August 27, 2018
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 27 August 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by Morgan Stanley. |
| 0:07.7 | And I'm Jake Sherman. The big question. So far, President Donald Trump has not done anything outwardly insensitive since John McCain's death. |
| 0:14.3 | Is that sustainable for an entire week as McCain lies in state in the Arizona and U.S. capitals and is remembered in services in Phoenix and Washington. |
| 0:21.5 | So far behind the scenes at the White House, things have been turbulent. The Washington Post is reporting |
| 0:25.1 | that Trump Nix plans to release a White House statement praising McCain, top staffers, |
| 0:29.8 | including Chief of Staff John Kelly, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and others advocated for |
| 0:34.2 | an official statement. The New York Times notes the president spent much of |
| 0:37.5 | Sunday golfing and attacking enemies on Twitter. The AP has all the details on the plans for three |
| 0:42.7 | services to remember John McCain. McCain will lie in state Wednesday in the Arizona State |
| 0:48.0 | Capitol. A funeral will be conducted Thursday at North Phoenix Baptist Church. Former Vice President |
| 0:54.1 | Joe Biden will give remarks, |
| 0:55.9 | and on Friday, McCain will lie and state in the Capitol Rotunda with a formal ceremony |
| 1:01.0 | and time for people to pay their respects. On Saturday, there will be a processional past the |
| 1:07.4 | Vietnam Veterans Memorial and funeral at the Washington National Cathedral. |
| 1:12.3 | Both former President George W. Bush and Barack Obama are expected to speak. |
| 1:18.4 | And there will be a private funeral Sunday at the Naval Academy Chapel, |
| 1:22.7 | followed by a private burial at the Academy Cemetery. |
| 1:26.6 | He will be buried next to a Navy Academy classmate |
| 1:29.2 | and lifelong friend Chuck Larson. The Post is reporting that the Arizona governor will wait |
| 1:33.7 | until McCain is buried to announce his successor. President Trump was tweeting yesterday and |
| 1:38.2 | finished with an 8.39 p.m. tweet where he wrote over 90% approval rating for your all-time |
| 1:42.9 | favorite, I hope, president within |
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