The White House has quietly been having early-stage, staff-level conversations with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff about drug-pricing legislation, according to sources in both camps. More in Playbook:
KNOWING MUELLER -- “As Special Counsel, Mueller Kept Such a Low Profile He Seemed Almost Invisible,”
by NYT’s Noah Weiland and Katie Rogers: “At work, Mr. Mueller nurtured a sense of detachment. As the investigation unfolded, he stayed tucked in his own office outside his prosecutors’ cubicles, drifting in and out of his team’s windowless conference rooms and spartan open office space. Never one for small talk, he rarely sat in on interviews, sneaking into the room toward the end to sit in silently, or stopping in merely to say hello to a witness, letting his prosecutors speak for him. ...
“[T]he tipping point for Coats came in December with Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, and the contentious departure of former Defense Secretary James Mattis after protesting the policy, according to the current and former officials. The vice president, who has repeatedly played the role of envoy between Trump and Coats, convinced his longtime Indiana friend to stay until at least this summer, the officials said. ...
“O’Rourke has hired a former top aide to Barack Obama to be his campaign manager, installing a seasoned political strategist to take the helm of what has so far been a skeletal organization effectively overseen by Mr. O’Rourke himself.deputy campaign manager in 2012, said in an interview Monday that she was going to work for the 46-year-old former Texas congressman because he represents ‘a new generation of leadership I think we need.’operatives of this election, and her hiring suggests that Mr.
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