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The Playbook Podcast

April 5, 2017

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Looking at Trump's first 100 days, North Korea fires a missile ahead of the Chinese president's visit with President Trump and the Playbook Pool winners in today's Playbook Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Wednesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

0:07.5

And I'm Jake Sherman. There's one big stat that jumps out at us this morning. Barring a miracle,

0:12.4

President Donald Trump will get through one third of his first year in the White House without a single major legislative accomplishment.

0:19.5

That's right, Vice President Mike Pence's shuttle diplomacy.

0:22.8

A last ditch effort to try and restart Republican's Obamacare repeal has not yielded any

0:28.3

miraculous results. And for all that talk of infrastructure and tax reform, that's a long ways

0:34.1

away from actually becoming law. Several high-level Republican aides in the Capitol tell us this.

0:39.2

The White House would be well served to put forward a framework for legislation it would like to pass

0:43.9

and let Congress write packages to fit the guidelines.

0:47.1

That goes for infrastructure, tax reform, and any other legislative priority it has.

0:51.9

We've got some things to watch this morning on the Democratic side of the aisle.

0:55.8

House Democratic leaders are huddling this morning with their caucus to discuss health care

1:00.5

and what fixes to Obamacare they would work on.

1:03.9

And House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady is slated to meet with his panel's

1:07.9

Democratic members to discuss the outlines of tax reform.

1:11.9

On the world stage, the AP is reporting that North Korea fired a ballistic missile ahead of the

1:16.1

Chinese president's visit with Trump.

1:18.1

Gail King scored an interview with Ivanka Trump, where Ivanka said she wants to be a force

1:21.8

for good and make a positive impact on the administration.

1:25.2

And BuzzFeed is reporting that Jared Kushner secretly met

1:28.0

with Muslim leaders weeks before the travel ban was instituted. We've got a new Politico Morning

1:33.3

Consul poll that shows voters do not want a government shutdown. 65% of voters said that Congress

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