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The Playbook Podcast

July 13, 2018

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Foreign leaders continue to wrestle with President Donald Trump, Speaker Ryan's latest fundraising numbers, Sen. Schumer buckles down in fight against Kavanaugh and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by Delta Airlines.

0:07.1

The story of the day comes out of Politico Europe. They're reporting on the followout from Trump's NATO meeting.

0:13.6

They quote several foreign leaders, including the Danish defense minister who said it's difficult to decode what policy the American president is

0:21.8

promoting, and that NATO allies now live with uncertainty, and that Trump plays in a

0:27.5

completely different way than the rest of us. The big story across the pond is an interview

0:33.3

that Trump did with the son, where he's quoted as saying, I told British Prime Minister, Theresa May, how to do Brexit, but she wrecked it, and a U.S.

0:43.3

trade deal is off.

0:44.8

The White House quickly went into damage control mode, with Sarah Huckabee Sanders putting out a statement,

0:50.2

saying the president likes and respects May, and that she's a very good person, and he never said

0:55.5

anything bad about her. Trump is at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst this morning. He was greeted

1:01.8

by May and will view a joint U.S. and British military exercise. Later today, the president and

1:07.8

May will hold a bilateral meeting, a working lunch, and the two

1:11.7

have a joint press conference scheduled later today. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are

1:16.5

also scheduled to have tea with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle before departing for Trump

1:22.1

Turnberry in Scotland. Politica magazine has a top talker this morning with Sally Quinn writing about what Ben Bradley would think of Donald Trump.

1:30.4

Her take, he would rise to the challenge. As she writes, he believed to his core that lies may work for presidents for a while, but that there is always a price to be paid that the truth emerges eventually.

1:42.4

We've got the cash dash on lockdown this morning with a first for playbookers.

1:46.7

Here are the details.

1:48.4

Speaker Paul Ryan raised a total of $10 million this quarter through Team Ryan,

1:53.3

his personal political operation, and by raising and giving money to members and candidates.

1:58.9

Four million of that came in through direct Team Ryan fundraising.

2:02.4

And this doesn't count the money that Ryan raised for Protect the House and CLF, the Super

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