From Rome to the Oval Office to Tennessee
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A simple blood test can detect Alzheimer's years before symptoms appear. |
| 0:04.1 | Congress can connect Americans to early accurate dementia diagnosis by supporting the bipartisan |
| 0:09.1 | Alzheimer's Screening and Prevention Act, allowing Medicare to cover blood-based Alzheimer's screening. |
| 0:15.2 | Congress has acted to cover mammograms and other life-saving screenings. |
| 0:19.2 | Now, it's Alzheimer's Mammogram moment. Support the ASAP Act. |
| 0:24.0 | Learn more at ALZ.org slash Congress connects. |
| 0:32.9 | Today on the Playbook podcast, Marco Rubio's on cleanup duty with the Pope. Good look with that. |
| 0:39.5 | Back at the White House, Donald Trump hosts the president of Brazil, who just happens to be a big critic of the Iran War. |
| 0:45.5 | And the redistricting rodeo moves to Tennessee as the Republicans look to gobble up some extra house seats. |
| 0:51.9 | Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. |
| 0:53.6 | And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, May 7th. |
| 0:58.5 | How you doing, Dasha? How's that dog of yours? Oh my gosh, I was hoping you would ask. |
| 1:03.7 | Last night, Heli did the cutest thing. We have started to let Heli sleep in our room at night, which is a big, I know. |
| 1:12.2 | I opened the floodgates when my husband wasn't home for a weekend. |
| 1:15.2 | And then he came home. |
| 1:16.0 | I was like, sorry, it's happening. |
| 1:17.6 | But, but, but, but, so this started like a week ago. |
| 1:20.3 | And then last night, we were staying up kind of late, just, you know, doing nothing. |
| 1:25.5 | But we were downstairs on the couch and Heli went |
| 1:28.6 | upstairs to bed before us, like, went to bed. He's just like, guys, it's this too much. It's bedtime. |
| 1:35.9 | And we, like, we went up five minutes later. Like, where'd he go? And he's just on our bed without us. |
| 1:40.0 | How can he live like this? I have had people texting me complaining that the dog has not |
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