Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and happy Columbus Day. Welcome to your Politico Playbook

Audio Briefing, sponsored by Chevron. The Chicago Tribune has the news that Richard Thaler

of the University of Chicago has won the Nobel Prize in economics for research showing how

people's choices in economic matters are not always rational. We were reminded over the weekend

of what extraordinary times

we are living in. Here's where we are. The president is trying to convince Chuck Schumer to repeal

and replace Obamacare and is in a war with Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican key to his

agenda. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are having dinner with Senate Democrats, with

the quaint television script notion that they can push an agenda that should be above partisan

politics, Axios' Jonathan Swan reports.

Jonathan Martin and Mark Ladler of the New York Times has the story that everybody is talking

about.

We're calling it Senator Bob Corker uncorked.

Corker told the two that Trump's recklessness threatens World War III and that Trump is

treating the office of the presidency like a reality show. Other key points? Corker says

every single day the White House is trying to contain him. And Corker says that the vast majority

of the Senate Republican conference

understands the volatility in dealing with Trump and the amount of work it takes to keep him

in the middle of the road. Here's some real playbook talk. Corker is right. This is what many

Republicans have told us behind the scenes for months. No, it doesn't mean that they're going to

impeach him. It just means they feel like

they can't deal with him on the level. That impacts things like tax reform, health care,

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