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
April 14, 2021: Republicans seethe over Biden bipartisanship
“It’s a f---ing nightmare," says one staffer working for members of the G-10. Plus: votes in Congress today on reparations and confronting the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
00:07:30 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
April 13, 2021: Dem pollsters admit they blew it in 2020
Five of the top Democratic polling firms have joined forces to try to explain, once and for all, what went wrong in 2020 — when they predicted victories for the party up and down the ballot that neve…
00:07:28 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
April 12, 2021: Cindy McCain set to land Biden ambassadorship
The wife of the late Sen. John McCain would be the administration’s first Republican appointee to a Senate-confirmed position. Plus: The Senate is barreling toward the first possible legislative fili…
00:06:29 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Coming soon: Playbook Deep Dive
Playbook Deep Dive is a new weekly podcast from Politico — for the stories that seem stranger-than-fiction, but are all too real. Underneath all the theater, backstabbing and strategy in D.C. are col…
00:03:31 |
Sat 10 Apr 2021
April 9, 2021: Activists to Breyer: Give us your seat
Activists are stepping up their SCOTUS calls today, saying Justice Stephen Breyer should help reinvigorate the court the way only he can — by resigning. Plus: It's Budget Day on the Hill. Here's what…
00:10:22 |
Fri 09 Apr 2021
April 8, 2021: Biden goes solo on guns
Here's what to expect from Biden's long-awaited announcement today on guns. Plus: GOP donors are fretting over Trump’s influence as they descend on Palm Beach.
00:07:37 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
April 7, 2021: The question that’s about to dominate politics
An extremely D.C. fight is breaking out over a question that’s about to dominate politics: What is infrastructure?
00:06:52 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
April 6, 2021: Matt Gaetz matters little to Liz Cheney
One fewer thorn in Cheney's side in Washington doesn't necessarily change her political fortunes in Wyoming. Plus: The Senate parliamentarian just changed the game for Biden's first-year agenda.
00:07:10 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
April 5, 2021: The new GOP attack on Biden’s jobs plan
What happens in the next few weeks to Biden’s $2 trillion-plus spending plan could determine the course of his first two years in office. And so far, all signs are pointing to a second reconciliation…
00:06:19 |
Mon 05 Apr 2021
April 2, 2021: Boehner unloads
Backlash against Georgia's sweeping new voting restrictions, news from our sit-down with Ron Klain and the latest on Gaetz-gate. Plus: Playbook dishes on former House Speaker John Boehner's scorching…
00:06:56 |
Fri 02 Apr 2021
March 31, 2021: Fault lines form on Biden’s massive infrastructure plan
Biden will formally pull back the curtain today on his multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure plan — his first swing at a victory both Trump and Obama failed to deliver.
00:06:00 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
March 30, 2021: Who's getting face time with Klain?
Lawmakers are fighting tooth and nail to get their priorities included in the massive infrastructure bill Biden's set to unveil tomorrow. That's put one guy at the center of it all: Ron Klain.
00:05:44 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
March 26, 2021: The most important sentence from Biden’s presser
If there were a one-sentence takeaway from President Joe Biden's first press conference, this may be it. Plus: What the Senate has teed up after recess.
00:09:47 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
March 24, 2021: What the Duckworth-AAPI episode revealed
Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Mazie Hirono threatened to block Biden picks who aren't part of a minority group. They backed off that threat yesterday — but it reveals a lot about the dynamics in Washingt…
00:09:18 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
March 23, 2021: Breaking down Biden’s opening gambit on infrastructure
Biden's next big legislative push is starting to take shape. Here's what you need to know about his infrastructure plans.
00:09:15 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
March 19, 2021: Don't call it a crisis
Biden's semantic battle du jour: whether to use the word “crisis” to describe the thousands of migrants streaming to the southern border during a still-raging pandemic. Plus: The president and VP mee…
00:08:00 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
March 18, 2021: What Ron Klain told progressives behind closed doors
We have an exclusive look at what Biden's chief of staff told powerful progressives about where the administration’s headed — on immigration, taxing the rich, the minimum wage and more.
00:07:46 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
March 17, 2021: GOP to accuse Biden of ‘unlawful’ border actions
Republicans will argue in a letter today not only that Biden’s move was unsanctioned by Congress — but that it exacerbated the border crisis.
00:09:43 |
Wed 17 Mar 2021
March 16, 2021: Progressives: Dems must choose between Black voters and the filibuster
Here’s how the party’s progressive base is framing it for Senate Dems: Get rid of the filibuster, or allow Republicans to disenfranchise millions of Black and brown voters who put President Joe Biden…
00:08:10 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
March 12, 2021: Last night is why Biden won the presidency
It might’ve been the most poignant moment yet of Biden’s seven-odd weeks in office. Plus: the latest on the spending bill that finally became law yesterday, and a scoop on the Trump-GOP fundraising d…
00:10:35 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
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