Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by BP.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Bloomberg broke a story overnight. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani turned down a meeting with President Donald Trump at the United Nations in New York in September, one day after Trump's speech, which took a very hard line on Iran.

Washington is on edge this morning.

Special prosecutor Robert Mueller is almost certain to unveil an indictment today.

This comes amid a very busy week for President Trump.

Republicans are planning to unveil their top legislative priority tax reform legislation.

He's also expected to announce his decision for Federal Reserve Chair, a decision Wall Street is

watching closely, and Trump is leaving for Asia amid heightened fears of a nuclear North Korea.

Tim Alberta has a must-read Politico magazine profile piece on John Boehner. Alberta emailed us that

he spoke to Boehner at Alberto's, the former Speaker's favorite restaurant on Capitol Hill,

and convinced him

to let them spend some time together. He spent four months with Bainer with 18 hours on the record.

To give you a sense of Bainer's attitude, when an aide tried to figure out the logistics for

Tim and Bainer to communicate, Bainer grunted, quote, you fucking guys still trying to manage me.

Don't you get it? I don't want to be managed anymore.

The Wall Street Journal's Rich Rubin breaks down the state of play on tax reform this morning.

The three possible scenarios he sees, a rousing victory for Republicans, a scale-back compromise,

or simply collapse.

He puts it at even odds for any of those scenarios to happen right now.

For your situational awareness, there are 20 days with both chambers in session before

government funding expires on December 8th.

Jake and I are going to be sitting down Friday at noon with Kevin Brady, the chairman of

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