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The Playbook Podcast

August 16, 2019

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Daily News, Politics, Government, News

4.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Rashida Tlaib going to Israel, Donald Trump dreaming of Greenland and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing,

0:05.3

stay tuned after the show for a message from Google.

0:08.1

Rashida Taleb is going to Israel after all. She asked the Israeli government to go visit her

0:12.1

grandmother in the West Bank and the Israeli government agreed. She said she would not participate

0:17.9

in boycotts while there. Meanwhile, the big picture, Benjamin Netanyahu

0:22.2

united the following people against him Thursday when he decided to ban Taliban al-Alib and Ilhan Omar from

0:27.7

entering Israel. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Marco Rubio, Steny Hoyer, A-Pack, Ben Shapiro, and Eric

0:33.8

Erickson. There were some supportive statements, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Chip Roy of Texas,

0:38.8

and Lee Zeldon of New York all supported Netanyahu's move. So did Lindsay Graham of South Carolina,

0:43.9

who said if you openly joined an international movement to destroy the state of Israel,

0:47.8

then you'll suffer the consequences. House GOP leadership had its own views. Kevin McCarthy,

0:52.2

who had previously pressured Netanyahu to allow

0:54.5

Talibin Omar to enter, said the pair should have gone on the trip that was put on by an

0:58.4

eight-pack-linked group, but didn't say if he backed Netanyahu's decision. Steve Scalia said he

1:02.9

backed Netanyahu's decision, so did Liz Cheney, the number three House Republican. The front

1:08.0

page of Israel Hayom, the newspaper owned by Sheldon Adelson, says no entry to

1:12.2

haters of Israel. Kicker of the day from Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker in the New York Times,

1:17.8

Kevin Steele, 40, is self-described Democrat for Trump, said he hoped Mr. Trump's trade war would be over

1:23.1

soon. Listen, Mr. Steele said, I'm hoping he closes with China. Just get the deal done. All of my money is in

1:29.1

stocks. Trump seems worried. That's according to the Washington Post who says that Donald Trump is

1:33.8

banking on a strong economy to win election and he's fretting over a possible downturn. Phil Rucker,

1:39.0

Damian Palletta and Josh Dossy write, mounting signs of global economic distress this week have

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