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Today on the Playbook podcast, a familiar family is back in the news. Adam is going to break down for us what's going on in Biden world. Meanwhile, the California primary was earlier this week and we finally have a semblance of some results. Politico's California reporter Jeremy White joins us to talk it through. And back on the East Coast, Maine

Progressive Grand Platner, who is running for a Senate seat, is in the hot seat. Hello, I'm Megan

Messerly. And I'm Adam Wren, and it's Friday, June the 6th. Welcome, Adam. We've made it through

another week, somehow, barely.

Yeah, time will tell whether we may go through the final six-month sprint of the midterm year.

Oh my gosh, it's going to both fly by and drag on. So we will see how we make it.

Adam, we have to start off, though, talking about Joe Biden, Democrats' favorite topic.

The Bidens just cannot seem to quit the news cycle.

There was a tiff this week between former Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates and former First Lady Jill Biden.

Walk us through what happened. Yeah, Megan. So Andrew Bates, for those who don't know, was a Biden loyalist, was in the press shop, was on the campaign, even at moments when it thought like Biden might not make it, past the Iowa caucuses in New Hampshire primary until South Carolina. And then he followed him to the White House, so very loyal aid. And this week, he said something the effect of it may not be the ideal time for former First Lady Joe Biden to be out there talking about their experience at a time when

the party's trying to pivot away from what happened in 2024. And the former First Lady, Joe Biden,

clapped back and essentially said, Andrew, call me and tell that to my face. And so we can report

exclusively this morning, Megan, that the former first lady called Andrew Bates and the two spoke

yesterday and cleared the air. Oh, wow. Well, I was going to say the former president himself announced

his post-presidental memoir could drop as early as September, and so I'm sure Democrats

are going to be thrilled for yet another Biden news cycle heading into the final stretch of the

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