The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO’s Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns bring their fresh insight, analysis and reporting to the biggest story driving the day in the nation’s capital.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 1942
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
February 16, 2024: Fani Willis gets grilled
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand on Thursday to face pointed and personal questions from from lawyers representing former President Donald Trump. They allege Willis’ past ro…
00:09:14 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
February 15, 2024: Two-for-one Trump hearings
Two major hearings today will shape the trajectory (and timing) of the legal woes that Donald Trump faces as he attempts to return to the White House. In New York, a judge will decide whether the hus…
00:09:35 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
February 14, 2024: No love from the House GOP for Mayorkas
On their second attempt, House Republicans managed to formally impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by one vote. That will likely be the end of the story, though, as t…
00:06:34 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
February 13, 2024: Election Day for George Santos' seat
The center of the political universe today is on Long Island, where voters in Queens and Nassau County will decide whether Democrat Tom Suozzi or Republican Mazi Pilip will replace George Santos, the…
00:09:01 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
February 12, 2024: Inside the possible mutiny Speaker Johnson faces over Ukraine aid
Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump captured headlines and confused many when he said he would “encourage” Russia to attack NATO members who did not pay their financial dues. Among those …
00:06:28 |
Mon 12 Feb 2024
February 9, 2024: Exactly how bad is Biden’s special counsel report?
The special counsel report on Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents was about as damaging as it could possibly be while stopping short of recommending criminal charges. Over nearly 350 pages, …
00:11:17 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
February 8, 2024: What’s at stake in today’s watershed Supreme Court case
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a momentous case that could determine former President Donald Trump’s ballot eligibility — and, potentially, whether the 14th Amendment’s insurr…
00:09:33 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
February 7, 2024: Speaker Johnson takes two major Ls
House Republicans dramatically failed to both impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and pass the Israel aid bill last night, delivering two major blows to the party leader. Speaker M…
00:10:05 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
February 6, 2024: The Senate border deal is on life support
It took months of negotiations to craft the bipartisan border agreement that debuted Sunday night, and only a few hours for its fate to take a grim turn. Republican senators are continuing to come o…
00:09:24 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
February 5, 2024: Inside the long-awaited border deal
Senate negotiators unveiled at the text of the bipartisan border agreement Sunday night, offering a compromise that would both tighten security at the U.S.-Mexico border and send air money to Ukraine…
00:07:47 |
Mon 05 Feb 2024
February 2, 2024: Groundhog Day for the immigration bill
At this hour, virtually no one knows exactly what is or isn’t in the hotly anticipated bipartisan Senate border bill — legislative text could drop as soon as tonight. But it’s already dominating conv…
00:08:36 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
February 1, 2024: What the new FEC reports tell us about 2024
What are the biggest takeaways from last night’s major new fundraising numbers? For starters, here are two: Democratic frontrunner President Joe Biden is in pretty good shape, and GOP frontrunner for…
00:07:50 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
January 31, 2024: Your primer on today's big tech hearing
CEOs from five of the world’s biggest social media companies head to Capitol Hill today to face a grilling about the safety of children on their platforms. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — a hearing vetera…
00:08:13 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
January 30, 2024: What we know about the drone strike at Tower 22
President Joe Biden has vowed the U.S. will respond to the weekend drone attack of three U.S. troops in Jordan, but what will that look like exactly? And, does this mean the country is at war with Ir…
00:09:07 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
January 29, 2024: Washington reacts to U.S. troop deaths in Jordan
After three U.S. troops were killed and 25 more were wounded in a drone attack in Jordan, President Joe Biden vowed a response and Senators Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn echoed a call for retaliatio…
00:05:27 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
January 26, 2024: Will Republicans kill their border deal to placate Trump?
Republicans demanded a border deal in order to pass any Ukraine aid. And they’ve just about got one. But if Donald Trump gets his way, Republicans will abandon that effort and the bill will go down i…
00:09:39 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
January 25, 2024: What will it take to pass the new bipartisan tax bill?
When it was unveiled, the bipartisan tax deal brokered by Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) seemed like a layup — it expanded the child tax cr…
00:08:16 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
January 24, 2024: New Hampshire likely cements the 2024 race
A victory in the granite state for former President Donald Trump effectively ended Nikki Haley’s shot at the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. But the former governor of South Carolina announced Tues…
00:12:01 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
January 23, 2024: New Hampshire's looking like a sleepy primary
Playbook co-authors Rachael Bade and Ryan Lizza talk about what Ryan's been experiencing on the ground in New Hampshire, where Donald Trump currently has a double digit polling lead over Nikki Haley.…
00:08:44 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
January 22, 2024: Inside the DeSantis drop
After vowing to stay in the race despite a disappointing second place finish in Iowa, Gov. Ron DeSantis made a 180-degree turn and ended his turbulent campaign Sunday. Florida reporter Gary Fineout t…
00:12:18 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
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