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
Sep. 28, 2022: Biden and DeSantis pledge 'close coordination' as Ian bears down
Hurricane Ian is set to reach Florida’s Gulf Coast as early as this afternoon after days of dire warnings about its potential impacts. This morning, the national Hurricane Center said winds had reach…
00:06:44 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Sep. 27. 2022: CR released and Hurricane Ian heads to Florida
Countdown — Six weeks until Election Day!
Continuing Resolution released — Full text … Section-by-section summary
Nestled into the stopgap spending bill that Congress is aiming to pass to avert a gov…
00:04:42 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
Sep. 26, 2022: Pollsters fret over another big miss
Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and deputy editor Zack Stanton discuss Maggie Haberman's anticipated book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. POLITICO's Steve Shepar…
00:13:45 |
Mon 26 Sep 2022
Sep. 23, 2022: What's behind the latest Manchin drama
It’s perhaps the wonkiest, most in-the-weeds debate happening on Capitol Hill: The battle over Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-W.Va.) permitting reform bill. It’s also the biggest hold-up in the quest to keep …
00:05:34 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Sep. 22, 2022: Trump vs. James, appeals panel rejects Cannon ruling
The two big stories in Trump World:
1. In a Wednesday night ruling, a three-judge federal appeals panel sided with the Justice Department, blocking “aspects of … Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling that del…
00:05:38 |
Thu 22 Sep 2022
Sep. 20, 2022: Covid confusion
With four offhand words, “the pandemic is over,” President Joe Biden touched off a firestorm during his Sunday “60 Minutes” interview.
The White House cleanup attempt was swift. Obviously the preside…
00:04:44 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
Sep. 19, 2022: What two new polls tell us about the midterms
Is 2022 a ‘waves’ election? Evidence that the election will likely be closer than originally thought continues to mount, as two new polls give a sense of the contours of the race.
First, there's the …
00:07:08 |
Mon 19 Sep 2022
Sep. 16, 2022: Same-sex marriage bill will have to wait
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe, many Democrats pushed for legislation codifying the right to same-sex marriage, lest it, too, be taken away by the high court. Over the past two months, those …
00:06:02 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
Sep. 15, 2022: Tentative deal averts rail strike, plus Baker and Glasser's biggest scoops
“Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike,” AP: “President Joe Biden said Thursday a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike …
00:04:18 |
Thu 15 Sep 2022
Sep. 14, 2022: Did Lindsey Graham just score an own goal on abortion?
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, most Republicans stuck to a simple message: The decision merely sent the issue back to the states; it was not a prelude to any national ban on …
00:14:42 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
Sep. 13, 2022: What the VP told activists about abortion
Back in July, a coalition of civil rights and reproductive rights groups pushed President Joe Biden for “continued leadership” in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, reque…
00:03:36 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
Sep. 12, 2022: Washington revs up for a stacked week
We’re keeping our eyes on three big things this week when senators return this afternoon:
1. The brewing Manchin-Sanders faceoff.
2. The status of the marriage bill.
3. How will the White House handl…
00:12:55 |
Mon 12 Sep 2022
Sep. 9, 2022: DOJ offers Judge Cannon a new deal
As expected, the Justice Department said on Thursday that it will likely move forward with an appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon's recent decision largely blocking DOJ’s use of materials seized at Mar-a-L…
00:09:34 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
Sep. 8, 2022: Why same-sex marriage is on the cusp of passing the Senate
It would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, let alone a decade ago, but senators of both parties are increasingly optimistic they can overcome a filibuster and pass a bill enshrining same-s…
00:04:56 |
Thu 08 Sep 2022
Sep. 7, 2022: Legal world fires at Judge Cannon
Legal pundits have had another day to digest Monday’s confounding opinion from Judge Aileen Cannon.
Recall that the 41-year-old Trump appointee (who was confirmed in the days after the 2020 election)…
00:04:51 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
September 6: Welcome to the general election
Labor Day has long served as the unofficial kickoff of election season: More voters start to pay attention, political TV ads become inescapable, volunteers knock on doors and pollsters adjust their s…
00:06:20 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
September 2: Biden pulls an eager Trump onto center stage for 2022
There was a lot going on in President Joe Biden's 24-minute primetime speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall Thursday night. If you felt some whiplash listening to Biden, you’re not alone.
We ar…
00:05:48 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
September 1: Alaska rejects Palin, Mississippi confronts a crisis
It's a shocker in Alaska as Democrat Mary Peltola won Alaska’s special election on Wednesday, making her “the first Alaska Native in Congress,” the Anchorage Daily News’ Iris Samuels reports. Peltola…
00:06:28 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
August 31: Trump likely obstructed classified records probe, DOJ says
Just minutes before a midnight deadline, the Justice Department filed a stunning response to former President Donald Trump’s request for an independent review of the documents seized from his Florida…
00:06:13 |
Wed 31 Aug 2022
August 30: Mar-a-Lago search gives Biden an opening on politics of crime
As a policy issue, crime, like inflation and immigration, has consistently been a political vulnerability for Joe Biden and the Democrats. Republicans have seized on the national spike in murders — a…
00:05:38 |
Tue 30 Aug 2022
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of POLITICO. This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.