June 5, 2024: Trump’s after-hours hat trick

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

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In a trio of announcements last night, President Donald Trump unveiled a new travel ban barring entry into the U.S. by residents from of 12 nations, a fresh attempt to block Harvard-enrolled international students from entering the country and an investigation into the so-called “auto pen” scandal, alleging that White House aides unconstitutionally exercised presidential authority during Joe Biden’s presidency. Playbook managing editor and author Jack Blanchard and contributing author Adam Wren discuss it all. Plus, a preview of today’s big White House meeting between Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:08.6	Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.
0:10.6	And I'm Adam Wren, and it's Thursday, June the 5th.
0:13.9	And this is the Playbook podcast, and that is not Dash of Burns.
0:17.4	Thank you for stepping in, Adam.
0:18.7	How you doing, man?
0:19.6	Good.
0:20.0	Good to be with you, Jack. Where are you coming to us from this morning? Indianapolis, Indiana, the site of tonight's NBA finals kickoff with the Pacers taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder. I read about this. I have to say basketball is not my thing. It hasn't quite made it over to my part of the world, but I did see that
0:38.0	your team are doing very well. Are they going to win? Make a big call for us. I think they went in seven. I think it takes all seven games. Exciting. Good. Get our money's worth. All right. Good for you. Let's get on with it. We've got loads and loads of news happening in the moment. Three big things for you this morning. There was a late-night flurry of activity from Donald Trump last night,
0:37.8	Adam, a load of big announcements. at the moment. Three big things for you this morning. There was a late-night flurry of activity from
0:55.4	Donald Trump last night, Adam, a load of big announcements that are making headlines all over the
0:59.9	place. We'll get into them in a minute on the podcast. My big question is, was this just a plan
1:04.3	to distract us from Elon Musk row? I think an improvised plan are the keywords here, but certainly
1:10.1	you don't have to announce a travel ban on 12 countries at 927 p.m. on a Wednesday night.
1:15.7	Indeed. All right. Well, we'll get into the travel bans and the Biden inquiries and indeed the row with Elon Lusk in just a moment.
1:22.0	The second big story driving the day today, the new German chancellor, Friedrich Mertz, is in town today and he's going to take
1:27.8	his turn on the sort of White House rodeo after lunchtime. We're going to get that whole
1:33.0	oval office showpiece moment that we've seen with so many world leaders now where they sit around
1:37.8	and Trump either makes nice chit-chat with them or he ambushes them, as we've seen once or twice
1:42.7	with the leads of Ukraine and South Africa.
1:45.6	These are always entertaining to watch, and it's an interesting one, this, just because Merz
1:49.6	is new. He was only elected in February. Obviously, Germany remains one of the world's biggest
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