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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

Donald Trump’s indictment: Our reporters dig into the repercussions for 2024

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Playbook Deep Dive host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza gathers three of the best journalists in the POLITICO’s newsroom to break down the immediate questions of what Trump's indictment means. Joining him is Jonathan Martin, POLITICO’s Politics Bureau Chief; Meridith McGraw, who covers Trump for POLITICO; and Erica Orden, who is new to POLITICO and is one of the best legal reporters out there. All three have been breaking news on this story – and they’re on deadline. These are their thoughts about what has led to this moment and what will occur because of it. Ryan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO.Erica Orden is a legal reporter for POLITICO.Meridith McGraw is a national political correspondent for POLITICO.Jonathan Martin is politics bureau chief for POLITICO.Afra Abdullah is an associate producer for POLITICO audio.Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio. Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is the executive producer for POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Ryan Liza, this is Playbook Deep Dive.

0:10.2

Trump was just indicted a few hours ago and I've collected three of the best journalists

0:14.1

in the political newsroom to break down the immediate questions of what Trump's indictment

0:19.9

means.

0:20.9

I've got Jonathan Martin, our politics bureau chief, got Meredith McGraw, who covers Trump

0:26.8

for Politico and I've got Erica Orden, who is new to Politico and is one of the best legal

0:32.3

reporters out there.

0:33.3

All three of them have been breaking news on this story.

0:36.4

We're all on deadline.

0:37.4

We're working on stories and we're working on Playbook for tomorrow.

0:39.9

We wanted to give you all an initial first rough cut of what some of the top people at Politico

0:45.8

are thinking about this story.

0:48.3

If you're a deep dive listener, this is going to be your deep dive episode for the week.

0:53.7

Let's get started.

0:56.8

Last night, I was on OnlyFans watching a Stormy Daniels Q&A, like that's the sort of,

1:15.5

that's where we are.

1:17.1

I'm Judy Call of Ryan.

1:20.3

I actually was so boring.

1:21.3

I actually turned it off.

1:22.8

I don't know if it was PG for the period I was watching.

1:25.7

That's a very long way of saying, did anyone else get dragged into doing that last night

1:30.5

and to stay abreast of this story or was I the only one that was asked to do that?

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