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

And I'm Jake Sherman. Breaking News this morning. Donald Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.

It went to the World Food Program for its efforts to combat hunger, its contribution to bettering conditions for peace and conflict-affected areas,

and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.

The Trump administration has proven that the 18 acres on which the White House sits is a logic-free zone.

Don't waste your time trying to make sense of anything that comes out of there or goes on in there,

because it's a fool's errand and you'll just end up with a headache and a clenched jaw. Examples canceling a debate,

rescheduling a debate, and then suggesting said debate should be back on. And then there's how

the administration has handled COVID relief, something that should have been so relatively easy,

but has turned into a massive mess. President Trump has spent the last few days vacillating between two completely different,

irreconcilable polls, not wanting a COVID relief bill because it includes a bailout of blue

states and wanting a big deal, which will definitely include a bailout of blue states.

Square that circle.

Or better yet, don't. So let's not focus on whether

Stephen Mnuchin and Speaker Nancy Pelosi will strike some sort of compromise, because it's ultimately

unknowable because the White House is such a complete mess. We've described the hurdles,

huge money difference, policy differences, etc., between the two parties at the moment. The question is, will

Mnuchin get his way and try to roll Republicans? Maybe, depending on the president's mood and who

has talked to him last. Let's focus on two different dynamics. What needs to happen between now

and passage and why Pelosi, Mnuchin, and Trump might be fooling us? Let's start with this. There are 25 days between now and election day, and Washington is at least pretending that it's going to pass a trillion-dollar-plus package and confirm a Supreme Court justice in the lead-up to the election. Here's what needs to happen. They need a deal. The two sides need to come together on a top-line number and the policies within the deal. Once that happens, they need to draft the bill. That takes three or so days. Then they need to release the bill. Pelosi needs to take it to House Democrats and Mitch McConnell needs to take it to Senate Republicans. It will take at least three days to pass this bill in the House and a week to pass it in the Senate. So we're talking about a two-week process at a minimum to pass a deal

that's not yet wrapped up. Here's the political hurdles. The White House needs to wake up. In order

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