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

Stay tuned after the show for a message from the Coalition Against Socialized Medicine.

If you went to sleep early, like I almost did, the Washington Nationals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7 to 3.

Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto hit back-to-back home runs off Clayton Kershot to tie the game.

Howie Kendrick hit a grand slam. The NLCS begins tomorrow night in St. Louis. First pitch is

808. Stay in the fight. This is not a fever dream. And neither is this headline. This is a four-column

headline in today's New York Times. Turkey attacks U.S. ally in Syria.

The AP in Turkey reports this. Turkish ground forces pressed their advance against Kurdish fighters

in northern Syria Thursday, launching airstrikes and unleashing artillery shelling on Syrian towns and

villages the length of its border. Phil Rucker and Bob Costa on the front page of the Washington Post say this. President Trump's decision to suddenly withdraw troops from northern Syria

has angered evangelical Christians and Republican Hawks, cleaving his political coalition at the

very moment he's trying to fortify his standing to survive the intensifying impeachment inquiry in

Congress. Officials in both party practically guaranteed that a package sanctioning Turkey will pass

Congress in the coming weeks.

As of now, President Erdogan of Turkey is coming to Washington.

The administration says it'll be Erdogan and Trump versus the rest of the town.

NBC News with a damning headline for the president saying ISIS could regroup.

The president said this. This is real life.

Quote, as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the

Second World War.

They didn't help us with Normandy as an example.

That's the Kurds the president is talking about.

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