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Don Lemon may just be the luckiest man in cable TV.\xa0\nThe \u201cCNN This Morning\u201d co-anchor set the media and political worlds ablaze yesterday morning with his on-air suggestion that GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley wasn\u2019t \u201cin her prime\u201d at age 51.\n\u201cA woman is considered to be in their prime in [their] 20s and 30s and maybe 40s,\u201d he said.\nYet by day\u2019s end, the vicious backlash to Lemon\u2019s remarks had been stunningly eclipsed by blockbuster revelations about CNN\u2019s chief rival, Fox News Channel, revealed in a new court filing made public in the $1.6 billion lawsuit over Fox\u2019s coverage of the 2020 presidential election results.\nThe internal communications revealed by Dominion Voting Systems paint a stark and damning picture \u2014 a split screen between the false and conspiratorial claims beamed to Fox viewers about rigged Dominion voting machines, and the private, candid opinions of the network\u2019s hosts and executives, who repeatedly admitted to each other that the claims were utter, unsourced garbage.\nAnd Labor Secretary Marty Walsh confirmed he's leaving the post in March to become the next Executive Director of the National Hockey League's Player Association. The question then, who will take over his seat in the Biden administration? West Wing Playbook co-author Eli Stokols shares some names he's heard as potential nominees.\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.