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🗓️ 20 April 2018
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0:00.0 | Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, |
0:05.8 | sponsored by BP. We're kicking off the morning with a playbook siren. Nafta concerns are about |
0:11.8 | to explode on Capitol Hill. Senior Republican aides tell us they are growing increasingly concerned |
0:18.0 | about their ability to ratify a NAFTA deal that the White House cuts. |
0:22.0 | They worry that if the president's negotiators come to an agreement in the coming months, |
0:26.6 | they will not have the support to pass it. |
0:29.2 | Remember, it's the middle of an election year, and trade politics are particularly thorny |
0:34.1 | on Capitol Hill. |
0:35.4 | It is getting almost no attention, but Congress would have to |
0:37.7 | ratify a new NAFTA deal. Trump can't do this alone. The Trump administration has done absolutely |
0:43.5 | nothing to prepare the Hill for a bruising trade vote, and GOP leadership is well aware of the void. |
0:49.9 | Remember, when the Trans-Pacific Partnership cleared the Capitol, it benefited from a multi-year, multi-million dollar lobbying campaign. |
0:57.0 | The best case scenario? If the Trump administration comes to a deal, Congress could try to tackle it in a lame duck session of Congress. |
1:05.0 | But that could mean months and months of uncertainty. |
1:07.0 | And we've got a playbook scoop this morning. |
1:09.0 | Speaker Paul Ryan raised $3 million |
1:11.3 | for the Congressional Leadership Fund Thursday in Boston. They had several meetings and a dinner |
1:16.9 | at Jonathan and Patty Graff's house. Spotted at the dinner, Chris Collins, Spencer Zwick, |
1:22.8 | Corey Bliss, and Paul Edgerly. And Hope Hicks emerged in Washington yesterday. She was spotted at the Glover |
1:29.1 | Park Group's Washington office. Her father, Paul Hicks, is a GPG managing director. The big story in all |
1:35.6 | of the papers this morning is about the Comey memos. As our own Kyle Cheney reports, former FBI director |
1:41.6 | James Comey, documented several conversations with President Trump last |
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