Hey guys, I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman and we're the co-authors of the Politico Playbook.

We're reflecting a little bit on the last year about how many things have changed in Washington and how Playbook has changed. And one of the interesting things that we've done is create something called the Playbook interview, which we thought it would be cool to have some of our high-profile readers and subjects of the news use Playbook as a place to talk and to make a message

to the audience, deliver a message to the audience, and to Washington and New York and L.A. and

San Francisco, all of our big reader hubs.

And so the first person that we interviewed for the Playbook interview was Paul Ryan, the

Speaker of the House.

I remember sitting in his office on Capitol Hill, man, how times have changed for Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House. I remember sitting in his office on Capitol Hill,

man, how times have changed for Paul Ryan, right? I mean, Paul Ryan was kind of reluctantly dragged

into the speakership, and here he is in 2017 as the, you know, one of the main drivers for Donald Trump's legislative agenda on Capitol Hill,

something that we never thought would happen when we took over, Anna, because he didn't even endorse Donald Trump.

Right.

Well, he did eventually.

But you all remember, I mean, he certainly, there was no love loss there on the campaign trail.

No.

He didn't, he told his members to do whatever they needed to do.

Clearly, Republican leadership didn't expect Donald Trump to win and the landscape to look like it did.

But as far as the playbook interview, one of the best things about it, I think, from our perspective, is sometimes it's on the news.

Sometimes it's, you know, I think I did,

I did one with Donna Brazil during the whole DNC scandal when she took over for Debbie

Washington Schultz, but oftentimes it's kind of an ability to take a step back and talk to real

kind of business leaders, particularly when they want to send a signal to Washington.

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