SCOOP: Former SNL cast member Rob Schneider delivered a comedy set so off-color and off-putting to a group of prominent Republicans late last year that the host, Senate Working Group, cut the performance short and later apologized to attendees. politico.com/newsletters/pl…

Trump on Johnson — despite MTG threat: “I stand with the speaker.”

Just remember: You read it first in Playbook yesterday morning

Incredible flex for a president to take the Japanese PM out to eat on (Douglas) MacArthur Boulevard

Ronna McDaniel intends to hire and work with Bryan Freedman in her forthcoming legal battle with NBC after the former RNC chair was ousted from the network earlier this week.

More in Playbook PM: politico.com/newsletters/pl…

Inside the WSJ’s effort to Free Evan Gershkovich

The Wall Street Journal publisher Almar Latour tells Ryan Lizza about the first call indicating Evan might be in trouble, the past year’s public and private diplomacy, and prospects for a prisoner swap.

#IStandWithEvan

politi.co/4cxyymF

Special counsel Robert Hur wants you to take away just one thing from this morning’s high-profile House Judiciary Committee hearing about his investigation of Joe Biden: He was just doing his job.

The latest in Playbook: politico.com/newsletters/pl…

The ghost of Cecil Andrus! washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…

Icymi last week. Apropos of nothing in particular. kentucky.com/news/politics-…

There was also no shortage of lawyers, lbh

Reminder: WAMU 88.5 is a ratings juggernaut in the #8 national radio market, with one of the most educated and affluent audiences in the country. Today's news represents just a staggering failure of management and vision over a long period. ratings.radio-online.com/content/arb015

New: The supplemental/border text is OUT. We've got the deets

W/ Daniella Diaz Burgess Everett politico.com/news/2024/02/0…

one of the weirder campaign finance mysteries I've ever seen, from the POLITICO Playbook folks: politico.com/newsletters/pl…

Yaaas Marianna Sotomayor

Is this Heaven? No, it’s a winter hellscape known as Iowa.

- the best piece about the state of the caucus right now

politico.com/news/2024/01/1…

An absolute masterpiece from David Axelrod & Ryan Lizza about:

🚨 'The urgency of the moment' for Joe Biden's 2024 campaign; and

⚡️ What it takes to give the president some tough advice about his political future

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pla…

It is outrageous that our colleague ⁦Evan Gershkovich⁩ has now been illegally detained for 9 months. More must be done to bring him home. #IStandWithEvan

It's not often you find a story like Zack Stanton's latest in POLITICO Magazine--gripping, original, surprising and deeply relevant. It will help you understand why politics is the way it is. politico.com/news/magazine/…

SCOOP: Amid a political firestorm sparked by the Israel-Hamas war, Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) accused pro-Israel group AIPAC of “textbook racism” and being “an existential threat to the Black community” in private Facebook posts last month that I obtained. politico.com/newsletters/hu…

Folks who forget should maybe pick up a copy of this book called “Unchecked — The untold story behind Congress’ botched impeachments of Donald Trump.”

I hear it’s pretty damn good!

amazon.com/Unchecked-Rach…

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