Sherman. The immigration debate continues to rage in the House. A large number of Democrats have signed on to the discharge petition to force immigration votes on the House floor.

Right now they are 22 lawmakers short of the 218 needed. Speaker Paul Ryan is continuing to push Republicans to instead settle on a series of Republican-leaning immigration votes in June.

If the discharge petition reaches 218, Ryan would need those Republicans to essentially abandon the petition by voting to turn it off.

The weekly standard is out with a piece looking at the ongoing discussion

about pushing Paul Ryan out as speaker to coronate Kevin McCarthy. Here is why we are skeptical it

will happen. Last week, we saw Ohio Representative Jim Jordan and the House Freedom Caucus

Tanky Farm Bill that the entire leadership was pushing.

In order for McCarthy to win the speakership, he would need to get the vote of all but 17 House Republicans.

Is it possible? Yes. Is it tough? Certainly. And does it seem like the Freedom Caucus is ready

to tap McCarthy's speaker right now?

Big money alert this morning. The Senate Leadership Fund got a quarter million dollars from James Davis, the owner of New Balance. The NRCC got $45,000 from Boeing's PAC and Ron Lauder gave $35,000. Senate Majority Pack got $2 million from family guide creator Seth McFarland and the DNC got $33,900 from

former Obama aide Jeff Zinz. Our colleague Chris Catalago has an interesting nugget this morning on how

Trump is welcoming hundreds of local officials to the White House with an eye toward 2020 and building

loyalists across the country. Here's a few big picture stories driving the day.

The New York Times is reporting that Trump is increasingly concerned

out of the upcoming summit with North Korea

and whether it could turn into a political embarrassment.

The Washington Post is up with a story on how the Justice Department

is now calling for an inquiry into whether the FBI infiltrated or surveilled the Trump

campaign after the president demanded it on Twitter. And the New York Times also has a piece up with

Rudy Giuliani predicting that the special prosecutor Robert Mueller's probe will wrap up by

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