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The Playbook Podcast

April 10, 2017

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A quieter week in Washington, A Trump-Koch detente and more in today's Playbook Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by J.P. Morgan Chase.

0:07.7

And I'm Jake Sherman. It's going to be a quiet week in Washington, save the ongoing wars inside President Donald Trump's West Wing.

0:14.6

Congress is out. Passover begins tonight. The big meeting of the week is a White House visit by NATO Secretary General Yen Stoltenberg Wednesday.

0:21.7

Trump has not been shy about NATO, saying the U.S. bears too much of the financial burden for the 28-nation military alliance.

0:28.7

We do not expect that message to change.

0:31.1

Our colleague, Shane Goldmacher, has great inside-the-room details on how the White House is trying to find a message as the 100-day marker approaches.

0:40.0

Shane reports that more than 30 Trump staffers gathered last week to discuss how to package

0:45.6

Trump's first 100 days, and that staffers were told one of the biggest challenges would be the

0:51.6

fact that there is no Trump doctrine.

0:59.5

The blunt talk was not welcomed by all, including some who believe that Trump was elected on an America first vision.

1:01.1

It's unlikely their message job is going to get any easier.

1:03.9

With Congress gone for two weeks, a Republican health care plan still on life support and visions of tax reform and infrastructure in the distant future, funding the

1:11.8

government and implementing numerous executive orders could be the bulk of what Trump's team has

1:16.4

to talk about. Our colleagues, Ken Vogel and Josh Dossy, have the skinny on Trump making

1:21.2

nice over the weekend with the Koch brothers as both dined at Mar-a-Lago. Vogel and Dossi report

1:27.4

that Trump stopped by the table the

1:29.2

Koch brothers were at. We hear that Trump and Melania were eating with Steve and Christine

1:33.2

Schwartzman Saturday night. The Coke brothers were dining with Chris Ruddy of Newsmax and media

1:37.4

general Ares Talbot Maxi and Miguel Forbes. In the juice we've got moveon.org ramping up its

1:43.2

activity in the Georgia special election.

1:46.1

The group is launching a six-figure TV and digital ad buy backing Democratic candidate John

1:52.2

Ossoff. The focus of the ads will be drawing a contrast between Ossoff and Republicans on

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