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🗓️ 16 July 2019
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0:00.0 | Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman, and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing. |
0:05.2 | Stay tuned after the show for a message from Farma. And I'm Anna Palmer. This is the political |
0:09.8 | landscape President Donald Trump has set up. The bulk of this week will be focused on his attack |
0:15.7 | on representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Taleb, Ayanna Presley, and Ilan Omar. |
0:22.0 | It's all members of Congress were getting asked about Monday when we were in the Capitol. |
0:26.5 | This evening, around 7 p.m., Congress will vote on the resolution to, quote, |
0:30.5 | condemn President Trump's racist comments directed at members of Congress. |
0:35.3 | On the next day, the president will fly to North Carolina for a political rally, |
0:39.3 | where we'd be shocked if this didn't come up. |
0:42.2 | The president now has a new foil, and it's four young women of color who are from the energetic, |
0:48.1 | progressive wing of the party. |
0:49.6 | And Democrats now have four young, diverse faces atop their party after some complained |
0:54.0 | for years |
0:54.6 | that they were led by old white people. AOC, Talib, Presley, and Omar are now some of the most |
0:59.7 | recognizable political figures in America. They got picked up by live cable and the HVC Studio A |
1:05.0 | and news conference room used by party leaders like Nancy Pelosi was filled to the brim with |
1:09.5 | reporters when they held the press conference |
1:11.3 | yesterday. Republicans now have to cast a vote on whether they approve of Trump's comments. |
1:15.9 | Most Republicans are likely to stick with the president, even though they privately say he's a bore for |
1:20.1 | thinking and voicing these thoughts. It will be instructive to see whether some Republicans, |
1:24.6 | especially the ones who have criticized Trump, whether they vote with |
1:27.8 | Democrats. Last evening, senior Republicans said they expected 10 or fewer Republicans would vote to |
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