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

And I'm Jake Sherman. Stop us if you've heard this before. President Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi walk into a Chinese dinner on Pennsylvania Avenue. There was a flurry of activity last night following Donald Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer's dinner.

Here's the recap. Around 9.30 last night, pretty close to my bedtime, the White House put out a statement on the dinner, saying it was a constructive working dinner, and the topics included

tax reform, border security, DACA, infrastructure, and trade. Around 9.45 p.m., Pelosi and Schumer's offices put out a joint

statement that they had agreed with Trump to, quote, enshrine the protections of DACA into law

with a package of border security excluding the wall that's acceptable to both sides.

Unsurprisingly, behind the scenes, Washington started to explode. The White House Legislative

Affairs team was sending text messages and emails to Republican Hill staff, saying the president had only agreed to work on fixing DACA soon.

He didn't give up on the wall funding, but the White House conceded he said he wouldn't insist it be part of this package.

And their statement left more questions and answers.

What does this mean?

The first question is, is this even a deal? Only time will tell. And what does a deal mean anyway? Neither side put out any specifics. It's important to remember, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are the leaders of the Republican majority. The minority has ways to try to force votes. But if you're in the minority, you don't have a say of what gets on the House or Senate floor, by and large. If Trump wants to work closely with Schumer and Pelosi, he has to go campaign for House and Senate Democrats to get the majority. While Sarah Huckabee Sanders pushed back on Twitter, writing that excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to, Trump himself stayed quiet. He didn't push back at all. Instead, his late-night tweets Thursday focused on Hillary Clinton. Republicans were blindsided by this move. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were not part of this agreement. Ryan sat down with Democrats Wednesday to begin to discuss a deal. They didn't make much progress. A senior Democratic aide told us last night that it's incumbent on the White House to coordinate with Hill Republicans and keep them in the loop. This is a smart move for Democrats. It ratchets up the pressure on Republican leadership to do something.

Conservatives are already worried. Iowa Republican Steve King came out almost immediately against

any kind of deal, tweeting Trump that if the story is correct, the base is blown up, destroyed,

irreparable, and disillusion beyond repair. No promise is credible.

This could be a problem for Republican leaders.

John Boehner and Eric Canner were thrown to the wolves a few years ago for even toying

with some sort of immigration reform package.

Paul Ryan promised conservatives when he won the speakership in 2015 that he would not pursue

an immigration package unless it had the support of the majority

of Republicans. And remember, Paul Ryan is always under the threat of an immediate referendum vote

of his speakership. Immigration isn't like touching the third rail. It's like hugging an electrified

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