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
Mar. 9, 2023: Biden lays budget bait for Republicans
It’s the day all of D.C. has been waiting for with bated breath. Around noon, President Joe Biden will release his proposed federal budget.
No one in the White House seriously believes that Congress …
00:06:27 |
Thu 09 Mar 2023
Mar. 8, 2023: Inside the latest Fox document dump
A new trove of exhibits unearthed as part of Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News was released on Tuesday, including emails, text messages and transcripts from depositions by numerous Fox N…
00:05:36 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
Mar. 7, 2023: Dems fret about a No Labels spoiler ticket
A prominent Democratic think tank is raising alarms about a third-party ticket spoiling 2024 for Democrats and landing Donald Trump back in the White House.
A new two-page memo from Third Way, obtain…
00:06:01 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
Mar. 6, 2023: The Ron DeSantis pre-campaign is here
Our colleague Betsy Woodruff Swan has an eye-popping story up this morning on a previously unreported DHS domestic-intelligence program, “one of many revelations in a wide-ranging tranche of internal…
00:12:01 |
Mon 06 Mar 2023
Mar. 3, 2023: Dems seethe over Biden’s D.C. crime betrayal
What’s more important: respecting the principle of D.C. self-governance, or staying on the right side of an explosive national issue?
Yesterday, President Joe Biden chose politics over principle. It …
00:12:58 |
Fri 03 Mar 2023
Mar. 2, 2023: How MAGA took over CPAC
Since Trump’s first appearance at CPAC in 2011, the conference had become an early venue for him to court the base of the Republican Party.
Now, the fate of the Schlapp-era CPAC and Donald Trump hims…
00:05:41 |
Thu 02 Mar 2023
Mar. 1, 2023: A bipartisan response to East Palestine
A bipartisan group of six senators today will introduce the Railway Safety Act of 2023, legislation aimed at preventing a repeat of the toxic firestorm in East Palestine, Ohio, that followed the Feb.…
00:10:36 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
Feb. 28, 2023: A skeptical SCOTUS eyes Biden’s student debt plan
Polls open in less than an hour in Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight rivals — and a very real chance of being shut out of the likely April 4 runoff election. A new poll from Victory Res…
00:07:18 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Feb. 27, 2023: What’s in Ron DeSantis' new book
Ron DeSantis's “The Courage to Be Free” will be released tomorrow, kicking off a media tour that is widely assumed to be the prelude to a formal announcement this spring that he’s running for preside…
00:06:28 |
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Feb. 24, 2023: The second year of the Ukraine war begins
One year ago today, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine that he thought would quickly topple the government in Kyiv, expose Western powers as feckless and hopelessly divi…
00:09:31 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Feb. 23, 2023: The grand juror who might have said too much
Did Emily Kohrs just save Donald Trump from prosecution in Georgia?
Kohrs is the 30-year-old woman from the Atlanta area who was between retail jobs last year when she was suddenly tasked with one of…
00:05:20 |
Thu 23 Feb 2023
Feb. 22, 2023: Can Tim Scott make the GOP play nice?
With Congress out on recess and President Joe Biden still abroad, most of today’s marquee political events are happening outside of the beltway …
— IN Iowa, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) begins his “Faith …
00:06:48 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Feb. 21, 2023: 2024 hopefuls rev their engines
President Joe Biden is in Europe, reminding everyone that he’s commander in chief — even as Republicans back home are angling to try to take his job.
Today, he’ll huddle with Polish President Andrzej…
00:05:41 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
Feb. 17, 2023: Fox News' split screen spills into view
Don Lemon may just be the luckiest man in cable TV.
The “CNN This Morning” co-anchor set the media and political worlds ablaze yesterday morning with his on-air suggestion that GOP presidential cont…
00:13:38 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Feb. 16, 2023: Why Nikki Haley could sneak through in 2024
Comets have staying power because they orbit the sun, while shooting stars burn up as they crash through the Earth’s atmosphere.
The early take on Nikki Haley, who made her GOP presidential primary d…
00:05:28 |
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Feb. 15, 2023: Kamala Harris’ mission to Munich
Happening today (offically offically) — “Haley enters the fray, a female candidate against a man known for mocking them,” by Natalie Allison in Charleston, S.C.: “Stepping out ahead of a field of men…
00:17:35 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Feb. 14, 2023: Plan B talks on debt limit go underground
“Pence to fight special counsel subpoena on Trump's 2020 election denial,” by Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein: Former VP Mike Pence “is set to argue that his former role as president of the Senate — th…
00:08:15 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
Feb. 13, 2023: Mystery craft gets a Super Bowl Sunday splash
For the fourth time in eight days, the U.S. shot down a flying object yesterday. The latest kill came above Lake Huron, near the border with Canada, after it had flown over part of Michigan, The Detr…
00:04:42 |
Mon 13 Feb 2023
Feb. 10, 2023: McConnell vs. Scott, part LVII
Since 2009, the president has almost always sat down for an interview with the network broadcasting the Super Bowl. But ahead of Sunday’s big game, Fox News is worried Biden is freezing them out, Var…
00:05:32 |
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Feb. 9, 2023: Hope, or Lucy with the football?
After feeling lightheaded, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was admitted to GWU Hospital yesterday and stayed overnight for observation. “Initial tests did not show evidence of a new stroke, but doctors a…
00:08:40 |
Thu 09 Feb 2023
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