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The Playbook Podcast

April 4, 2019

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

A really bad 24 hours for the president, Joe Biden's response to allegations and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Thursday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned

0:06.1

after the show for a message from the American Bankers Association. We are in the middle of a really

0:12.1

bad 24 hours for the president. Number one, Bob Mueller's team is saying that the Bill Barr letter

0:18.2

didn't capture the spirit of the special counsel's findings.

0:21.8

Number two. It was believed that Jared Kushner could possibly be under foreign influence.

0:27.7

Number three, Congress is bearing down on Trump, priding his personal and business relationships

0:32.6

going back many years. And number four, the House Intel Committee is looking into Trump's inaugural

0:38.3

committee. There has long been chatter that if AG Bill Barr had mischaracterized the spirit

0:44.3

of Bob Mueller's report, the Mueller team would let that be known and start talking. And here we are.

0:50.5

The New York Times is reporting that Mueller investigators have told associates that Barr did not accurately portray their findings.

0:56.8

The Times says it's unclear what exactly is at issue and whether there is widespread frustration among the 19 lawyers and roughly 40 FBI agents who worked on the investigation.

1:06.6

The Post reports that some members of Mueller's team were disappointed that Barr did not release

1:10.9

the entire summary information.

1:13.6

While Darren Samuelson writes, get ready for the Mueller redaction wars.

1:18.1

Number two, the post reports that Jared Kushner has been identified as the senior White

1:21.9

House official whose security clearance was first denied by career officials in released House Oversight Committee

1:28.9

Documents.

1:30.1

Number three, John Bresdenahan, Andrew Dissadario, and Sarah Ferris write that Trump was hit

1:34.5

with an accidental one-day investigative assault, with House Democrats demanding to look

1:39.3

into Trump's tax returns for six years.

1:42.3

And number four, the Times is to put the story that now the House

1:44.8

Intel Committee is looking for documents related to Trump's inauguration. There were a few stories

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