April 6, 2020
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 6 April 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Today's Politico Playbook Audio Briefing is presented by Morgan Stanley. |
| 0:05.8 | Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing. |
| 0:10.4 | And I'm Jake Sherman. Some news this morning for the better part of the last week. Chuck Schumer has been publicly urging Donald Trump to appoint a military leader to oversee the production and distribution of medical supplies and equipment for the coronavirus. |
| 0:21.7 | Last night, Schumer spoke to Mark Meadows on the phone to plead his case. |
| 0:25.9 | Schumer asked Meadows to have Trump fully invoked the Defense Production Act and appoint a czar |
| 0:30.4 | to oversee every aspect of making and distributing equipment. |
| 0:33.8 | Schumer went as far as to give Meadows a list of names. |
| 0:37.5 | Air Force General Paul Selva, the former vice chair of the Joint Chiefs under both Barack Obama and Trump. |
| 0:44.2 | Admiral Sandy Winfield, the Navy veteran who was also the vice chair of the Joint Chiefs, and ran the U.S. Northern Command, which deals with domestic disasters, and Vice Admiral Mark Hardincheck, |
| 0:55.4 | who ran the Defense Logistics Agency. The president's retort has generally been that he has |
| 1:00.9 | invoked the DPA, but has only done so in a limited manner. He has also said that he has a military |
| 1:06.5 | man running the supply chain, but the criticism is he has not been empowered to run the entire process. |
| 1:12.7 | Meadows now has the names in his pocket, and as we saw last week, Schumer's relationship with Trump |
| 1:17.2 | himself is unlikely to be productive for the moment, so this is a smart play by the New York Democrat. |
| 1:22.9 | Jonathan Swan had a great scoop in Axios last night about a tiff involving Peter Navarro and |
| 1:27.4 | Anthony Fauci about the usefulness of hydroxychloroquine. The story got us Swan had a great scoop in Axios last night about a tiff involving Peter Navarro and Anthony |
| 1:27.7 | Fauci about the usefulness of hydroxychloroquine. The story got us thinking, we have a president |
| 1:32.7 | who has no medical background to speak of offering his views of medicine. He even said, |
| 1:37.6 | what do I know? I'm not a doctor. Peter Navarro, the trade representative, is toting research |
| 1:41.8 | about medicine into White House meetings. |
| 1:48.2 | The Washington Post has a terrific story this morning, which describes Rudy Giuliani as, |
| 1:50.9 | quote, personal science advisor to Trump. |
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