Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing, sponsored by United Health Group.

A quick scoop to start off your Memorial Day weekend. Ivanka Trump is heading to California to fundraise with Kevin McCarthy on June 18th.

The events will be in Fresno and Los Angeles. If you had any doubts about McCarthy's closeness to Trump world, this should dispel that.

It's very rare that Ivanka hits the fundraising trail.

Breaking overnight, an explosion in an Indian restaurant in Toronto hurt 15 people.

Ben White hits on a story that a lot of people in D.C. have been talking about.

Surging gas prices could be a problem for the GOP.

Gas is almost at $3 per gallon five months ahead of election

day. The LA Times is a good scoop this morning. The border control union calls Trump's

National Guard deployment a, quote, colossal waste. This is the same union that endorsed Trump's

candidacy for president. An interesting story from the New York Times, Glenn Thrush and Danielle

Ivory.

A turf war between Jared Kushner and Jeff Sessions pushed Mark Inch, the federal government's prison

director, out of his job. The president is leaving for Annapolis at 9 o'clock this morning for

the Naval Academy's commencement ceremony. He'll return to the White House this afternoon and meet

with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Subscribe to Playbook at politico.com slash playbook.