new zealand deems him to be a health risk. harsh. even for i mean, that s harsh. he s appealing the decision. wow. i ll tell you, new zealand is tough. with us the chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen here with the morning playbook. mike, tell us, we still we still have this corey booker/frank lautenberg battle going and only one is still alive. well, that s right, joe. it s just two weeks from today that democrats in new jersey will vote on who s going to be their nominee for senator and so this is coming all coming together and so awkward, the star ledger in newark is reporting that just a couple days before corey booker, the newark mayor announced in december he was going to run, a remarkable phone call happened. the chief of staff to senator frank lautenberg called up an aide to cory booker and said, look, the senator is about to retire. he s 88. give him some space.