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The Playbook Podcast

December 3, 2019

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Daily News, Politics, Government, News

4.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The latest from Trump’s London trip, both parties’ impeachment strategies this week and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from Amazon.

0:09.1

President Donald Trump is in London for the NATO summit. He's already made some pretty strong statements. Here are the top headlines.

0:16.7

The president said he will meet with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He said he has no thoughts on Johnson's election because he doesn't want to complicate it.

0:25.4

Trump also hit back on French president, Emmanuel Macron, statement that NATO is brain dead.

0:30.7

Trump said nobody needs NATO more than France, and that the country that benefits the least from it is the U.S.

0:40.5

Still, Trump said their relationship is fine.

0:46.3

The president also called the impeachment a hoax, and he said censure is unacceptable because he didn't do anything wrong. It's unclear if Trump will sanction Turkey over buying Russian military equipment.

0:52.7

The president said he likes Turkey and then he gets

0:54.9

along very well with a president and that he's a very good member of NATO or will be.

1:01.0

We've got a first look this morning on both parties' strategy going into the Judiciary Committee

1:05.1

phase of impeachment. House Dems have released a video this morning that opens with this.

1:10.4

Two weeks of testimony, one story of betrayal.

1:13.7

Then it ticks off the most damning testimony from witnesses.

1:17.3

Meanwhile, Republicans are preparing to deal with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler

1:20.9

after two weeks of House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff running a very tight ship.

1:26.3

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will take over.

1:29.4

Judiciary was sidelined once, so there's a lot of stay for the panel, led by Nadler and filled

1:34.4

with some of the most conservative and liberal members of Congress. Republicans feel as though

1:40.3

they have an opportunity to slow Democrats momentum, and here's how they think they're

1:44.3

going to do it. Republicans are going to throw up more procedural roadblocks. Representative Doug

1:49.5

Collins, the top Republican on judiciary, is going to force procedural arguments with Nadler

1:54.0

and fight when Democrats try to bat them away. This is a marked difference from how Representative

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