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
January 19, 2024: One weird trick that could save a border deal
With Senate negotiators expected to unveil a bipartisan border deal any day now, the chatter on Capitol Hill has turned to one elephantine obstacle: How to get this thing past the GOP-led House. The …
00:08:06 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
January 18, 2024: The complex balancing act of a Ukraine-border compromise
With a partial government shutdown just days away, a clutch of top government officials — including President Joe Biden and House Speaker Mike Johnson — met yesterday to negotiate a potential spendin…
00:09:23 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
January 17, 2024: Inside the SCOTUS case that could change policymaking power
The Supreme Court will take up Chevron deference on Wednesday, a principle related to how much consideration judges must give to federal agency regulations and other executive branch decisions that s…
00:06:59 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
January 16, 2024: Trump steamrolls Iowa caucus competition
Capturing more than 50% of the delegates up for grabs, former president Donald Trump claimed a historic, dominant win mere minutes after the Iowa caucuses began Monday night. By the end of the evenin…
00:11:42 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
January 12, 2024: What the Iowa caucuses look like to a GOP insider
We’re just days away from the first ballots cast in the 2024 presidential cycle: the Iowa caucuses. But this year’s GOP contest is shaping up to look a bit different than you may expect. Playbook co-…
00:05:05 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
January 11, 2024: The Trump vs. Haley vs. DeSantis split screen
Last night in Des Moines, the split-screen reality of the GOP primary was on full display. On CNN, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley brutalized each other for two hours during a debate essentially for sec…
00:09:56 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
January 10, 2024: How Gen Z is shaking up D.C. etiquette
Some of the youngest staffers working in government are challenging norms that have been in place for decades by speaking out when they don’t agree with the Biden administration. The unwritten code o…
00:08:15 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
January 9, 2024: What to expect from Trump’s day in a D.C. courtroom
Former President Donald Trump will appear in a D.C. Circuit Court Tuesday as oral arguments are heard in the case claiming he attempted to subvert the 2020 election. But, as senior legal affairs repo…
00:07:53 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
January 8, 2024: A spending deal in sight?
Over the three week-long holiday break, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer appear to have reached an agreement on top line spending numbers. Plus, Senate negotiators …
00:07:13 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
January 5, 2024: Could Florida become a haven for abortion in the south?
Grassroots groups looking to add a constitutional amendment protecting the right to an abortion are inching towards procuring enough state-certified signatures by the Feb. 1 deadline to put a referen…
00:08:08 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
January 4, 2024: Nikki Haley goes all in on Trump
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is rising in the GOP presidential polls. With New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu’s endorsement, she’s prepared to enter the state’s primary in a strong pos…
00:08:39 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
January 3, 2024: Biden's campaign ramps up
As the election year kicks off, President Joe Biden is making plans. In the coming weeks, Biden will headline big speeches in both Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johns…
00:03:56 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
January 2, 2024: New year, same business
Though the House and Senate are still on holiday recess, two big pieces of business from 2023 remain unfinished. Government funding for the new fiscal year and the $100 billion supplemental for Ukrai…
00:04:18 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
December 22, 2023: The secret history of the American suburb
For 40 years, Michigan’s Macomb County has been something like the de facto national capital of white middle America — home of the “Reagan Democrats” and a must-visit for every serious presidential c…
00:08:11 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
December 21, 2023: Will California’s Senate primary knock out two major Dems?
Deep blue California is shaping up to have one of the most consequential and hard-fought Senate races of the 2024 cycle — and that’s before the general election takes shape. A new POLITICO/Morning Co…
00:09:29 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
December 20, 2023: Inside the Colorado Supreme Court ruling against Trump
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s ballots, citing his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurr…
00:09:50 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
December 19, 2023: Will Biden's "dictator" comments backfire?
At a number of recent appearances, President Joe Biden has shown he is not afraid to draw comparisons between the rhetoric of former President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. Though not wholly unexplo…
00:08:01 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
December 18, 2023: A last-ditch effort to pass the budget supplemental before Christmas
With senators stuck on the Hill for another week before the Christmas holidays — thanks to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer — the pressure is on to pass President Joe Biden’s $106 billion nationa…
00:03:49 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
December 15, 2023: George Santos is gone. Who’s next?
It’s the race that political obsessives across the nation are looking to: the special election to succeed ousted GOP Rep. George Santos in New York’s third congressional district. And the nascent cam…
00:07:18 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
December 14, 2023: Biden’s border policy dilemma
As it weighs how to proceed in negotiations over a new tranche of aid to Ukraine, the Biden administration faces a dilemma of both policy and politics: How much can they concede on border security wi…
00:09:03 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
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