Good Thursday morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by Goldman Sachs.

We're kicking the morning off with a first in playbook. The Senate Leadership Fund is layering another attack ad on Montana Senator John Tester.

The spot has President Donald Trump at a rally, saying Tester voted in favor of sanctuary cities,

is weak on the border, didn't vote for tax cuts, and that he took a gentleman, Ronnie Jackson,

out. The big news of the morning is the bombshell interview Rudy Giuliani gave to Sean Hannity

last night, where he said the president repaid his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for the Stormy Daniels

settlement. This contradicts what Trump has previously said. The Washington Post is reporting

that Giuliani told them in an interview that Cohen knew he would eventually get paid back by Trump

as he was for other expenses. While the New York Times highlights that the reason Giuliani

is talking about this is he is trying to remove the issue of a campaign finance violation.

Our colleague Annie Carney is up with a story on Trump's fixers, looking at how despite the president's

preference for central casting type characters, behind the scenes, there are a group of loyal fixers who lie for the president's preference for central casting type characters, behind the scenes,

there are a group of loyal fixers who lie for the president and clean up his messes.

While the New York Times is up with a White House memo, looking at how Trump, chief of staff,

John Kelly, has found himself in a familiar place in the White House, looking for the exit.

And our colleagues are up with a handy list of five tricks for surviving in Trump's cabinet. They are, number one, stay close.

Number two, look the part. Number three, get lucky. Number four, fly under the radar, and number five. Stick with the Trump line.

The Washington Post is up with a story detailing how there are 10 hard-no votes against Nancy Pelosi

for Speaker, and 10 non-committal Democrats so far this cycle. This illustrates the Pelosi

as Speaker Dynamics. To play this out, if 10 new

Democrats vote against Pelosi, for example, combine that with the three in the House who have

already voted against her, and you need 231 Democrats in the majority to elect the Californian

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