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
- 1944
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Apr. 12, 2023: The Supreme Court's ethics problem
Trump's first post-indictment interview, Senator Tim Scott explores a run for president, and the Supreme Court's ethics problem.
Playbook co-author Rachael Bade talks with senior reporter Josh Gerste…
00:06:24 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
Apr. 11, 2023: Leak fallout halts Biden momentum on national security
Leaked Ukraine docs create a major headache for Biden, and what political news you need to be paying attention to.
Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels talks with national security reporter Alex Ward.
00:05:55 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
Apr. 10, 2023: Trump’s gravitational pull warps the 2024 field
How other 2024 GOP hopefuls are navigating Donald Trump, and what political news you need to be paying attention to.
Playbook co-author Rachael Bade talks with reporter Sally Goldenberg.
00:05:50 |
Mon 10 Apr 2023
Apr. 6, 2023: DeSantis' abortion agenda
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ support for a Florida bill restricting abortion at six weeks of pregnancy shows he’s eager to continue courting the right flank of the GOP. A future problem for him may be in how h…
00:07:04 |
Thu 06 Apr 2023
Apr. 5, 2023: The key questions in the Trump indictment
The unveiling of the charges against former President Donald Trump will trigger a frenzied legal battle by Trump and his team to derail the case...here's what we know now.New York legal reporter Eric…
00:05:21 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
Apr. 4, 2023: Trump's expected arraignment and huge elections in Wisconsin and Chicago
It’s election day in America — at least parts of America. The two biggies? Wisconsin, where tens of millions of dollars have poured into a supreme court race that could flip the balance of power on t…
00:06:26 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Apr. 3, 2023: Centrist Dems' secret plan for the debt ceiling
A group of House Democrats is secretly crafting a fallback plan to avoid an economy-rattling debt default.
The White House wants no part of it.
Moderate Democrats in the Problem Solvers' Caucus have …
00:05:57 |
Mon 03 Apr 2023
Mar. 31, 2023: Bragg to Trump: ‘Surrender’
At 7:15 last night, Manhattan DA Alvin bragg made it official with this statement: "This evening we contacted Mr. [Donald] Trump's attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan D.A.'s Office …
00:08:43 |
Fri 31 Mar 2023
Mar. 30, 2023: Breaking: Russia holds WSJ reporter on spy charge
BREAKING OVERNIGHT — “Russian Security Service Detains Wall Street Journal Reporter,” by WSJ’s Daniel Michaels: “The Federal Security Service said Thursday it had detained Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. ci…
00:06:14 |
Thu 30 Mar 2023
Mar. 29, 2023: What Dems really think of the GOP’s debt demands
After weeks talking with his rank-and-file about what concessions they’d need from Democrats to raise the debt ceiling, Speaker Kevin McCarthy floated five proposals that could maybe, just maybe, eli…
00:07:41 |
Wed 29 Mar 2023
Mar. 28, 2023: Trump returns to Fox, Christie returns to N.H.
The Republican presidential primary is shaping up to be a case of déjà vu.
In 2015 into 2016, Donald Trump gained an early lead and never looked back. The hype about a well-funded, twice-elected Flo…
00:06:48 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
Mar. 27, 2023: Harris in Africa, Israel in crisis
Good Monday morning from Accra, Ghana, where VP Kamala Harris is kicking off a seven-day diplomatic mission to Africa, aiming to reset relations between the United States and the three countries she’…
00:13:37 |
Mon 27 Mar 2023
Mar. 24, 2023: The other Trump investigations
Even as he faces indictment in Manhattan, Trump has to watch his back on the federal classified documents investigation. The recent courtroom fight over Evan Corcoran's testimony “indicate[s] that pr…
00:04:56 |
Fri 24 Mar 2023
Mar. 23, 2022: Sinema bashes Dems, Dems bash Zients
JMart’s latest column is hot off the presses and already blowing up group chats on Capitol Hill: “Sinema Trashes Dems: ‘Old Dudes Eating Jell-O’”
As her fundraising efforts plow forward, Sen. Kyrsten…
00:12:05 |
Thu 23 Mar 2023
Mar. 21, 2023: Unpacking Alvin Bragg's case against Trump
On the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, as pro-Trump rioters were ransacking the Capitol in Washington, prosecutors in Manhattan gathered on Zoom to discuss Donald Trump's bookkeeping practices.
More than…
00:07:27 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
Mar. 20, 2023: Scoop: House GOP targets Manhattan DA
Good morning from Orlando, where House Republicans are gathered at a luxury resort not far from Disney World for their annual three-day retreat — and where, we’ve learned, House Judiciary Committee C…
00:11:05 |
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Mar. 17, 2023: A president's pivot and a party's puzzle
A pair of fresh stories out this morning illuminate two emerging storylines in the early jockeying for the 2024 campaign …
White House aides tell us that President Joe Biden is likely to announce a f…
00:07:03 |
Fri 17 Mar 2023
Mar. 16, 2023: Yellen gears up for a Senate grilling
All eyes will be on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen today as she testifies before the Senate Finance Committee at 10 a.m..
Yellen’s appearance was originally scheduled to discuss the Biden budget. B…
00:06:31 |
Thu 16 Mar 2023
Mar. 15, 2023: The GOP faces its 'candidate quality' issues
We’re barely into the 2024 Senate cycle, and already some Republicans are feeling a sense of deja vu.
In a new must-read, our Holly Otterbein attended a rural Pennsylvania rally for Doug Mastriano, …
00:06:38 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
Mar. 14, 2023: House GOP warms up for a budget battle
House Republicans are set to embark on a multiweek stretch of ups and downs — starting today, with the release of a massive energy package authored by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, aimed at bo…
00:07:44 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
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