Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing. A big thanks to

Blake Hounchell for filling in the past couple of days. Stay tuned after the show for a message

from Google. And I'm Jake Sherman. Here are a few things we are watching. When will Democrats start

making Donald Trump pay a political price for the administration's refusal to cooperate in congressional investigations.

Will Democrats start saying they won't legislate with the president if he doesn't produce documents

or allow aides to testify on Capitol Hill? Remember, Democrats have tons of leverage here.

The president needs them to do anything, including keeping the government open and lifting the debt

limit, not to mention more lofty goals like infrastructure package or a prescription drug bill.

The president gave Dem some new fodder over the weekend when he tweeted Robert Mueller shouldn't

testify.

Blake has an exclusive with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushing back on China and Russia today

in Finland.

Meanwhile, CNBC's Kayla Tausch tweeted that two sources briefed on U.S.-China trade talks

said the Chinese may cancel negotiations in D.C. this week after the president's

tariff escalation on Twitter.

NFT is reporting that markets are likely to dip as the trade war escalates.

The AP is reporting that the U.S. is sent an aircraft carrier and other military resources toward

Iran to send a message to the country after clear indications that showed Iranian and proxy

forces were preparing an attack on U.S. military in the region. The president was tweeting late last night,

saying the first two years of his presidency were stolen. He wrote, The Witch Hunt is over,

but we will never forget, make America great again. For Minnesota, Senator Al Franken

has been on the political sidelines since he was shoved out of office after a spate of

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