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

sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Welcome to Thanksgiving Week. The president heads

out of town tomorrow. He's going to Mara Lago in Palm Beach. Congress is gone, and it might,

just might. We might eat our words later, but it might be a quiet week in town. The Palm Beach

Post has spotted Marine One Trump's helicopter

at Palm Beach International Airport, leading to speculation that Trump won't shut down the roads

of Palm Beach over this Thanksgiving break. The Boston Globe, meanwhile, is fronting a story this

morning asking why evangelicals are still backing Roy Moore. One man is quoted as saying the female

accusers are being paid big money. The Associated

Press notices a new trend. Bush administration alumni are rising in Donald Trump's White House.

For context, Donald Trump has been sharply critical of George W. Bush. The Washington Post,

Dave Weigle, traveled to Hollis, New Hampshire to write that the Republican tax plan could

help Democrats recapture the suburbs.

The Republican tax plan either gets away or severely curtails the state and local tax deductions.

Donald Trump used on Twitter yesterday that he should have left the UCLA basketball players in jail in China

because they were not thankful enough to him upon return.

Jack Liu is taking a job at Lindsay Goldberg to private equity firm.

The president is hosting a cabinet meeting, lunching with Mike Pence and Ben Carson, and then meeting

with Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley. Happy birthday to Joe Biden. Subscribe to Playbook at Politico.com

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