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The Playbook Podcast

June 6, 2017

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

The Senate is aiming for a vote on replacing Obamacare by the July 4th recess, a government contractor is charged with mishandling classified information and more in today's Playbook Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing sponsored by Samsung.

0:06.2

And I'm Anna Palmer. In case you were wondering exactly where President Donald Trump stood on a travel ban,

0:12.5

he tweeted again last night, writing, quote, that's right, we need a travel ban for certain dangerous countries,

0:20.2

not some politically correct term that

0:22.5

won't help us protect our people.

0:24.3

Jen Habercorn and Burgess Everett have the scoop on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

0:28.3

wanting to vote on replacing Obamacare by the July 4th recess.

0:31.8

If you listen to Senate Republicans, you don't exactly get the sense that they believe

0:35.4

they'll be able to pass a replacement of Obamacare

0:37.5

by the July 4th recess. But we hear that Senate Republicans are starting to send pieces of what

0:42.1

might end up in their plan to the Congressional Budget Office. The New York Times is Peter

0:46.2

Baker and Maggie Haberman detail how Trump is getting tired of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

0:51.9

And the Wall Street Journal has a brutal op-ed this morning on how Trump

0:55.7

is undermining his own travel ban and the Justice Department. London Mayor Siddee Khan is saying

1:01.1

that Britain should cancel Trump's upcoming state visit. Intercept has a new story out on a top-secret

1:06.1

detailing Russian hacking efforts just days before the 2016 election.

1:11.6

The Washington Post, Devlin Barrett, is reporting that a 25-year-old government contractor

1:16.2

has been charged with mishandling classified information.

1:19.9

This is the first criminal charge to be filed in the Trump administration with regard to the leak

1:25.1

investigation.

1:26.1

Tara Palmeri, Josh Dossi, and Ileana Johnson are reporting that the White House's

1:29.9

Russia Investigation War Room might have been killed off.

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