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
July 29, 2022: White House to GOP: Why you trippin’?
It’s Day 2 of the Manchin-Schumer deal that vastly expanded Biden’s shrunken legislative ambitions, boosted the morale of Democrats in difficult races and infuriated Congressional Republicans.
The W…
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Fri 29 Jul 2022
July 28, 2022: Manchin breathes new life into Biden agenda
Last summer, Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer signed a one-page agreement outlining the West Virginia Democrat’s red lines for a reconciliation bill.
The date on that agreeme…
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Thu 28 Jul 2022
July 27, 2022: Trump's return to Washington prompts choice for GOP
When Donald Trump arrived in Washington five-plus years ago and delivered his inaugural address, he spoke of “American carnage” and used dark language (“rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones…
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Wed 27 Jul 2022
July 26, 2022: It’s Trump vs. Pence in Washington
All eyes will be on a pair of speeches today in Washington, one by the former president and one by the former vice president.
Mike Pence, whose scheduled speech yesterday at Heritage was scrapped du…
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Tue 26 Jul 2022
July 25, 2022: This week, it really is the economy, stupid
If there’s one thing the White House, economists and basically everyone who thinks about money can agree on, it’s that this is going to be a big week for economic news.
— On Tuesday, we get new cons…
00:12:17 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
July 22, 2022: Cheney zeroes in on ‘key question’ about Trump
A year and a half later, and we are still learning new things about January 6 — and almost all of the revelations strengthen the case that the January 6 committee has been building about Donald Trump…
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Fri 22 Jul 2022
July 21, 2022: Jan. 6 panel preps for a primetime moment of truth
President Joe Biden travels to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., this afternoon to talk about crime, and the White House is announcing a new “Safer America Plan” that details how Biden would spend a previous congre…
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Thu 21 Jul 2022
July 20, 2022: Washington's attention turns to Aspen
About Last Night — “Trump wins proxy war with Hogan in Maryland primary — boosted by Democrats,” by Zach Montellaro
In the Republican primary: Dan Cox, a state delegate “who has full-throatedly embra…
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Wed 20 Jul 2022
July 18, 2022: The top 3 storylines to watch this week
The week's top three storylines to watch:
1. The Jan. 6 committee’s primetime (possible) finale: The panel will hold its eighth hearing Thursday night, using an 8 p.m. slot to explore what Trump did …
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Mon 18 Jul 2022
July 15, 2022: Manchin delivers ‘crushing blow’ to Dem agenda
Late Thursday night, Sen. Joe Manchin effectively killed any chance of major climate-related provisions making their way into Democrats’ reconciliation package. The West Virginian told party leaders …
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Fri 15 Jul 2022
July 14, 2022: A warm welcome abroad, but headline headaches at home
Inflation hit a 41-year high on Tuesday, as the consumer price index accelerated to 9.1% in June. More from WSJ
That, in turn, affects what might be Biden’s last, best shot at a deal on reconciliatio…
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Thu 14 Jul 2022
July 13, 2022: An ‘unmistakable’ map to charges against Trump
Clip of the day — CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing gave way to one of the more surreal exchanges we’ve seen on cable news, as Jake Tapper and former national security adviser John…
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Wed 13 Jul 2022
July 12, 2022: Jan. 6 panel zeroes in on Trump tweet
Today at 1 p.m. Eastern, the House Jan. 6 committee “plans to make its most complex case yet,” write Nicholas Wu and Kyle Cheney: “that Donald Trump's words and actions influenced extremists and brou…
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Tue 12 Jul 2022
July 11, 2022: Trump’s lawyer is talking to the feds
Breaking — Kyle Cheney: “Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Justin Clark interviewed with federal investigators two weeks ago, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing early Monday mor…
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Mon 11 Jul 2022
July 7, 2022: Biden critics press for more SCOTUS action
Last year, the White House convened a bipartisan commission of legal experts and academics to study the Supreme Court and make recommendations on whether (and how) to reform it.
The resulting recomme…
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Thu 07 Jul 2022
July 5, 2022: Exclusive: Footage from new Jan. 6 Trump docuseries
First in Playbook — Playbook has obtained a trailer for Alex Holder's “Unprecedented,” the British filmmaker’s upcoming Discovery+ docuseries about the Trump family.
The two-minute-plus trailer, whic…
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Tue 05 Jul 2022
July 1, 2022: Why Dems are struggling with Biden
If you want to get a full sense of why so many Democrats seem to be frustrated with President Joe Biden at the moment, here’s one piece you need to read: “Is Biden a Man Out of Time?” by The Atlantic…
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Fri 01 Jul 2022
June 29, 2022: Jan. 6 panel may have found its 'smoking gun'
It’s hard to imagine how Tuesday’s surprise hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee could’ve been more damning for President Donald Trump.
With vivid stories told in measured tones, Cassidy Hutchinson,…
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Wed 29 Jun 2022
June 28, 2022: What the Jan. 6 committee's star witness knows
On Monday afternoon, the House Jan. 6 committee, which was supposed to be on a hiatus for the next two weeks, abruptly announced it would be holding a hearing today at 1 p.m. “to present recently obt…
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Tue 28 Jun 2022
June 27, 2022: White House faces pressure on abortion rights
The Biden White House’s plan for this week, as of one week ago: Spend the end of June focusing on foreign policy, making use of a pair of European summits (the G-7 and NATO) to rally support for the …
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Mon 27 Jun 2022
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