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The Playbook Podcast

Feb. 8, 2023: Biden’s no-compromise SOTU

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden had a few goals last night: 1. Remind his audience of his accomplishments over the last two years; 2. Reiterate his positions in the spending debate (no negotiations over the debt ceiling and no touching Social Security and Medicare); 3. Detail the most popular highlights of his 2023 agenda; and 4. Expose his congressional GOP opposition as unreasonable and chaotic. The speech accomplished the first three goals if you listened or read it carefully. But it will be best remembered for the dramatic clashes with jeering members of the GOP which may have done more than Biden ever could have hoped to accomplish goal No. 4.  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

Presented by Airlines for America.

0:03.5

Good morning playbook listeners.

0:06.0

I'm Ruguaynevalin.

0:07.5

Today's show, key takeaways from last night's state of the union address, plus the big things we're watching on Wednesday, February 8th.

0:16.1

Breaking this morning, by way of the Associated Press in London, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky

0:22.6

will visit Britain on Wednesday.

0:24.8

It's his first trip to the UK since Russia's invasion began nearly a year ago and only

0:30.4

his second confirmed journey outside Ukraine during the war.

0:34.8

The British government says Zelensky will hold talks with Prime Minister

0:38.6

Rishi Sunak, addressed the British Parliament, and meet with UK military chiefs.

0:44.8

This was the wildest night in the House chamber since a few weeks ago, when the place was

0:50.7

bananas during the McCarthy Speaker Vote marathon. But aside from Biden's confrontation with the entire House GOP conference,

0:59.0

the second most talked about encounter involved Representative George Santos and Senator Mitt Romney,

1:05.1

who last night told the congressman how he really felt about him.

1:08.9

Afterward, Romney described to reporters what he had to say.

1:12.0

Look, look, he says he, you know, that he embellished his record. Look, embellishing is saying

1:18.0

you've got an A when he had an A minus. Lying is saying, you graduated from a college you didn't

1:22.8

even attend. And he shouldn't be in Congress. And they're going to go through the process

1:27.4

and hopefully get him out. And but he shouldn't be there Congress, and they're going to go through the process and hopefully get him out.

1:29.2

But he shouldn't be there, and if he had any shame at all, he wouldn't be there.

1:33.0

Why did you make a point to say that, though?

1:34.8

I mean, it was kind of out of your way to say that.

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