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The Playbook Podcast

A Supreme Court fight and a trip to the moon

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It’s a busy start to April for Donald Trump. The president heads to the Supreme Court for a test of his effort to end birthright citizenship, a long-shot legal fight with big political stakes for the base and his broader coalition. Tonight, he’ll address the nation on the war in Iran as tensions with European allies simmer. And in between, all eyes turn to Florida, where NASA is set to launch Artemis II — sending humans farther into space than ever before and kicking off a new era in the global space race. Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns break it all down.

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Today on the Playbook podcast, Donald Trump heads to the Supreme Court for the big case on

0:34.5

birthright citizenship. The president will also address the nation tonight

0:38.6

on the war in Iran and we'll all be watching as NASA takes off this evening, we hope, and heads back

0:45.3

to the moon. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Wednesday, April 1st.

0:53.1

Happy April, Jack. Happy April. We made it into full spring. And I guess we

0:58.9

ought to do some sort of mean joke on each other because it's April Fool's Day. Do you do that

1:02.6

over here? Oh, yeah. Get ready. I'm coming for you. I'm hoping that it's not an April full that

1:08.3

Donald Trump is actually going to go to the Supreme Court this morning. But that's what he says he's going to do because the justices will be hearing

1:14.9

the big case on birthright citizenship. We've been waiting for this for a long time. The

1:19.3

President, of course, laid down that executive order last year, essentially recasting or

1:24.6

rethinking as he hopes to do the 14th Amendment, and we're going to hear the

1:28.9

arguments today. This is a big one, actually. This feels like one of the biggest Supreme Court

1:33.2

cases we're going to get in this entire presidency. Yeah, for the president, this is massive. We've

1:40.6

talked for a while now about how immigration has gone from being one of his strongest issues to a liability during all of the tragedy in Minneapolis and the national anger over some of the images that we saw from ICE and there was this huge shakeup at DHS.

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