April 15, 2019
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
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🗓️ 15 April 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from Jewel Labs. |
| 0:09.2 | We've got some news this morning on the USMCA front. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's trade team, led by Erica Suarez and Jay Kossela, will begin holding listening sessions with the business community in the coming weeks. |
| 0:22.6 | The goal, replicate a similar process McConnell's team deployed during tax reform, according to a |
| 0:28.2 | source familiar with the plan. In 2018, McConnell's team pushed tax reform through with stunning |
| 0:32.9 | efficiency. Backing of the business community will be critical as Congress tries to pass a rewrite of |
| 0:38.4 | NAFTA. This is the week, all of Washington is waiting for AG Bill Barr to release the redacted |
| 0:45.3 | Mueller report. No one knows exactly what potential bombshells the report could entail for President |
| 0:50.4 | Donald Trump, but the general consensus is that this could be a pretty bad week for the |
| 0:54.6 | administration that has leaned in aggressively on the no-collusion part of Barr's summary. |
| 1:01.4 | Here's the latest on immigration reform. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump and his |
| 1:06.0 | aides are looking at clamping down on countries whose nationals overstay short-term visitor visas as part of their |
| 1:12.8 | larger immigration efforts. They are also looking to tighten student and investor visas, |
| 1:18.0 | preventing immigrants from becoming citizens if they are likely to use publicly funded benefits, |
| 1:23.1 | the journal writes. John Bresdenham and Heather Cagle report that Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that |
| 1:30.1 | Capitol Police and the House Sergeant at Arms are conducting a security assessment related |
| 1:35.1 | to Representative Ilan Omar, her family and her staff's safety, following a tweet by President |
| 1:41.6 | Trump. |
| 1:42.8 | And Omar A. |
| 1:43.4 | told them that there has been an increase in threats following the tweet by President Trump. And Omar A. told them that there has been an increase in threats |
| 1:46.1 | following the tweet. On the 2020 front, AP scooped that President Donald Trump's re-election campaign |
| 1:53.2 | will report that he raised more than $30 million during the first quarter of 2019, bringing his |
| 2:00.2 | cash on hand to $40.8 million. |
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