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The Playbook Podcast

From Rome to the Oval Office to Tennessee

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Marc Rubio is at the Vatican to smooth things over with Pope Leo XIV after weeks of tension with the White House. Playbook’s Dasha Burns and Jack Blanchard discuss the political importance of this meeting and what is really at stake. Meanwhile, Trump hosts Brazilian President Lula, who has been very critical of the Iran War, at the Oval Office. And Republicans are back to redrawing maps—this time in Tennessee—where they are threatening the state’s lone Democratic House seat.

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:09.1

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0:15.2

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0:19.2

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0:24.0

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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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