Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing,

sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. And I'm Jake Sherman. Heather Kagle, John

President Hand, and Sarah Ferris have a look behind the scenes at the unrest Speaker Nancy Pelosi

is dealing with among her fellow Democrats who are pushing for impeachment. Those calls now come

from members of her own leadership team, including David

Sicily of Rhode Island, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Joe Neguse of Colorado. Heather Bres and Sarah

note that Pelosi met with Judiciary Democrats last night, and they decided to hold Don McGahn

in contempt if he doesn't show up to testify. The kicker, after the emergency meeting in Pelosi's

office last night, Pelosi said this, there's no divide. We're fine. Talks begin today between the

big four top congressional leaders and the Trump administration over the budget and debt limit.

Here's the crux of it. Automatic steep spending cuts, known as the sequester. Take hold in early

2019 if Congress doesn't come to a spending caps agreement at some point this year. The debt

limit needs to be lifted sometime this fall as well. So once again, Congress finds itself in a

legislative logjam with a divided government. Remember how fun that was

with Barack Obama, John Boehner, and Harry Reid? We spoke to all sides involved in the talks.

Here's what you need to know. First of all, the meetings will be conducted on Congress's turf.

Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, acting White House Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney,

and acting OMB director, Russ Vote, are coming to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office for the 1030 a.m.

Huddle. No one wants the sequester, and let's use that as a base case. Neither party is

interested in those steep spending cuts. The details of the budget slashing are quite gnarly.

If Congress can't come to a spending agreement, automatic spending cuts of $126 billion will take hold in mid-January 2020, $71 billion to

defend spending, and $55 billion to domestic. That is an untenable situation, according to many

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