Good Tuesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by ExxonMobil.

And I'm Jake Sherman. The president will be traveling to Nashville today to hold a rally with Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn.

Ahead of his visit, the Washington Post is reporting that Blackburn, a top Trump surrogate, is facing some pushback in this date with female voters.

Congress is out this week for the Memorial Day break.

The New York Times is leading with a story on SpyGate

and how Trump uses conspiracy theories to erode trust.

Meanwhile on the Korean Peninsula,

there are a lot of stories about the activity surrounding the potential summit.

The AP is reporting that a South

Korean news agency is reporting that a senior North Korean official is heading to the U.S.

for potentially more talks about the future of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. is holding off on North Korea's sanctions.

Treasury, however, has a plan to target three dozen Russian and Chinese entities.

The New York Times, meanwhile, has a report that a top federal government advisor who has

visited North Korea's atomic complex believes disarmament could take up to 15 years.

And Nancy Cook has a story up about how Wilbur Ross is trying to reclaim his

quote, killer status with Trump in China trade talks. He is headed back to China in early June

in hopes of cutting some type of trade deal that delivers on Trump's campaign promises to extract

concessions from Beijing on behalf of American workers.

And here's the latest on the investigations.

The journal has a piece up on how Stormy Daniels lawyer, Michael Avenetti, is causing problems

in the Michael Cohen probe because he wants to review documents, investigators subpoenaed

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