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
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
Feb. 8, 2023: Biden’s no-compromise SOTU
President Joe Biden had a few goals last night:
1. Remind his audience of his accomplishments over the last two years;
2. Reiterate his positions in the spending debate (no negotiations over the debt…
00:07:48 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
Feb. 7, 2023: Inside Biden’s high-road SOTU
In his prior trips to the House rostrum, President Joe Biden was flanked by symbols of unified Democratic power in Washington: VP Kamala Harris over his right shoulder and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi o…
00:05:03 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Feb. 6, 2023: China deflates Biden’s SOTU swagger
When President Joe Biden ascends the House rostrum tomorrow to deliver his State of the Union address, the buzz will hover tens of thousands of feet higher, where a Chinese surveillance balloon float…
00:12:44 |
Mon 06 Feb 2023
Feb. 3, 2023: Worries balloon over Chinese spying
We have our first taste of how different conducting foreign policy will be for President Joe Biden now that Republicans control the House.
The Pentagon revealed Thursday afternoon that it has detect…
00:08:25 |
Fri 03 Feb 2023
Feb. 2, 2023: Trump vs. DeSantis vs. who else?
“The Cold Calculus Behind the Shrinking GOP Presidential Field.” Would-be Republican White House aspirants face a harsh reality: It’s not just Donald Trump who’s freezing the 2024 field, reports Jona…
00:07:58 |
Thu 02 Feb 2023
Feb. 1, 2023: Why you shouldn't expect much from the Biden-McCarthy summit
President Joe Biden and Rep. Kevin McCarthy are scheduled to meet today in the Oval Office at 3:15 p.m.
Keep your expectations in check.
“Boring,” a top White House official said, when we asked abou…
00:09:20 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
Jan. 31, 2023: The House GOP’s growing pains
One month into the House Republican majority, a clear picture is emerging of the problems Speaker Kevin McCarthy will face managing his slim, five-seat majority. (That is, if the chaotic speaker elec…
00:05:58 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Jan. 30, 2023: Washington confronts the Tyre Nichols tragedy
The brutal and shocking video showing Tyre Nichols being beaten to death by Memphis police officers earlier this month prompted condemnation from all corners of Washington after it was released Frida…
00:08:32 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Jan. 27, 2023: Is there an RNC shocker in the making?
Later this morning, RNC members here at a five-star resort on the Pacific Ocean will pile into a private conference room and elect the organization’s next chair after a weekslong, bitter campaign pit…
00:10:16 |
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Jan. 26, 2023: Why this debt ceiling showdown is different
With a catastrophic federal default potentially months away, Wall Street and the rest of America is reacting with a big yawn — and, honestly, can you blame them?
The high-stakes debt standoffs of Bar…
00:13:27 |
Thu 26 Jan 2023
Jan. 25, 2023: George Santos has $199 problems
On Tuesday, Kevin McCarthy officially booted Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee. In a letter that was short on details about the two California Democrats’ sins…
00:08:15 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Jan. 24, 2023: Rebranding rift guts Blue Dog Dem ranks
Speaker Kevin McCarthy issued the new GOP roster for the House Rules Committee Monday, and he made good on his pledges to give his conference’s hard right a foothold on the powerful panel, naming Rep…
00:07:54 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
Jan. 23, 2023: McDaniel in the lion’s den
The biggest moment yet in the 2024 election cycle happens later this week in Dana Point, Calif., where RNC members will choose their next leader — and incumbent Chair Ronna McDaniel faces an unexpect…
00:14:32 |
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Jan. 20, 2023: White House says, celebrate the Biden-versary!
President Joe Biden was sworn in two years ago today. To mark the occasion, White House Comms Director Kate Bedingfield is sending congressional Dems and other allies this “Cheat Sheet” of the presid…
00:04:57 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Jan. 19, 2023: Meet House Oversight’s new brawlers
Just days after House Democrats announced impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump in 2019, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy faced an unwanted pressure campaign from the president’s closest allies…
00:07:11 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
Jan. 18, 2023: What McCarthy gave up, drafting DeSantis and more
NBC’s Scott Wong and Kyle Stewart did the work on putting together a comprehensive list of where all of the antagonizers who slowed McCarthy’s ascension to the speakership ended up after committee as…
00:12:42 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Jan. 17, 2023: Rep. Jim Banks leans into the culture war with Senate bid
Today, ambitious Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks launches his bid to replace retiring GOP Sen. Mike Braun. (Watch his announcement video here.) The 42-year-old former chair of the Republican Study …
00:14:54 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
Jan. 13, 2023: Joe Biden’s gift to Jim Jordan
In a September interview with CBS’ Scott Pelley for “60 Minutes,” President Joe Biden blasted Donald Trump for taking sensitive classified materials with him to Mar-a-Lago. When he learned the news, …
00:04:42 |
Fri 13 Jan 2023
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