Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing. Stay tuned

after the show for a message from Google. And I'm Jake Sherman. Here's the world according to Trump.

He says impeachment's going to be great politics for him. He's talking about new deals with China and Russia when he hasn't finalized any of the old deals.

He keeps saying the wall's going to be built when in reality Congress hasn't appropriated

any new money for fresh miles of barrier, and Mexico certainly isn't paying for it. He insists

Republicans won in 2018 by picking up a few Senate seats and has yet to accept that Democrats'

retaking of the House fundamentally changed the power dynamics in D.C. He appears to have

fabricated an entire quote by his secretary of defense

about Syria, where he insists U.S. troops have already secured oil fields that are not even in working

order. Welcome to the Trump presidency in October 2019. The president was on Fox News last night with

Sean Hannity, where he said in North Carolina, two races were going to be lost, and then he made a

speech, and they both won by good margins. The reality, the president is referring to two

special elections in North Carolina, both in Republican seats. One, NC3, was the seat Republicans

usually win by 12, and Greg Murphy won. That was never in doubt. NC9, where Dan Bishop won, was a tough

race for the GOP, but it was also a Republican seat. He also talked 2020, saying he doesn't like to

talk about Elizabeth Warren, calling her Pocahontas, but noted that she rose from the ashes and he

gives her credit for it. The president also talked

impeachment politics saying that everybody says impeachment's going to be great for the Republican

party and he talked about a potential nuclear pact with Russia and China. On the big picture side of

things, he said America is doing a great job generally and he's doing a great job running the country.

The post meanwhile notes that Trump's cabinet meetings have become about everything except the business of the cabinet. The official White House transcript

was 13,022 words. The Times is up with a story on Democrats nervous about Joe Biden's chances,

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