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Hello, good morning, everyone, and welcome to Playbooks Daily Briefing.

This is Playbooks Managing Editor and author Jack Blanchard, and it is Thursday, April the 24th,

and isn't the year zooming by.

I am here again, happily with Politico's's White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns to talk about

everything that's driving the day. Good morning. How are you, Dasha? It's Thursday. What day is it? What is it? What month is it? So what listeners need to know is that Dasha was out last night? Where did you go? Did you have a good time? And are you able to have this conversation coherently? Well, you can tell me at the end of this, how coherent I was or wasn't.

But again, this is our Super Bowl week, man. We got to have the stamina. You know, this is the one thing I am jealous of the president of the United States. The man, the man can party. The man can stay out. The man can talk. He has more energy than I do, I got to say. I think he's,

he's more suited for White Hills Correspondence Week than I am. The hardest thing is remembering

the stories you've got told at three o'clock in the morning. Like, that's an amazing story.

Please remember this. Please remember. That's a show. Like, do I take notes? Like, how do I?

Doesn't always go down that well at a cocktail party, we start scribbling in a notepad halfway through the conversation.

I promise listeners we were telling what was driving the day.

It's definitely not us going drinking.

What is driving the day is actually something much more serious than that.

We'll come back with great stories for you, though.

We'll come back with great stories.

Thursday is all about Ukraine for me because in town in Washington today, we have several very senior

important European politicians who are basically coming to talk to Trump and his people

about where we're up to in Ukraine and how this thing is now playing out. Trump himself is meeting

the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Garstore, in the Oval Office, and we'll see once again one of those special moments, Dascher, that we've got used to, where he lines them up in the Oval Office. The reporters are in there, shouting questions at both them. There'll probably be a load of other Trump world characters in there too, right? And all of that set up. What's interesting about this, a couple of things. One is that Norway

is in itself a really important country when it comes to European security because of it,

particularly its location. The Arctic is becoming an area where everybody is spending a lot

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