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Hey, good morning, playbookers. I'm Ragu Munovalin. It's Thursday. Peter Baker and Susan

Glaser's new book, The Divider, Trump in the White House, comes out next Tuesday, but we got

some early excerpts. It's her Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Breaking this morning by way of the Associated Press, President Joe Biden said Thursday,

a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike

before the pivotal midterm elections. He said the tentative deal will keep our critical rail

system working and avoid disruption of our economy.

It's the new book that everyone is talking about.

Peter Baker from the New York Times and the New Yorker's Susan Glasser will release

the Divider, Trump and the White House, 2017-21, on Tuesday.

But after The Guardian's resourceful, Martin Pengeli snagged a copy early,

the book's embargo was lifted last night, leading to a flurry of coverage.

It's worth checking out today's playbook written edition for a full breakdown of the book,

but here's one story from Peter Baker himself in the New York Times.

It's an incredible account from the book about the time that Trump's friend, the cosmetics

billionaire Ronald Lauder, convinced him that the U.S. could buy Greenland.

Mr. Lauder discussed it with him from the early days of the presidency and offered himself

as a back channel to the Danish government to negotiate.

John R. Bolton, the national security advisor, assigned his aide Fiona Hill to assemble a small

team to brainstorm ideas. They engaged in secret talks with Denmark's ambassador and produced an options memo.

Mr. Bolton, concerned about expanding Chinese influence in the Arctic, thought that an increased American presence in Greenland made sense, but that an outright purchase was not feasible.

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