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anchor of "world focus" on pbs, martin savidge will join us, plus, the other top stories of the morning. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. ♪ >>> michaelk is ready to play football again. >> yeah! >> the nfl said come on back, ready to go. >> how about that? >> i think they're going to keep him on a short leash. >> whoa! >> oh. >> terrible. terrible. >> the chief political correspondent for "politico," mike allen is here with a look at the "morning playbook." >> mike, seriously, does mike put on crazy eyes? >> just in the tease when he gets excited when he hears his own name. >> right now he's normal. >> he's fine. he's composed right now. michael, what's going on? >> i even wore something boring for mika. >> i don't find that boring at all. i'm thrilled by your outfit. i understand you have a peek at team pelosi's playbook. >> house democrats are getting their homework assignment for this summer. the leadership had sent them e-mails telling them they need to be out touring hospitals, meeting with medical students, selling -- the word they used -- the house health plan. and the leadership will help them. they give them just add water i

rush limbaugh, sean hannity, michael savidge, glenn beck. these are the people we know best in the republican party, given the vacuum at top and given that the people who are the natural leaders, say mitch mcconnell and some others, they're not necessarily tv or radio ready. >> the last one for the troop it's, ms. palin likes to say. she does have a following. could she come back into the fold in time for 2012? >> well, i don't know about yours, richard, the people who love sarah palin and find her charismatic and she does have that "if" thing, they are passionate about sarah palin. there may not be enough of them. we opened with that poll. there aren't enough of them, perhaps, to drag her across the finish line, but she is going to be a formidable presence, because the people, there's nobody else in the republican party that stirs passions right now. she's the only one, and she's likely now to do it, to stir those passions even more. >> and briefly, for those palin backers out there, should they be worried by those poll numbers? >> well, yo