Feb. 15, 2023: Kamala Harris’ mission to Munich

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

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Happening today (offically offically) — “Haley enters the fray, a female candidate against a man known for mocking them,” by Natalie Allison in Charleston, S.C.: “Stepping out ahead of a field of men who spent the better part of two years mulling and flirting with a 2024 run, Nikki Haley marked her entrance into the Republican presidential primary with an announcement video and a formal event on Wednesday. And tonight, VP Kamala Harris will board Air Force Two for the Munich Security Conference, the annual confab of global political, defense and intelligence leaders. It stands to be the most critical foreign trip of her vice presidency — at least since last year’s trip to Bavaria. Plus, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the oldest sitting senator at age 89, announced yesterday that she would retire at the end of her term in 2024. Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and deputy editor Zack Stanton reflect on her career in politics and what's next for her Senate seat. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Good morning, Playbookers. I'm Ragulman Ovalin. A new 2024 challenger appears. Harris heads to Germany,
0:09.0	plus a California senator, announces her retirement. Here are the big things we're watching for Wednesday, February 15th.
0:17.5	Nikki Haley has officially entered the fray. As Politico's Natalie Allison reports out of Charleston,
0:23.2	South Carolina, stepping out ahead of a field of men who spent the better part of two years
0:28.9	mulling and flirting with a 2024 run, Nikki Haley marked her entrance into the Republican presidential
0:35.3	primary with an announcement video and a formal
0:38.4	event on Wednesday.
0:40.2	It's a direct bet by the former South Carolina governor that a party that has never nominated
0:45.4	a woman as its standard bearer, let alone seeing a woman candidate win a single primary
0:50.5	state is ready to do just that.
0:53.4	It's also a gamble that she can merge various
0:55.8	threads of republicanism that at times seem at odds. Tonight, Vice President Kamla Harris
1:02.0	will board Air Force 2 for the Munich Security Conference, the annual confab of global political,
1:08.2	defense and intelligence leaders. It stands to be the most critical
1:12.4	foreign trip of her vice presidency, at least since last year's trip to Bavaria. That visit came just
1:19.5	days before Russia invaded Ukraine, and Harris delivered a sobering in-person message there
1:26.0	to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, encouraging
1:29.7	him to prepare for an imminent full-scale attack and pledging full support from the United States.
1:36.0	This year, she returns to brace the Western Alliance for a sustained and costly conflict,
1:41.7	arguing that the need to counter Russian aggression outweighs the dire
1:46.0	impact the invasion has had on the world economy and energy security in Europe.
1:52.1	The vice president had an exclusive interview with Playbooks Eugene Daniels on Tuesday.
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