Good Thursday morning, I'm Jake Sherman, and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Google.

And I'm Anna Palmer, some breaking news this morning.

The AP is reporting that South Korea's military is saying that North Korea has fired an unidentified

projectile.

And now let's turn to impeachment talk.

A lot of people like to put a percentage on the chance of impeachment, but we think that's silly. Here's what we can say at this moment.

Some extreme action, like launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump,

is getting likelier by the day. It's not overwhelmingly likely,

but the vibe on Capitol Hill is getting worse. Democrats are angry that they are getting stonewalled.

Republicans are angry that Democrats do not seem willing to let this go. Nancy Pelosi has handled

the politics of impeachment quite well. She's kept her foot hovering above the

brake pedal, cognizant of the risk of immediate acceleration. She's kept her chairman in line,

kept her members mostly calm at her leadership on the same page. She even went to the White

House with Chuck Schumer to talk infrastructure, which showed Trump she's not singularly

consumed with oversight, but also interested in governing. But the White House is doing practically everything it can to taunt Pelosi.

Most administration's slow walk document production. This White House is flat out saying,

no, your oversight is overzealous and we won't participate in it. This is going to force Democrats

to file lawsuits to obtain documents,

lawsuits that even top Republicans privately concede Pelosi will win. Trump seems to be daring

Democrats to take the impeachment road. If you talk to people in his administration, you'll hear

that all of this hill-s saber rattling is good for them.

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