Good Thursday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing,

sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and happy Thanksgiving. We want to thank you for

being a part of the amazing playbook community. Thank you for reading and thank you for engaging with

us and sending your insights to make us better every day. We're excited to announce that we

are sitting down with

Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a member of the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday at 8 a.m.

at the Liaison Hotel on Capitol Hill. Join us. Now back to the news. President Donald Trump

is up and tweeting this morning, giving himself a stellar report card. He tweeted,

Happy Thanksgiving. Your country

is starting to do really well. Jobs coming back. Highest stock market ever. Military getting really

strong. We will build the wall. VA taking care of our vets, great Supreme Court Justice, record

cuts and regs, lowest unemployment in 17 years.

Make America great again.

Trump is at Mara Lago for his Thanksgiving Day celebration.

He's scheduled to appear this morning on a video conference to thank the military for their service

and will then go to the Coast Guard quarters in Florida.

While everyone is prepping their turkeys, America is waking up to a more sober

situation. Two of the most senior lawmakers in the House, Republican Representative Joe Barton of

Texas, and Democratic Representative John Conyers of Michigan, are caught in the middle of dustups

with females of different variety. Democrat Al Franken, the comedian turned senator from Minnesota,

is being accused by multiple women of groping and harassment.

Bob Brady, the top Democrat on the House administration committee,

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