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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Trump administration is pushing forward with its oil-driven agenda in Venezuela. President Donald Trump is set to welcome oil industry executives to the White House later this week to talk about kickstarting production there again. Meanwhile, Trump appears to be easing up on some of the hardline stances he took against other countries in the wake of the shock military action to capture Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela over the weekend. The president seems to be easing his position on Colombia and Greenland after members of Congress expressed concern. Playbook’s Jack Blanchard and White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns discuss the shift. Plus, Congress is finally eyeing a vote on the now-expired Obamacare subsidies.

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0:00.0	Today on the Playbook podcast protests in Minneapolis last night following the killing of a female
0:10.8	protester by an ICE agent and the political world is totally divided about what happened.
0:16.9	The Senate will vote today on a resolution to block Donald Trump from further military action
0:20.8	in Venezuela.
0:21.7	Good look with that. And there are big votes happening in the House too, including on Obamacare subsidies.
0:27.9	Affordability is still everything in American politics. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.
0:32.6	And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, January the 8th.
0:37.6	Dasha, hello. We need to talk about Minneapolis. Everyone has been talking about this
0:42.5	terrible incident that happened yesterday morning. If you've been on cable news or social media
0:47.5	or anywhere over the last 24 hours, it is the hottest topic that everyone is talking about,
0:51.8	people pouring over the video of the lady being
0:55.0	shot. It's obviously become instantly a very political thing as well, given the nature of what
0:59.5	ICE were doing there. The thing that's really jumping out to me about this is the basic
1:04.8	facts of what happened. Everyone can see them. There are videos of it. Everyone knows.
1:08.8	About half-past 10 in the morning, an ice officer shot this woman through the windscreen of a car.
1:13.4	She died at the scene.
1:14.5	It's a horrible tragedy.
1:16.2	Everything else is so hotly disputed immediately as soon as something like this happened.
1:21.1	People rowing over, pouring over the video of it, people with completely different takes about what happened.
1:26.6	And that includes the government and the governor. Yeah, it's really striking. I'm just looking at some of the
1:31.5	quotes. A Christy Noem called this an act of domestic terrorism against the ICE officer, saying
1:36.6	that the ICE agent was shot defensively using his training to save his life, and those of his
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