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Hey, Playbookers. Good morning. I'm Eugene Daniels. It's Tuesday, April 11th. There are a couple

big things I'm watching today. The first is President Joe Biden is getting on a plane and heading

to Ireland, Northern Ireland today. Lots on his agenda. But a lot of this is kind of personal

for Biden. So seeing Biden in those kind of unscripted, I'm just Uncle Joe, good old young Joe, tells you a lot about him as a president. It also comes at a moment where there's a lot happening on the domestic front, more mass shootings, the fight over the abortion pill where we might get an answer to some of that this week. The list goes on and on. And so balancing those while

you're trying to walk around your ancestral land is going to give us a lot of insight into his presidency and

him. The second one is one that happened over the weekend. So you may have missed it. But it's how

the Biden administration is able to manage the fallout from the leaked classified

intelligence stocks while walking the tightrope of being careful to not verify what's in them.

Monday was the first day that the administration was able to really be questioned face-to-face

from reporters. We saw them in the press briefing room. There were some calls with the Department

of Defense and how

they're trying to navigate this while, you know, kind of filling themselves on foreign policy

for a while is really fascinating. To dig into that last one a lot more, I have my buddy and

National Security reporter Alex Ward. Hi, Eugene. I assume you want to talk about leaked documents. Leaked documents only.

What do you think of how the administration has handled this really kind of embarrassing scandal?

They're clearly flustered. They don't know how to respond to this. Part of this is because of just the

legal constraints that this is classified, these are classified documents. It's hard to speak about them and confirm them publicly.

But as more come out, this is something the administration has to respond to and respond to quickly.

And reporters, understandably, have important questions as there's intelligence out there that compromises American policies, the policies of our allies, and could hinder the war effort that the Biden

administration has been supporting in Ukraine for over a year. So it's major news, and the administration

is unable at this point to communicate what happened, who leaked it, you know, the extent of this,

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