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The Playbook Podcast

June 7, 2023: Chris Christie goes on offense

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The continuing fallout over the revolt against Kevin McCarthy, Mike Pence releases an announcement video, and inside Chris Christie's New Hampshire town hall. All that, and the rest of the news you need to know today. Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza talks with Jonathan Martin.

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0:00.0

Presented by UPS.

0:02.7

Hey, everyone, good morning.

0:04.6

I'm Playbook co-author, Ryan Lizza.

0:07.0

It's Wednesday, June 7th.

0:09.2

Three big things to keep your eye on today.

0:12.0

The first, the continuing fallout over the revolt against Kevin McCarthy.

0:16.9

If you didn't follow what happened yesterday afternoon,

0:19.5

check out Politico.com, Sarah Ferris,

0:22.0

Jordan Carney, and Olivia Beavers have a great story about that.

0:25.4

Headline, Conservatives surprise McCarthy with floor rebellion over debt deal anger.

0:31.6

A band-of-house conservatives derail the bill that takes aim at gas stove regulation.

0:36.5

It could be just the beginning of moves to undercut

0:39.1

the speaker. The backstory here, of course, is that members of the House Freedom Caucus mostly

0:44.3

still pissed off about the debt deal that McCarthy cut. Most of them voted against the deal.

0:50.5

And now a band of them voted against a rule on the House floor yesterday, something

0:57.0

that never happens. Rules are party line votes. And the last time this happened was way back

1:03.2

in 2002. So Kevin McCarthy losing control of the House floor briefly on Tuesday. And we'll now have to repair relationships once again

1:13.9

with that band of rebels on the right. The second thing we're looking at today is Mike Pence

1:19.8

jumps into the presidential contest. Check out the newsletter. We have the video that Pence is

1:25.9

using to launch this week. He officially filed this paperwork already,

1:31.0

but now today he'll be making the big announcement. Third thing we're watching is Chris Christie

1:36.0

last night did a town hall in New Hampshire making it official. He's running for president.

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