Bondi's big day
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Health plans welcome reforms to strengthen Medicare Advantage. |
| 0:03.5 | However, a proposal for flat program funding at a time of sharply rising medical costs |
| 0:08.4 | and high utilization of care will directly impact seniors' coverage. |
| 0:12.3 | If finalized, this proposal could result in benefit reductions and higher costs for 35 million |
| 0:17.6 | seniors and people with disabilities when they renew their Medicare Advantage |
| 0:21.3 | coverage in October 26. Learn more at a HIP.org. |
| 0:31.9 | Today on the Playbook podcast, a double defeat for Donald Trump at the grand jury and on the floor of the house. |
| 0:39.5 | Pam Bondi is giving evidence before Congress today on Epstein and the weaponization of her department, |
| 0:45.0 | and BB Netanyahu is in the White House. Again, he wants to talk about Iran. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. |
| 0:51.5 | And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Wednesday, February 11th. |
| 0:56.4 | How you doing, Dasha? Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Happy Wednesday. So much news happening late |
| 1:03.0 | last night. I thought no one was ever going to get to bed. The story's happening all over the place. |
| 1:07.7 | The big loss in the house for Mike Johnson and I want to talk about in a minute. But the first story I want to talk through, because this will have big repercussions today |
| 1:14.5 | when Pam Bondi turns up to give evidence, is the news that Donald Trump's DOJ sought an |
| 1:19.7 | indictment of six Democratic members of Congress over that video they made. We've been talking |
| 1:24.9 | about it a lot the past few weeks, telling the military not to obey |
| 1:28.7 | illegal orders. This has obviously been a big row, dash, as you know, back and forth on the airways. |
| 1:34.4 | They were very heavily criticized. They defended themselves, said they were just stating the law. |
| 1:39.0 | It's now gone into a completely different realm, which is Donald Trump's DOJ has been trying to put them in prison |
| 1:45.2 | over it. And that feels like a completely different place to where this story was at originally. |
| 1:49.9 | The DOJ went to a grand jury to try and get an indictment and failed to get that indictment, |
| 1:55.4 | which is something that used to be almost unheard of. You always get the indictment, |
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