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The Playbook Podcast

July 18, 2022: The top 3 storylines to watch this week

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The week's top three storylines to watch: 1. The Jan. 6 committee’s primetime (possible) finale: The panel will hold its eighth hearing Thursday night, using an 8 p.m. slot to explore what Trump did during the 187 minutes before he told his supporters rioting at the Capitol to go home. Will this actually be the committee’s final hearing?  2. Reconciliation in the Senate: On Thursday, the Senate parliamentarian is expected to have so-called Byrd bath arguments on Democrats’ plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. 3. The CHIPS/USICA showdown: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is hoping to tee up a floor vote as soon as Tuesday “to begin the process to move forward a limited competition bill that would include — at a minimum — the emergency funding for CHIPS,” per Schumer’s office. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by Amazon.

0:02.0

Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Rookin Winovalin. It's Monday.

0:05.0

Today, a preview of the week ahead. It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

0:10.0

Here are the week's top three storylines we're watching for this week.

0:17.0

One, the January 6th committee's primetime possible finale. The panel will hold its eighth hearing Thursday night using an 8 p.m. slot to explore what

0:25.4

Trump did during the 187 minutes before he told his supporters rioting at the Capitol to go home.

0:32.3

Here's the question, will this actually be the committee's final hearing?

0:35.9

Politico colleague, Nicholas Wu writes in,

0:38.2

quote, committee members have stressed this is the conclusion of just, quote, the series of

0:43.6

presentations. Members of the panel have still reserved the right to hold more hearings, especially

0:48.5

as new witnesses come forward, and committee members have talked about holding even more hearings

0:53.5

to tee up their

0:54.2

final report in the fall.

0:56.0

They're still investigating as they staged the hearings this Tuesday.

0:59.5

They're expecting a tranche of information from the Secret Service on the agency's missing

1:03.8

text messages after the select panel subpoenaed the Secret Service last Friday.

1:08.7

The tricky part for the committee is going to be how to balance

1:11.3

the drafting of their report with the intake of new information. Expect them to keep on working

1:16.0

and flexing their investigative muscles, even during the normally quiet August recess. Thursday

1:21.5

certainly won't be the last wheel here from the January 6th Committee. Storyline number two,

1:27.2

reconciliation in the Senate.

1:29.0

On Thursday of this week, the Senate parliamentarian is expected to have so-called

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